Midterm Flashcards

Question

Vidkun Quisling

Answer 1

1887-1945 The eponymous traitor Leader of the collaborationist Norwegian Nazi Party Nasjonal Samling (NS) Norwegian puppet head of government during German occupation

Answer 2

Decision was made after the defeat in Poland in late 1939 1. Norway and den make had naval bases that would allow the german fleet to take on the British navy 2. To ensure that the crucially important iron ore imports from Sweden were safe from allied intervention. Without the ore the german armaments industry would grind to a halt

Answer 3

By the end of the war there were more than 400 000 troops stationed in Norway (had ~ 4 mill inhabitants) An estimated 30-40 000 women had relations with German troops Up to 12000 children were born out of wedlock ~8000 of the 12000 children were registered in lebensborn (fount of life) Lebensborn -an SS run chain of orphanage-type institutions for unwed mothers to assure that as many racially valuable babies as possible were born and survived - although norway had 1/20 the population of Germany it had around the same Lebensborn as Germany 2-3000 Norwegian women married Germans were stripped of their Norwegian citizenship after the war Many children moved to Germany regained citizenship after the war

Answer 4

Too much British influence and manipulation Too much Jewish influence Located at the margins, it has experienced too little history and has become soft Too afflicted by modernism/liberalism (especially women)

Answer 5

Erling winsnes In return to nazis thinking Norwegians as dissapointments Ragnarok drew on the pseudo-Darwinian theories of erling winsnes to argue for their superiority over the Germans His law of mortal danger is based on the claim that the Norwegians occupied the very peak of the racial summit b/c their ancestors had followed the retreating ice north at the end of the last ice age, thus becoming tougher and more resilient by increased exposure to a hypo thermal environment

Answer 6

If the new order is still organized more or less along political lines Norway will remain in a marginal north position If the new order stresses race Norway begin the most Nordic country stands to benefit *a total of 4000 Norwegian signed up for waffen-SS - not all believed in German cause - see above Himmler was hoping that indoctrinating the volunteers would make the ambassadors for the German cause after the war

Answer 7

Lutz Heck - Director of Berlin Zoo 1932-45 (Nazi supporter dates ending is not surprising) Heinz heck - Director of Munich zoo 1927-64 Around 1926 the brothers undertook the first serious attempt at species resurrection Backbreeding aurochs -gone extinct in 1627 -premise was to see if the genetic material of the Auroch is still there though distributed across various bovine breeds Both brothers went across Europe looking for cows that had the same physical and behavioural traits as the auroch By crossbreeding they claimed to have recombined the various breeds into the aurochs (questionable) Heinz’s Cattle is the one that is still around today

Answer 8

Heck brothers knew that they needed to have a space similar to where the aurochs lived in order for them to thrive A species is only a true species in concert with other species in its own right place -in order for it’s characteristics to fully develop it has to be part of an ecology Hence the bialowieza forest: the only forest in Europe that has remained unchanged since the aurochs Following German conquest to the east large parts would be reforested - aurochs would be able to move in and Hermann Göring supported this

Answer 9

Reichsjägermeister (reich master hunter) and head of German luftwaffe Luftwaffe units were actively involved in cleansing (killing inhabitants, refugees, or partisans) in the bialowieza forest

Answer 10

a) what came earlier, in primeval times, was better, stronger, biologically more valuable The resurrection is a de-domestication, like turning cute dogs back into wild wolves b) links to the German tradition of viewing countries in the east as (potential) colonies, a tendency that became stronger when Germany lost its overseas colonies but occupied what is now Poland and parts of belarus. One symbolic act is to assert mastery is to kill the biggest or fiercest animal in the colonies

Answer 11

Rewilding was the restoration of ecological cycles that will serve to restore lost and ecologically more beneficial biotopes The aurochs will help restore the past aurochs world (and learn to behave like a proper Auroch) You are the animals you co-evolved with (as well as the environment you evolved in), then bringing back those animals will bring back a formative piece of your past and connect you to your origins will be brought back as well - this idea was already being recreated in lutz heck German part of the zoo Make a zoo like a natural history museum by rearranging animals by origin to their taxonomy Larger enclosures would that permitted various species that would have co-existed in the world to also be together in captivity, the emphasis shifted from abstract taxonomy to concrete ecology German visitors encountering the German section would see themselves as the natural ecology Visitors that walk past the German animals become more German than they previously were

Answer 12

Buoyed by the idea of territorial expansion, SS leader Heinrich Himmler commissioned an interdisciplinary group of academics to prepare what came to be general plan ost:a massive social and racial engineering project to ethnically and spatially reshape the East in line with Nazi ideology The core idea of this is Lebensraum Hitler argued that there were too many people in too small of a “living space” Instead of heading south and west he needed to go east -the east offered enough living space to sustain the German people and to grow in population. Hitler wanted an increase from 80 to 300 mill - put Germany on the same footing as US + Soviet union Some key points of the plan: Himmler was responsible for repatriating ethnic Germans who were scatter across Eastern Europe and resettle them This resettlement required a reduction of the native population- not just relocation but a great replacement in the shape of genocidal settler colonialism -Jews are not talked about as they predict they are already free from Eastern Europe Eastern Europe would be a backward looking world -primarily one of farmers -Himmler referred to German farmers as wehrbauem (Defense farmers) This plan was to be fully implemented after the war, the Nazi regime began to implement a short term starvation plan in the east

Answer 13

The main in charge of compiling generalplan ost 1901-73 Professor of agriculture sciences, university of Berlin (1934-45) Key gumtree consultant and spatial planner Member of the SS In charge of the interdisciplinary group that prepares generalplan ost

Answer 14

Herbert Backe (1896-1947) 1933-44: State secretary in the NS-ministry of food and agriculture 1944-45: minister of food and agriculture Mainly responsible for the “hunger plan” to be implemented in Russia Projected death: 30 mill Actual death: 4.2 mill Rationale: army planners argued that the millions of soldies and six hundred thousand horses invading the Soviet Union could not be fed by shipping supplies from Germany The army would have to live off the land - in order to do this the plan was to cordon off cities in the Soviet Union, block food transports, and let up to 30 mill “unnecessary eaters” starve The first victims were soviet pows -of the 5.7 mill. Captured 3.3 mill died of which 2.8 mill died b/w June 1941 and late 1942 (mostly from starvation) Herbert backe committed suicide while in captivity

Answer 15

A poly racy is a society with many different leaders and organizations in charge Although Hitler is the clear leader there were in fact numerous ministers and organizations with powers often pursuing their own interest

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