The Rademacher Madagascar Project

Adolf Hitler was the German dictator during the Third Reich, the period of history from 1933 to 1945 in the European superpower of Germany. Hitler, who was part of the Nazi political party, had two major goals as dictator. He wanted the German race, which he believed was superior to all other races, to be free of the 9 million Jews in Europe. Hitler also wanted more living space for the German race to expand. With these major goals, a World War was bound to set off.

The first goal of Adolf Hitler in launching World War II was for a final fate for the Jews, whom Hitler thought were polluting the superior German race. Hitler wanted all of the Jews out of Europe, which he called the ‘Final Solution’. Franz Rademacher, head of German foreign offices, had a plan to expel millions of Jews to Madagascar and create a super-ghetto. This is what Rademacher called the ‘Madagascar Project’. Since World War I was going on, Hitler could not send the Jews to Madagascar without getting attacked by foreign countries (Andrews). Since he could not carry out his ‘Madagascar Project’, his ‘Final Solution’ was to exterminate them. The Nazis set up death camps all over Poland, the country with the majority of Jews (Strahinich 11). The Nazis wanted to weaken the Jew’s survival difficulty and steal their identity in these camps. Without …show more content…
Hitler wanted more space for the select German race, and Jews and other races such as Gypsies were taking that space for Germans and polluting the German race (Lebensraum). Since his youth, the Nazi dictator believed that Germany had a “tightly packed radical core” and were entitled to “greater living space than in the case of other peoples.” On November 5, 1937, Herr Fuhrer outlined plans to German army officers. He pointed out two major obstacles in the way of Lebensraum: Britain and France. These two countries were major powers in Europe, where Hitler wanted Lebensraum to be