He also blamed Germany’s difficulties on the Jews but did not tell the people his true intention was to exterminate them. Thus he created an atmosphere of hatred in Germany that later would be proven by his draconian measures towards the Jews. The first real brutal attack against the Jews came in June 1934, when Hitler had about 1,000 people murdered in the Night of the Long Knives. He then introduced the Nuremburg Laws which were as follows: all Jews had to wear the Star of David, they lost their professional careers and property, Jews could not mingle with the German population, and ultimately the Jews lost their citizenship. These laws passed without any resistance and should have been a sign to the world of things to
In this essay I will discuss the title question and come to a conclusion on whether or not I agree. For me, one of the main causes of ww2 was the fact that The Treaty of Versailles was extremely harsh on Germany; this created a build up of anger and resentment from Germans, and also put them in a financial depression. Although Hitler had no control over this, he played on their poverty to receive votes and gain power. He also built up Germany’s resentment against the United Nations, which made his people pro war. Many people believe another fault of the League of Nations that contributed to war was; how they appeased Hitler by letting him have Czechoslovakia.
So Auschwitz differed from most of the other camps. 13) The term suggests, that there was a real problem and that other solutions had been tried seriously but had failed. From 1933-1939 the Nazis tried to bully the German Jews into leaving the country. 14) The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 established the following categories: 'Full Jew': Three or more Jewish grandparents 'Mixed race 1st degree': Two Jewish grandparents 'Mixed race 2nd degree': One Jewish grandparent 15) Yes. 16) They considered the Jews a race whose goal was world domination and who, therefore, were an obstruction to Aryan
The Holocaust The Holocaust, in simple text, was a terrible event that resulted in the genocide of a proud population, the Jewish community. The Holocaust will forever scare the history of the men. Before Yiddish 399, I did not know a lot about the Holocaust. All I knew was the Jewish community was slightly oppressed in the beginning of the 1930’s to be suffer horrific tormenting well into the 1940’s. Through Yiddish 399, I am now able to discuss personal trials and tribulations of the holocaust, along with being able to discuss of how the Jewish community was oppressed due to the information I learned through the discussions in class, the novels, along with the films and documentaries.
The question historians have long since debated is whether Hitler’s hatred led to his decision on the mass murder of the Jews in the 1920s and thereafter worked with consciousness and calculation towards that goal? It is clear from reading his own words in Mein Kampf that he showed blame and fear towards the Jews for many of Germany’s misfortunes and formed an obsession with Aryan superiority. However, posing the question whether the “final solution” was part of his original ideology which formed in the 1920s one must also consider if the mass murder of the Jews was a result of Nazi Jewish policy which evolved overtime under Hitler’s influence leading to the decisions of 1941? Believing the Germans to be the master race or Herrenvolk, Hitler’s anti-Semitism was an important part of his ideas and this hatred formed his thinking on race. Not only were the Germans the greatest civilisation in history- producing the best artist, writers and athletes but Hitler believed the German race had to be protected.
The Germans destroyed some of the records at the end of the war and some records were destroyed during bombing. There may not be documentation specifically outlining the Holocaust, or a signed document from Hitler ordering it, but there were numerous other documents collected by allied armies during the invasion of Germany. The Nuremberg trials, the trial of the major war criminals and subsequent trials, proved beyond a doubt that there had been a plan to exterminate the Jews, and the attempt was made to carry out that plan. Prosecutors submitted approximately 3,000 tons of records at the Nuremberg trial including the Wannsee Conference Protocol, which documented the assistance of various German state agencies, and the Einsatzgruppen Reports, which documented the progress of the mobile killing units assigned to kill Jews. “At the time of the Wannsee Conference,
Hyperinflation happened because Germany owed so much money due to reparations of the war, it simply thought that it would just be able to print more money, but when a government prints money that it does not have the value of money decreases and prices go up. In Germany this was a huge problem as inflation was rising at astonishing rates and the effects were disastrous. Many people that had worked hard are there lives were forced to become beggars as the pensions and savings lost all value. The people that had jobs were still in disastrous positions, as their wages could not keep up with the increasing rate of inflation. People were not blaming the Kaisers war government but instead they were blaming the Weimar government, as they were the ones that had agreed to pay the war reparations in the treaty of Versailles.
Hitler’s speech manipulated the people of Germany. He could be considered a true leader of Germany. The idea for the massive eradication of Jews could have been influenced by World War I. Also, writers such as Eugen Duhring wrote about the idea of completely eliminating Jews. Hitler was seen as “virulently “anti-semetic” by the mid 1920s.
The economy was already in a depression because of the World Wars. They say the only reason that Hitler came to power is because the Germans were starving and fighting to survive between the two wars. Hitler offered the sick and tired a way to bring back Germany, but what they didn’t know is what it entailed. During the holocaust the economy kept going down hill. At the beginning of 1933 the Jewish population in the 21 countries of Europe was nine million people.
During the Great Boom in the 20s, farms were industrialising and excess labour that were mainly Blacks and Catholics were moving North. There was a decline in income from membership and without the economic reason of existence, the KKK began to decline. Secondly, there was the scandal surrounding the murder trial of D.C. Stephenson, the grand dragon of Indiana. People started to question the KKK as upholders of law and order, its Christian values were also discredited. After his conviction for murder and rape of a young white school teacher, the KKK declined dramatically in Indiana.