The position and status of Jews in Europe worsened in the years 1933-1945.

country. He wanted power over as bigger range as he could control. He wanted a pure Germany; free from anyone he considered being of a lower class. This included Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, the communists and other political opponents. Hitler offered security to the Germans, after the war they were in great need of a leader. With the power Hitler had worked up, the Germans automatically followed his beliefs. However, many Germans were known not to have any idea of what happened in the camps.Hitler was obsessed with the Jews. In his book Mein Kampf and in his speeches, there was a mixture of racist hate and fear. He looked down at the Jews as inferior and a threat to the superior ‘Aryan’ race. This was made up of white people and mainly the Germans. Hitler said that there were many inferior races to the Aryans, including Slavs, Negroes and homosexuals, but the lowest of them all were the Jews.From its birth the Nazis campaigned against the Jews. However, many people didn’t believe that they would act on their anti-Jewish feelings. However, within days of taking power the Nazis made their intentions obvious by Boycott of Jewish businesses. For the first two years of their rule, there was little organised persecution of the Jews. In 1935, Hitler had achieved his initial aims of a stronger position. Despite the extremely bad treatment of Jews in the 1930’s, many Jews stayed in Germany because other Jews in other countries were treated the same, and many Jews didn’t believe that the Nazis would do much else to affect them. The Jews didn’t believe that they could achieve total extermination of the Jews in Germany.People believe that the following explanations were given as to why the Nazis did this to the Jews: the camp guards weren’t human, they did not regard the captured ‘lower class’ as humans, the guards hid from themselves what they were really doing, or that the guards regarded what they were doing as just another job and as soldiers they took pride in doing it well.The status and position of Jews in Europe worsened in the years 1933-1945, due to the overwhelming odds against them. During the roundups in Poland and Russia, there were many occasions when the Nazis were faced with resistance from the Jews. The odds were against them and they were often slaughtered in front of their families and friends. They were sometimes helped by locals, but often betrayed by them. A few German soldiers also helped them, little by little the position worsened, as those Germans who were helping the Jews were also punished.The life for those German civilians who did not help the Jews was significantly better. In February 1936, Hitler opened a factory for example, to build the Volkswagen ‘people’s car’. People had no idea as to how badly the Jews were getting treated and so did not oppose Hitler or the Jews. People however who later knew about the things that happened in the camps, did not help as the fear for the Nazis and the power that they had was too great.In 1940, Jews were forced to move into Ghettos. Walls were built to separate them from the rest of the city. Many people caught Typhus. Anyone who left the Ghetto was executed. Altogether over half a million Jews died in the Ghettos. Forced to live in sub-human conditions, they became weak and undernourished. In the end many Jews did gain the look Nazi propaganda often portrayed them as – sub-humans. This only made it easier for some people to take part in the dreadful treatment of the Jews, as some people convinced themselves, with the help of the Nazis, that the Jews they were dealing with were not humans.