How Did Race Influence Europe During Ww2

How Race and the Perception of Race Influence Europe during World War II

Introduction

The issue of race has always been a sensitive theme since the 19th century. Race is a doctrine that asserts that blood is the main determinant of national and ethnic identity and that the behaviors of different people are biologically determined by inherited, innate characteristics.The perspective of race has been changing since the 19th century. In Europe, the issue of racism and people’s perception of different races had a significant influence on the European countries during the Second World War. One of the most significant racist events that took place during the World War II was the holocaust. The holocaust refers to the bureaucratic, systematic and

The decision to systematically murder all the Jews not only in Germany but also in other European countries was made at the Wannsee conference that was held at the Wannsee Villa in 1942. A total of fifteen members attended this conference from the Nazi party and national government. Most of the people who were able to attend this conference were representatives of the government ministries that were responsible for dealing with the Jewish problem. The mass murder of the Jewish people, termed operation Reinherd started in July 1942.Although Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party actively participated in the murder of Jews living in Europe, he could not have managed to do this alone since the holocaust process was very complex and economically demanding. It took the efforts of millions of German citizens for this process to be successful. People from all spheres in Germany actively took part in the holocaust process to implement the final solution to the Jewish

Raul Hilberg wrote a book in 1985 that described the systematic events that took place during the final solution that meant to finish off all the Jews in Europe. According to Hilberg, the holocaust was a systematic process that was carried out by bureaucrats in the government that were divided into four different hierarchies. These included the armed forces, the Nazi party, the industry and the civil service. Hilberg states that the destruction of the Jews was carried out in stages that included the defining and registering the Jews, expropriation their property, concentrating all the Jews in ghettos and finally the mass murder of all the Jews. According to Hilberg, approximately six million Jews were murdered in the