The Nazi programme of population decimation can also be traced back to Middle Ages Europe where in the 13th Century England expelled its entire Jewish population. However you might argue that the Madagascar plan proposed to take this one step further. The Ghettoization which grew out of the failure of the Madagascar and Lublin-Nisko Plans, is also not unique to Nazi ideology. Ghettoization of Jews can be traced back to the renaissance when the Jews were segregated from Christian society and lived in much the same conditions as those under Nazi Germany. Whilst there are many similarities the Fuehrer iPrinzip did mark a
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is widely discussed, but it is often presented as an almost isolated event which is contrasted with the assumed passivity of the majority of European Jews. Recent research has shown how some Jewish people actively fought against the Nazis. Despite the propaganda of the Germans (Nazis), many Jewish people decided that they had to fight back. The Nazis hated the Jewish people. Their story is one of huge struggle that often resulted in their capture, concentration camps and death It should first be understood just how difficult effective resistance to the Nazis was.
During a depression, political trends become extremist and so the Nazis flourished; Hitler offered both a scapegoat and himself as a strong leader to look up to. The depression gave Hitler the edge he needed to gain ninety-five[1] seats in the Reichstag and ultimately progress from the leader of a minority party to the Dictator of the Third Reich. The Depression also drew attention to the weaknesses of the Weimar Constitution; as poverty and unemployment increased, respect for the democratic system drastically decreased. The German population did not want to be governed by a democracy as it was such a governing body that signed the Treaty of Versailles. Hatred for this document was still rife in Germany and so Hitler, who openly detested the Treaty, became the obvious choice.
The first key issue I would like to discuss is the limited nature of the German revolution and how this damaged the prospects of German democracy. The way that Ebert used to take control lead damaged the prospects of democracy from the outset. Historians have criticised Ebert’s use of force to crush radical groups such as the Spartacists and his use of the Freikorps. Together with the crushing Spartacists in 1919 caused these left wing radicals to become divided and were therefore unwilling to compromise on reforms in the Reichstag. This made it far more difficult for coalitions to form and for democracy to function in the designed fashion.
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
What was once believed to be a cure for the woes of a society actually set the stage in creating a much less innocent United States. Prohibition mainly had negative effects in the U.S due to the increase of crime rates, corruption in law enforcement, and development of speakeasies all of which contributed to its downfall. Prohibition started in 1919 in the United States. Introduced with the best of intentions, it put society at risk. Wayne Hall, in his article “What are the Policy Lessons of National Alcohol Prohibition in the United States, 1920-1933?” asserts that Prohibition started in 1919 with the passing of the 18th Amendment.
It is argued that his first anti-Jewish policies, the boycotting of shops and the law for the restoration of the civil service, were not planned but rather a quick response to growing pressure from below and an attempt to reduce public violence that was damaging Germany’s reputation. This improvisation and need to quickly respond from pressure from below is a theme in the Nazi’s early anti-Jewish policy, being seen again with policies such as the Nuremberg Laws, and led to Nazi policies often being conflicting and confused. This shows that the persecution of Jews was not a planned steady increase but rather a quick response to events and pressures, leading to sudden escalations in anti-Jewish policy. Another reason why I believe that persecution of Jews in the years 1933-1942 did not increase steadily in Germany is that there were significant dips and lulls in Nazi Persecution of the Jews. Although persecution continued at a local level, there were no significant national policies in 1934 and persecution generally fell before the Nuremberg Laws were introduced.
While it cannot be denied that Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitic views became ingrained in his early days in Vienna. His hatred of Communists, democracy and Jews along with his dreams of a greater Germany seemed to have all made an impact on his character there. Anti-Semitism was endemic in Vienna at the time and it was through the literature available to him that Hitler began to discover the different organisations that he felt exploited the working man in Germany. One such organisation was the Social Democratic party which he believed to be the workings of the people he would direct his systematic hatred towards- the Jews. 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?
Many people believe another fault of the League of Nations that contributed to war was; how they appeased Hitler by letting him have Czechoslovakia. They did this because they thought it would reduce chances of war, yet Hitler soon broke the agreement they had made and war started. Although many people would argue that the above cause was the fault of the League of Nations, I disagree because, if Hitler had not been so aggressively demanding, they would not have needed to appease him. However, the League of Nations is not completely without fault, Italy was disappointed by the League of Nations as she was denied territory promised by Britain and France. This lead Mussolini and Italy to join forces with Germany, making them bear resentment and wanting war.
Research done after World War IT-mostly by European emigres struggling to understand how the Holocaust had happened-concluded that stereotypes were used only by a particular type of person: rigid, repressed, authoritarian. Borrowing from the psychoanalytic perspective then in vogue, these theorists suggested that biased behavior emerged out of internal conflicts caused by inadequate