Exploring Whether Nazi Measures Towards Jews Became More Extreme With Time

Exploring Whether Nazi Measures Towards Jews Became More Extreme With Time

From the initial stages of Nazi Germany, and even years before, Hitler

made his hostility towards people of the Jewish faith apparent. While

in prison, Hitler wrote his autobiography, ‘Mien Kampf’ written in

1924-26, he openly blamed the Jews for the German defeat of the War

and all other troubles within Germany. As a result of these feeling,

when Hitler came to power in 1933 many laws and actions were taken in

hope to eradicate Jews from Germany. It can be said that as time

passed, the laws and actions became more intense.

For thousands of years people had adopted a negative view of the Jews,

even dating back to the time of Christ. When Hitler came to power he

repeatedly expressed the view that Jews represented a ‘deadly menace’

to all people on earth.

Between 1933-34, Hitler was keen to moderate his own virulent

anti-Semitism beliefs but was also determined to settle scores with

their enemies, namely the Jews. On 32 March 1933, ‘Streicher’ the

district leader (Gauleiter) of Nuremberg, an organised boycott of all

Jewish shops, medical and legal practises were carried out, the

majority of Germans ‘did not identify with it’. While it was not

always clear how influential Aryans or Nazis were to these actions,

The Law of the Restoration of a Professional Civil Service was

introduced to purge the bureaucracy of ‘unreliable’ elements, while

Aryans allowed the dismissal of Jewish officials. This demonstrates

how between this time, actions against the Jews were carried out, but

the Nazis didn’t associate themselves with it.

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elimination of groups such as the Jews. Over the years the policies

set against them became more intense. Although, due to the Olympic

games being held in Berlin there was a lull on anti-Semitism in 1936.

After this though, more extreme measures were put into action, and

previous laws on job restrictions were reinforced. As time passed the

Jews, as well as other ‘asocials’ suffered more but the elimination of

the Jews in society was the most excessive case. The Nazis made their

physical and policy attacks harsher and more people were sent to camps

for ‘re-shaping’. As a result of this progression, in 1942 came the

Final Solution, where genocide against the Jews was discovered. This

concludes the evidence that argues that over time, policies towards

the Jewish minority in Germany became more intense.