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“Common sense could not understand that it was possible to exterminate tens and hundreds of thousands of Jews,”
—Yitzhak Zuckerman, a leader of the Jewish resistance in Warsaw
My Findings:
Anti- Jewish propaganda was widespread throughout all the countries that Nazi Germany occupied and Germany itself. The one pictured above states that "Jews are lice; They cause typhus" (USHM). This was used in Poland to instill the fear of Jews in Christian Poles. Hitler and the Nazi party used propaganda to win over the people who weren't in full support of anti-sementism and Hitler in general. "The Nazi leadership aimed to deceive the German population, the victims, and the outside world regarding their genocidal policy toward Jews. What did ordinary Germans know about the persecution and mass murder of Jews? Despite the public broadcast and publication of general statements about the goal of eliminating “the Jews,” the regime practiced a propaganda of deception by hiding specific details about the “Final Solution,” and press controls prevented Germans from reading statements by Allied and Soviet leaders condemning German crimes" (USHM). The fact that the Jews were being killed in concentration camps was kept from the vast majority of the German population. While, it would be fairly easy for them to draw conclusions based on how the Nazi party and Hitler felt about Jews that this would be happening, it was never said directly to the German people. "At the same time, positive stories were fabricated as part of the planned deception. One booklet printed in 1941 glowingly reported that, in occupied Poland, German authorities had put Jews to work, built clean hospitals, set up soup kitchens for Jews, and provided them with newspapers and vocational training" (USHM). The Nazi party used deception in the form of propaganda to make it seem like they were fair and nice to the Jews. Even though, most of the camps in Poland were in fact death camps. Poland itself had the largest amount of Jews die during the Holocaust, three million to be exact.
"The Final Solution" had not always been the plan of the Nazi Party. Before this plan, there was the Madagascar Plan. "In 1940, plans were devised by the Nazis to ship all Jews under Nazi control to Madagascar, an island in the Indian Ocean" (REMEMBER). This plan was also kept from the German people. The forced emigration of the Jewish population would've saved many lives had the Nazi Party gone through with it. "Some historians believe that the Madagascar Plan was a smokescreen for Hitler’s desire to murder European Jewry" (REMEMBER). Of course, a man like Hitler, who was full of so much rage against Jews, would never let them escape peacefully from his grasp. The Final Solution had always been Hitler's only solution.
While the German people may not have been told out right that Jews were being exterminated while it was happening they did know that Hitler had this idea from the very start. "They knew that Adolf Hitler had repeatedly forecast the extermination of every Jew on German soil. They knew these details because they had read about them" (GUARDIAN). In Hitler's book, he write all about his future plans for the Final Solution. The German people had enough advance warning to realize that when their Jewish friends and neighbors got dragged off the Nazi soldiers and the Gestapo that they weren't going on a luxury vacation. The German people chose to live in ignorance. Ignorance was bliss to the German people during the Holocaust.
"The Final Solution" had not always been the plan of the Nazi Party. Before this plan, there was the Madagascar Plan. "In 1940, plans were devised by the Nazis to ship all Jews under Nazi control to Madagascar, an island in the Indian Ocean" (REMEMBER). This plan was also kept from the German people. The forced emigration of the Jewish population would've saved many lives had the Nazi Party gone through with it. "Some historians believe that the Madagascar Plan was a smokescreen for Hitler’s desire to murder European Jewry" (REMEMBER). Of course, a man like Hitler, who was full of so much rage against Jews, would never let them escape peacefully from his grasp. The Final Solution had always been Hitler's only solution.
While the German people may not have been told out right that Jews were being exterminated while it was happening they did know that Hitler had this idea from the very start. "They knew that Adolf Hitler had repeatedly forecast the extermination of every Jew on German soil. They knew these details because they had read about them" (GUARDIAN). In Hitler's book, he write all about his future plans for the Final Solution. The German people had enough advance warning to realize that when their Jewish friends and neighbors got dragged off the Nazi soldiers and the Gestapo that they weren't going on a luxury vacation. The German people chose to live in ignorance. Ignorance was bliss to the German people during the Holocaust.