Why did the Nazis' Treatment of Jews change from

In the late 1930’s the Nazis started to use more extreme measures. The Nazis came up with the first solution. The first solution was to force emigration and send Jews to other countries far away from Germany. Hitler put Reinhard Heydrich in charge of this. The wartime emergency made it impossible for the Nazis to keep up the first solution because by the end of 1939 Germany had invaded and conquered Poland, Austria and Czechoslovakia. As Hitler did this he also inherited an additional 3.5 million Jews. This problem became basically impossible so Hitler had to think of an alternative.

 When the war broke out Hitler was sure that Britain and France couldn’t do anything because they were too busy fighting the war. As Hitler knew Britain and France wouldn’t be able to do anything it gave him the opportunity to carry out even more drastic ideas. He had to come up with new ideas as he couldn’t carry on sending Jews to other countries. So the Nazis decided to gather Jews into ghettoes. They were built in other countries and the largest ghetto was in Warsaw where 500,000 died. Walls were built to stop them escaping and the Nazis only fed them starvation rations. Thousands of Jews died from starvation, the bitter cold or the disease typhus.

In 1941, Hitler decided on mass killing of the Jews. Hitler kept this secret from everyone apart from his top Nazis to make sure no one he didn’t trust from knowing about it. He also kept it a secret to stop Jews and other countries from hearing about it, if they did hear the Jews would have probably left Germany and the other countries would have stopped the final solution from happening. By 1942 the final solution was agreed at the Wansee conference in Berlin. Hitler might have changed this treatment of the Jews because he didn’t want to keep paying money to feed the Jews even though he only gave the Jews starvation rations. Death camps were built in Poland and Eastern Europe. In the death camps gas chambers and Crematoria were built. There were two main types of killing; the SS shot Jews with machine guns and Jews were put into gas chambers. Crematoria were built to burn and to hide the evidence.

The Nazis treatment of the Jews changed because Hitler wanted to get rid of the Jews and he couldn’t do it by sending them all away so he thought of what has came too be known as the Holocaust. Not only was the killing of the Jews what Hitler wanted to happen but it was also relatively easy for the Nazis to keep it secret from other countries. Hitler found it relatively easy for the Nazis to keep it a secret because of the war time emergency and everyone involved was concentrating on the war so even if Britain and France did find out they would not be able to stop him. Himmler was in charge of all the extermination camps and the Gestapo.

Historians have argued about Hitler always meaning to kill the Jews. Some historian’s say Hitler always meant to kill the Jews and Hitler wrote his ideas in his book called “Mein Kampf” historians say that his ideas led directly to the genocide. Other Historians say he just meant to expel them from Germany.