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Can Digital

Holocaust Geographies

Be More Fully Human?

Anne Kelly Knowles, Justus Hillebrand,

Levi Westerveld, Laura Strom, Mara Moettus,

Paul B. Jaskot, Ben Blackshear, and Erik Steiner

Harvard Center for Geographical Analysis

April 29, 2016

Hybrid 1

Nazi Regime +

Madagascar Plan +

Jewish Reservations

Interruption 1

No colonies

Logistics

Removal

Phase 1: Removal

Detour 1

Concentration in

local ghettos

Graphics by Sierra Hillebrand

Hybrid 1

Nazi Regime +

Madagascar Plan +

Jewish Reservations

Interruption 1

No colonies

Logistics

Removal

Detour 1Concentration in

local ghettos

Hybrid 2

Nazi Regime +

Local Population +

Local Institutions +

Local Geography +

Ghetto Boundary, etc.

Interruption 2

Overcrowding

Disease

Resistance

Concentration

Detour 2

Closing ghettos

Phase 2: Concentration

Graphics by Sierra Hillebrand

Phase 1

Hybrid 1

Nazi Regime +

Madagascar Plan +

Jewish Reservations

Interruption 1

No colonies

Logistics

Removal

Detour 1Concentration in

local ghettosHybrid 3

Nazi Regime +

Ghetto Wall/Fence +

Fewer entrances +

Increased Surveillance +

Local Institutions, etc.

Interruption 3

Continued Nazi Intervention

Less Productive Forced Labor

Armed Resistance

Containment

Detour 4

Removal of

Unproductive

Ghetto

Populations

Detour 3

Eliminate

Resistance

Hybrid 2

Nazi Regime +

Local Populations+

Local Institutions +

Local Geography +

Ghetto Boundary, etc.

Interruption 2

Overcrowding

Disease

Resistance

Concentration

Detour 2Closing Ghettos

Phase 3: Containment

Graphics by Sierra Hillebrand

Phases 1 & 2

Hybrid 1

Nazi Regime +

Madagascar Plan +

Jewish Reservations

Interruption 1

No colonies

Logistics

Removal

Detour 1Concentration in

local ghettos

Hybrid 4

Nazi Regime +

Troops +

War Machinery, etc.

ExtirpationHybrid 2

Nazi Regime +

Local Populations+

Local Institutions +

Local Geography +

Ghetto Boundary, etc.

Interruption 2

Overcrowding

Disease

Resistance

Concentration

Detour 2Closing Ghettos

Phase 4: Extirpation & Mass Murder

Hybrid 3

Nazi Regime +

Ghetto Wall/Fence

Fewer Entrances +

Increased Surveillance +

Local Institutions, etc.

Interruption 3

Continued Nazi Intervention

Less Productive Forced Labor

Armed Resistance

Containment

Detour 3Eliminate

ResistanceDetour 4

Removal of Unproductiv

e Ghetto

Population

Hybrid 5

Nazi Regime +

Idea of Mass Murder +

Wannsee Conference +

Construction of Death Camps +

Organized Train Traffic, etc.

Mass Murder

Graphics by Sierra Hillebrand

Phases 1-3

Hybrid 1

Nazi Regime +

Madagascar Plan +

Jewish Reservations

Interruption 1

No colonies

Logistics

Removal

Detour 1Concentration in

local ghettos

Hybrid 2

Nazi Regime +

Local Populations+

Local Institutions +

Local Geography +

Ghetto Boundary, etc.

Concentration

Detour 2Closing Ghettos

Hybrid 3

Nazi Regime +

Ghetto Wall/Fence

Fewer Entrances +

Increased Surveillance +

Local Institutions, etc.

Interruption 3

Continued Nazi Intervention

Less Productive Forced Labor

Armed Resistance

ContainmentDetour 3Eliminate

Resistance

Detour 4Removal of Unproductive

Ghetto Population

Hybrid 4

Nazi Regime +

Troops +

War Machinery etc.

Hybrid 5

Nazi Regime +

Idea of Mass Murder +

Wannsee Conference +

Construction of Death Camps +

Organized Train Traffic etc.

Interruption 2

Overcrowding

Disease

Resistance

Extirpation

Mass Murder

Graphics by Sierra Hillebrand

Final Model