How did the Holocaust happen? An expert’s view

Описание: How can we understand the horrors of the Holocaust? Subscribe here: https://bit.ly/subhistoryextrayoutube

Historian and broadcaster Laurence Rees presents an expert and measured overview, which offers a gateway to learn more about the complexities of the crime.

Learn just how committed Hitler and the Nazis were to the persecution of the Jews, and hear from Rees on how the Third Reich’s antisemitism and racist conspiracy theories evolved into a considered, cold-hearted, and meticulous extermination project. Find out how Auschwitz II-Birkenau and other camps functioned as part of the Nazi killing machine that targeted Jews and other groups deemed ‘undesirable’ by the regime, and fulfilled the murderous vision of Hitler and others.

What were the milestones on the road to this lethal persecution? Rees takes you through the moments of escalation that are not sudden or dramatic but, as he says, need to be understood as gradual – until events in the summer of 1942 triggered a new phase of mechanised murder.

00:36 How did the Nazis view Jewish people?
02:37 Why did persecution of Jews intensify?
06:00 How did the death camps originate?
09:32 How did the Holocaust develop?

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