The Implementation, Scale, And Methods Of The Holocaust, 1933-1945

The Implementation, Scale and Methods of the Holocaust
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Introduction.
The Holocaust has been termed as one of the most significant occurrences in history. It took place between 1933 and 1945, being termed by the country in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as “the systematic bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators”. This essay serves to explain more on the themes of history while evaluating the history of the Holocaust in the Third Reich, starting with anti-Jewish legislation, moving on to Kristallnacht and then focusing on the implementation of the policy to exterminate Europe’s Jewish population.
Part One: Outline of the Implementation of the Holocaust between 1933 and 1945 in Germany.
1933: Nazi Regime.
Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg in January followed by another event in March when the Nazi Concentration Camp was opened in Dachau, Munich, with Theodor Eicke as its first commander. Further, Jewish shops and businesses boycott was established before the Jews aggravated for the reestablishment of their civil rights (Bergen, 2018). Herman Goering, the minister of Prussia, then establishes a secret police state team called the Gestapo.
1934: Adolf Hitler declared Fuhrer.
On August 2, 1934, after the power that he was experiencing at the beginning of his regime, Hitler’s ruling was provided security after a recent robust and bloody killings and other forms of resistance that deteriorated his opposition part. He declares himself Fuhrer, a leader.
1935: Anti-Semitism.
On May 31, Jews were banned from joining and serving in the German armed forces, prior to September 15, when “Nuremberg Laws”, the first Anti-Jewish legislation, was enacted. In this policy, Jews were no longer considered one of the groups of people or citizens of Germany and thus, they were not only barred from marrying Aryans, but also not allowed to use the German flag (Bajohr, 2017). Moreover, in the definition that was based on grandparents rather than the existing beliefs, Jews were rendered impure bloods.
1936: The Third Reich.
Many Germans had been turned against the Jews due to the view that Hitler had created in their minds. It was in the Summer Olympics in berlin that the Nazis were able to create a crafted image that would be presented to the world. However, in the same year, Jewish doctors were banned from operating in German medical institutions (Kaplan, 2016). In the same period, Germans marched in to the Rhineland, Chief of German police appointed Reichfuhrer SS Himler while Hitler and Mussolini formed Rome-Berlin Axis.
1937: Anti-Jewish Propaganda.
On July 15, the Buchenwald Concentration Camp was opened (Bytwerk, 2015).
1938: Kristallnacht.
On March 13, Germany invaded Austria to expand the territories of the Nazis persecution. Between November 7 and November 10, on the Kristallnacht, Ernst vom Rath was assassinated before the Anti-Jewish pogrom where 267 synagogues were destroyed, 7,500 Jewsih shops were looted, 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps. Kristallnacht is also known as “Broken Glass” or “November Pogroms”, as a time in the night of November 9 to 10, 1938, when the Nazis invaded Jewish populations, killing them and destroying their property (Dumitru & Johnson, 2011). After the houses and other properties had been damaged, at least 91 Jews were killed that night. The remaining people rushed in to the neighboring concentration camps at Dachau, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. After the attacks, the Nazi government banned Jews from attending German schools as from November 15 and barred from going in to the common public institutions as from 21st and 29th November. By December, 1938, Jews were not allowed in most of the public buildings in the country (Dumitru & Johnson, 2011).
1939: The War.
In September when the war exploded, another plan was created, aside from the common plan of driving the Jews out of the Reich. This plan aimed at deporting Jews to Poland, but they were assembled and killed while Hitler established a programme where the ill and the physically handicapped were killed by euthanasia (Bergen, 2018).
1940: Nazi’s Persecution.
Nazi’s policies were implemented in Europe by the German forces and for the first time, camps were established specially for Jews. However, the living conditions in the camp were far worse than those in other camps with the intention that they would die in the struggle for their lives in there (Annas & Grodin, 1990). On May 10, Germany invaded the Netherlands, Belgium and France while new concentration camps were established at Auschwitz before the Warsaw Ghetto agreement that sealed 500,000 people.
1941: Final Solution.
In the beginning of the year, Anti-Jewish rioters in Romania were murdered while authorities in Germany started to assemble Jews from Poland, where 10,000 Jews died of starvation. In March, according to section IV B 4 of the constitution, Adolf Eichmann appointed the head of Jewish affairs but what followed were calculated German attacks in Yugoslavia then German war with the Soviet Union and then a sickening and a mass murder of Russians and Jews in between July and August (Bajohr, 2017). In December, previous plans of killing Jews via gas in mobile trucks and gas chambers were being activated and were well underway.
1942: Mass Murder.
The number of Jews murdered in 1942 was greater than any other year of the Holocaust, with most of them being performed in the newly established extermination camps. There were only two survivors from the first group of 430,000 people then 700,000 killed at Treblinka (Evans, 2017). Then, in July, an order was given that all Jews living in main areas of Poland were to be killed except for those who were providing labor for the nation.
1943: Jewish Resistance.
At this point, Germany was becoming weak and evidentially losing the war. The nation was still irrigating the implementation of its ‘Final Solution’ but in the very camps where the strategies were being laid, uprisings erupted because the few remaining Jews had learned that the number of German transporters was gradually reducing. This made one German army to surrender the fight due to armed resistance in Bedzin, Bialystock, Lvov and Tarnow Ghettos (Bergen, 2018).
1944: Journey to Germany.
In March 19, Germans has set their territory and stayed in Hungary while deporting the Jews who had previously occupied the region. Additionally, there was an invasion in Normandy. In the summer of that year, whereas the Red Army repelling the German Army, Adolf Hitler was assassinated, marking the death of approximately 40,000 Jews who occupied the region between Budapest and Austria (White, 2017).
1945: Revelation.
Numerous camps were liberated in Europe and across the other regions occupied by Nazi Germany. Allies to the practice and affected populations located a number of camps that had been destroyed, overcrowded and where there was no food. Then, an order was given by General Eisenhower urging the people to carefully document the evidence as a plan of finding justice (Gil, 2014). In November, allies and trials captured the few remaining members of the Nazi regime at Nuremberg.
Part Two: Review of the Extent of the Holocaust throughout Europe between 1939 and 1945.
1939: Declaration of War against Germany.
In 1939, Germans forced those who were identified as Jews in to small, tightly packed reservation called “Ghettos”. This was in Eastern Europe and the impact of the Holocaust had just began. Those who were being separated from their loved ones and put in larger ghettos were being locked away and the boundaries around them covered with brick walls and barbed wires (Evans, 2017). According to the Nazi, they were doing this because of their perception that driving Europeans Eastward was an act against communism and Judaism, with the view that both of the two were equally evil.
Still in the same year, after ensuring that the notion of neutrality was secure in the Soviet Union, Germany stirred up World War II by deliberately invading Poland on September 1, 1939. As a mark of support to the attacked nation, Britain and France declared war against Germany on September 3, 1939. However, within one month dominated by fighting, Poland was defeated and the territory partitioned between the Nazi power of Germany and the Soviet Union.
1940: Assault on Western Europe.
On May 10, 1940, G...