The Origins of the Final Solution: Eastern Europe and the Holocaust

Professor Snyder's talk was fascinating and informative. I've read much about the Holocaust but was able after hearing this to understand what happened in a different way. Excellent lecture!

Fantastic! Great to hear a fresh perspective.

At 1 hour and 14 minutes into the lecture the moderator opts to allow multiple questions rather than the usual question/answer, then another question/answer format. Extremely annoying.

Dr. Snyder, you are correct in my opinion on the circumstances and character of rescuers. Perhaps a certain gentleness is found in empathy experienced in prolonged circumstances of loss and not feeling socially or societally protected. ❤

Very insightful lecture. He presented a new perspective in such an effective and elequent manner.

Fantastic. Eye-opening. And what a clear-minded speaker Professor Snyder is. Very gracious in his response to the last questioner.

For the absence vs presence of state structures in the occupied areas of the Third Reich with regards to saving the Jews, it very much depended who was leading the state structures. State structures existed in Slovakia and Croatia, yet the leadership was so aligned with the policies of Nazi Germany that the existing vs destroyed structures question state becomes irrelevant, because most of the Jews from these two countries perished during the Holocaust. One can still say that the structures of pre-war Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were destroyed. However, unlike in Poland, the replacing entities were controlled by local allies of the Nazis, and not by the Nazis themselves.

What was the word he used for self sufficiency? Sounded like “arctartic”. I want to look the word up.

I wrote my A level history coursework on Snyder and Browning's work on the Final Solution and was just remembering my fascination with the idea of the Bloodlands hypothesis today. Safe to say I got an A*! I ended up going on to do physics instead, but wartime history still fascinates me.

Interesting discussion of The Romanian role in The Holocaust towards the end. This topic isn't much discussed.

As far as I am aware, Slavic people  also targeted for extermination, just not right away because they were still needed as cheap labor first.

He goes to cite that poem @58:00 and says the guy wrote this while on a death march and luckily it was found...think about that...and explain how

Explained as I’ve never heard before. I finally understand. Thank you so much

The joke within the first minute didnt get any laughs...deserves some ♡!

Dude that person in the back really needs to grab a cough drop or leave, seriously how do you cough like 50 times in a row and still just sit there ruining everyone's day?

Do we need to have to have all this introduction before alecture.

What is he talking about with individual rescuers' motivation ? How about humanity, the chance taken. Many such people say 'how could I not help, not do it?' Over annalysing. I can't understand that cold, academic questioning. Want to know the answer then put yourself in that postion. It's called empathy.

Intellectual feast indeed. What a great perspective as well as introduction to government stability and genocides.

Thank you

The questioner at 1:25:00 is a maniac