Between the years of 1933 and 1945, the Nazi persecution of the Jews changed massively. The Nazis were elected with 51% of the vote in 1933, which shows that a lot of German citizens did not want the Nazis to get into power. The April 1933 boycott which was one of the Nazis earliest anti-Semitic movements was a failure, as not enough people participated. However in 1938 Kristallnacht took place, which was a huge success for the Nazis anti-Semitic movement. Five years after this the death camps were used to kill by the millions. Why did this persecution become so extreme?
There are several reasons that this change took place. Many Germans were already anti-Semitic and happy under Nazi rule and the cumulative radicalisation of the regime was …show more content…
Source L agrees with Farmer’s view – it describes the Nazi hierarchy as a “real witch’s cauldron of struggles for position and conflicts over competence.” Hitler made his wishes clear, but left their implementation to others. This meant that many leaders attempted to for fill just one of Hitler’s commands, which resulted multiple variations and versions of Hitler’s ideas, meaning that more and more anti-Semitic actions took place. Farmer also says that “once he resolved to kill all Russian Jews it was but a small step to decide to kill all Jews. He then left the details to Himmler and …show more content…
The propaganda and indoctrination caused some Germans to think that Jews should be discriminated against and removed from Germany, which caused an increase in anti-Semitism. The fact that some people were happier under Hitler meant that more people were likely to accept the anti-Semitic movements, even if they didn’t fully agree with it, because there was so many other things that Hitler did that meant them happy, meaning they thought it was worth it to keep Hitler rather than want him removed as leader. However, the main reason for the increase in anti-Semitism is the cumulative radicalisation, which meant that members of the German state were constantly doing even more anti-Semitic things in order to ‘work towards the Fuhrur.’ This had the biggest effect on the increase in anti-Semitism because it opened up so many methods in which anti-Semitism could
There are several reasons that this change took place. Many Germans were already anti-Semitic and happy under Nazi rule and the cumulative radicalisation of the regime was …show more content…
Source L agrees with Farmer’s view – it describes the Nazi hierarchy as a “real witch’s cauldron of struggles for position and conflicts over competence.” Hitler made his wishes clear, but left their implementation to others. This meant that many leaders attempted to for fill just one of Hitler’s commands, which resulted multiple variations and versions of Hitler’s ideas, meaning that more and more anti-Semitic actions took place. Farmer also says that “once he resolved to kill all Russian Jews it was but a small step to decide to kill all Jews. He then left the details to Himmler and …show more content…
The propaganda and indoctrination caused some Germans to think that Jews should be discriminated against and removed from Germany, which caused an increase in anti-Semitism. The fact that some people were happier under Hitler meant that more people were likely to accept the anti-Semitic movements, even if they didn’t fully agree with it, because there was so many other things that Hitler did that meant them happy, meaning they thought it was worth it to keep Hitler rather than want him removed as leader. However, the main reason for the increase in anti-Semitism is the cumulative radicalisation, which meant that members of the German state were constantly doing even more anti-Semitic things in order to ‘work towards the Fuhrur.’ This had the biggest effect on the increase in anti-Semitism because it opened up so many methods in which anti-Semitism could