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Hitler

I want to wipe out the "Jewish [from] memory"

-Wiesel

The Final Solution

Hitler's Role

Failure of Jewish "self deportation" forced Hitler to avert to the Final Solution

"Most important job" is "the destruction of the Jews"

-Stein

Hitler's Responsibility for the Holocaust

  • Hitler took part in the Beer Hall Putsch, a revolt against the government
  • He got arrested and put in prison where he wrote Mein Kampf
  • He became Reich Chancellor in January, 1933
  • Born 1889 in Austria -Wistrich
  • Art school in Vienna, was not accepted
  • First political class introduced him to anti-Sematism.

Hitler did not kill any Jews directly

He was the mastermind behind the scenes.

Most of the horrible human experiments done to the Jews were ordered by SS officers, not Hitler.

  • He used propaganda to influence and control the German citizens
  • His propaganda gave the German people a feeling of unity against the Jewish people.

His speeches influenced the non-Jewish German people.

  • Joined Germany's Infantry, WWI
  • Blamed the Jews for Germany's loss of WWI
  • Used this as one reason to help fuel the extermination of the Jews

Final solution devised by top SS officers.

Mass Destruction of an entire culture.

Why Hitler isn't Responsible

"Every bullet that is now fired from the barrel of a police pistol is my bullet. If that is called murder, then I have committed murder, for I have ordered it all; I take the responsibility for it" -Hitler

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Why Hitler is

Responsible

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