In 1942 Jews were not aloud to buy certain things like books and they also were not aloud to use public transport. Their homes were marked with the Star of David, this was to humiliate the Jews and single them out to everyone else. By the end of 1942 German Jews had been too deported to ghettos and death camps.
In 1943 Jewish slave labourers were made to dig tens of thousands of bodies from the mass graves and burn the bodies to disguise the evidence from the Nazi crimes. A few of the death camps were closed and burnt to hide evidence of the murders.
In 1944 remaining Jews were told to walk to Germany, many thousands dieing on the way. The last gassings took place and then the gas chambers were destroyed to hide the evidence.
In 1945 an order was given to destroy all files dealing with anti-Jewish activities.
Later on this year the soviet, British and American armies fought their way to Berlin and saved all the remaining surviving Jews from the camps.
Hitler knew he had lost his war and he committed suicide on April the 30th. On the 8th of May Germany surrendered. The Nazi’s had been defeated.
Six million Jews and 200, 000 gypsies had been murdered. The population of Jews had decreased heavily.
I believe there were reasons for why the treatment of the Jews changed and became much more harsh and severe. I think that because the way the Polish Nazis treated the Jews much more viciously than Germany, it helped make Hitler treat the German Jews just as harsh after he invaded Poland. He moved all the German Jews into Poland and Eastern Europe because he could treat the Jews more viciously there. I don’t think this is the main reason but it may have helped Hitler to treat the Jews worse.
I think that Hitler had always planned to try and dispose Jews by killing them. It is quoted in his book Mein Kampf ‘I am acting in accordance with the will of the almighty creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the lord’. He believed that his main ambition in life was to get rid of all the Jews from the world.
Hitler tried to invade Britain but he failed, his plans were to move all the Jews out of Germany into another Country. He did that when he successfully invaded Poland. Hitler made a speech saying ‘Today I will once more be a prophet if the international Jewish financers in and outside Europe should success in plunging the nations once more into a world war then the result will be… the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe. This means he wants to invade all the other European countries and kill all the Jews. Hitler couldn’t kill all the Jews in the first five years of his rein as leader, firstly because he used that time to mark out all the Jewish people with the Star of David. Another reason is he couldn’t just walk into all the other European countries straight away, he used the five years to start world wars by invading countries. After he successfully invaded countries like Poland he was able to use concentration and death camps to kill all the Jews.
This is why I think Hitler changed the way he treated Jews after 1939-45.
