War Crimes and The Holocaust

Hitler’s New OrderGerman Master Race

Nordic peoples (Dutch, Norwegians, Danes)

Latin peoples (French, Italian, Spanish, etc.)

E. Europeans (Slavs, Poles, Russians, etc.)

Comparing the cost of living for an individual with a hereditary disease with that of a healthy family

Heinrich Himmler(1900-1945)SS Leader

Reinhard Heydrich(1904-1942)

Gestapo Chief

Adolf Eichmann

(1906-1962)“The Architect of the Holocaust”

1940 Warsaw Ghetto

1943 Warsaw Ghetto

Uprising

30,000+ Jews joined armed resistance movements

Auschwitz-Birkenau

1945-1946 Nuremberg Trials12 sentenced to death, 7 life in prison

Total Deaths6,000,000 Jews

5,000,000 “Others”Slavs, Soviet POWs, Roma (Gypsies), Poles, Political Prisoners, Homosexuals, Disabled,

Jehovah's Witnesses, Criminals, etc.

Geneva Conventions

updated(1st Draft 1864)

Is “just following orders” a justifiable excuse?

Individual actions and accountability?

Small part of a larger whole?

Adolf Eichmann captured in 1960 in Argentine and executed in Israel in 1962

“The banality of evil”

Jewish Political Theorist Hannah Arendt

Eichmann was not a monster, he was an

average person who did not think for himself

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”

-Hannah Arendt

1948 Israel Created