Hitler's Response To The Holocaust

Throughout World War two, Hitler had a devastating impact on the world we live in today. His rise to power took place over the course of about twelve years. He emerged as Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and didn't give up that title until after world war two was finished in 1945. One of the reasons world war two initiated was because Hitler didn't comply with the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty was determined upon by the 'Big Three' or the 'League of Nations' after the devastating impact world war one left in the world. The treaty promised peace among all countries, however, Hitler believed that it made Germany weak and disgraced.

This article has information on how the world reacted when they heard about what the German Nazis were doing to the Jews. The article has information titled: News Of Exterminating Reaches of U.S, President Roosevelt’s Apparent Reluctance To help Europe’s Jews, The Bermuda Conference, War Refugee Board, and bombing Railways And Auschwitz. In August 1942, the representative of the World Jewish Congress, Gerhart Riegner, in Switzerland heard about as German plan to obliterate the Jews in Europe. Riegner immediately took the information he had and show it so the American consulate in Geneva, where Riegner asked The Vice-Council, Howard Elting Jr., to show the information to Washington and other Allied governments. After the State Departments established

The Treaty of Versailles could be described as a great step for peace by some, but in Germany the people were enraged. The Treaty of Versailles was seen by the German people as a way to take away Germany’s land and make Germany have to pay for the war. Extreme Nationalists like Adolf Hitler had a strong idea on who should be the blame for Germany’s loss of land and the failure at the Treaty of Versailles. Adolf Hitler and the Nazism party blamed the Weimar Republic. “Hitler and the Nazi Party gained power in Germany by exploiting the economic problems and constitutional weaknesses of the Weimar Republic.”

World War II was a war fought over racist and inhumane ideologies that became popular because of the struggles countries suffered through the Great Depression. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party gained political seats in the German Reichstag following the October 29, 1929 stock market crash in America. It was an economic deficit that sent ripples across the Atlantic Ocean into Europe. People were giving up in the weak Weimar Republic that was set in place right after World War I. When Hitler and his men had the majority in government there was no one to stop them. Hitler was able to rule with powers he should not have been able to gain, but through the Great Depression people needed hope and to them that hope was Hitler. The influence Hitler and

Im going break the silence. I feared this might happen, I wasn’t sure that I could keep it in for much longer. The secrecy was haunting me on the inside. I knew if we didnt keep it a secret it would be most likely that both him and I would be sentenced to death but right then death together sounded better than living apart.

The Treaty of Versailles was one of the reasons Hitler felt his country was plummeting and would inevitably

“Wherever I went, I began to see Jews, and the more I saw, the more sharply they became distinguished in my eyes from the rest of humanity,” Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf, describing his feelings when he first arrived in Vienna in 1925 and began to develop anti-Semitic ideas. The Holocaust was when the Nazi’s eliminated the Jewish people under Hitler’s rule. This was one of the most gruesome events in world history. There were three main reasons why Hitler started the Holocaust and exterminated the Jews: he had a need for power; he was convinced the loss of WWI was because of the Jews; and he was raised as an anti-Semitist.

Many have heard of the Holocaust and where it has taken place. BUT, many may have not known that once upon of time in the 1940’s the French became apart of the Holocaust. Of course the French wouldn’t be a topic because during this time the United States had acknowledged Vichy Regime as the official government, which means they signed off and left them to be their own and no longer the U.S’s problem. Furthermore, the French had issues with the Germans as far as the Vichy disputing territory that was placed under the German administration. It was said that the tendency of the Germans to exercise arbitrary power in the occupied zone, made it difficult for Vichy to assert its authority there.

