Question:
By what stages and with what effect did Nazi Germany develop its policy of anti-semitism 1933-1945?
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2011-05-19 15:33:11 UTC
And why did the Nazis pursue a 'Final Solution to the Jewish Question' in the war years ?
Four answers:
anonymous
2011-05-20 07:09:32 UTC
By the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919 and the Treaty of St. Germain on 20 September of the same year, the German people were thoroughly humiliated. The British Prime Minister, Lloyd George, wrote: 'The international bankers swept statesmen, politicians, journalists and jurists all to one side and issued their orders with the imperiousness of absolute monarchs.'



The old German Empire was cut in pieces. East Prussia was separated from Germany by a large area ceded to Poland. The Sudeten Germans were placed under Czech control. The coal mining area of the Saar Valley was to be administered for fifteen years by the League of Nations and then a plebiscite held. The corrupt Weimar Republic was forced upon the German nation and the middle classes were robbed of their savings by corrupt finance. There were millions of unemployed and the Sparticist Jewish revolutionary leaders Karl Leibknecht and Rosa Luxembourg were stirring up red revolution.



The Daily Mail reported on 10 July 1933: 'The German nation, moreover, was rapidly falling under the control of its alien elements. In the last days of the pre-Hitler regime there were twenty times as many Jewish government officials in Germany as had existed before the war. Israelites of international attachments were insinuating themselves into key positions in the German administrative machine.'



Dr. Manfred Reifer, a well known leader of the Jews of Bukovina, wrote in the Jewish magazine Czernowitzer Allegemeine Zeitung (September 1933): 'Whilst large sections of the German nation were struggling for the preservation of their race, we Jews filled the streets of Germany with our vociferations. We supplied the press with articles on the subject of its Christmas and Easter and administered to its religious beliefs in the manner we considered suitable. We ridiculed the highest ideals of the German nation and profaned the matters which it holds sacred.'



The National Socialist Party of Adolf Hitler gained 17,300,000 votes in the election and gained 288 seats in the Reichstag. On 30 January 1933 Hitler was legally appointed Chancellor of the German Reich by President Von Hindenberg.



On that same day, 24 March 1933, on the front page of the London Daily Express appeared the main headlines: "Judaea declares war on Germany: Jews of all the world unite", and followed with:



'The Israelite people of the entire world declare economic and financial war on Germany. The appearance of the Swastika as the symbol of the new Germany revives the old war symbol of the Jews. Fourteen million Jews stand as one body to declare war on Germany. The Jewish wholesale dealer leaves his business, the banker his bank, the shopkeeper his shop, the beggar his miserable hut in order to combine forces in the holy war against Hitler's people.'



TOTAL DESTRUCTION DEMANDED



Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of the Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorist organisation, wrote in the January 1934 issue of Mascha Rjetach:



'For months now the struggle against Germany is waged by each Jewish community at each conference in all our syndicates and by each Jew all over the world. There is reason to believe that our part in this struggle has general value. We will start a spiritual and material war of all the world against Germany's ambitions to become once again a great nation, to recover lost territories and colonies. But our Jewish interests demand Germany's total destruction, collectively and individually. The German nation is a threat to us Jews.'



Emil Ludwig Cohen wrote in his book The New Holy Alliance, Strasburg, 1938:



'Even if Hitler at the last moment would want to avoid war which would destroy him he will, in spite of his wishes, be compelled to wage war.'



Bernard Lechache wrote in The Right to Live (December 1938):



'It is our task to organise the moral and cultural blockade of Germany and disperse this nation. It is up to us to start a merciless war.'



The Jewish newspaper Central Blad Voor Israeliten in Nederlands printed on 13 September 1939:



'The millions of Jews living in America, England, France, North Africa and South, not forgetting Palestine, have decided to carry on the war in Germany to the very end. It is to be a war of extermination.'



The Toronto Star (26 February 1940) printed a declaration of a Rabbi Perlberg, Director of the British section of the Jewish World Congress:



'The Jewish World Congress is in a state of war with Germany for seven years.'
A.J.
2011-05-19 16:18:06 UTC
At the time Hitler came to power, Germany was still reeling from the final results of WWI. The people of Germany were desperately looking for some explanation for the economic and social issues that resulted from the war. Since Adolf Hitler was such a convincing individual, he managed to turn Jews into scapegoats and convince the people that they were what was keeping Germany from a return to greatness. He slowly integrated ideas and actions that revoked the rights of Jews, then placed large numbers in small ghettos (see Warsaw Gettho) and then eventually began placing them in forced labor camps and/or extermination camps. The final step of extermination was the 'Final Solution' you referenced. Hitler was a major anti-Semite who believed and espoused the ideas of a "master race" that would look like pure-blooded Aryans (Germans). Hope this helps.
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2016-09-22 20:54:30 UTC
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2011-05-19 15:43:31 UTC
1. Hitler was a very good persuader.

2. Other people who knew persecuting Jews was wrong didn't protest for fear of losing their lives.

3. Hitler was very anti-Semitic.

4. None of the other countries stood up practically till the very end. For fear of Hitler.


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