Adolf Hitler provided clues that the extermination of the Jews was planned …show more content…
This is supported by documented quotes, letters and statements made by Hitler before The Holocaust occurred. During a conversation between Hitler and Josef Hell in 1922, Hell asked Hitler what his intentions were if he ever had "Full freedom of action against Jews" Hitler's response was "If I am ever really in power, the destruction of the Jews will be my first and most important job" (Hitler, A. 1922). This further explains that Hitler had planned the annihilation of Jews from the beginning. Another source written by Christopher R. Browning (1941) claims that sometime in mid-1941, Hitler ordered the total extermination of the Jews. Browning is the writer of many books and papers on Nazism and the Jewish experience during WWII, he is widely known to be an expert on the alleged Nazi policy and the extermination of the Jews in Europe. The evidence provided in the source also …show more content…
Due to the fact that Hitler was strongly against the Jews. Hitler's first anti-Semitic writing was documented in a letter written to Adolf Gemlich in response to a request for clarification on the Jewish question. "The danger posed by Jewry for our people today finds expression in the undeniable aversion… this aversion is the effect of the Jews as a totality" (Hitler, A. 1919). This evaluates on the fact that Hitler was strongly against Jews and the Jewish religion. Therefore by giving him the power of destruction, lead to the devastating massacre of many innocent lives. Not only was this the first written evidence of Hitler's loathing of the Jews, much more evidence followed. Hitler was also against the Jews due to the many differences they had, such as the biological differences. Many of the Nazis believed that in the superiority of the German race, Jews were inferior, to such an extent that to Hitler and most Nazis they were non-existent. Hitler believed that he would be doing "the world a favour" by annihilating the Jewish population (Boissoneault, L. 2016). Not only was biological differences disturbing Hitler, but the religious differences and conflicts. The major conflicts between Christianity and Judaism have existed for many years, which partly helped produce an atmosphere of antisemitism in Europe stated by Pappas, S (2016). This further elaborates on the reasons