the radicalisation of nazi policies towards jews was primarily the result of war time successes- assess the validity

result of german success

• gained more jews such as 3 million from poland so had to radicalisae polcies such as 1940s ghettos to deal with this problem

• einsatgrupppen and ss waffen came into contanct with sterotypical jews that werent assimilated in many territories - contributed to willignness in 1941 holocaust of bullets

• 1941 success of operation barbarossa and ss made it a war of racial annihilation with early wartime successes adding to thsi mass murder of 500 000 jews in jsut 1940-1941 as part of aim to defeat jewish bolshwvism

• first gas acility in chelmno in 1941

Individuals were repsonsible

• Heydrich played key role in coordination 1940s ghettos to work towards the furhrer

• 1941 directive by heydrich to ss einsatzgruppen tokill soviet jews =- challneged einsatzkommando 9 for not killing enough jews and told them not to interfer in local pogroms

Working towards the furher

• goering gave heydrich order for fianl solution in 1941 ordering killinga of owmen and children in the east

• chaos of systema llowed herydich and himmler to interpret hitelrs ideological vision whilst still working towards the furhrer

• still chasotic and not organised- ghettos were only a short term solution- before explusaion og jews to madagascar or urals

• there was an ability to escalate AND RADICALISE policies as hitller had not given clear written orders for the jewish question so there was dramatic escalation such as holocaust of bullets gas vans in chemno and belzec in 1941

Conc

overall the wartime successes created a climate but primary resposibility was heydrich