The Jewish community suffered to a huge extent from Nazi propaganda, terror and repression between 1935 and 1945. Persecution on the Jewish community varied from the destruction of Jewish businesses and homes to the ‘final solution’ plan to wipe out the Jewish race. Key individuals such as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels played an integral part in the propaganda, terror and repression on the Jewish community between 1933 and 1945.
After Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in January 1933 his drive to achieve a ‘volksgemeinschaft’ began to take effect on the Jewish community. Hitler aimed to achieve a society compromising of strong, healthy Aryans. In ‘Mein Kampf’, Hitler further developed the idea of the Jews as an evil race struggling for world domination. Hitler believed the Jewish race was vastly inferior. He blamed the Jews for every problem Germany faced and believed they were the cause of defeat in World War 1.
In 1933 anti-Jewish action began from Hitler youth and SA activists ordered by Adolf himself. The Nazi party’s propaganda (led by Joseph Goebbels, ministry of propaganda) campaigned against the Jewish community. It was the central tool that the Germans used to sway the hearts and minds of the …show more content…
Hungary deported 438,000 Jews to Auschwitz in 47 days. In Romania it was primarily the Romanians themselves who slaughtered the country 's Jews. Toward the end of the war, however, when Germany was close to defeat, the Romanian government found more value in living Jews who could be held for ransom or used as leverage with the West. Bulgaria permitted the deportation of Jews from neighbouring Thrace and Macedonia, but government leaders faced stiff opposition to the deportation of native Bulgarian