The Analysis of the Final Solution in Europe The Final Solution was a major plan to get rid of all Jews in Europe, which had started long before Extermination camps were set up, and was a systematic process to slowly declass and isolate the Jews as citizens and work on disposing of what was believed to be a weak race. Prior to Nazi anti-Semitism, the Jews were discriminated against from the medieval era, as Jews were seen as those responsible for the death of Jesus, but never before had a countries’ official policy consisted of genocide. Before the Final Solution to the Jewish Question could be determined, the Nazis experimented with many anti-Semitic policies. …show more content…
In November 1938, as reprisals to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris by a young Jew, the Nazis organised a wave of destruction on Jewish businesses and synagogues. 20' 000 Jews were arrested and sent to camps, and 91 were murdered. This is known as the Night of Broken Glass, or "Kristallnacht" and further continued into declassifying Jews, and treating them in a more violent way, which would bring about the mass genoicide that the Nazis hoped for, although the Nazis were still undecided of how to deal with their problem, and as Germany conquered more land during the Second World War, that in turn, led to ownership of more Jews to be dealt with. In July 1940, a method they attempted was to deport all German and West European Jews to the African island of Madagascar. However, this plan had to be
Around this time the Nazis came up with the term “The Final Solution” This meant to have all Jewish people segregated and put into ghettos, limiting their freedom and lives. People were evicted from their properties and also from their business just because they were Jews, and they were put in the “ghettos”. Life in the ghettos was unbearable and overcrowding. Specially when they have ten families living in one small apartment. They were also limited on the food that they could buy, since Nazis did not let them buy enough food for them and their family they were only aloud to buy small amounts, they were trying to make the Jewish starve. Jewish kids also sneak out through small openings in the ghetto walls to smuggle food, but if they got caught they were going to be severely punished. The housing inside ghettos were unsanitary specially when plumping broke down, and human waste was thrown in the streets along with garbage and caused contagious diseases that spread rapidly in the ghettos. Many people died every day in the ghettos because of the terrible conditions they lived and some
Anti-Semitism was used to carry out the final solution through persecution and later extermination of Jews. Anti-Semitism is the discrimination and extreme hatred of Jews. Anti-Semitism built a platform for the Nazi to take control of the people. Hitler used the Jews as a scapegoat and made people in society believe that they were
During the period of 1492 to 1750, Europe experienced drastic changes during their Age of Discovery. As a result of contact and colonization, Western Europe’s economy, political, social, and military systems changed, but also maintained certain aspects that enabled them to build strong civilizations. Such changes include increased (international) trade routes, more centralized governments such as monarchies, decreased unifying influence of the Catholic Church, and increased interest in military conquest and expansion.
To start off with, The Final Solution was a process that the Nazis used to exterminate the
In the mid 1930s heading into the the mid 1940s, The Nazis created harsh living conditions for Jews living in Europe. The Nazis, lead by Adolf Hitler, were an right wing group that took control of Germany and eventually expanded to the other European countries around them including Poland and Austria. Using the Nuremberg laws in 1935, the Nazis began removing Jewish people from everyday society. Four years later in 1939, Jews were forced to live in Ghettos that were overcrowded and barely maintained. Not long after in 1945, The “final solution” was implemented. Innocent Jewish men, women and children were shipped in train cars to Concentration camps. The conditions in these train cars were brutal. Passengers would go days without water, food
In the final years of the war, Himmler and Eichmann proposed the concept to place the Jewish people in camps and eliminate the rest of the Jewish people before the war was over; this concept was known as the “Final Solution.” These SS soldiers are the main cause of the Holocaust because they were the group that fully helped consummate Hitler’s idea to remove the Jewish people out of Germany and, in the end, they gave the orders to mass murder any Jew alive.
