The scene that I choose is the Night and Fog part 3, in 1942, at the camp Himmler pays a visit telling the Nazis that they must destroy , but productively, and leaving the production aspect to the technician. He was talking about how to commit mass murderer of the Jews and what they going to do with their bodies. They build gas chamber to execute the inmate especially the new arrival . They were were striped, took their pictures before their mass killing by using zyklon gas. Some were burned by piling their bodies on top of each other, some bodies were cremated. They sell everything they get from them including using their flesh for soap, the female hair were sold for 15pfennigs a kilo for making clothes and the bones were used for fertilizer. And some were used as laboratory specimen. Casualties were about nine million people. I choose the part because it was inhumane what the Nazis did to the Jews and at the end all of the officer and the kapos were claiming innocent. Some of the kapos were able to get away from justice. I hope this kind of history never repeat itself. 1) Some of the major reason that lead to the rise of Nazis Germany were; the Great Depression that hit Worldwide as result of the crash of the stock market in America leading to severe economic disaster in Germany; and the Reichstag was set on fire on a pretext of a terrorist attack, which led to the creation of Reichstag Fire Decrees and the enabling Act which grants Hitler government full dictatorial powers.
2) The Nazis were able to resolve conflicts between the workers and owner by controlling the prices and wages of products and workers; also the independent unions were destroy in favor of a Nazi controlled national union, the German Labor Front.
3) The significance of the phrase "Arbeit Macht Frei" which means work makes one free, is for the Jews who were used as slave laborer to make them believe that if they work with all their heart they may be free.
4) State capitalism is when the state exercise control by its ability to control financing and credit, prices of raw material, and the wages paid to workers, as well as setting production goals for corporations to follow. It relates to the Nazi German because they were able to control all the corporation's products, prices and wages in their country and within the country that were taken over by them.
5) I can evaluate the psychological causes of antisemitism in the context of German Society as a way that the German see the Jews as a torn that they cannot wait to get off their feet.because they holds high position in banks, government, universities and society. Though they want to get them off their back but they do not anticipate the genocide that came along with the acceptance of the Nazis regime.
I believe you are right when you say that the German people did not anticipate the genocide that was coming. However what I still don’t understand is how could they stand by and allow it to happen. I know that human beings are capable of unimaginable cruelty and the proof is that after Hitler we still have genocide happening around the world. Bosnia-Herzegovina: 1992-1995 - 200,000 Deaths
ReplyDeleteRwanda: 1994 - 800,000 Deaths
Pol Pot in Cambodia: 1975-1979 - 2,000,000 Deaths
Ajayi, you never seem to clarify the difference between the state capitalism and Nazis system of economy. To my own view, state capitalism is when the government has considerable influence in the means of production and Nazi's dictate and took total control of the means production.
ReplyDeleteThat was a very interesting quote you chose. I cannot imagine how wicked one set of people can be. Not only do you commit mass murder but you dehumanize human life even more by using there skin to make soap, using their bones for fertilizer and selling their hair. Most of this victim were women and children. How could a set of people be so irrational as say it is for the good of the nation. Another thing I do not get is how the Nazi called these German Jews, Jews as if they were foreigners or aliens that came to visit and pollute Germany. I find that the German Labor front was just as much an independent union as just a capitalistic as the others it fought to take away another way to gain control/ power. That was the real motive.
ReplyDelete@Andrew Stalin is believed to be responsible for the death of at least 15,000,000...even more than Hitler
ReplyDelete@Alatise State capitalism is a broad term. Some writers have talked of a democratic state capitalism as well. The totalitarian form of state capitalism is the Nazi form as you said.
@Shineeka the only thing that comes close are the serial killers that I talked about when we went over the movie M. Not that I want to get into this too much--but some of them had tried to "reuse" their victims too in the same way. It is truly sick and it is literally like if serial killers ran a country that would be Nazi Germany.