The role of anti-semitism for the final solution
The stage was being set throughout Europe in the late 19th century with anti-Semitism running in the veins of most Germans and other European nations. This answer to the 'Jewish Question" was to be addressed by Heydrich and Himmler at the Wannsee conference in their 'Final Solution." At the turn of the 19th century, much of the common outlook of Jews in populist Germany held the belief that all economic woes of the times were due to the prevalence of Jewish businesses. Many Germans held the belief that one day, the Jews will rise up and dominate Germany and cast out any traditional German values. One of the first anti-Semitic rises came out of rural Germany through Otto Boeckel who had believed that "Jews were the blood enemies of Christ" (Weiss p.99). Jews were the major moneylenders for many rural Germans who, during the 1870s, suffered through a depression. Many had lost their land and others had to go to Jews for loans with outlandishly high interest when banks would turn them away due to high risk. In cities, many independent retail establishment owners were big supporters of the anti-Semitic rallies. Jews started mass retail stores that could out sell and outbid many prices of family run businesses in Germany. Th
Glagau, Stoecker, Boeckel, and Marr were just some of the voices speaking for populist Germany. Conservatives did not want any 'Jewish' ideas to lurk in the minds of students. Eventually Auschwitz and Treblinka would become the biggest killing camps carrying out the 'Final Solution. Much of the speeches given by Himmler and Goebbels were an address to the people that Jews needed to be exterminated and that they are not even considered a race according to German bloodlines. Conservatives found that votes increased with anti-Semitism rallies but would stifle some popular anti-Semites if they, or populist Germany, thought industrial interests would be jeopardized by the movement. Hitler and the Nazi party eventually rose to supreme power of Germany and started to put their solution for the 'Jewish Question' in motion. This Aryan race was the dominant race in social Darwinism and all others were impure, especially the Jews. " In January of 1942, Heydrich brought together the representatives of state agencies to gain consensus on the extermination of all Jews. This rationalization helped with the construction of the Jewish Ghettos and the expulsion of all Jews. Germany and Austria had severe hatred for Jews. Nationalism and elections were the major concerns among the German elite in the late 1800's. This would take any possible guilt out of the murder of the Jews to make it an easier justification. The New Conservatives were looking for someone to lead their voice of anti-Semitism, communism and the overthrow of the republic. Goebbels had the same viewpoint about Jews and set similar characteristics down in his speech. It was a feeling within the German elite that Jews had other motives that did not include an allegiance to Germany.
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