Introduction
Toward the end of the eighteenth century the Jews in German were well established. The Jews knew much about the German culture and had made it part of their lives. The Jews and Germans coexisted peacefully until Adolf Hitler became the German leader. In early nineteenth century a very bad incident took place in Germany which will forever be remembered by all the Germans and Jews.
The Germans led by Adolf Hitler were bent on killing all the Jews in what was termed as the final solution. Hatred was turned to the Jews by the Germans who believed that their misery (the Germans) was due to the presence of the Jews in Germany. This paper seeks to explain how the “The Final Solution” evolved, how it was organized, by whom it was carried out, when it was authorized and implemented and its effects.
The Final Solution
Background Information
Adolf Hittler was appointed as a German leader in the presidential election held in 1932 and was named the president then. The First World War emerged to be a big blow to the German security. They then had to look for new ways to strengthen their country. With time some magazine started to spread out propaganda concerning the Jews.
Elections were conducted to increase political strength of Hittler. The laws governing the country were modified. It was argued that the Jewish were responsible for the alteration in the German culture. Hittler was against the Jewish two years after the election. The Jewish were viewed as outcasts and some laws were made to get rid of them (Bendersky 1).
The Planning
It is believed that the killing of the Jewish was planned towards the end of 1941(Holocaust history 1). Based on some prophesy that the future was to be worse, the Jewish started fleeing out of the country but were restricted by the strict immigration rule from neighboring countries.
Some of the countries tried to solve the immigration process but were unsuccessful. On being pushed too much, the Jewish refused to take commands given to them and assassinated one the top German official. This provoked the government to arrest the Jews and many of them lost their lives and most of their property (Jewish virtual library 1; Bendersky 2).
The worst period for the Jews dawned at the start of the Second World War. The German security was determined to get rid of the Jews. They were divided into different troops. Jews were shot dead and buried. At the start of 1942, a meeting to enforce the operation was conducted.
This meant that the process was to be carried out on a large scale. There were so many death camps which were used to get rid of the Jews (United States 1). Some countries attacked Germany to force it surrender killing the Jews. Some of these countries included: America, Britain and the Soviet Union. This led to the end of the Second World War.
Statistics of those who died
It is worth noting that the number of Jews who were killed was just too huge. It was a display of hatred at the highest level. A simple analysis of the number of Jews who fell shows the following facts:
Aurischwitz II was declared a killing center by Himmler. Approximately 1,000,000 Jews from many parts of Europe were killed here.
Approximately 2,700,000 Jews were murdered in death camps and killing centers by the police and the German SS. In total about 6,000,000 Jews, were murdered. This number accounts for two thirds of the Jews in Europe and one third of Jews in the world. (Aurischwitz 1)
It recorded that the Germans systematically collected all the Jews from various parts of Germany and subjected them to some sort of sorting out whereby those who were declared fit were sent to work in various industries and the others who formed the majority were sent to the gas chambers for their death.
It is worth noting that only a small fraction of the Jews were declared fit thus most of them faced the gas chambers in the various killing centers which had been set up for the purposes of eliminating the Jews (Aurischwitz 1). The final solution has inspired the shooting of many movies based on these massacres with a good examples being escape from Sobibor.
Conclusion
The final solution is one of the worst actions in history that happened to the Jews. The massive killing was inhuman and should not be allowed to happen again. This left many injured physically and psychologically. Were it not for the intervention of other countries probably the Jews would have been eliminated. Killing in such a large scale order is being witnessed even in the present day.
Taking examples of third world countries like Rwanda, it can be argued that still massacres take place though to a small extent.
New policies should therefore be instituted across the world to avoid harassment of any group of people irrespective of their race, religion or numbers. As a matter of fact such kinds of massacres often lead to lifelong grudges which can easily lead to a nation attacking another one.
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Holocaust history. When did Hittler decide on the Final Solution? Holocaust History, 2011. Web.
Jewish virtual library. History of the Holocaust.Jewish virtual library, 2011. Web.
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