The Persecution Of The Jews Changed and The Wannsee Conference Of 1942

The Persecution Of The Jews Changed and The Wannsee Conference Of 1942

A lot of things started to change in Germany when Hitler came to power

in 1933. The Jews suffered the one most perceptible change, they were

mistreated and faced with a great deal of conflict. What no one knew

was that this conflict was to come to greater extremes in the future

with Hitler as their new chancellor.

Hitler did not wait long to act upon his hatred towards the Jews, the

very same year he came to power in 1933, he placed a boycott on all

Jewish shops and businesses. This was the first most obvious and

evident act of racial discrimination against the Jews. The Jewish

people had to continue to tolerate the detestation and racism shown at

them for a number of years after. But this was not the worst. When

Hitler made his famous Reichstag speech in 1939, he had said that the

war would consequent and lead in all Jewish people in Europebeing

totally obliterated. After this speech the Jews began to feel the heat

of all this racism and hate, as now things began to get seriously

physical. Hitler was so determined to get rid of the Jews that

'immediately after kristallnacht 60000 Jews were held in concentration

camps'.

The Nazis took total control of 2 million Jews at the beginning of the

war when Germanyinvaded Poland on the 1st September 1939. Heydrich the

architect of the final solution explained his plans and procedures for

the eradication of the Jews in Poland. He made it clear that the

'ultimate aim' would have to be carried out over a long period of time

and it was important that it was kept top secret. For the final

solution to be carried out succe...

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and later escaped. The biggest difference in approach was that now the

liquidation of the Jews was much more industrialized and well

organized.

After the Wannsee Conference the biggest difference was the nature of

how the Nazis got rid of the Jews although the approach towards them

had changed a little. The Nazis now concentrated on using gas as their

main method of killing the Jews. I personally think that the nature

and approach towards the persecution of the Jews changed due to the

Wannsee Conference. I think this because before the Wannsee Conference

the liquidation of the Jews was a disorganized and incomplete process.

As a result of the Wannsee conference the liquidation operation was

now much more organized and efficient as more prominence was made on

the obliteration of the Jews.