Mass Exterminations

The bigger question is whether he personally premeditated or whether the idea came about and its implementation gradually developed out of a ‘collaborative effort within the ranks of Nazi bureaucracy’ {Kevin V. Sweeny}. In comparison to the functionalist, The theory of the internationalists are simple and straightforward; they insist and are convinced that the Holocaust was intended by Hitler; the final solution was Hitler’s clear objective and he ‘pursued it relentlessly’ { Elly Dellen}. Hitler’s hatred towards the Jew’s led him directly to a road of genocide. While I’m positioned in the midst of both sides; intentionalist and functionalists, the internationalists have a more concrete and solid proof of the events which led to the Holocaust. Hitler’s hatred towards Jews was suppressed however once he came in power his ideas were put in practice, and multiple social, economic factors influenced his Nazi racial ideology. While many may argue that Hitler despised the Jews with a passion, it cannot be said that Hitler alone had the systematic ideology on the destruction of Jews. Prior to Hitler’s leadership, the Jews were disliked and expelled by Roman Empire and became refugees. They were subjected to hatred for 100’s of years; getting accepted meant they thrived on the

The only record that is found of the Wannsee Conference is the 16th copy of the notes taken and distributed to all of the members of the conference. It is found in March of 1947. The notes articulate a plan of genocide over all of Europe. The Wannsee Conference’s function and significance are still slightly unclear, but we do know many things about it. We know the setting, attendees, what they are planning and how they will foresee that plan.

that Hitler wanted to eliminate the Jews before anything else. Hitler firmly blamed all of the bad things on the Jews, and wanted to exterminate them as a whole. Dawidowicz states, “The mass murder of the Jews was the consummation of his fundamental beliefs and ideological convictions” (Dawidowicz, The War against the Jews, 3). She expresses the idea that Hitler was taking place in early anti-Semitism,

The Final Solution is the most controversial topic of German History as its origination is not clean cut, whilst it would be simple to place emphasis on Hitler and his World View for the destruction of all Jewry there are other factors such as WW2 which must be taken into consideration in analysis of the Final Solution. Other factors include the polarised view of a lack of formal mechanisms and coherent policy, both of which were fuelled by an honest desire to pursue the will of the Fuhrer to commit, as described by Layton ‘The darkest deed of the Third Reich.’ Throughout this essay it will be

In the 1940s, while many of the people focused on the Second World War, Hitler and many of the Germans under his influence killed numerous groups of people that tainted the German or Aryan superior 4race. These people included Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, people with disabilities, prisoners of war, and communists. The Final Solution, or the Holocaust as it is known now, was a plan made by the top of the Nazi party and was executed primarily by Hitler's followers. Holocaust, the word now brings living fear to those who experienced the tragedy and those reading the survivors' accounts. Night by Elie Wiesel, a memoir using logos and pathos at a high efficiency, and Schindler`s letter by his Jews, excels at providing creditability, are two accounts that have ample amounts of rhetoric.

In Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, Alexander identifies the racialized mass incarceration problem that we have in our criminal justice system. Reading the book, you can see that mass incarceration is a social problem. This means that the problem can follow the six stages of the policy process. If I were a claimsmaker, I could assert that mass incarceration is a problem by following the six stages.

The final solution, as outline in the Wannsee Conference, was anything but vague. Until this point, it wasn’t “officially” outlined as to what the goal of the Nazi regime was. However, through the displays of propaganda seen in previous stages thought this paper, it is clear what their intentions were. The extent of the implementation, as discussed at the Wannsee conference, as outlined by the Nazi regime was meant for the soul purpose of eliminating the Jews from German society, whether that was by mass immigration, deportations, and/or killings.

Due to his anti-Semitic views, Hitler had the capability to de-humanize Jews. He was a good speaker and had the power to persuade the public; who were looking for people to blame, especially after the first war. Hitler was able to carry out the final solution the same way he was able to rise to power. The people of Germany needed a leader and in their desperate state, they gave Hitler that power, which also gave him the power to carry out the final solution. Words have a lot of influence and the Nazis knew this; which is why they burned books. Public figures like Henry Ford, Giorgio Armani, and Walt Disney were all said to have Anti-Semitic views. There is no doubt that their Anti-Semitism contributed to the final

The Holocaust, the execution of the Final Solution in response to the Jewish problem, commenced in the early 1940s. However, throughout the beginning and middle of World War II, Hitler tyrannized European Jews by forced emigrations and deportations out of Western Europe. World War II comprised this incremental radicalization of oppression towards the Jews; expulsions and deportations to prohibitions and ultimately, an attempt to enact mass genocide. What was the cause for the intensification of the Nazi Jewish policy? In order to answer this question, investigation as to when the Final Solution was devised and what influenced its formulation must be addressed. Regarding these questions, there has been much debate between clashing ideologies.

