The Role Of Adolf Hitler During The Holocaust

Studies of the Holocaust have provoked passionate debates. Increasingly, they have become a central topic of concern for historians particularly since the early 1970s, as the Holocaust studies were generally limited. However, one of the most intense debates surrounding the role played by Hitler in the ’Final Solution’. That is, whether and when Hitler took a decision to initiate the extermination process. Of course, this issue has caused incredible controversy and naturally such a contentious topic of debate has radically produced large amounts of new data and literature. Conflicting, an interpretation has caused further disparities between historians over Hitler’s role in the Holocaust. For this

Just before the second Great War, 6 million Jews were killed along with 5 million non-Jews (Miss Belevski, 2008, The Holocaust, slide #2). This atrocity and genocide of Jewish population was widely known as The Holocaust. The man who led genocide was Adolph Hitler, the leader of the Nazis, a fascist party that took control during the German Depression in the 1920s. When Hitler came in power, one of his promises was to end the “Question of the Jews”. A series of steps of the Holocaust was the “Stages of Isolation” (Miss Belevski, 2008, Stages of Isolation: Holocaust, p.1). This plan which was created by Hitler made millions die in vain. ‘In 1935, the law of Nuremberg Race was decreed’ (Miss Belevski, 2008, Stages of Isolation: Holocaust,

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

During that time period, many were hypnotized by Hitler’s words and were under his rule as if they were under a spell. The people were so influenced by Hitler’s say in the country that many were protesting against Jews, discriminating them, and ransacking Jewish people’s houses; those who supported or kept Jews safe had to keep it a secret. “He ordered systematic racially based murder of about 11 million of people of which 6 million were Jews, while his foreign policy provoked World War II which claimed 50 to 70 million lives.”(Historylists) Evaluating this quote, one can say that Jews were mistreated and were killed because of their religion. In addition, Hitler planned 11 million murders while World War II was happening that lost many lives already; he aimed at Jews and his enemies, obviously. Under the control of Hitler, many people were impacted by

Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and within eight years, a program was started that lead to the murder of over six million Jews. This program, known as the Holocaust, can be partially attributed to Hitler, and his thoughts and actions. This debate is an important one in discovering the nature of the Nazi government, and the influence that people and circumstances have on the government. It allows us to know how much of the Holocaust was planned by one person, and how much the rest of the government was at fault. The knowledge of the origins of the Holocaust will help us prevent another Holocaust from happening.

The Holocaust is a term that has come to describe the destruction of European Jewry from 1933 to 1945. In 1933, when the Nazis came to power, the Jews were their first target. According to some scholars such as Lan Kershaw claimed that Hitler’s involvement in day to day decision making was limited, infrequent and capricious. Kershaw points in his biography to 1919 that in Nazi Germany officials of both the German State and Party Bureaucracy usually took the initiative in initiating policy to meet Hitler’s perceived wishes and visions about future Germany. In Mein Kampf, Hitler highlights “I observed the man furtively and cautiously, but the longer I started at this foreign face, scrutinizing feature for feature, the more my first question assumed a new form: Is this German? This opened his eyes to the Jewish Question. Since then he saw that Jews ‘were not Germans of a special religion, but a people in themselves. He began to distinguish Jews race from German. In the letter Hitler wrote Ani-Semitism must lead to systematic removal of the rights of the Jew and its final aim must me the removal of Jews altogether”.

It is important to teach the future generations the true events that occurred. Adolf Hitler’s reign in Germany will help describe the major effect of the gas chambers, death camps, and Nazi propaganda to the Jewish people during the mid-1900s. Documented by Eleanor Ayer, Adolf Hitler became a notorious dictator from 1934 to 1945 (1998, p. 3). After World War II, Hitler became more involved in invading neighboring countries. Because he thought the war was caused by Jews, he lead the largest massacre that many people are aware of.

Many wonder what the notorious Adolf Hitler must have endured that led him the become such an evil, careless person. He is infamously known as the main perpetrator of the Holocaust in which roughly ten million people died. Although his exact reasoning for intolerance is, and always will be, unknown, we can infer his motive probably began for reasons such as his failure to become an artist, his abusive father, and his public relations with anti-semitic leaders.

