Why did the Nazis treatment of the Jews change from 1939-1945?

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Why did the Nazis treatment of the Jews change from 1939-1945?

By 1939 Germany invaded Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. These countries had been invaded therefore more Jewish people can be under Nazi rule.

During this time in Germany there existed lots of concentration and extermination camps such as Belzec, Auschwitz, and Dachau where lots of Jews lost their lives.

Auschwitz was a concentration camp and an extermination camp. At Auschwitz were killed four thousand Jews a day. Jews died within an hour of arriving there. In the time France and Britain declared war to Germany, Germany became extremely dangerous to Jews because Nazis tried to get back the land that the Versailles Treaty took from Germany in 1919.

Hitler wanted to break the treaty  by invading Austria and in a way sending German soldiers to ‘reassure order’, make Austria more peaceful and to stop the violence. In Poland however there were over three million Jews. The invading Germans herded them into Ghettos as a way of separating them from the rest of Polish society. On 21st September 1939 Heydrich issues instructions Poland regarding treatment of Jews stating they’re to be gathered into ghettos near railroads for the future ’Final Goal’.

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He also ordered a census and the establishment of Jewish administrative councils within the ghettos to implement Nazi policies and decrees.

Soon after Hitler announced that Germany and Austria were a single country called “Greater Germany”. He also invited Czechoslovakia. Hitler used the same trick to get hold of the Sudetenland, area of Czechoslovakia where three million German-speaking people lived there. Hitler ordered his supporters to make demonstrations in  Sudetenland that the Czech government can not control so they hand over to Germany. But the Czechs refused, and prepared to defeat themselves.

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