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The Holocaust: The Strong Anti-Jewish Tradition In Europe

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The answer to this question lies in the strong anti-Jewish tradition in Europe, which predated the Nazis’ rise to power. In Germany, Hitler and the Nazis succeeded in segregating the Jews from the rest of the population, despite the fact that German Jews were among the best assimilated in Europe. There has been quite a lot of debate among historians as to why the Nazis set out to wipe-out the Jews. Some have stated that it had always been Hitler’s plan to wipe-out the Jews, while others have come before the mass murders as a result of a long and curved process, where the Nazi Jewish policy was gradually modified.

In 1934, Hitler became Germany’s head of state. Some of these laws meant that Jewish children could no longer go to school, keep pets or have a bicycle. The Naziss believed that Jews were a problem that needed to be removed. The mass killing of the Holocaust was what Hitler called “The Final Solution”. Hitler also wanted to extend Germany, so he invades close-by countries and took them over. Many of the non-German people lived on land that he wanted for his country they were also sent to concentration camps. …show more content…

The starting date of the Holocaust is widely accepted for the Wannsee Conference, exactly from January 20, 1942. But a number of Jews in Germany had been killed ever since Hitler took power in Germany, because of the discrimination policy for the Jews. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the systematic killing of the Jews

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Hitler also changed the religious culture in many parts of Europe. One of Hitler’s main goals while in office was to eliminate the jewish and any other non-aryan people. In the process, Hitler made The Nuremberg Laws. Adolf Hitler, “implemented these laws to ostracize, discriminate and expel Jews from German society” (3) Diverse culture was rejected. Physically, the people of Germany, mostly jews, were affected because of Hitler trying to make the population one master race.

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The Holocaust occurred when Hitler came to power, caused by his power of words; as Death states: “The Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.” (Zusak 445). Hitler manipulated the Germans to think that other people, such as Jews, are not the ideal human race and they need to abolish them. The Germans were oblivious to what Hitler was trying to accomplish because they were blinded by his wise and knowledgeable choice of words.

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Unfortunately for Jewish people in Europe, they were the target of oppression for Hitler. Society stereotypes the Jewish people just as other ethnicities. Stereotypes seem to be a common way for people to view others. Germany needed a scapegoat for all the struggles they were facing and Hitler used stereotypes to give the German people a scapegoat.

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Events: December 8, 1941 Concentration camp at Chelmno, Poland, starts gassing Jewish prisoners January 20, 1942 Wannsee Conference held The Holocaust 's Beginning: While the United States was getting to be involved in the war in the Pacific, back in Europe the real aim of the Nazi armed forces was turning out to be progressively clear. As more of eastern Europe fell into German hands, the country turned into a kind of backyard for the Nazis, where the ugliest parts of their arrangement could be diverted out away from the scrutinising public. By late 1941, the first Jews from Germany and western Europe were assembled and transported, alongside numerous different minorities, to death camps in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, and western Russia, where they were initially used as slaves and later killed.

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Holocaust The website " The Holocaust; Facts and Figures" says how approximately 6 million Jews were killed during the holocaust and about 1.1 million Jews were Killed too. Hitler was the leader of the Germans. Hitler would tell the Germans to kill the Jews, they attacked Jews because the Nazis considered them a race, also because they thought Jews were the cause of losing world war I. The Nazis also wanted some land so they thought that by getting rid of the Jews they would be able to keep their land.

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Adding the numbers up to a sickening eleven million victims… (Wikipedia) The nazis started construction of concentration camps in 1933, and then built ghettos after the start of WWII in 1939, and by 1942 there was millions of Jewish People being transported by trains and trucks into the concentration camps. Where they would be systematically killed in gas chambers for no reason except their religion. (Wikipedia) The Jewish people started to collaborate and make plans against their enemies, they started to uprise and revolt against the Nazis and some attacks were successful in getting Jews out of the camps alive.

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After World War I, Germany, forced to take responsibility for the war, was in political and economic turmoil. During this time, an infamous Adolf Hitler rose to power, promising a new and prosperous Germany and accused the Jewish population for causing Germany’s problems. Hitler’s rise to power marked a shift from mere discrimination to outright violence against the Jewish people (Wiener). Hitler and the Nazis proceeded to take measures to strip Jews of their rights to create a Germany free from "racially inferior" people. The 1935 Nuremberg laws banned German Jews from marrying or having relations with the German “master race” (“The Holocaust”).

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Germans wanted their German children to also hate the Jewish people. Additionally, Document #5, written by Daniel Goldhagen in 1996, said that Germans had the ideology that all Jewish people had to be killed. Ordinary Germans were responsible for the Holocaust because they supported anti-semitism and didn’t say no to Hitler. No one tried resisting from the Nazis; they all supported actions against Jewish people. However, in document #7, by Yad Vashem, an organization that honors those killed in the Holocaust, said that many Germans saved Jewish lives by hiding them in their homes, faking identities, taking in children and helping Jewish people escape.

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