The Jews were not the perfect image to Hitler, but it wasn’t just him. The “Jewish problem was prevalent before Hitler,” where extermination was a frequent suggestion. Nazi’s had targeted them since early 1920’s. So why was He targeted and not the Nazi party? It was simply because Hitler was in charge of the Nazi
The Holocaust “By warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lords work” (Harran 50). This quote is the exact words of the worlds most accomplished mass murderer in history, Adolf Hitler. His goal was to exterminate the complete Jewish race, to make room for the “Aryan” race. “Jews have been discriminated against, hated, and killed because prejudiced non-Jews believed they belonged to the wrong religion, lacked citizenship qualifications, practiced business improperly, behaved inappropriately, or possessed inferior racial characteristics” (Harran 41). Due to the hatred that was formed against the Jewish people, over the years of 1933 to 1945, about six million innocent people lost their lives.
The U.S. State Department delayed publicizing reports of genocide. In August 1942, the State Department received a message about the Nazi plans for the murder of the European Jews (Hoffman, 1970, p. 26). America had adopted a policy of Isolationism after World War I, to prevent being involved in other countries domestic and international conflicts (Hoffman, 1970, p. 33). America had an anti-Semitic sentiment, within Congress and the general public against Jews (Davidson, Delay, et. al., 2008, p. 791).
Clearly, the method mentioned is unfeasible and this had the role of causing a sensation. Similarly, many of his other comments, such as “If the international Jewish financiers in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into world war, the results will be… the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe” have double meanings, and originally referred to their planned deportation out of Europe. Also, the comment “But the final objective must be the complete removal of the Jews” clearly does not refer to the
The Germans, as the strongest and fittest, were destined to rule, while the weak and racially adulterated Jews were doomed to extinction. Hitler began to restrict the Jews with legislation and terror, which entailed burning books written by Jews, removing Jews from their professions and public schools, confiscating their businesses and property and excluding them from public events. The most infamous of the anti-Jewish legislation were the Nuremberg Laws, enacted on September 15, 1935. They formed the legal basis for the Jews' exclusion from German society and the progressively restrictive Jewish policies of the
Driven nearly two thousand years ago by the Romans from the land now called Israel, they spread throughout the globe and tried to retain their unique beliefs and culture while living as a minority. (Museum, 2011) Considering the Jews did not carry the same religious beliefs as the Christians, the Jews were discriminated against by the Christian’s. The Christians taught their people that the Jews were to blame for the death of Jesus. However at the time the Christian’s were not aware that the death of Jesus actually fell on the hands of the Roman government. Anti-Semitism was definitely present before the Holocaust and it was a thousand times worse during Hitler’s reign over the Nazi party.
He was leader of the Nazis till he got caught at his military base than sentenced to a short term of imprisonment. (www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com ) . The holocaust started because of Hitler. Hitler caused this because he wanted to annihilate the Jewish race. Adolf had a fear of being overrun by a different race and wanted to be the leader of the world.
The Role of Race in the Holocaust B: Analytical body Through my research I tried to look for the role of race in the Nazi System, which probably caused the holocaust which is locked chambers that are spread with poisonous killing gas aimed for killing the Jews. Race is seen as the most illogical component of the Nazis system, which made it a dictatorial regime capable of committing acts of evil. Fundamental to all Hitler’s policies his absolute belief in the dominance of the Aryan Race and all need to prepare the German people for its role as master of Europe. According to Nazis race theorists, that the essential characteristics of the typical “Aryan” included a tall and slim build, a narrow face and nose, a famous well-known chin, afresh skin, and a gold or blond hair. Hitler aimed gradually to purify the German race, and this would be achieved by eliminating racial mixing, to create in von Shirach’s words “the perfect and complete human animal- the superman” the main obstacle to this as Hitler thought was the “eternal enemy”, the Jews.
Ismael Martinez History 4327 Dr. Roethler 8 May 2009 What motivated the perpetrators of the Holocaust? It was specifically, Hitler’s philosophy of racial and ethnic purity and prejudiced nationalism, which motivated the perpetrators of the Holocaust. The idea of the Holocaust or also known as the Final Solution to the Jewish question, was perpetrated by the Nazi regime. The Nazi party was responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews. The Nazis were people filled with anti-Semitism.
According to him, as recorded in the New York Times, American anti-Semitism although it had not reached the level of the Nazi Germany, pollsters estimated that they were being unfavorable to them (Abzug 25). Although there were numerous reports during pre-war, such as the enactment of Nuremberg Laws in 1935 by the German government, which were widely reported in the American press, they were denounced at large (Abzug 23). In the Kristallnacht enactment in, 1938, the Jews had their citizenship stripped making them