Historians, Bracher and Jackel believed the holocaust was a completely intentional act, as Wyman states: “Intentionalism anchored Nazi behaviour in Hitler’s and his cohorts' deeply felt anti-Semitism, which they had formulated well before their ascent to power; once in power, they had put into practice what their intention had been all along.” (Wyman, p.419, 1996) Intentionalists argue everything in the Nazi period, was a deliberate move towards Hitler’s ultimate goals. Hitler was a fanatical anti-Semite, who committed himself to the extermination of the Jews from early in his career. Intentionalist historian, Goldhagen argues Hitler had a ‘blueprint’, for the Holocaust, as Morris
Journal 1 entry: early 1942 How can they be so blind? Hitler was right about how we Germans should eliminate those filthy Jews. My fellow Nazi leaders and I do not understand why the worlds, besides our allies, are against us. We are not harming any humans, but instead exterminating those who wish to be human. Jews are the reason that jobs are not available for every German.
The Holocaust happened because Hitler wanted to get rid of the Jewish race. He also thought they
The Führer’s power therefore made it possible for Hitler to still do anything he felt inclined to do, even if was controversial, like the passing of the Sterilisation Law, and this point shows that Hitler would always remain in ultimate control and that nothing would or could have happened in Nazi Germany that either he didn’t want to happen or that he had not authorised. Moreover we must comprehend Hitler’s own role in the growth of anti-Semitism (AS) in Germany from 1933-1941. During the first couple of years that Hitler was in control of Nazi Germany the levels of AS were very low. The only two real AS incidents were the SA violence after the 1933 elections and the failed Jewish shop boycott. The way in which Structuralists would view these incidents would be to highlight how little control Hitler had and how even in the early stages of Nazi Germany pressure to push forward AS was coming from below, in this case from the
The Holocaust There were many ways the Holocaust could have been prevented. Since Hitler was the man who led this genocide, the main thing that would have had to be done to stop the Holocaust from happening would be stopping him. Hitler made many laws against the Jews. These laws eventually lead up to the persecution of the Jews. There were many missed opportunities in which the Germans, along with other countries, could have prevented Hitler from acting on the laws for persecution of the Jews which led to the Holocaust.
After the war, Goebbels was the reason for the work of propaganda by the German government. He was known to use almost anything for propaganda purposes, such as posters from French and German movies with Jewish stars as examples of the "typical Jew." Even when Germany was falling in 1945 and the Allies told them to surrender, Goebbels used that as a motivational tool to demonstrate that every German needed to fight or face the end. In Conclusion, Joseph Goebbels was apart of a mass hysteria to killing Jews, and he was influence by
The Nuremberg Laws Imagine finding a document signed by Adolf Hitler, the leader of such a large country. We all know to believe that Hitler was behind the Holocaust but do we really know that he was directly involved? Well we do now, and we can say he is affiliated with the persecution of the Jews. The Nazis expressed Anti-Semitic views by passing the Nuremberg Laws and other anti-legislation. The Nazis believed in what is known as Anti-Semitism.
Holocaust happened because Hitler and the Nazis were racist. They believed the German people were a 'master race', who were superior to others. They even created a league table of 'races' with the Aryans at the top and with Jews, Gypsies and black people at the bottom. These 'inferior' people were seen as a threat to the purity and strength of the German nation. When the Nazis came to power they persecuted these people, took away their human rights and eventually decided that they should be exterminated.
Nazis: Torturers or Victims? "If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them," quoted Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, "but the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being … it is after all only because of the way things worked out that they were the executioners and we weren’t." The experiments on obedience to authority conducted by Yale university psychologist Stanley Milgram confirmed the thoughts of Solzhenitsyn by proving, sadly, that at least 65% of everyday human beings could be initiated into behaving in ways that might lead to killing innocent victims. In fact, we all feel contempt before acts of inhumanity like the Holocaust, and it is convenient to attribute horrors
Remembrance of the Holocaust is so important because it is extremely important to teach next generations how to honor people from history. Many races and religions were executed during the Holocaust. Some of these included Jews for their religion, Jehovah Witnesses for not conforming to Hitler's ways and remaining firm in their beliefs of right and wrong, Gypsies for their race, and the disabled because of Hitler's "cleansing program". He believed the disabled were a waste of his time, and they got in the way. These people deserve honor for the loss of