Why did measures against the Jews escalate in Nazi Germany? There are two views as to the why the measures against the Jews escalated in Nazi German. The intentionalists believe in the fast fading view that Hitler had intended to commit genocide from the very beginning and he couldn’t carry out his plan until Germany had enough power to do so. They also believe that Germany was a monolithic state with one man at the top and everyone obeying his orders, “the road to Auschwitz is straight.” This view is fast becoming discredited by another group called the structuralists. The structuralists argue that Hitler didn’t have a plan to commit genocide, he didn’t know what he was going to do about, “the Jewish problem” until 1941 when their complete extermination was ordered. Germany was a polycratic state with several people and organisations with power. He improvised on what to do and the orders were interpreted in very different ways by his subordinates, “the road to Auschwitz is twisted”. This view is now widely believed over the old theory. The result of all this was chaos and inefficiency, with all the leaders fighting with one another to find the best solution. The Nazi leaders could not have had a consistent “master plan” to kill the Jews in this chaotic state. The structuralist argument begins with the nature of the Nazi State. The Nazi party had adopted a policy of “working towards the Fuhrer”. Hitler did not like doing work and rarely gave direct orders, he usually gave vague orders to his subordinates as to his wishes. This would now become an, “Order from the Fuhrer” and all his subordinates would compete with each other to find a solution that would please Hitler. Thus, they would come up with more and more ideas that would get more and more radical. This process is known as Cumulative Radicalisation. This was why things were radicalising in Germany. The Nazi State encouraged violence against the Jewish population and because of this they were driven out of their professions.
Why the Nazis' Treatment of the Jews Change from 1939-1945 Jewish discrimination was prominent in Germany, and was vastly spreading to nearby countries. Yet the Nazi treatment of the Jews immensely changed during the years of World War II. When Poland was invaded by Germany at the beginning of September, Britain and France finally realized that Hitler would have to be stopped. They declared war. Hitler had built up a powerful and efficient German army.
After The Great depression and World War I, Germany was left in a fragile state. The economy was ruined, many people were unemployed and all hope was lost. The Nazis believed it wasn’t their own fault for the mess, but those who were inferior to the German people. These Nazi beliefs lead to and resulted in cruelty and suffering for the Jewish people. The Nazis wanted to purify Germany and put an end to all the inferior races, including Jews because they considered them a race. They set up concentration camps, where Jews and other inferior races were put into hard labor and murdered. They did this because Nazis believed that they were the only ones that belonged in Germany because they were pure Germans. This is the beginning of World War 2. The Nazi beliefs that led to and resulted in the cruelty and suffering of the Jewish people
When Hitler and the Nazi Party first entered power, they proposed strict and unimaginably radical policies. Their goal as the dominant political power was to create a “pure” German society. The idea of a “pure” German society stemmed from the idea that certain racial groups and ethnicities were undesirable and inferior. With that in mind, they sought to completely eliminate, through annihilation tactics, Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, biracial children, handicapped citizens, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and any other individual(s) who opposed their radical ideologies. However, the most questionable part of these tactics was how and why the Nazis chose them. Of the many ways dictators and corrupt governments had tortured their citizens in the past, why was Hitler determined that the Einsatzgruppen, ghettos, and concentration camps were going to be the methods of choice to mass murder the Jewish people. Robert Payne notes in his book The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler that Hitler was not satisfied with a gruesome murder of the Jewish race. He preferred them to die in agony and complete humiliation. Methods of mass murder such as killing squads (the Einsatzgruppen), ghettos, and concentration camps proved themselves as the perfect final solution. These tactics would exterminate Jews at an increasing rate while removing them of their respectable status.
Christopher Browning believes that Hitler did not have a pre-existing plan to liquidate the Jews but rather, the Final Solution was a reaction to the cumulative radicalization amongst the German nation from 1939 to 1941. Although Hitler was notoriously one of the most anti-Semitic people to walk the Earth, he had not intended to mass slaughter the Jews, but rather attempted to find another solution to the Jewish problem. Hitler had such an obsession on finding this solution, that he promised one way or another he would reach his goal in perfecting a Judenfrei Germany (Browning 424). The first solution to the Jewish problem in Germany was through emigration. Once Hitler seized power he imposed the Nuremberg Laws, which stripped the Jews of all of their rights, expecting the Jewish people to comprehend the message and leave the country. The German officials even supported emigration and Zionistic movements. By 1939 only half of the Jews had left so the Jewish problem still rested unfinished. In September of 1939, the German declared war on Poland in an attempt to conquer Lebensraum. [Living space] After starting the war, they decided they could no longer let the Jews emigrate (Browning 12). By capturing Poland they inherited three million Jews. Hitler summoned all of the Jews in the German empire into ghettos in Poland until he could find another plan. Himmler, Hitler’s right hand man, proposed two plans to expel the Jews to either Lublin or to Madagascar. Hitler approved both but neither was put into affect. The Nazis’ inability to solve the Jewish question once again disappoints them. The obligation to solve the problem still weighed heavily upon them, which lead to frustration, which lead to the radical decisions to liquidate th...
