How did the 'final solution' emerge

How did the 'final solution' emerge

1. 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

2. 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