Hatrism of the Jews rose to new levels in Germany and Adolf Hitler publicly voiced his hatred of them and blamed them for many of Germany’s problems. In Hitler’s book Mein Kampf and in the Nazi 25 point programme (1920) he announced his hatred of the Jews and stated that this problem needed to be resolved.
Once Hitler became leader of Germany in 1933 he was in a position to implement his anti-Semitic beliefs and in 1935 the Nuremberg laws passed stating that Jews could no longer marry non-Jews and they were no longer citizens but subjects.
In 1938 a Jew murdered a Nazi diplomat was murdered by a Jew and a revenge attack was ordered on by a state wide attack on Jewish property, shops, homes and synagogues. The Germans smashed the shop windows and ruined all Jewish property. This was known as KristalNacht or as we would know it, Crystal Night or Night of the broken Glass.
During the Second World War concentration camps were introduced and Jews were sent to them. This was the final solution of the holocaust where Hitler would end the Jewish problem once and for all. The holocaust is the term used to describe the genocide of around 6 million Jews during world war two.
The final solution was the “extermination and annihilations of all Jews” and this was when the Jews were gathered together at the concentration camps and sent to gas chambers where they were murdered. These chambers were made specifically for killing Jews in large amounts and seemed to be quite effective for Hitler. Basically, Hitler’s final solution was to ‘ethnically cleanse’ Europe of the Jewish race which meant murdering them all. The ‘Final Solution’ was agreed upon at the Wannsee Conference in Berlin on January 20th 1942 with the top 15 Nazi bureaucrats in attendance and it was here, that it was decided to exterminate the Jewish race in Europe which was an estimated 11 million People. Reinhard Heydrich, second in command of the SS, convened this conference, and in his eyes, "Europe would be combed of Jews from east to west".
