Influences Leading to the Holocaust Essays - Racism, Religion

Influences Leading to the Holocaust Kadeejah Johnson History 404 Section 555 Dr. Sochan In 1933 Germany gave the name of chancellor to Adolf Hitler, one of history's most notorious mass genocide murders. While much of his views were on anti-Semitism, it was not enough to despise the Jewish faith alone, but to end the lives of these people through a word from the Greek called, "Holocaust" . This paper's purpose is to use the eleven-year history of this horrible event during the period of 1933 and 1945 , and counter as to what lead up to the mass murder of 6 million Jews and the war conjuring conclusion, that ended the reign of Adolf Hitler, and the Nazi party. The paper will also examine the how the Jews became the target of Germany's hatred, the unhumanitarian acts of the concentration camps , and the event that led to the fall of Germany' s leader and mass genocide. After President Paul von Hindenburg's death in 1934, Hitler appointed himself as Fuhrer which made him the supreme ruler of Germany. The root of Adolf Hitler's virulent brand of anti-Semitism is uncertain however, he had the idea that had resulted in the "extermination of the Jewish race" . He had become seemingly fixated with the superiority of the pure German race, which was known to him as "Aryan" which led to an expansion of this race living in Germany alone. Let us take note that anti-Semitism did not begin with Adolf Hitler, and that history and evidence of hostility toward Jews dates to the ancient world, where Roman's destroyed the Jewish temple and forced them to leave Palestine . There is much history that dates to the separation of Jewish people and their religion, however, what took place in Germany left an imprint on the world's history. There could be several reasons that Hitler had discriminated against the Jews, but th is paper will focus on only two and those are the Nazis efforts to annihilate the followers of Judaism, and the Jewish attempt to riot against the government. The second will focus on how the government's economy in Germany sought Jews as the reason behind their debt and what efforts they took against the Jews. Germany believed that the Jews were the reason behind the country losing World War One, which he found that because the race was so impure and of Aryan, the fighters were weak and could not defend the country an d its territories. Bibliography Haugen, David M., and Susan Musser. The Holocaust. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven , 2001. Print. Perspectives on Modern World History . "Holocaust." The World Book Encyclopedia.2007. Print. Soumerai, EveN., and Carol D. Schulz. The Changing Lives of Jews, "Daily Life During the Holocaust, Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. 57+. Print.