Race and Public Policy of Hitler

             By the beginning of 1939, the gradual and mounting campaign against the Jews was prepared for the achievement of its ultimate violent ends. The German people had been indoctrinated, and the seeds of hatred had been sown. The German state was armed and prepared for conquest and to carry out the wishes of Adolf Hitler. The force of world opinion could now safely be ignored. Already the nazi conspirators had forced out of Germany 200,000 of its former 500,000 Jews. The Nazi-controlled German state was therefore emoldened, and Hitler in anticipation of the aggressive wars already planned cast about for a provocation.
             The first step in accomplishing the purpose of the Nazi Party and the Nazi-dominated state, to eliminate the Jew, was to require a complete registration of all Jews. For the people of Germany to empathize and side with the leadership's public policy, a clear definition of Jew needed to be identified. The Jew needed to be more than a religious group to the leadership and the people. Public indoctrination with Nazi propoganda was an essential component of the "solution" for the Jews. This indoctrination was accomplished by identifying the Jewish people as a race. A race that was contaminating the Aryan blood. The leadership stressed the biological concern associated with Jewish heritage. While this biological focus enabled the Nazis to extend their genocidal efforts to Gypsies, Russians, and Poles, the Jews remained the central target and the most specific psychological victim of the Nazi genocidal dynamic.
             The racial quality of the Jewish people in the eyes of Nazi leadership was evident first in how they discussed the Jewish problem. Nazi leadership saw their Jewish victims as infiltrating the German state, creating a general danger of "inner Judaization" and "racial pollution". They were perceived as a fundamental threat to German biological and biosocial continuit...

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