The Nazi Decision-Making Process

The Escalation of the Nazi Decision-Making Process and the Execution of Annihilating Policies against the European Jewry Understanding the Nazi regime’s decision-making process involves comprehending the level of Adolf Hitler’s involvement and the German state’s assistance in legalizing and executing policies of annihilation. While Hitler played a central role in instigating the Holocaust, he was not the only agent involved. Reliance on political, military and popular support ensured the radical Nazi dictatorship achieved its primary initiative. Through the analysis of three sources, one essay (Perpetrators of the Holocaust: a Historiography, by Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann), one academic and historical (How Could This Happen: Explaining the

In conjunction with these sources, the motives of Adolf Hitler and his dependency on specific agents enhancing ideals, reliance on citizen participation, execution of isolating policies and its transformation of Germany into a genocidal state reinforce the complex nature of decision-making. As a result of the radicalized National Socialist party under Adolf Hitler’s guidance, his personal prejudices against the European Jewry became state interests accumulating to extermination.

Personal agency of Hitler’s ideologies dominated the Nazi decision-making process. He was the focal point in implementing the segregation of Jews in German society. All historians acknowledge Adolf Hitler as the decisive instigator but attempt to expand beyond his radical anti-Semitic ideology and into the realm of how he carried out the worst genocide of the twentieth century. In a definitive statement, McMillian states, “Without Hitler there would have been no Holocaust.” Furthermore, he expands the significance of Hitler’s role along with a series of events

Szejnmann noted, “That Hitler had exploited Germany’s tradition of authority and glorification of war, and had molded a new generation of brutal killers.” Furthermore, the genocidal persecution of the Jews and other minorities from 1939 until 1945 were dominated by extreme forms of violence from mass shootings to gassing. While initiated by Hitler and radicalized by his high ranking subordinates, members of the Wehrmacht physically enforced Nazi policies. The government had evolved into an “anarchic political system” which transformed Germany into a genocidal state. This meant that the primary objective of Hitler’s government was to exterminate the Jews and by the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, it had come to fruition. Longerich emphasized the chronological development of Hitler’s program. Dates are momentous in “The Unwritten Order” because they reveal the steady increase behind the National Socialist party and how, by 1936, the overwhelming momentum behind the Fuhrer had allowed him to transformation the nature of the state. Nevertheless, it is notable that Longerich’s inclusion of dates noticeably fails to include a direct statement from Hitler enforcing the ‘Final Solution’. He suspects that the order was given verbally, and to a limited number of the Third Reich to avoid incrimination or protest. By the time it became public