The holocaust began because of Hitler’s belief that Jews, homosexuals, the mentally ill, beggars, poles, criminals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and slavs should be exterminated. Hitler and the Nazis hated Jews most of all. “Jews were of another inferior race, in fact so inferior that they were not considered to be people by the Nazis”(annefrank.org). Jews and all the other groups were sent to concentration camps where they were tortured along with many terrible things. “A concentration camp was not the same as an extermination murdering Jews and other victim groups”(projectaladin.org). Adolf Hitler ended his own life on April, 30 1945 as the Russians were near his underground bunker in Berlin. The election of Hitler as the German leader caused the gruesome German

The problem with this treaty was that it was punishing all Germans for WWI, treating them unfairly, limiting Germany and making it unable to raise to power again. The Treaty of Versailles was one of the main reasons that led to the Nazism uprising. Furthermore, the sentiment of Germans being humiliated, gave the Nazi Party a purpose and a cause to rise to power and take over Germany and Austria, to defend the Aryan race.

In 1919, army veteran Adolf Hitler, frustrated by Germany’s defeat in World War 1, which had left the nation economically depressed and politically unstable, joined a fledgling political organization called the German Workers’ Party. The party promoted German nationalism and anti-Semitism, and felt that the Treaty of Versailles, the peace settlement that ended the war, was extremely unjust to Germany by burdening it with reparations it could never pay. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was one of the most powerful and infamous dictators of the 20th century. After World War I, he rose to power in the National Socialist German Workers Party, taking control of the German government in 1933. His establishment of concentration camps to inter Jews and other groups he believed to be a threat to Aryan supremacy resulted in the death of more than 6 million people in the Holocaust. His attack on Poland in 1939 started World War II.

For proof that the Treaty of Versailles had a large effect on the advent of a second European war, we needn’t look further than the advent of Hitler and the National Socialist Party in Germany. In his rise to power, Hitler stood firmly against the Treaty of Versailles and promised to upend and overturn almost everything relating to it. He called its signing, “the greatest villainy of the century.” He pointed to major punishments that the Treaty of Versailles enacted: the “war guilt” clause, the dissolution of German colonies and partitioning of German border regions, and the limitation of the German army, and propelled himself into power and later into war. By voting for Hitler, the German population was, by proxy, voting against the Treaty of Versailles.

This paragraph is mainly going to focus on the rise of the Nazi Party and how the Treaty of Versailles helped the Nazi Party to come into power. Once again, the Treaty of Versailles was hated by most of the German population. It humiliated Germany in every manner. One of these terms was the “guilt clause” where Germany had to accept the blame for starting the war. This specific clause was the most embarrassing clause that had been laid on Germany. So, how did all this promote the Nazi Party to come into power? Very few would have thought that the Nazi Party, starting as a gang of unemployed soldiers in 1919, would become the legal government of Germany by 1933. Firstly, Hitler had strong views on the Treaty of Versailles. Even though he was

Hitler considered the Treaty a scandal and a disgrace an act of highway robbery against the German people. According to the Versailles Treaty, the war guilt was blamed on Germany. This was devastating news to the Germans because it’s not of a German social value that they are losers. The German educational system emphasized nationalism and strong connection between one and the country, and in this situation furthered people’s discontent ruined people’s pride of their country, and resonated with people’s feelings. The German social value reinforced people’s discontent and anger towards the losing of war because it’s just like ancient Rome; the Germans couldn’t bear the idea of losing a battle,because it was a sign of weakness and a form of humiliation. The lame went straight to the Weimar Republic because it was the Republic that sealed the fate of Germany at the Paris Peace Conference. Germany didn’t have any experience with democracy prior to the Weimar Republic. People’s faith in democracy was furthermore deeply shaken by the signing of the Treaty of Versailles and gave opportunities to dictators like Hitler to

Like many Germans, Hitler believed that the Treaty of Versailles was unjust. He hated the Treaty and the German politicians were in his view, “November Criminals”. The worst aspect of the Treaty was that it was a reminder to the Germans of their defeat in the First World War and their humiliation by the Allies. His promise to the German people was that if he was the leader of Germany he would reverse this. By the time Hitler came to power, some of these terms had already been changed. The