On January 20, 1942 a meeting was held with fifteen men who were either part of the Nazi party or other powerful government leaders. The meeting took place in a wealthy area in Berlin on a lake that was named Wannsee. The “final solution to the jewish question” was the focus of the meeting. The term “final solution” was the phrase used by the Nazi’s for their plan for the extermination of all European Jews. This meeting was the first time that the government leaders not involved with the Nazi party were introduced to the plan for the Jews that the Nazi’s had carefully developed. The meeting was formally known as the Wannsee Conference and the minutes that came from that conference were top secret and were not meant for others to see

Tragic events strike the world in many different forms; from simple shootings to ethnic genocides. Although theses acts of hatred sound widespread and diverse in the cause; it is the indifference and ruthlessness that an individual portrays. This sort of behavior accommodates society and encourages people to accept and follow its routine and principles, such as the events that took place during the Holocaust. During the time period of 1933 to 1945, Adolf Hitler, an Austrian World War I veteran, decided to partake in twisted behavior. Hitler believed that in order to do his nation justice, the nation needed an ethnic cleansing. This ethnic cleansing involved choosing to degrade and torture the lives of millions of people, using Jews as his

The Wannsee Conference was a high level meeting of German officials that belonged to thw Nazi German regime. The conference was held in Berlin suburbs of Wannsee on January 20th 1942. The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of Departments responsible for policies relating to Jews. At the conference the officials discussed the finalization and implementation of “ The final solution of the jewish question” Reinhard Heydrich a man of high status in the Nazi regime had been appointed as the chief executor of the "Final solution to the Jewish question". During the meeting, Heydrich presented a plan, that was later on said to be approved by Adolf Hitler. The plan Heydrich proposed was for the removal of the Jewish population

What do you think of when someone says extermination? you think of killing, murder, execution, and slaughter. Well so did Adolf Hitler, he had the idea of exterminating the whole world of Jewish people once and for all starting with Europe. He is in the top 13 deadliest dictators in history. Hitler killed Jews in ways that each death was worse than the last. He held mass shootings, medical experiments, and extermination centers. Hitler put them in gas chambers, overworked them and starved them, eventually leading to disease. Out of nine million Jews Hitler killed six million in Europe alone and victimized millions more.

In January of 1942, Hitler and the Nazis instituted the “Final Solution,” which was an organized and meticulous plan to exterminate the Jews. This plan eventually led to the death of six million Jews and has become one of the most infamous crimes against humanity ever perpetrated. Since the time that the Final Solution has been carried out, historians have debated exactly when Adolph Hitler and the Nazis decided to commit genocide against the Jews. Some historians argue that Hitler had wanted to annihilate the Jews for decades and his plan finally could be implemented in 1942. However, other historians counter that he and the Nazis did not always plan to take such an extreme course of action, and instead tried other things before they settled on genocide, which was only seriously considered very close to the time that it took place. Evidence from the time, though, ultimately disproves the theory that the Nazis committed genocide as a last resort to solve their problems with Jews. Instead, after analyzing historical evidence, one comes to the conclusion that even though the Final Solution was only initiated in 1942, it had been conceived of and planned decades before.

What can the human race do to ensure that another mass extermination never happens again? That depends the human race being united to fight it. All cultures have distinguished people into categories of “us and them”: ethnicity, race, religion, nationality. We don’t see ourselves as one people, but as multiple peoples defending ourselves against others. We don’t see other races as human beings, either. Because we grow up and live apart from other cultures and languages, we see other human beings unlike us as peculiar to ourselves—dehumanizing them. We create imaginary borders around our own kind and shut out other groups. If we, as one human race, overcame these boundaries, then the extermination of large groups of people would cease.