The Manifestation Of The Holocaust In The 1940's

The Holocaust did not come with a set of instructions, and there never existed a manual prescribing the deaths of millions of men, women, and children. The Holocaust developed over time and in reaction to global events, political upheaval, and evolving German nationalist ideologies. On a global scale, the World Wars and the United States Depression set the scene for the mass genocide that took place in the 1930’s and the 1940’s in Eastern Europe. The setting of the Holocaust manifests itself in the Second World War and Hitler served as the Nazi ring leader, whom everyone aimed to appease. After the World War 1, Germany lost much land and had to pay reparations to the nations that won the war. German citizens disapproved of the Treaty of Versailles
Hitler believed in German romanticism. In Mein Kampf he explained that Aryan people were connected to the land in a unique blood right relationship, one in which the Aryan people served as the master race. To achieve his goal of uniting Aryans in the home land, Hitler had to expand German territory to provide living space for the increased population. In Hitler’s plan, all non-Aryan’s and especially Jews, communist and Rom/ Sinti people received persecution under Hitler’s reign. Along with Non- Aryan people, many disabled people experienced persecution under Nazi control. The Nazi ideology only allowed for a pure race of Germans that could rule the world and inherent living space. The disabled did not fit Nazi standards, and neither did the Jewish, Roma or Sinti people. Unfortunately, the disabled received the first mass euthanasian
Hitler remilitarized the German army and in a Blitzkrieg war he annexed Austria in the Anschluss. This worked as a step in the process of the Nazi government living up to Hitler’s ideology of a land for the pure Aryan race to inherit the world. In the same year, the Nazi’s signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, and with the support of Russia and Italy, Hitler took control of Poland. Poland consisted of a very diverse population, and it housed a lot of Jewish citizens. Hitler’s Anti-Semitic beliefs encouraged his underlings to make plans to force the Polish and German Jews to migrate to Madagascar or Africa. The Nazi’s enforced their policy by limiting the jobs Jewish men could hold, and by openly persecuting Jewish men, women, and children. The Nuremburg Laws made it easier to persecute a marginalized German Jewish population and many Polish people already held anti- semitic belief’s. Once Germany took Poland they headed west to take over France and Britain. France fell to Nazi control rather quickly and Germany tried to take control of Britain in the Battle of Britain. Britain held its ground against the Nazi’s and with that the war stalled on the western