Though many Jews were able to emigrate out of Germany before further persecution took place, it was substantially difficult for every Jew to escape the impending danger that was looming large in both Nazi Germany and Austria. Reasons for emigration being very difficult included the reluctance of Jews to move when they had lived in Germany all their lives, and had generations of family members who have all been brought up in Germany, and some who had even served for Germany during the First World War. The prospect of leaving family behind was too much to fathom for Jews, as some Jews were married to non-Jewish women, and considered themselves more German rather than Jewish. This essay will however focus on a variety of factors which include economic problems faced by Jews even before the Anschluss was introduced in 1938, immigration restrictions set out acutely for Jewish immigrants by Western countries such as Britain and the United States in particular, and the role Anti-Semitism played throughout the world during this time period, that prevented and severely halted a majority of Jews to emigrate out of Nazi Germany and Austria, after the Anschluss and up until the outbreak of the Second World War.
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When you have millions of people in a struggling country, it is often easy to blame a group of people or a certain aspect of society. That is exactly what the Nazis did when they had to pay billions of dollars in reparations to the Allies after World War I. But they described as being a war that has been going on for centuries. As the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states, They incorrectly believed Jews had a natural impulse, inherited through generations, to strive for world domination, and that this goal would not only prevent German dominance but would also enslave and destroy the German race (“Why Were the Jews Singled Out for Extermination?”). They created a fake war to make people scared, and then that fear turned into hatred. The Nazis also regarded the Jews as an inferior race and that the Aryan race was the race that should dominate. Negative stereotypes were presented such as Jews were the murderers of Christ, agents of the devil, and practitioners of witchcraft (“Why Were the Jews Singled Out for Extermination?”). The hatred also came from anti-Semitism.
Many religious conflicts are built from bigotry; however, only few will forever have an imprint on the world’s history. While some may leave a smear on the world’s past, some – like the homicide of Semitic people – may leave a scar. The Holocaust, closely tied to World War II, was a devastating and systematic persecution of millions of Jews by the Nazi regime and allies. Hitler, an anti-Semitic leader of the Nazis, believed that the Jewish race made the Aryan race impure. The Nazis did all in their power to annihilate the followers of Judaism, while the Jews attempted to rebel, rioted against the government, and united as one. Furthermore, the genocide had many social science factors that caused the opposition between the Jews and Nazis. Both the German economy and the Nuremberg Laws stimulated the Holocaust; nevertheless, a majority of the Nazis’ and Hitler’s actions towards Jews were because of the victims’ ethnicity.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria. Although he was not born in Germany, he was the Führer leader of the Nazi Party and the Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Hitler started WWII in Europe by attacking Poland. Hitler once said, "If I am ever really in power, the destruction of the Jews will be my first and most important job.” He said this because he didn't like Jews and that if he was the ruler his first job would be to kill all Jews. According to the book Why Did Hitler Hate Jews, Hitler “caused the deaths of at least 11 million people, including the mass murder of an estimated six million Jews.” Why did Hitler hate Jews? People believed that Hitler hated Jews for three different reasons. Those reasons are a history of hate, of Jewish people in Germany, blaming Jewish people for the loss of WWI and Hitler’s belief in a superior race.
As Hitler was rising in power, his plan all along was to “make Germany better,” as he thought he was doing. In his eyes, making Germany better was everyone being equal. He wasn’t going to hesitate to take the first chance he could to jump on the Jews. He would act on any little reason he could. A German official was assassinated in Paris and Germans were angry because it was in the hands of a Jewish teenager. It gave the Germans a chance to attack at the Jews (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). There were a lot of unnecessary laws passed that were meant to take away the Jewish peoples happiness. For example, they had a curfew of 9:00 pm and 5:00 am in the summer, and 8:00 pm and 6:00 am in the winter. Kristallnacht, or otherwise named, The Night of the Broken, was like a turning point for the Jewish people that started off the Holocaust (American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise). Hitler made a lot of laws like the one stated above and continued to do so to try and get a reaction out of them.
Hitler had many things against the jews. These are a few reasons. First of all he felt as if they were responsible for World War 1. Antisemitism was also a big thing. Antisemitism was a huge part of the reason why Hitler hated the jews, this is because he didn't see them as people he didn't see them as any race. Hitler hated everything about the jews. He wanted to create what he called the master race. He would spare all caucasian people of nordic descent. Hitler felt like the jews did not conform to this policy. He was mad because during the depression the jews were not as poor as others. He was depressed when Germany lost World War 1 and he kept on hearing rumors over and over again that the jews did it and he started to believe it. He believed
“In Spite of everything I believe that people are really good at heart. I simply cannot build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death” (Snyder 244). Despites attacks on their religion, designed to weaken and destroy Judaism many Jews held on to their faith trusting in God to get them through all the appalling events happening in their life. Throughout centuries Jews moved from place to place; mainly because of exclusion and prejudice against them (Levy 8). They were set apart by religious differences, cultural differences, along with many others by many over a long period of time.
Have you ever wondered why the real reason Hitler wanted to kill all the jews. Yea we all think that they’re people like us but that's not what Hitler thinks some reason. Well let's talk about Anne Frank during this time.
Hitler was one of the biggest murders He killed 6 billion people and split up tons of families.