Zusammenfassung der Ressource
How did the 'final solution' emerge
- Long Term Causes
- Hitler Ideology
- Followed a policy of Gradualism
- 1920 - 25-point programme
- 1924 - Mein Kampf Written
- 1933 - SA stage a boycott of Jewish shops
- 1935- Nuremberg Race Laws
- 1938 - Kristallnacht
- 1939 - Speech about the 'annihilation of the Jewish Race in Europe'
- 1941 - Star of David had to be worn
- Chaotic Regime
- action from below forced those above to make policy
- Neither the 1933 Boycott or Kristallnacht were initiated by Hitler
- First Gassing carried out against Gypsy children in Buchenwald
- Lublin Ghetto 1941 - constructed gassing facilities
- Lodi Ghetto 1941 - Jews shot and gassed in vans
- Einsatzgruppen (SA division) go behind Russian invasion to shoot
- 1942 Wannsee Conference discussed logistics and transport
- Short Term Causes
- Course of WW1
- Other Solutions were made impossible
- Heyrich suggested deporting Jews to Madagascar in 1940, to do this they would
need naval control
- Also Suggested deporting to Urals, would need victory over Russia
- Idea to be used as a bargaining chip to America failed when in
1941 the US said they would shoot all German ships in sight
- Increased the number of Jews under the Regimes control
- 1939 Invasion of Poland brings 3 million extra Jews
- Gauleiters in the West could either
exterminate or deport, Gauleiters in
the East could only exterminate