How Systematic Extermination came about
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- Systematic extermination emerged as the final solution to the Jewish question as a result of the chaotic nature of the Nazi state
- Planning
- 1941-42 Operation Barbarossa lead to 500,000 Jews being shot
- 1939 Speeches by Hitler and 1924 Mein Kampf talking about Jewish problem
- Anti-Semitism had roots for centuries
- Against the Aryan race
- 1942 Wansee Conference suggest final details of the Holocaust
- 1935 Nuremberg Laws
- All Jews wear yellow stars, no citizenship, no shops etc
- Jewish population 1939 - 234,000 1945 - 20,000
- 1939 Goering to Heydrich to 'bring about complete solution of Jewish question'
- 7 April 1933 Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
- Final solution 20 January 1942
- Plan to kill 11million Jews
- only 4000 Polish Jews of 3million survived
- 6million died in total
- Chaos
- Cumulative Radicalisation
- 1940 no plans with what to do with the Jews
- Night of Broken Glass - 30,000 Jews arrested and 8,000 businesses destroyed but no plan for Jews
- Hitler approved Gobbles actions but it became out of control
- 1940 600,000 Jews from West Prussia dumped in Poland
- Jews placed In Ghettos
- 1940 Madagascar plan to dump all Jews on island
- British controlled seas refuse plan
- Victory over Poland saw Germany take 3million Jews
- Emigration no longer possible
- Premature war outbreak led to confusion
- Individual agencies focused on themselves rather than German needs
- Boycott on Jewish shops abandoned after 1 day
- Nuremburg Laws made Jews feel it was end of violence and illegal persacution
- Number of Jews emigrating dropped
- Planning
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