Mass Killings Flashcards
A debate around the pictures of the Holocaust
In 2001, in Paris, an exhibit displayed photos of Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Among them were four snapshots secretly taken in August 1944 by members of the SonderKommando
Stirred up a violent outburst
Mass Destruction: Politics of visibility
Soviet mass killings were successfully dissimulated to rest of the world in the early 30s
Nazi have poorer control of information
A comparative framework for approaching nazism and stalism
both are based on the concept of totalitarianism
Anatomy of a genocide
a mutltiethic town: Jews, poles and ukrnians lived there
From 1920 to the beginning of the Second World War, Buczaz was under polish jurisdiction
soviets occupied it when WWII began
An Assault on Ukranian Peasantry
Stalin’s first 5 year plan implemented between 1928 and 1932: a policy of collectivization and industrialization
People forcibly transported from Soviet Ukraine as kulaks
The indignity of Starvation
At least 2505 people were sentenced for cannibalism in the years 1932 and 1933 in Ukraine
Stalin’s and Hitler’s Terrors