How Did Germany Responsible For The Extermination Of Jewish People

World War II and the extermination of the Jewish people can be linked to the outcome of World War I, and the rise of Hitler’s influence and ideology. At the end of World War I (July 1914-Nov 1918), the Treaty of Versailles (insert year and date) was signed to end the war between Germany and the Allied powers. In Article 231, Germany was held responsible for all of the damages and losses during the duration of the war. In turn, Germany was forced to pay for all of the reparations of the war, including lives lost, people wounded, and injuries to infrastructure which totalled to billions of dollars. This heavy price tag threw Germany into an economic depression with the rest of the world shortly following with the Crash of Wall Street, or the crash of
In the mists of Germany trying to navigate their way out of the depression, in January 1933, Hitler became German Reich Chancellor under the popular, growing Nazi party, and as early as April that year, there was a national boycotts of Jewish owned businesses and shops. Under the ideology of the Nazi party, the Jewish people (labeled not a religion, but rather the Semitic race) were to blame for Germany’s hardships both politically and economically, and their extermination was necessary for the prosperity of not only Germany but the Aryan Race. Nazi Germany was not the first institution to attempt to remove the Jewish people from their territory, or furthermore, the world. Anti-Semitism, or anti-Jewish sentiments, have been in place since ancient times to the modern, however the extermination of the Jews in World War II was undoubtedly the most grotesque attack on the Jewish people in human