How To Kill The Jews In Germany During The 1930's

Germany during the 1930’s was probably the worst example of an entire country behaving without any moral values. This scenario was caused by the rise of Hitler, who shaped a country into his own image. During the 1920’s, Germans were displeased with the state of their nation and wanted to resolve its problems. Hitler came to the German people with the worst answer in history. He blamed the Jews for Germany’s problems, when in reality; the real cause was the German government. Hitler tried to accomplish his views on the world; however he had no moral values. He convinced himself he was doing the right thing, but he was doing the opposite. “Germany invaded Poland and created total disorganization with a plan of ethnic reorganization,” (Rees 185).

At the very start, Hitler wanted to destroy all of the Jews, but his first goal was to make life for the Jews so miserable that they would leave or kill themselves. “From the very beginning of his career until his dying day, Adolf Hitler had just two major goals. His primary goal was the forcible acquisition of Lebensraum (living space) for the German people. Secondly, he desired some kind of final reckoning with the Jews,” (Historyplace 1). Hitler had many strategies to make the Jew’s lives unbearable. Hitler seamlessly, started step by step in his plan. “The first step in destroying a people is to make them invisible,” (Norton 19). This was exactly what Hitler did when he started to implement laws to make Jews unequal. This was depicted in Maus when Vladek couldn’t buy any goods, without bribing someone. This went on until Hitler decided on more drastic measures. “On April 1, 1933 the government called for a boycott of Jewish businesses. This began the campaign to strip Jews of all their rights and their property,” (Uscham 22). The best example of this is when Vladek and Anja left their factory to go on vacation to try to end Anja’s depression. When they arrive home, they find out their factory was robbed. Vladek doesn’t specify why his factory was robbed, but it was probably because he was Jewish. At that time, Hitler pressured the

They believed that the problems couldn’t be fixed without Hitler, but they all fell for the bait, and made the problems deeper. Their choices affected the lives of millions of people. Any leader might have promised to fix the economic and social problems in Germany, but Hitler was chosen because he is persuasive and appealed to all of their emotions. “Even with all of Germany’s economic shortcomings, it could have still been possible to make reparation payments if foreign countries had not placed protective tariffs on Germany’s goods,” (Castillo 2). Hitler is to blame for the stripping of moral values in the country, but the German citizens were to blame for going along with it. In Maus, Vladek Spiegelman, tells the reader the events that took place and how the events personally affected him and his family. But Vladek doesn’t say why it happened, because he doesn’t know why. It was obvious that Hitler’s own goals were irrelevant to the good of the country. All of this information can be found in Maus, which can be seen as gruesome or disturbing. Maus gives the reader descriptive images in hope that they will absorb the information and also so this drastic event will never exist