Hitler said die Endlösung der Judenfrage, History says The Final Solution
The evolution of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question was executed in stages. Was the Final Solution truly the answer? During the time of the Holocaust this idea meant different things at different things. The Holocaust was one of the most traumatic and heart-rending killings. Six million Jews are believed to have been killed during the Holocaust. There were over preconceived ideas and political figures. It all evolved from hatred during the biblical ages. There are many reasons to why the Jewish people were despised. The population perceived the Jews as the killer of Jesus. People used the scapegoat of that they are a convenient group to blame. The hatred of the Jews was fueled by the claim that they are the chosen people. Society has viewed the Jews as having prosperity and supremacy. The one that was exaggerated most during the Holocaust was that of the idea that they are an inferior race. Hitler stated a shocking quote in his conversation with Josef Hell in 1922 prior to his power. ! Hitler was the one who proposed that they were the inferior race, and he ran with this concept throughout his life in the public eye. The different meanings of The Final solution were influenced from that current time period that was occurring. Four major occurrences altered and forever left an imprint on the lives of millions. The Anti-Jewish policy, new German governmental departments, the invasion of Poland, and the invasion of the USSR all impacted the meaning of the Final solution.
In the year 1933 is when the idea of The Final Solution began. Adolf Hitler rose to Chancellor in January. The Nazi power was now starting to gain control. This rise t...
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Was the Final Solution completed? The answer is no. Hitler did everything in his power to try and alienate all the Jewish people in Europe. The support of other countries that fought against Hitler’s rule also played an important role. Hitler had the idea all the way back to when he first became a public figure in society, he built off of it, and then put his plan into action in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He wanted the Aryan race to be the leader. Their will and determination not to give up kept them going. The Jewish people have forever left an impact on their people, Europe, and the rest of the world. One can look back on this tragic time in our history and learn from the mistakes. No one should ever go through a catastrophe like this again. This genocide will forever remain in history as one of the worst mass killings of people in the world.
before he came to power, he just used World War II as his golden opportunity to turn his dream into a reality. Others, with Andreas Hillgruber, argue Hitler was the only reason genocide even happened. If Hitler had not been in control, the Holocaust would have ceased to exist. His key sources include the Nuremburg Trials, quoting him saying “this struggle will not end with annihilation of Aryan mankind, but with the extermination of the Jewish people of Europe.” By using Hitler’s own words against him, Hillgruber makes it easy to prove Hitler’s malicious intent clearly and depict him as the mastermind behind the mass murder of the Jewish population. Gerald Fleming creates the last sub-argument in his book, “Hitler and the Final Solution,” provides an in-depth historical evaluation of German fascism and the mechanization behind the Nazi Party bureaucracy. His main point of reference is David Irving’s, “Hitler’s War,”
The phrase “Final Solution” referred to their plan to annihilate the Jewish population. This plan stated that all European Jews would be killed by shooting, gassing, or any way necessary (Final Solution). The article “The Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution,” documented that on January 20, 1942, the Nazis and Germans met to tell the non-Nazi Leaders what the Final Solution was, and that they were responsible for helping to get the Jews transported to the camps. The Final Solution was not the beginning for the elimination. This was already being accomplished by mobile killing squads that would shoot any Jewish men, women, or children. Later, on July 22, 1942 the gassing chambers were finished in the extermination or death camps. Camouflaging the chambers as large showers, the Jews would think they were going to bathe, when they were actually being gassed to death
It is evident that World War II still affects the world today, but are these repercussions the aftermath of a master plan for destruction? The Nazi Party and Hitler were the most significant characters for World War II and thus, they truly made history, however, they made it worse. Many different causes for this devastation have been concluded starting with the end of World War I and the harsh blameful Treaty of Versailles, the new found control in Germany, and the Great Depression; even though was most harmful in America, affected the world in its entirety. Are these the factors that led to the ‘Final Solution’, are these the problems that encouraged Hitler to seize the world? There were many elements prior to World War II leading to the annihilation of Jews, Hitler’s experiences in World War I greatly influenced his outlook on warfare and the Jewish, another predominate factor was the approval of building the camps and chambers in Germany, and lastly the documented intentions for the ‘Final Solution’.
The Final Solution to the Jewish question resulted in indisputably the worst genocide the world has ever seen. Historians have been debating for years on its origins. The two schools of thoughts disagree on when the blueprint was designed and who enforced it in 1942. Lucy Dawidowicz and Richard Breitman agree with the Intentionalist school of thought. They both agree that Hitler had intended to eliminate the Jews from the world and enforced it by 1939. Christopher Browning agrees with the Functionalist point of view. He believes that the final solution was a reaction to this situation is Russia. Bauer is able to bring both schools of thoughts together. Whatever side people choose, this debate will never end unless concrete evidence is found. For now both schools of thought will continue to try to understand this topic better.
The Third Reich sought to eliminate the Jews because the Germans viewed the Jews as parasites that were infecting their country and the world. With economic and physical pressure, Germany was able to encourage the Jews to flee Germany, however, not many left because of restrictions. The Nazis created the final solution in order to quickly eliminate all of the Jews that existed primarily in Germany. Through the use of medical experimentation, gas chambers, and the crematorium, around 6 million Jews were killed.
