Germany's War for World Conquest and the Extermination of the Jews
World War II was the result of planned series of wars designed to enable Germany to control the globe as a whole and to bring about a demographic revolution on it. The series did not take place in the sequence the Germans wanted nor end in the victory they expected, but the astonishing thing about t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1996
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1996, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 119-133 |
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| Summary: | World War II was the result of planned series of wars designed to enable Germany to control the globe as a whole and to bring about a demographic revolution on it. The series did not take place in the sequence the Germans wanted nor end in the victory they expected, but the astonishing thing about the great upheaval is the extent to which original purpose continued to dominate strategy and its implementation. The expectation had been that Germany's most dangerous enemies were in the west—France, Britain, and the United States—and the armament programs of the Third Reich were attuned to that concept. The space to be conquered was to be ruthlessly germanized by the extermination of those considered inferior, a category into which Jews throughout the world were placed. Inside the allegedly superior Germanic population the handicapped were first to be killed systematically while those believed appropriate for the master race were encouraged to have many children. The racial program was not incidental but central to the whole enterprise and continued in spite of setbacks and major defeats into the last days of the Third Reich. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/10.2.119 |