How Did Hitler Influence The Holocaust

Adolf Hitler and his government believed that the Jews were the source of Germany’s problems. After the first few years of his regime, Hitler prepared to annihilate the Jews from Germany. After he had resupplied Germany with weapons and such after its great depression, Hitler decided to turn his focus to the Jews. He began with removing the Jews from their jobs, certain public areas like parks, and much more. The Jews were persecuted. Hitler did not believe that this would remove the Jews from his very own Germany. He became very impatient, and decided to take the final turn, which was to wipe out the population of Jews within Germany. He did so by using gas chambers, shootings, and concentration camps (they essentially worked the Jews to death). My question when I first learned about the Holocaust was Where were the riots? But what I didn't realise is that they were all right there, supporting, and surrendering to the mass genocide of the Jews, through their

But how did it influence the Holocaust? One example of how the people of Germany and the world surrendered to Hitler and the Nazis through their silence is told by Von Weizsaecker, who was famous for his speeches on the concurrent war. Weizsaecker “There were many ways of not burdening one’s conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping mum. When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust then became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it or even suspected anything.” This shows how they kept quiet, rejected responsibility, and dismissed the current situation. Hitler did not only go after the Jews, but went after Communists, Catholics, the disabled, the homosexuals, and other groups of the ‘minority’ that Hitler seemed to consider them. But where were the people of Europe? They were right there, watching the slaughter of their own kind, through their own