Research Paper

Hitler Targets the Jews

Ryan Morris

College English

Mr. Neuburger

March 9, 2009
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The big mistake started on January 30, of 1933 when Germany appointed Adolph Hitler

as chancellor of Germany. Shortly after Hitler assumed the role as chancellor, the wheels began

churning in motion to begin a terrible tragedy. The tragedy, known as “The Holocaust,” targeted

a variety of people, primarily the Jewish race, killing them in several different ways. According

to the research at the University of South Florida, approximately eleven million people died

during this disaster. This terrible tragedy brought death upon enough people to consider it a mass

killing. Furthermore, the types of people targeted in this disaster included the Jewish, gypsies,

African Americans, homosexuals, socialist, political enemies, communist, and the mentally

disabled (Par 1). Hitler and his staff developed many different ways to kill many people, and in

the end had killed a masses of people. Many people do not really grasp the concept or reasoning

of the Holocaust. In order for one to truly understand the Holocaust, one must understand the

Nazi’s motivations, the lack of resistance to the Nazi regime, and the Germans’ innovations for

killing a mass number of Jews. However, one thing people should realize is that the mastermind

behind it all stood a very intelligent, deceitful, and persuasive person.

As the History Learning Site states, Hitler’s tirade began as a younger child. At the age of

nine, he became very intrigued by the topic of German nationalism; so interested he became a

German soldier. He served during World War I. While he recuperated in a hospital bed after he

had been temporarily been blinded by a gas attack, he found out that Germany surrendered.

There in the bed Hitler felt endless emotions. Furthermore, it states that he felt baffled, betrayed,

and even crushed that the Germans would surrender. He could not believe that they would do

such thing. He was terribly devastated. Many people close to Hitler as a young child described

him as a “strict” young man. Some said that he was also very polite (p.1). Then every thing just

exploded. After he became chancellor of Germany he cleared out over six million Jewish people.
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Hitler took over a nation with only five hundred and sixty six thousand Jewish people in it.

Many may ask what Hitler had against the Jewish people, and the most common response known

that Hitler wanted to build a perfect race. Hitler’s master race consisted of Aryan people. So to

end this imperfect race Hitler felt it necessary to eradicate or exterminate all imperfect people.

Hitler did not only focus on the Jews, he targeted the homosexual, disabled, Gypsies, other

inferior races.

Hitler and his crew had to try to find out how to exterminate all Jewish people. By 1942,

the Nazi race had killed quite a few of people, but nothing compared to the ones killed during the

Final Solution. The idea of the Final Solution took place at the Wannsee Conference. According

to History Place website, the Wannsee Conference took place in Berlin Germany. At the Wannsee

Conference Hitler’s top fifteen assistants met. At this meeting, they discussed a plan to rid

Germany of all of these Jewish people. That is where Hitler’s top fifteen assistants met and

created the Final solution. The Final Solution came up with many different ideas on how to

exterminate all of the Jewish people they had missed. This meeting by far set up Germany for

success. The meeting took place on January 20, 1942. The goal of this conference had a simple

concept- they had to find out a ways to rid Germany of all of the Jewish people. So, they had to

try to come up with ways to exterminate all of the Jewish people out of Germany. According to

History Place Reinhard Heydrick said, “Europe would be combed of Jews from the east to the

west” (page 2).Heydrick, who lead the conference, had every single step and every single minute

planned before they entered the meeting.

The first topic at the Wannsee conference held concerning the Final Solution, of the

Jewish question. As Remember.org explains, they began conversation by explaining why the

conference had been called. Secondly they discussed if they were to make the Jewish people flee,
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where exactly they would go. They had no where to go. Any place that they would have to flee to

would create many problems. Furthermore, it goes on to state any other countries could not

afford to take on such mass number of people. Many dictators would throw a fit. Their economy

would just simply not hold up. Demand items would not be available. They had no idea what

they were going to do. One idea was to evacuate all Jewish people to the Far East, but with to

many obstacles, that was simply not an option any longer. They just could not find out what they

were going to do.

Then later in a meeting the first day, one someone had an idea to extend the idea of work

camps and create more of them. This way the Jewish people would not be doing anything except

working like slaves. All fifteen of Hitler’s staff members loved the idea of Concentration camps.

After later discussion, they had begun to wonder why they could not create death camps. In these

camps, they would trick the Jewish people to think that they were attending concentration camps.

The Jewish people would not resist going to concentration camps because they knew that if they

would do that they would get killed. Also, many Jewish people would rather have stayed alive

and work than be killed. These concentration camps became essential to Hitler’s plan. The Final

Solution killed the majority of the people, and some that may have lived barely escaped and to

this day have terrible thoughts about the days of the holocaust.

To cap it all of he fought his heart out in war, shortly after he could not fight anymore,

he heard that Germany surrendered. He was a very depressed man. So one should realize what

happen in his life before they try and make sense of anything that happen. Hitler had a vision to

build a perfect superior race, resulting in the Holocaust. It is not an excuse for his terrible

actions, but may explain why he did what he did. This terrible tragedy has many things many

people do not understand, for them to understand they need to research the Holocaust.
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Work Cited

“Adolf Hitler – Born 1889 died 1945.” Historylearningsite.co.uk. 2008. History Learning Site. 9

Mar. 2009. <http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/adolf-hitler.htm>

“Final Solution” : Overview.” 20 May 2008. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 9.

Mar. 2009. <http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005151>

“Holocaust Timeline” 1997. The History Place. 9. Mar. 2009.

<http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html> 11.Mar.2009
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