When was the annihilation of Jews decided upon?

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Answer 1

actually you can put a date and even a time to it

there was a meeting on January 20th 1942 known as the Wannsee Conference.

led by SS-Gruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, Chief of the Reich Main Security Office the aim was to settle the "Jewish question" once and for all. the solution they came up with was known as the "Final Solution" which led to extermination.

Before this time it was assumed Jews would be put in labor camps, here the extermination camp concept was launched.

Many at the conference, confirmed Nazi's were sickened by it. But of course said nothing.

for more info see a wonderful movie (HBO Film) with Kenneth Branagh as Reinhard Heydrich, called "Conspiracy" or see wiki article below

Answer 2

The date is not specific, since there were no written records or orders to confirm the decision, but most historians have pinned it around November 1941 when Hitler gave Goerring verbal orders to carry out the 'final solution to the Jewish question.'

Goerring then directed Reinhard Heydrich to begin the implementation. Heydrich convened a meeting of all the top SS and Nazis bureaucrats in January 1942 at the so-called Wansee Conference. It was there that the details of implementing the annihilation of European Jewry was prepared.

Prior to these dates, Jews were persecuted, isolated, forced to immigrate and forcibly transferred to concentration camps and ghettoes (most notably the Warsaw ghetto). There were executions conducted by the 'special groups' of the SS that followed the Werhmact into Russia in the summer of '41...but the total extermination and wholesale annihilation of European Jewry wasn't ordered until the fall of '41.

Answer 3

I assume you mean the Nazi regime's attempt during WW II? There is some difference of opinion on that. Some historians believe Hitler settled on extermination around 1942-43, while others say it was part of his original plan put together before he was elected Chancellor. Pogroms attempting to eliminate Jews have been attempted many times. I believe Caligula's attempt is the earliest recorded around 38 CE.

Answer 4

when they killed jesus... no seriously, which time? many people have wanted to wipe out the jews through the ages. If you are talking about the nazi's then the decision came proably during the days Hitler spent in Vienna in the early part of the 20th century, but these weren't written down as a part of the movement until his imprisionment in landsberg prision in 1922-24

Answer 5

Awfully difficult question. You could read "Explaining Hitler" by Ron Rosenbaum, although there are certainly books that are specialising more on that stuff. (Be careful: If you read the book mentioned, at one point they mix Protectorate and General Government.)