Did Hitler Plan To Kill The Jews

The statement “Hitler willed and planned to kill the Jews from 1925” holds some truth. Hitler’s willingness to kill the Jews is evident however these killings were not master minded from the beginning of 1925 but rather it was impromptu or a gradual development. The intentionalist school of thought considers The Chancellor as to being organized and having an intention in his actions in the extermination of the Jews. However, it is better argued using that the killing of the Jews was a multiple step process, resulting from Hitler’s weak leadership is more convincing. This makes the statement partially true in that Hitler did have a will to kill the Jews although he was the one who did not participate and plan the killings.

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The goal of the Party had no evidence in the precise steps that would be used to fulfill the achievement. The vagueness of the Nazi Party’s goals is seen as a result from Hitler’s weak dictatorship, which is seen as part of the functionalist school of thought. From the Chancellor’s absence in the planning of the killings of the Jews, prominent Nazi leaders were able to assume excessively powerful positions. With regards to policy making, government inaction stemmed from Hitler’s fear of decreasing popularity through unpopular decisions. From Decoding the Holocaust, historian Draper explains that it was Hitler’s fear, which reduced his power as a leader combined with his “deference to senior leaders” and his ‘unrelenting trust to their political instincts’ was pinnacle in highlighting Hitler’s inability to effectively exercise ‘government policy making procedures’. This had in turn, left a space for high-ranking officials of the Party to have a large input into political decisions. With the officials in power over Hitler, the high-ranking officials were guided by racial ideology and on the basis or goals of “making Germany…more National Socialist” as displayed in Nazism, Fascism and the Working Class. However, the officials were not united as an organized group but rather were “focusing solely on their respective jurisdictions” exemplifying the lack of unity and the image of a chaotic Party. According to historian Mason, he expresses “It is likely a general agreement was made… to generically seek persecution of the designated enemies of the cause”. The party had lacked the explicit and practical goal, which had result in issues being treated in the most radical of ways. This had caused political improvisation to be a resort that was used constantly due to the “lack of policy rested upon the deployment of extreme violence”. In addition, the Nazi Party had found