Germany And The Nazi War

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German citizens allowed approximately 11 million innocent people to lose their lives by not standing up to Hitler and his anti-semitic ideology. Many people believe this statement is true, however, several people stood up against the Nazi regime and did not back down without a fight. Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany in the 1930s and became chancellor of Germany in 1933. During his reign, Hitler imposed the blame for the economic depression after WWI on Jews. His hatred was transpired by his belief that the Aryan race was superior to all.

After Germany lost World War I, it was in a national state of humiliation. Their economy was in the drain, and they had their hands full paying for the reparations from the war. Then a man named Adolf Hitler rose to the position of Chancellor and realized his potential to inspire people to follow. Hitler promised the people of Germany a new age; an age of prosperity with the country back as a superpower in Europe. Hitler had a vision, and this vision was that not only the country be dominant in a political sense, but that his ‘perfect race’, the ‘Aryans,’ would be dominant in a cultural sense. His steps to achieving his goal came in the form of the Holocaust. The most well known victims of the Holocaust were of course, the Jews.

From 1933 to 1945, Germanyś government was led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. During this time, they carried out a method to onslaught all European Jews. Because the Germans placed themselves as the superior people, they decided that Jews would be punished only because of their religion/race. In Hitlerś eyes, the only way for survival was to be a part of the ¨master race¨. The ¨master race¨ was to always stay ¨pure¨ in hope that one day, they would take over the world.

The holocaust was a tragic event for nations in Europe, but it also took a toll on people across the world. Today, we wonder if there was any way that such a horrible time in history could have been prevented. Under different circumstances, would Germany’s position on Judaism have been different? Is it possible that Hitler could have been stopped? I strongly believe that Hitler could not have come into power if the allies had allowed Germany to participate in the peace talks of 1919 and not punished the country so severely.

In World War II more than half of the population of the Jews was wiped out by the Germans. The main reason was that Hitler made the Germans believe that the Jews had to be killed because they were an inferior race. He instilled that the Aryan race was superior to all. They started war on all other countries in order to show their superiority. Many Germans did not share his believes and assisted the Jews as they saw the injustice that was being committed.

The rise of Hitler and the Nazis soon grew out of control around the 1940s, around when the war started. The text states, “Germany had been struggling since 1918, when it was defeated in World War I. The German people felt humiliated, tired, and bitter. Hitler and his Nazi Party rose to power by tapping into these feelings.” the text also states later that,”Hitler declared that Germans were superior to everyone else. He also offered a scapegoat for all of Germany's problems: Jewish people.” This shows that the Nazis were easily able to take control of Germany and persecute Jews for their beliefs.(6)

Germany lost World War I (WWI) in the late 1910s. Thus, most Germans, including Hitler, blamed the Jews for the defeat (Langley 9). If the Central Powers won World War I, people couldn’t blame Jews for the defeat and would start to persecute them. It would seem some countries would not see a need to stop Hitler if he didn’t persecute Jews; Hitler’s rise to power might have been viewed as a revolution and the rest of Europe would not need to step in. In 1928, the Nazi Party was a momentous group in Germany.

The fear that was in the German citizens was enough to make them be okay with Hitler’s deeds and restore Germany to it’s rightful place. They feared that the Jewish race was the problem and let Hitler do what he wanted so that the people could get “help”. It didn’t turn out well because most Jewish people got sent to camps and

Hitler was obsessed with the racial superiority he believed the German peoples had over all other inferior peoples. He wanted to rule the world, but in order to carry out his solution, he needed to convince the German people to listen to him. Perhaps Hitler would never have been able to do what he did had World War I never occurred. As Resnick said in his book, The Holocaust; After World War I, Germany was trying to rebuild and recover…Both the Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression severely afflicted Germany. "In many respects, these terrible conditions made Hitler's rise to power possible." (Resnick p. 15) People in desperate situations will listen to anyone offering a way out. Hitler offered not only a way out of Germany's turmoil, but also someone to blame for it; he pointed at the Jews.

By forming the country’s common enemy, the Nazi Government were able to attain influence by uniting, emotionally, its people against the Jews. They used Jews as a scapegoat by directly ushering blame onto the Jewish citizens in the country, and deliberately bringing back to life old anti-Semitic prejudices. This developed the cultural attitude that Jews were accountable for all issues within Germany, and that in order to create a racial identity, the country needed liberation from the racially impure Jews. As Paul Bartrop, Professor of History at Florida Gulf Coast University, stated the German population was told that “Jews dominate[d] economic and cultural life, that they [were] responsible for many of the world’s evils” (https://books.google.com.au/books?id=RAtvBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA73&dq=cultural+attitude+that+Jews+were+accountable+for+all+issues+within+Germany&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjyruGYysvTAhUBm5QKHepnDlkQ6AEIQTAG#v=onepage&q=they%20are%20responsible&f=false).

Hitler had shown unwillingness to tolerate the Jews and once he was appointed Chancellor, he started to take elimination measures like deportation, forced emigration, and isolation to enforce his belief. He took advantage of Germany’s weakness in World War One, then used it as an opportunity to blame the Jews for Germany’s defeat. Hitler’s political party was the largest political party in Germany thus allowing them to draw very large crowds to gatherings. He had very good oratory speeches with hand gestures that easily manipulated people to adhere to his views. Hitler constantly targeted the Jews because he knew people believed in these speeches. People in Germany were already anti-semitic but Hitler made it worse by constantly consuming them in his speeches. From the way he spoke about the Jews, we could clearly see the possibility of genocide. Hitler wanted Germany to be free of any humans that anyone other than his ideal master race so he personally selected bodyguards to be part of a group called the SS. Hitler was responsible for ordering the SS to carry out the extermination of anyone who did not fit this ideal. The SS handled oppositions using force and as a result of which people were forced to give into the idea of violence. Sometimes people purposely went along with this Holocaust ideal due to the fear of getting killed. These terrors allowed the holocaust occur

Nazi Germany was a dictatorship under the control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, which transformed Germany into a fascist totalitarian state. Germany was conquered by the Soviet Union and the other Allied powers and surrendered within a year. The plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe formed in the 1942 Swansea Conference, replacing the previous policy of forced emigration of Jews from the Reich. In alliance with Italy and smaller Axis powers, Germany conquered most of Europe by 1940 and threatened Great Britain. Hitler became dictator of Germany by merging the powers and offices of the Chancellery and Presidency. Large-scale aerial bombing of Germany escalated in 1944, and the Nazis retreated from Eastern and Southern Europe. The victorious

When the United Nations was formed in 1945, Germany was a pile of rubble, both literally and figuratively. A political and social outcast, it was not until 1973 that a divided Germany was granted full member status in the UN. And those 40 years of membership have seen remarkable changes to not only a now unified Germany, but also the world.

Towards the late 1930s the animosity in Germany towards the Jewish people began to flourish and the power of Hitler was beginning to rise. Jewish shops and businesses were boycotted and many lost their right to own property, in turn forcing the Jewish population to quit their jobs and resort to Jewish camps set up by Hitler himself. It was in these camps that the Jewish race was slowly being eradicated and put to work until they died. Hitler's racist and prejudiced views were responsible for the mass genocide of over six million people, two-thirds of the Jewish population. At the same time many institutions such as the League of Nations were debating stopping Hitler and his rise to power. As we now know, this plan did not take action. The League of Nations, and countless other countries were powerless and had little influence on global affairs after WWI. Due to the previous war many felt as though they