The Reasons of the Change in Treatment of Jews by the Nazis

The Reasons of the Change in Treatment of Jews by the Nazis

On January 20, 1942 fifteen high ranking Nazi party and German

government leaders gathered for an important meeting. They met in a

wealthy section of Berlinto discuss a topic only known as 'The Final

Solution'. The Nazis used this vague term to hide their policy of mass

murder from the rest of the world; they were to remove the Jews from

German society.

In 1939 Germany invaded Poland and 2 million Polish Jews came under

Nazi Control.

After the German army invaded the Soviet Union on June 22 1941 a new

stage in the Holocaust began, several million more Jews came under

Nazi rule as the SS took control.

The mobile killing acted swiftly, taking the Jewish population by

surprise. The killers entered a town or city and rounded up all Jewish

men, women and children. They also took away many communist leaders

and gypsies. Victims were forced to surrender any valuables and remove

their clothing, which was later sent for use in Germany.

On September 21 1941 for example, the eve of the Jewish New Year, a

mobile killing squad entered Ejszyszki, a small town in what is now

Lithuania. The killing squad members herded 4,000 Jews from the town

and the surrounding region into three synagogues, where they were held

for two days without food or water. Then in two days of killing,

Jewish men, women and children were taken to cemeteries lined up in

front of open pits and shot dead.

The killing squads murdered more than a million Jews and hundreds of

thousands of other innocent people. So why, specifically did these

killings occur towards the Jews? Looking at history between Germany

and the Jews we can see conflict occurred directly after the First

World War. Germany blamed the Jewish population for their defeat in

the war as well as the economic slump, which followed. By the time the

Nazis came into power Hitler's obsession with the Jews became clear.

Adolf Hitler worked towards creating the ideal Aryan race, he saw the