How far did Nazi Policies towards jews change in the period 1933-1945?

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Partially valid- main aims stayed the same of removal and segragation but after 1939 - methods changed and became more radical

P1- 1935-1938- continuity

• Maintianed their aims and policies of migration and removal of jews

• 1935 nuremburg laws- removal of citizenship caused isolation

• 1938- krystallnachts and the anschluss increased radical polciies towards jews - forcing emigaration in austia - eichmann set up centre for jewish immigration in vienna and began stamping jewish passports and futher removing identity

• slight turn with more violence in krystallanacht, 270 synagogues burnt but still focused on isolation

• 1938- hieght of pre war popularity and hitler felt able to start to radicalise his polciies more after crushing TOV with teh anschlus

1939-1940- policies became more radical with focuses on deportation

After invasion of poland and army seeing jews who loved up to sterortypes there was more focus on deportation- there was also more jews to deal with 1.9 mil in poland

1940s set up multiple ghettos which was forced removal of jews due to the harsh living conditions and 500 000 deaths in the warsaw ghetto creating a place where ther was a higher death rate than birth rate

beginnign of ideas for warsaw plan quasie- genocide

1941-1945- even more radical in the war years

• ‘quantum leap ‘ in raidcalisation of polciies during the war uears

• 2nd july 1941- heydirch signed a directive for the ss einsatzgruppen to carry out mass killings of soviet jews - intiial successes in the war years allowed them access to this - holocaust of bullets and even criticised for not killing enough jews

• 1942- wannsee conference involved discussion of the ‘final solution’, death cmaps set up during operation reinhard- belzec, sobibor and treblinka (700 000 killed in treblinka and only operated but 24 people 1943- auschwitz became main death camp

• 1944- 45 death marches at the end