Hitler’s accomplishments weren’t planned however, he could be described as an opportunist, he may not have planned each process of exterminating the Jews, however opportunities after opportunities, they arise and each process occurred. From 1933 – 39 there was the emigration of the Jews, then 1939 there was the outbreak of WW2, now Hitler was fighting both a world war and a racial war, then in 1941 there was the invasion of the soviet union, followed by the beginnings of the Einsatsgruppen as well as the preliminary final solution. Already after each of the unexpected processes there was the setting up of the death camps by 1943 and Jews by the hundreds of thousands were having their lives taken each day on end.
The Wannsee conference in 1942 opened doors of opportunity for Hitler despite not attending it, after all he had gone so far with discrimination, killings, death camps and now this was the solution where the suggestions would be discussed, deciding what was to happen to the Jews. His officials, Himmler, Heydrict, Echman as well as other important officials of Hitler’s attended and there for two hours, the decision of six million lives was at hand.
Had anyone anticipated war? Had Hitler himself even anticipated war?
Hitler, despite knowing roughly what he was going to do with all the Jewish people of Europe, at one point the solution was going to be sending them to Madagascar, where he could ship them off, to cleanse Germany and become strong and ‘pure’ again.
The fundamental part to the question of how did the final solution arouse, is recognised by each of the processes that happened. First it was the emigration of the Jews. This then led to the founding of the Einstasgruppen, which were the mobile shooting squads, designed to transport and exterminate as many Jews as possible without any suspicion from outsiders or the allies. Ghettos, the first efficient way of rounding up the Jews and isolating them in starvation, and most certain death and being able to know exactly where they could be found. Then there was labour, the cheap efficient way of extermination the Jews slowly, by transporting them in cattle wagons on trains to the death camps where the selection of healthy and useless were decided followed by working until death.
How did this final solution get to the point where the decision was to gas and exterminate the entire Jewish race of Europe? It was certain that Hitler himself did not know exactly when and what each process of discrimination of the Jews would be, however as each opportunity came he took it and without any suspicion, it came closer to this final solution.
The final solution took place at the Wansee conference in Poland where being in the East the Allies would not suspect what was really happening to the Jews of Europe. Hitler created propaganda of Jews emigrating to be re – settled in lovely homes in the East where it was almost a luxury society for the Jewish race, however the Allies did have a sense that something was going on and that rumours of the Gassing, death camps, ghettos etc were happening. The Germans (the Nazi party and Hitler) basically had now managed to have an occupation of the Eastern territories in Europe that the allies were struggling to fin away to suddenly drop matters of the world war to rescue the Jewish race.
In Conclusion, the final solution took place at the Wansee conference in Poland where after progressive years of discrimination carried out by the Nazis and Hitler’s elite SS bodyguards, this the final solution was confirmed. After the early processes of emigration to the isolation of Ghettos, Himmler, Echman, and Heydrict along with many of Hitler’s officials had taken into their hand the fate of six million Jews. Finally, not too long after the Holocaust, the minutes of the conference were found and, there were the lists of how many Jews were in various European countries and the totals of how many had already been exterminated or sent to the Death camps.
