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Adolf Hitler Why did Adolf Hitler develop the policy that became known as the Final Solution? There were three facets to the Nazi anti-Jewishness that would eventually lead Adolf Hitler to develop the policy that became known as the Final Solution. The first facet was the identification of Jews with political subversion and Communism. Hitler was not the first to make this connection, with other historical figures including Winston Churchill and Henry Ford writing about Jews and political subversion.

This purported subversion included: the promotion of pornography, the Protocols of Zion, degenerate art, and a variety of other issues. Jews were also hated for their economic exploitation. This, again, was not only a Hitler derived concern about Jews. Since pre-Christian times, other cultures had associated Jews with super capitalism. It was Hitler, however, who made the link between capitalism and Communism. The financing of the 1917 Russian Revolution by the American Jewish banker, Jacob Schiff, was used to support this claim. The Nazi anti-Jewishness was also based on anti-Christianity.

Hitler associated Christianity with Jews. He saw both religions as a product of the Middle East, not Europe. However, Hitler didn't dare attach Christianity directly, so instead took aim at the Jews. According to Hitler something needed to be done about the Jews that were interfering with his highly centralized state and who did not fit into his master race plan. "On the evening of November 9th, 1938, carefully orchestrated anti-Jewish violence 'erupted' throughout the Reich (...).

Over the next 48 hours rioters burned or damaged more than 1,000 synagogues and ransacked and broke the windows of more than 7,500 businesses." Arresting more than 30,000 Jewish men between the ages of 16 and 60, this horrific night was known as Kristallnacht or Crystal Night. In addition, the Jewish economy was fined one billion Reichmarks and segregation of Jews began in earnest. The following year, the Nazis introduced the T4 Program.

With the use of gas chambers and mass crematoria, this 'euthanasia' program was implemented to euthanize the physically disabled, mentally retarded, and the emotionally disturbed, as well as any who were against the Nazi ideal of Aryan supremacy. Although Nazi Germany had been forcing Jews to emmigrate, their expansion into neighboring territories brought even more Jews under their control. On July 31, 1941, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring issued orders to Reinhard Heydrich of the SS and Gestapo, to prepare a comprehensive plan for the 'final solution' to the Jewish question.

Finally, on January 20th, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich convened the Wannsee Conference in which the goal was to organize this 'final solution'. Extermination camps were quickly built and the genocide began in earnest. 2. How did he pursue his plans throughout occupied Europe? In early 1942, Hitler began the building of extermination camps such as: Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Belzec in Poland. Prior to the implementation of the Final Solution, the Einsatzgruppen had to travel to kill their victims.

With the building of extermination camps, victims would travel by train to the camps, killing them efficiently with minimal psychological or physical cost to German personnel. A few Germans, along with a handful of Ukranian and Latvian collaborators or prisoners of war, could kill tens of thousands of Jews every month. At the first of the extermination camps, Chelmno, mobile gas vans were utilized to slaughter the Jews. At other camps, permanent gas chambers were linked to the crematoria, so bodies could be burned.

Carbon monoxide was used most often at most camps. However, a particularly lethal killing agent, Zyklon-B, was used primarily at Auschwitz and later at other camps. In the end, more than six million Jewish men, women and children, in addition to millions of other non-Jews, were killed in this 'final solution'. 3.

What could the Allied nations have done to prevent the Holocaust or to stop it once it began? There has been much discussion regarding what the Allied nations could have done to prevent the Holocaust or to stop it once it began. With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, one theory has included the bombing of the largest gas chambers of the Nazi regime -- Auschwitz -- as one of the possible efforts that would've saved lives.

Clearly, Allied bombings had a significant impact on the eventual winning of World War II, but some theorize that had the gas chambers been actually bombed, the more than million people who lost their lives in these execution rooms may have been saved. A fleet of American bombers dropped more than one thousand bombs on the Auschwitz factory areas, on August 20, 1944. A few weeks later, on September 13th, the U.S. bombers returned and hit the factory areas again.

Stray bombs also hit an SS barracks, a slave labor workshop, and the railroad tracks leading to the gas chambers just five miles away. Similar raids were conducted on December 18th, 26th, and January 19th. Yet, consistently Allied forces refused proposals to bomb the death camps and the gas chambers themselves. Roosevelt's War Department continuously rebuffed proposals by Jewish groups to bomb the execution camps.

However, at the time, it was felt that this would use valuable resources that could be better used elsewhere, and that few lives would truly be saved. Of course, resources had been diverted for other more frivolous reasons, such as General George Patton's sending of American troops to Austria to rescue 150 prized Lipizzaner horses. In addition, Auschwitz survivors tell tales of how bombings of the factories and other areas did not fill them with fear, instead they longed for the day when the bombs fell on the chambers of death.

Yet, this was just one more failure in a complicated web of failures, according to Medoff. By bombing the gas chambers, the Allied forces would have bought the Jewish people being held there more time -- time to hopefully facilitate the end of the war and their release. Instead.