Yet Hitler whilst trying to get into power kept his views on the Jew’s to himself as he could not afford to lose the votes of the Jews and even some of the German people. He used his oratory skills to get peoples votes.
Hitler blamed the Jews for all the misfortunes that had befallen Germany such as the loss of the First World War was the result of a Jewish conspiracy, the Treaty of Versailles was also a Jewish conspiracy designed to bring Germany to her knees and the hyperinflation of 1923 was the result of an international Jewish attempt to destroy Germany.
During the time when Weimar Germany was seemingly recovering under Stresseman, what Hitler said about the Jews remained nonsense listened to by only the few - hence his poor showing at elections prior to the 1929 Depression. During the impact of the Great Depression, though, when people became unemployed and all looked helpless, Hitler's search for a scapegoat proved a lot more fruitful.
After January 1933, the Jews became the "Untermenschen" - the sub-humans. Nazi thugs stopped Germans from shopping in Jewish shops. By 1934, all Jewish shops were marked with the yellow Star of David or had the word "Juden" written on the window. SA men stood outside the shops to deter anyone form entering. This was not necessarily a violent approach to the Jews but it was an attempt to economically bankrupt them and destroy what they had spent years building up.
On buses, trains and park benches, Jews had to sit on seats marked for them. Children at schools were taught specifically anti-Semitic ideas. Jewish school children were openly ridiculed by teachers and the bullying of Jews in the playground by other pupils went unpunished. If the Jewish children responded by not wanting to go to school, then that served a purpose in itself and it also gave the Nazi propagandists a reason to peddle the lie that Jewish children were inherently lazy and could not be bothered to go to school.
Children in Germany also played a new board game called Juden Raus (‘Jews out’). The aim of the game was in making his or her area of the Reich ‘Jew Free’. Meanwhile, during school children studied a new type of history. The great engine for change in human affairs was no longer economics but race. The history they were taught was a constant process of racial struggle, in which the enemy of all races, sapping the vitality of host nations and producing chaos and misery, was the scrounging Jew.
Below we see a picture showing us ‘The Biological Theory’. The teacher shows this using a chart purporting to outline the scientific bases for legalized racism. It shows that a German is superior to a Jew, and it is wrong to breed between higher and lower species.
Hitler did this as he blamed the Jews for all the misfortunes that had befallen Germany. So throughout the period 1933 to 1939, many laws were passed by Nazi's to further discriminate against the Jews, and to separate them from “Pure Germans“ and the 'normal life in Germany'. This started as restricting their job opportunities, so that “Pure Germans“ could benefit from an increase in business. For example a law that was passed in early 1933 is that Jews were forced out of jobs in the law, the civil service, dentistry, journalism, teaching and farming. This means that Jews are being discriminated against to benefit others. Also another law was passed in September 1935, this law stated that “ Only a National of Germany or similar blood, who proves by his behaviour that he is willing and able loyally to serve the German people and Reich is a citizen of the Reich.“.
In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were passed. The Jews lost their right to be German citizens and marriage between Jews and non-Jews was forbidden. It was after this law that the violence against the Jew really openly started. Those that could pay a fine were allowed to leave the country. Many could not and many shops refused to sell food to those who remained. Medicines were also difficult to get hold of as chemists would not sell to Jews.
These laws were created to to get rid of each and every Jew by any means possible. Hitler did everything to either force them out or get rid of him on hid own means, as Hitler's 'Final Solution' to the 'Jewish Question' was the elimination of the Jewish race from the European continent. Hitler used brutal force on the Jews that were unable to leave the country. In source B, a report on the events of Kristallnacht on 9th November 1938 we can see attacks against Jews and these attacks are the blamed on the Jews themselves. This is a very clever tactic that the Germans used to get rid of Jews. Also in source D, we see the Decreesissued by Hermann Goering 12th November 1938 says that all damages of Jewish buisnesses or dewelling must be repaired by the jewish occupant or Jewish buisessnessman, if any Jew can no longer be busnesses men or lead anyone in work and it also says thats Jews are not permitted to employ female citizens of German blood under 45.This age limit was set as I beliveve the Germans thought that any girl under the age of 45 would be taken adavantage of by their boss, the Jew. This meant that Jews would not be able to have higher pay roles than the German people but most importantly they would not have any power over Germans.
Hitler made sure any damaged caused to the Jews themseleves or anything to do with the Jews was not to be stopped, it was actually meant to be encouraged. In source C, a secret report of the Nazi Supreme Court on the event that states that such actions such as Jewish riots during which shops and synagogues had been set on fire were not to be prepared or organized by the party, but neither were they to be discouraged. This meant that the party was unable to take any blame for the moves against Jews but they were not stopping it either. Also in source E, we can see a letter written by a German Jew, which was smuggled out of Germany and published. This letter talk about his experiances with the SS, how he was taken away from his house and lined up whilst crowds lined the streets and hurled abuse.
The campaign against the Jews stopped for a short duration during the Berlin Olympics - but once the overseas press had gone, it started up again. It reached a pre-war peak in 1938 with Krystalnacht.
In November 1938, a Nazi 'diplomat' was shot dead by a Jew in Paris. Hitler ordered a seven day campaign of terror against the Jews in Germany to be organised by Himmler and the SS. On the 10th November, the campaign started. 10,000 shops owned by Jews were destroyed and their contents stolen. Homes and synagogues were set on fire and left to burn. The fire brigades showed their loyalty to Hitler by assuming that the buildings would burn down anyway, so why try to prevent it? A huge amount of damage was done to Jewish property but the Jewish community was ordered to pay a one billion mark fine to pay for the eventual clear-up. Jews were forced to scrub the streets clean.
In the immediate aftermath of Krystalnacht, an anonymous German wrote to the British Consul in Cologne stating that "The German people have nothing whatsoever to do with these riots and burnings." Christopher Isherwood, a British writer living in Germany, witnessed the arrest of a Jew in a cafe by the SA where everybody simply looked away - but to create a scene would have provoked a violent response from those doing the arresting. The fear of the concentration camps was such that most felt compelled to remain silent despite the fact that they did not approve of what was going on.
We can see Hitler came to power as Germany was searching for an answer to this problem and they found it in Adolf Hitler. Once Hitler had gained this power he used every method possible to make sure no that in Germany it would only contain “pure Germans.”
