To what extent do you agree with the assertion that Hitler had a long-term plan for the Holocaust?
A big question about the Second World War, the Holocaust and Hitler for historians is if there actually was a plan for the Holocaust from the beginning or something that developed and had to happen because of circumstances. The Holocaust is the term that today defines the extermination of Jews in Germany during the first half of the 20th century, especially during the Second World War. Whether Hitler planned this or not can be hard to tell as the term is never actually used in the governmental documents in Germany when it was about to happen, and there is no clear evidence of Hitler’s intention earlier in life. What we can tell is based on other facts, and assumptions of what documents meant and words in them, what they were used to describe. Adolf Hitler was born and raised in a rather conservative family in Austria, whereof everyone was catholic. He went to church and sang in the choir of the hometown church. Hitler, when he later grew up and realized his hate towards Jews, was not the only anti-Semitic
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He most likely gained confidence in his thoughts and ideas as so many other people supported them, but nothing was yet written on paper, signed and enforced. The “Jewish question” was from the beginning not the term for what is today called the Holocaust, it was the term of the Jewish emigration, and it was first written in January 1939, when Hitler ordered the chief of the Security Police, Reinhard Heydrich, to solve “the Jewish question by means of emigration or evacuation in the most convenient way possible”. In this order there was no plan to eventually start the extermination, there was only a plan to get them out of “The Third Reich”,