How and why did the Nazi treatment of Jews change between the years 1933 and 1945?

Most of us have heard of the Nazi party’s horrific, genocidal regime on destroying the Jewish race, but what events led up to their dire judgement?  In this study I aim to uncover the events, reasons and changes which led to the Holocaust and the further changes in the treatment of the Jewish race by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.

In the aftermath of the First World War, Germany is under the Judgment of the Allies as a result of Allied victory Germany is being blamed for most of the war, The Treaty of Versailles stated that they:

• Are to pay compensation to the Allies: £6.6 Million, which was well over Germany’s financial capacity at the time.
• Portions of Germany’s land has been claimed and will distributed under Allied power to form new nations and also will be given to allied nations who lost land during the war.
• Germany’s army will be reduced to only 100,000 men plus their naval vessels have been limited to 6 capital ships. The west of Rhineland had been Demilitarised and occupied by Allied forces.
• Germany was not allowed to join with Austria to boost its economy.

      These were only just a few of the terms of the treaty.

In Germany, many people were ‘pointing fingers’ and putting the blame on others, one group of people however, is taking the most fire: The Jewish Race.

The Jewish Race have been known to be persecuted since ancient times, right from the time when the Egyptians were ruling the Israelites, this was due to hatred towards Jewish Culture and way of life.  The Jewish population in Germany was approximately 210,000 in 1918; this was quite small compared to other races in Germany, most notably: The ‘Aryan’ race. In German y, the Jewish race was hated due to many conspiracy theories regarding the reason Germany was defeated in World War one, here are just a few of them:

• The Theory that Germany had not been defeated on the battlefield but had been brought down by liberal, socialist and Communist subversives on the home front. In other words it was claimed that ‘the Jews had caused Germany’s defeat in World War 1′. Potentially, this made anti-Semitism explosive in Germany.
• People were Jealous. Some Jews were successful and held powerful positions in Austria and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. Germany was hit the hardest by the worldwide economic depression which started in 1929, and successful Jews were envied.
• In a large amount of Europe, Jews were thought to have Communist ideology.

It is extremely evident that Jews were the main target for dire judgmental opinions, but there was one man who had a passion for Germany; he believed he was the ‘saviour’ of Germany, this man served in the first world war, and it was then, near the end of the war, recovering from a war wound, when Germany was weak and crumbling, he made a vow to himself, that he would be the one, to make Germany strong, he was: Adolf Hitler.