Nazis' Attempts to Eliminate Jews in Europe from 1941 Onwards
Before 1941, the Nazis used one main method to eradicate the Jewish
population in Nazi controlled Europe. They attempted to make life for
the Jews unbearable so that they would move to other countries. The
Nazis also attempted to control them inside Ghettos. They were even
trying to deport them to the African country of Madagascar.
There were major problems with this. One was that the countries they
invaded had large populations of Jews. This meant that the Ghettos
would be even more packed than before. Their plan to deport the Jews
to the African country of Madagascar wasn't carried out because of the
outbreak of War. The Jews were unable to move to other countries
because the other countries didn't want to take them into their
countries. Because the Nazis couldn't force the Jews out of their
lebensraum, they had to get rid of the Jews by themselves.
The Nazis began to get rid of the Jews with the mobile execution
squads, also known as Einsatzgruppen. They would go around Nazi ruled
Europe, round up the Jews and murder them. They also used gas vans,
which basically used petrol fumes form the engines to gas the Jews in
the airtight backs of the vans. Although the Einsatzgruppen was
capable of killing tens of thousands of Jews in a few days and the gas
vans killed 150,000 Jews, they realized that it was too slow,
expensive and was having serious psychological effects on the
soldiers.
Although they were unable to carry out any of these methods any more,
they were still able to carry on sending Jews to concentration camps.
In these camps they would be fed close to n...
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were turned into camps for displaced persons, which included former
holocaust victims unable to be repatriated. The Nazis legacy was an
empire of murder and exploitation that has affected people in all
parts of the world. The toll in lives was enormous.
It is fair to say that the change in the treatment of the Nazis may
not have taken place, if the allied nations had not declared war on
Germany. Firstly, because there would have been more soldiers and so
there might not have been a need to establish gas chambers and
therefore many more Jews would have been saved. Also, Hitler had
openly threatened that if the allied nations resisted Germany's
invasion of Europe, than Hitler would hold the Jews hostage and as a
result many Jews were unable to leave Europe and became prisoners in
their own country.
...f the major Optimism of the Jews is that they could not comprehend the killing of all their people. They see it as a task that contains no possible way to be fulfilled. They justify it by saying “Was he going to wipe out a whole people? Could he exterminate a population scattered throughout so many countries? So many millions! What methods could he use?” (6). The answer to their question is yes but there is many chances to escape this fate, although the Jews of Sighet deny it.
The Ways the Nazis Tried to Eliminate all Jews in Europe The Nazis used many methods to eliminate all the Jews in Europe from 1941 onwards. They used concentration camps, ghettos, death camps. Auschwitz Group (murder squads) and the Final Solution. The Final Solution was the plan to annihilate all the Jews out of Europe.
Activities in the concentration camp struck fear within the hearts of the people who witnessed them, which led to one conclusion, people denied the Holocaust. Nazis showed no mercy to anybody, including helpless babies. “The Nazis were considered men of steel, which means they show no emotion” (Langer 9). S.S. threw babies and small children into a furnace (Wiesel 28). These activities show the heartless personality of the Nazis. The people had two options, either to do what the S.S. told them to do or to die with everyone related to them. A golden rule that the Nazis followed stated if an individual lagged, the people who surrounded him would get in trouble (Langer 5). “Are you crazy? We were told to stand. Do you want us all in trouble?”(Wiesel 38). S.S guards struck fear in their hostages, which means they will obey without questioning what the Nazis told them to do due to their fear of death. Sometimes, S.S. would punish the Jews for their own sin, but would not explain their sin to the other Jews. For example, Idek punished Wiesel f...
Looking at the methods used in the Dachau concentration camp, you can see their obvious influence on the future concentration camps used by the Nazi regime, overpopulation and disease were rampant, the S.S guards abused and killed thousands of Jews, all staples of the horrors the Nazis committed, hopefully, the world will never have to experience these atrocities
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Nazis' Ways of Eliminating the Jews During the Holocaust In 1941, America and Soviet Russia allied with Great Britain and France to fight the Nazi forces in the Second World War. Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazis, knew he faced the most powerful nations in the world and was not ready for a long conflict. They needed to destroy the "evidence", the Jews, of the holocaust before the allied forces closed in from the west. Up to this point, the Nazis had used slow, stressful and inefficient methods of killing Jews and Hitler wanted a faster way of getting rid of them.
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Pushing aside the major setbacks Germany had undergone, people today know Nazi Germany as the country that had always found a solution and pushed through, even during the least hopeful times. However, people also know the Third Reich as the horrific time of oppression and discrimination by Hitler and his colleagues; according to some, these actions that made Hitler all-powerful and everyone else weak or nonexistent actually led Germany to their success. This time period will always remain a many-sided topic of debate because of the many ways the Nazis were victors, victims, and totalitarians. Works Cited Fritzsche, Peter. The 'Standard'.
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