The Genocide of over six Jewish million people by the German government during the Second World War is the largest massacre of modern times. Most people consider it to be the result of extensive planning on the part of the Nazi’s, some others believes it was not planned, but a reaction to a war that Hitler had not anticipated.

Before looking into either of these arguments, one must look into the Holocaust itself, what was it and how did the Nazi government manage to murder several million people? Why did no one stop them?

The murder of several million people happened during the Second World War. The discrimination and legislation against the freedom of Jewish people in Germany had been going on for many years, as I will document later on. In 1939 Hitler and Germany successfully invaded Poland, where the approximate Jewish population was 3.5 million, the largest in Europe. In 1940 the first shipment of German Jews were sent to camps set up in occupied Poland. These camps were set up all over occupied Europe, and Jews as well as other minority groups were sent to them. These camps were at the time essentially slave la

The school of thought that believes it would be utterly implausible for anyone who accepts that the holocaust was a reality to say it was some kind of reactionary accident on the part of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi’s is called The Intentionalism . This is the belief that the genocide of millions was planned and premeditated over the course of Hitler’s time in power and even some say his entire life.

Adolf Hitler Jan 30 1939

This speech is seen as Hitler clearly stating his intent to wiped out the Jewish population, this speech comes eight months before the outbreak of World War 2, as war that Hitler must certainly now realised was a possibility.

The persecution of not only Jews but also most of the minority groups in Germany went back to the very beginning of the Nazi’s time in power.

These pre war years saw Jewish people removed from their homes and placed into ‘ghettoes’ they were removed from their jobs and all assets were passed over to Aryan Germans. During this time Hitler was slowly seizing other lands in Europe, he united Germany and Austria despite the Versailles Treaty forbidding this union. Hitler even managed to charm Neville Chamberlain into agreeing to the ‘Anchluss’

A senior Intentionalist historian is Gerald Fleming, Fleming believed that Hitler’s anti-Semitism was deep rooted and life long, he (Hitler) believed that every negative thing in his life was the fault of Jews. This was responsible for hatred filling every policy and idea that Hitler developed. Hitler’s deeply rooted hatred of Jews cannot really be disputed by any serious historian and is very relevant in the Intentionalist argument. The fundamental belief in the Intentionalist school of thought is that Anti-Semitism was Hitler’s driving force.

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