Was Hitler Responsible For The Holocaust

To find out if Hitler’s ideas were responsible for the Holocaust one needs to understand why Hitler expressed such a detrimental hatred towards the Jews. Hitler stated that his views were first developed in Vienna between1908-1913. Hitler blamed Jews for all negative aspect in his life like his failure to attend the Vienna art academy which shows Hitler was controlled by a deep and mental hatred for Jews. Hitler started to associate Jews with Bolshevism and Socialism where he combined his hatred of Jews. He even blamed Jews for Germany’s defeat in World War 1. Hitler fixated and dreamt about total annihilation of the Jewish race. Many quotes and passages from his book Mein Kampf support ideas that he was fixated on killing Jews (S9). Hitler
As many Historians argued that the genocide that took place during the holocaust was an administrative process. Historian Raul Hilberg believed these perpetrators worked together in a mechanized fashion to a point where there was no master plan or blue print. Hilberg argues that a consensus for mass murder emerged amongst these bureaucrats and they developed a shared understanding which meant they all had an immense sense of direction therefore able to find the shortest path the Final solution. From 1993 and onwards laws were passed to segregated Jews from society for example the Law for the Restoration of the Civil Service and the Nuremburg Laws 1935. But the German bureaucracy was capable of implementing anti Jewish legislation and laws and they played a vital role in the extermination of the Jews. Many bureaucratic agencies played an important role in the holocaust as the German Foreign Office defended Nazi Jewish policies and promoted anti-Semitic material like cartoons and books which supported the Nazi theory of a communist-Jewish world conspiracy/order. Civil servants also played an important role as various government agencies would help destroy the ties that attached Jews with ordinary structures of life and in Germany. The transportation of mainly German Jews to extermination camps required the assistance of a number of local authorities like the Finance Office to the House Office (who dispose of
His ideology and mind-set was very similar to Hitler. Himmler and Hitler’s relationship may be described as close friends that understood each other very well. Although Hitler was the creator of the Holocaust it was Himmler that was able to take Hitler’s ideas and translate them into a working and functioning system or program. Himmler was the brains behind a many concentration camps like Austwhichz, which was responsible for the death of over two million Jews. Like Hitler the idea of racial purity possessed Himmler’s mind and he also wanted the Aryan race to be dominant over other races. In Himmler’s speeches he referred to racial cleansing and how the Jews needed to be