Hitler’s main task was to make Germany “Pure” as he put it. He wanted all the people in to be of Aryan appearance. But in general the Jewish people had dark complexions over millions of years of living in a hotter climate. So this destroyed one oh Hitler’s main plan. Hitler thought that the Jewish people were inferior. He thought that for many reasons but not all of them are known but there are some basic ideas and Hitler’s and the Nazis that we know about.
He considered the Jewish people to be travellers he thought that they did not have a real homeland. They were mostly spread across Eastern Europe including Russia, Austria, Poland and Germany.
In the January of 1933 Adolf Hitler became Chancellor by this time the Jewish people had already had been treated in a terrible way many other cultures all over Europe since before Jesus was born. But in 1933 the Jewish people suffered horrendous attacks by the Nazis as soon as they came to power. The SS, S.A, Gestapo the Nazi government private army attacked Jewish owned shops and all other forms of economical control over the Jewish people. Jewish establishments were destroyed and some shops were taken over and there assets taken. The first time this happened in the early days of the Nazi’s control. Just a few days after 1933. 5 days after the Nazi’s came to power.
In 1936 there was a sharp decline in the persecution of the Jews. The reason was that the Olympics was coming to Germany more importantly Berlin the Capital of Germany. Hitler and the Nazi’s were on the centre stage. And to Hitler what other well known leaders thought of him. The posters of Anti Semitic design were taken down especially were other journalists could not see them. The S.S even put back into one peace the shops that they had damaged.
After the Olympics everything had gone well for Adolf Hitler and the parties eyes. It was considered a great success all the major powers that attended were impressed. And for the first time I 3years the Jewish people had got a break from the persecution of the government.
But the Nazis had become more confident in the 4/5 years they felt we can be more drastic against the Jews. For instance for nearly the first time they instituted Government laws that were official to combat the Jewish threat as he thought it was.
E.G
Nuremberg Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour,
(September 15, 1935)
The Reich Law of Citizenship ( 15/9/1933)
In 1938 a law to eliminate the Jews from economic life this forbade them from working in shops starting up business and to engage in other form of trade. Theses were official government laws that were legal. As well as theses laws he had gradually given himself more power and decrease the freedom of the normal person including everyday Germans.
This included Man could not marry Aryan Women and Women could not marry Aryan Men.
In 1937 the Nazi police force the S.S had become more organised and it was huge they had more power than the British police. For example the Night of the Broken Glass (9/11/1938), The Night of the Long Knives. Both of theses show how powerful the S.S was and the Night of the Long Knives saw the end of the S.A being a really important organisation.
The Night of the Broken glass was very important in the persecution of the Jewish people because it made everything worse for them from that time on. On the Night of 9th of November 1938 violence against the Jewish people was noticed all the way across Germany. The Propaganda Minister Dr had carefully with other Nazi Leaders organised the Rally’s and the trouble that happened he thought in would strengthen Hitler’s power. In that Knight over 1000 synagogues were burnt, 7000 Jewish shops were looted and trashed. 20,000 Jewish people were carted off to concentration camps the morning after the Incident. The whole affair was to give Hitler a reason for him to send lots of Jews to prison and to Concentration camps.
Propaganda also played a huge part in the control of the of Germany. For example if you were born in 1930 you would not understand anything until 1933 by then the Nazis were in control and one thing Hitler understood was that in order to keep the support of the populous the first thing you must do in get children interested in your party and get them to support it. Children of Jewish origin were at first just treated badly but gradually the Jewish children were separated from the other children but then the children were sent to substandard schools.