Laws passed in 1935 and the "final solution" beginning in 1939. These actions taken by the Germans were evidence of their attempt at willing the unwillable. They were trying to will German national power and regain honor by willing the Jews, which was not a reasonable solution. The thought behind their attempt at willing the unwillable was the illogic of logic, that if they Jews were gone, the Aryan race would flourish. The
In a continuation of the previous argument, it can also be argued that the Final Solution arose as a result of the chaotic nature of the Nazi regime during this period as per the Structuralist argument. This concept relies on the fact that these various institutions within the Third Reich competed with one another and as a result of this chaos ensued as these various institutions had poorly defined roles. An example of such would be the transportation of Jews to Madagascar to effectively deal with the Jewish question, at first Heydrich had suggested that the Jews be moved to suitable territory and it had been the Jewish section of the foreign office who had then suggested Madagascar, a place which would not sustain the Jewish population of Europe. Another example of such would be the movement of Jews to the East of Poland which led to the development of local initiatives as construction of gassing facilities were ordered and the utilisation of gas vans. This concept of Cumulative Radicalisation as devised by Mommsen argues that Hitler had no clear plan as to what to do with the Jews. As a result of this it could be argued that the Final solution emerged as a result of these various institutions all working towards the goal of the Fuhrer which created this chaos state and led to systematic extermination of the Jews by 1942.
In truth however, Hitler’s Final Solution was something peculiar in the fact that few people believed that in the 20th Century, when society had reached its intellectual and ethical peak, such genocide was conceivable. Public consensus, along with the media, reassured us that we could no longer return to the Middle Ages. However, the philosophers and prophets of Berlin, with their fine manners and high society, turned into the world’s greatest murderers. The world was silent. One may add, not only silent but in whole passive, sometimes comfortable with what
Anti-semitism in Germany led by Adolf Hitler would back up a plan called the final solution, to exterminate all of the Jews in Europe. Out of the 100 million Jews aimed for extermination, 6 million of them were killed. On his path to German greatness, Jews became victim to inconceivable actions. First the Nuremberg Laws were passed which stripped Jews of their german citizenship, eliminating their opportunity to flee to other countries. After Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Hitler forcefully deported Jewish people into fenced confinements called ghettos. More Jews died here than in any extermination camp due to the harsh conditions and labor. Most people living in ghettos had no access to running water or a sewage system and overcrowding
During the late 17th and early 18th century, many European nations such as France and Russia were absolute monarchies. Even countries such as England had kings who at least attempted to implement absolutism. Indeed the concept of absolutism, where the monarch is the unquestionably highest authority and absolute ruler of every element in the realm, is certainly appealing to any sovereign. However, this unrestricted power was abused, and by the end of the 18th century, absolutism was gone. Absolutism failed because the monarchs' mistreatment of the population caused the people to revolt against their rule and policies. There are many factors which caused this discontent. For one, there was a great loss of human lives. Louis XIV of France
(Hitler’s Book “Mein Kampf”) The Nazis claimed that the Jewish people and religion was the source of their downfall, and the genocide of the Jewish people was their only option.
Adolf Hitler came to power over Germany in January of 1933. He hated Jews and blamed them for everything bad that had ever happened to Germany. Hitler’s goal in life was to eliminate the Jewish population. With his rise to power in Germany, he would put into action his plan of elimination. This is not only why German Jews were the main target of the Holocaust, but why they were a large part of the years before, during, and after the Holocaust. Hitler’s “final solution” almost eliminated the Jewish population in Europe during World War II. At the end of the war and along with his suicide, the Jewish population would survive the horror known as the Holocaust and the Jews would eventually find their way back to their homeland of Israel
as a Jew in German-held territory was marked with a yellow star, making them open targets. Tens
Western European people had endured a series of changes during the late medieval period. Changes can be categorized into two aspects: politically and socially. On politics, Popes were not as strong as they were due to conflicts between the state and the church. Socially, people began to live a religion- dominated life, and experienced active sexism towards women. These changes, either positive or negative, have become an undivided part of European History.