Essay On The Driving Nature Of Ww2

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The pre-war success of the Nazi Party within the years of 1935 to 1938 were crucial years in the formation of the nature of the Holocaust and functioned as the establishment of Jewish hatred in Germany. Solidifying the basis of racial and religious discrimination, these years outlined the Parties intention of the “…. the mass extermination of Jews” , later executed through the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws . Following the successful German Anschluss with Austria and the German occupation of Czechoslovakia , the murder of “80000 out of the 120000 Czech Jews” successfully solidified the Nazi engrained anti-Semitism, further contributing the underpinning ideology that forms the driving nature of the Holocaust. Furthermore, Hitler continued …show more content…

Following the execution of Lebensraum with the successful German occupation of Poland and three million Polish Jews . This expansionary action permanently altering the nature of the Holocaust, as this success led to the increased scale and affected population of European Jews, further emphasised by Hitler’s decision to commence the deportations to Auschwitz. With the successful implementation of the ‘concentration camps,’ with the 25th of January, 1940 saw the construction of Auschwitz , and the 20th of May 1940 marking the first ‘prisoners’ to arrive at the concentration camp saw Jews witness the systematic execution of their community under Hitler’s dictatorship. While the Germany army fought for the political ideology of the Nazi Party, Hitler began to engage with projects such as ‘Operation T-4’ estimating ‘at least 10,000 physically and mentally disabled German children perished as a result of the child ‘euthanasia’ program’ during these years. Auschwitz acts as a representation the lasting effects of the Holocaust on the survivors or families of those living in Nazi-occupied Europe, as these individuals are reminded of the atrocities and loss. The years of 1939 …show more content…

The plans and events that occurred from 1935 – 1945 severely impacted the nature and effects of the Holocaust between 1939 - 1945, as the terror and repression of the Jewish population stemmed from the political, social, economic, and expansionary successes of the Nazi party within these years. With “the Nazi net [widening] to encompass … the whole of occupied Europe” . The ‘Final Solution’ described the systematic extermination of Jewish people, and the execution of the overarching Nazi ideology of ‘racial superiority.’ The Nazi successes within the years of 1935-1945 had an underpinning ideology of anti-Semitism which drove the extent of the persecution of Jewish people, but also the nature and effects of the Holocaust, as the Party purposefully increased their radical plans to ensure the extermination of an entire

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