Paul Joseph Goebbels Final Solution

Polarization, is the way that the hatred is spread among all of the people. The stages of Genocide paper says,” Hate groups broadcast polarizing propaganda.” Hitler held open speeches where he would talk about hating the Jews and how they shouldn’t be apart of society. The Nazis would convince people that the Jews were at fault for all the social and economic problems in the world.

Adolf hitler set up concentration camps to work jew to death or kill them right when they got there by making them “Shower” which was a gas chamber that killed them. At any point the nazi soldiers would accuse the jews for doing something they did not do so they sent them to a camp far worse than the one there were at “Convicted of forgery, aiding the enemy and attempted escape, the sisters were sent to separate prisons. Then in December 1943 Anita was told she was being moved to Auschwitz. She was aware what that meant. “You knew about the gas chambers in Auschwitz long before one was in Auschwitz,” Anita told me.”

Why did the Holocaust happen? First, what is holocaust in this context? The holocaust is the systematic eradication of a specific race or social group also in this case the anti-Semitism policies by the Nazi party in Government was the major influence to created hate against the Jewish community, but why did this happen?

The holocaust was known as a “systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its supporters. The Nazis who came into power in Germany in January 1933 believed that German’s were ‘racially inferior. '” (Introduction to the Holocaust, USHMM). During the peak of the Nazi regime, which was in the midst of the world war, the government implemented concentration camps as a method to “detain political and ideological opponents.” (Introduction to the Holocaust, USHMM).

He sent the Nazis to kill the Jews that they came across. They would also go into their houses drag them out kill them out in the streets. Then, Hitler started creating concentration camps and sending the Jews of all ages to the camps. The weak and the old one were killed in gas chambers. The strong ones or the ones that were able to work would work difficult jobs.

Hitler believed, like many other anti-Semites at the time, that the Jewish people were responsible for Germany’s defeat in World War 1. He wanted to “purify” the German race by eliminating all Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, and other groups. Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933 and “Fuhrer”, supreme leader, in 1934. He started arresting and sending Jews to concentration camps, where men, women, and even children were murdered. Hitler tried to conquer Europe, and when the Nazis invaded Poland, World War 2 began.

Genocide During the Holocaust “If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example” - Anne Frank. The suffering Anne Frank is talking about is the mass murder of the Jews that occurred during the Holocaust. The Genocide is the killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation, in this case mostly Jews. The killing of millions of innocent Jews and other people.

“On Nov. 9, 1938, the Nazis orchestrated a nationwide wave of attacks on Jewish businesses, homes, and synagogues. Almost 100 Jews were killed, and thousands arrested and sent to concentration camps… kristallnacht- the night of broken glass.”(16,Smith). This shows that many Jews were killed and many were left without homes or were sent to concentration camps. Therefore Hitler made many Jews suffer in pain just because he had the power to do it.

The original use of the camp was to intimidate the Poles so they wouldn’t fight back it also served as a prison for those who did resist. The Nazi 's used the Soviet POWs at the Auschwitz camp in trials of the poison gas to experiment its efficiency. It was produced by the German company which was marked as the best way to kill many people at once. The Nazis decided that all the Jews living in Europe for total extermination, regardless of their age, sex, occupation, citizenship, or political views. In Auschwitz Dr. Mengele was another one of the horrors of the camp.

Hitler entered office with the goal of genocide to achieve racial purity. He wanted to exterminate all races, especially Jews, that he considered unworthy. He believed in the master race, considering Aryan’s to be superior to all (Rossel 12). He invaded and occupied countries, wiping out their Jewish populations and leaving them in ruins. He took Belgium, Poland, France, Denmark, Yugoslavia, Greece, Norway, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands in a plan to rule the world and rid it of the “illness” that was the Jews.

He became very involved in Heinrich Himmler’s idea of the “final solution”. This final solution was a plan to exterminate all European Jews. During the process of the final solution, Jews were placed in ghettos (a part of a city blocked off from the rest of society which housed people of a minority group) and concentration camps (a place outside of cities where large groups of people of a minority group are imprisoned even killed). Adolf Eichmann was the guiding force that caused the final solution to

He developed his Nazi Party into a mass movement and used a combination of his popular support and behind-the-scenes intrigue to propel himself into power,” (Meier). Finally, Hitler started a huge war when he was taking over Germany’s government and ostracizing Jewish

Overall, Nazi built the concentration camps to detain the ‘enemies of the state’ and to persecute the

“When I walk the ground of the concentration camps, I fear that I am walking on the ashes of the victims,” (Moshe Katsav). This quote relates to the horrible tragedies that happened during the Holocaust. During World War II, when the Nazis ruled Germany, they developed places called concentration camps. These camps were meant to punish and kill all Jews. The leader of the Nazis, a very contemptuous man, Adolf Hitler, created these camps because he had a strong hatred towards Jews and wanted to aspire his goal of total genocide.

During Kristallnacht, meaning Night of the Broken Glass, the SS attacked Jewish synagogues and vandalized Jewish businesses which caused broken glass to litter the streets, hence the definition of Kristallnacht (Broken glass, Broken Lives 34-35). The beginning of the Holocaust started with small attacks and occasional uprisings such as the mysterious disappearances of political opposers and the terrorizing night. Eventually, all these little elements stemming from the German people and Nazi party’s distaste for the Jewish people built up a foundation for the Holocaust to take