Before 1933 nobody imagined what would happen when the Nazis came to power in Germany in January 1933. The Nazi regime had a leader named Hitler, and he
From 1933 onwards, Adolf Hitler and his Nazis began implementing simple discrimination laws against the Jews and others who they did not see part of their master race. Hitler and the Nazis believed that German power was being taken by the Jews. Hitler was able to convince his followers of this issue with the Jewish question as it was known, and get away with murdering millions of people in an attempt to cleanse society of anyone inferior to the master race. The Holocaust lasted for 12 years, until 1945. Starting as early as 1944, the Allies were finally advancing on the Germans and began taking over their camps. These liberations and takeovers by the Soviets, American’s and other allies slowly began to remove Hitler from power. In my essay I will go into detail on the final years of the holocaust and how it ended.(1)
For some, it seems that the Holocaust in another lifetime, but for others it will be something they will never forget. Holocaust was a time for fighting. The Jewish would fight for the right to live as they were killed solely for being Jewish. The Holocaust began in 1939 and would continue through 1945. It was introduced by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, although he did not act alone. His mission would be to “exterminate” all minorities, but most abundantly, the Jews. Based on information given by About.com, it is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. Six million of these were Jews.
During the summer of 1941, Chancellor Adolf Hitler initialized “The Final Solution'; to the “Jewish Question';. Hitler started this program because he wanted to create a highly centralized state and one for the master race, Germans. Exterminating Jews was, for Hitler, the only way to create a perfect Germany because it would eliminate the ‘malignant tumors’, the race that caused Germany to lose World War One. Hitler’s decision to start exterminating Jews changed the course of history. In the end, over 6,000,000 Jews were killed and a Jewish state known as Israel, evolved.
An ends-based rationality, in layman’s terms, means that we evaluate the ends of actions taken. This evaluation comes from judging the rationality of the goals, or ends, being pursued by an organization such as the Nazi Party. The stage for the Holocaust was set as Hitler and his party gained momentum in the country, utilizing anti semitism as a strategy for political control. The Jews functioned as a scapegoat for Germany’s failures, such as the economic crisis the country suffered after losing World War I. The end-goal of the Holocaust was Hitler’s “Final Solution”: the mass extermination of European Jews. To kill another person is irrational to many; to kill six million even more so. To pin Germany’s shortcomings on a very specific portion of society and subjecting them to concentration camps such as Auschwitz as some sort of retribution is now widely viewed as being preposterous. According to an ends-based rationality, the Holocaust was incredibly
The Holocaust is one of the most horrifying crimes against humanity. "Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population. He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme." (Bauer, 58) One of his main methods of exterminating these ‘undesirables' was through the use of concentration and death camps. In January of 1941, Adolf Hitler and his top officials decided to make their 'final solution' a reality. Their goal was to eliminate the Jews and the ‘unpure' from the entire population. Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp that carried out Hitler's ‘final solution' in greater numbers than any other.
The aftermath of the Holocaust left over six million Jews perished and the survivors in pain and anguish, each of their lives impacted forever by reliving the horrid events of this unspeakable tragedy every day. They needed to pick up the pieces to continue living by fleeing to different countries, assimilating into new cultures, and beginning new families to create happy memories. This being challenging for many of them, forced some of the survivors to suppress their emotions about the past in order to accomplish these newer lives while others to talk about it frequently. Each of them had their own methods to cope with the affects and thoughts they had after the Holocaust; their methods having its own advantages and disadvantages. This goes to show that the Holocaust survivors were affected more than ones mind
...tler took control of Austria he had death squads ordered to find and kill every Jew in the country. But this plan was to slow, so he had a new plan developed for the elimination of the Jews. Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi officer came up with the Final Solution. The plan was to send all the Jews to extermination camps. During the Third Reich over 6 million Jews were killed in Europe. After war the Jews were then given their own country, Israel.
MODERN HISTORY – RESEARCH ESSAY “To what extent was Nazi Germany a Totalitarian state in the period from 1934 to 1939?” The extent to which Nazi Germany was a totalitarian state can be classed as a substantial amount. With Hitler as Fuhrer and his ministers in control of most aspects of German social, political, legal, economical, and cultural life during the years 1934 to 1939, they mastered complete control and dictation upon Germany. In modern history, there have been some governments, which have successfully, and others unsuccessfully carried out a totalitarian state. A totalitarian state is one in which a single ideology is existent and addresses all aspects of life and outlines means to attain the final goal, government is run by a single mass party through which the people are mobilized to muster energy and support.
Within Nazi government, Hitler acted as the final source of authority, which serves as evidence against the notion that Hitler was ‘weak’. Having consolidated power by 1934 Hitler was, at least theoretically, omnipotent, being Chancellor, Head of State and “supreme judge of the nation”. However, the notion that Nazi government systematically pursued the clear objectives of the Fuhrer is challenged by the reality of Nazi government structure. It has been widely accepted by historians that the Nazi State was a chaotic collection of rival power blocs. Mommsen’s explanation that this was the result of Hitler’s apathy towards government a...