Intentional Plan for Mass Murder

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The mass murder of European Jews was purposely planned by Adolph Hitler before the wars started because there were already death camps in the making, Hitler was brainstorming more ways to execute all Jews, and he took away Jewish leader from their communities so they had no power or say in what would happen. There are some questions today about the holocaust that people cannot answer. Many people have their own opinions about the war and if it affected the serious reasons for the killings of all Jews.

Some questions people wondered were if the Holocaust was intentional by Adolph Hitler. Intentionalism is when you do something purposely, or when wanting to harm something or someone; it is intentional. “Moreover, some functionalist theories tend to normalize Nazism by suggesting that its leaders stumbled into the most extreme criminal behavior” (Wistich 223). Some believe that the holocaust was not simply the result of directives from Berlin but of an interaction between the center and an increasingly radicalized periphery. “The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler’s appointment as chancellor in January 1933” (Concentration Camps). A chancellor is a prime minister of state in certain governments, as in Germany. Some concentration camps were in the process of being built and some were already built before WWII started. During the war, the number of camps rapidly increased in Germany. “Conrad Gröber, archbishop of Fribourg, informed the people on the 14th of June, 1932 about the massacres of Jews being perpetrated by the Einsatzgruppenin, Russia” (Wistich 130).

With that being mentioned with the proof of authorities, German authorities created and lead about 20,000 camps between 1933 and 1945. C...

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...n large numbers. “Bishop Berning noted of the 5 of February, 1942 that “The plan for a total elimination of Jews clearly exists”” (Wistich 130). Functionalists say that the holocaust did not start until 1942 as a result to the failure of the Nazi military losses in Russia. In 1943 German soldiers started coming into concentration camps to help with the murder of Jews and to keep watch. People around the countries who were not in contact with any Jews did not know what was going on or what to believe if or if not Jews were being killed.

The mass murder of European Jews was intentionally planned by Hitler before the wars started; Due to the fact of the capturing of all innocent men and women of the Jewish religion before the failure against Russia. The count of the number of people who are within the Jewish religion dropped dramatically within this period of time.

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