The Holocaust, a genocide which lasted from 1942 to 1945 in which around 6 million European Jewish people were killed, was the result of the Ideals of the the past chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler. Hitler came into power by capitalising on world-wide events such as the great depression in 1929 resulting from the Wall Street crash. He began spreading his ideals of anti-semitism to the German population in preparation for the ‘Final Solution’, which became known as the Holocaust with the assistance of propaganda, violence, and an economic boycott. Most of the impacts resulting from his methods proved to be extremely valuable to the success of the preparation as they efficiently and effectively brainwashed a hateful image of the Jewish population into the minds of the German people and aligned them with Hitler’s ideals of anti-Semitism. However, some of his methods did were not valuable to preparing the German people as they were not able to depict a hateful image of the Jews.

On January 20th, 1942, top German officials met in Wannsee to discuss the administration of the ‘final solution.” Reinhard Heydrich, Chief of the Reich Main Security Office, exclaimed, “the evacuation of the Jews to the east has now emerged, with the prior permission of the Fuhrer, as a further possible solution instead of emigration.” The change in commitment highlights a significant change in the Jewish question, which until then had centered around forced emigration to the French colony in Madagascar. Insofar as Hitler’s role in the Holocaust, Heydrich provides evidence to suggest that the Fuhrer was willing to hide his direct involvement in the administration and implementation of the “final solution.” But that is not to say that Hitler enjoyed a minor influence on the Jewish question, because he certainly shared full responsibility for the mass murder of Jews and other undesirables with others like Heydrich and the SS Chief Heinrich Himmler. It is worth noting that Hitler was hesitant towards open Jewish discrimination. Insofar as he didn’t want to alarm international Jews.

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

From 1939 to 1945 the world saw actions and atrocities unparalleled in the War against Germany, the legacies of such actions we are still seeing today. Perhaps the most notable atrocity that was born from this war was the persecution of Jewish people in Germany and around Europe and the corresponding murder of up to 6 million Jewish people . “When Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist party seized power on January 30, 1933, there were approximately 525,000 Jewish people living in Germany, less than one percent of the population.” Throughout the years leading up to the official start of World War Two the Jewish people were treated harshly and condemned for no other reason than the fact that they were Jewish, in 1935 the Nuremberg laws furthered this condemnation by defining “what it meant to be a Jew, deprived Jews of German citizenship and legally prohibited them from a variety of occupations.” Families were split apart and many families fled as far as they could have from the horrors of a country they once called home. Hitler’s view of the Jewish people is highlighted in his publication Mein Kampf :

The Holocaust is known to be time in history when Adolf Hitler was given power and used his power to attempt to eliminate all Jews in Europe. This essay will discuss Hitler’s anti-Semitic racial beliefs towards Jews, the consequences of his actions and the Final Solution. The Holocaust started around Germany only, though not long after it had spread along all Europe. Hitler instructed the Nazis in Germany in 1933 to eliminate all Jews in Europe any way they could and to destroy their homes, families and communities. The killing during the Holocaust didn’t only involve Jews, homosexuals, gypsies; people with physical or mental disabilities, some slaves and criminals were also killed. All these people were killed because Hitler considered them ‘undesirable’ and he believed that they didn’t deserve to be in Germany or have any rights. These people were either killed in gas chambers at concentration camps or extermination camps or they were brutally beaten and shot in front of everyone. The following paragraph will discuss Hitler’s racial beliefs towards Jews.

Hitler was a German who first obtained power in January 1933 when he became chancellor of Germany. His gift was that he was highly persuasive speaker. He easily appeared to the Germans who at the time was facing many hardships. Hitler knew that in order to unite the people, they needed a common enemy. In this case, it was the Jews. With a united front and an enemy, Hitler’s mass extermination of Jews

Before Hitler announced the extermination of the Jewish people, he had made their lives as severe and cruel as possible. From nineteen hundred and thirty-three until nineteen hundred and forty-three Hitler passed laws to confine, separate, downgrade, and control the Jewish people (Bartov, 2001, Pg. 28- 30, a). Some of the decrees took things away from the Jewish people, such as they could not hold public office, they could not own property, and they could not get a higher education (Bartov, 2001, Pg. 28-30, b). Others would not allow the German people to mix with Jewish people, as the Germany could not rent to,