When and how did the Nazis kill Jews living in areas under the control of Nazi Germany?
The exact date of the adoption of the Nazi policy of killing all the Jews is not fully clear. Has not been found in any written document of Hitler in this sense, even though there are many documents that include testimony and evidence about the planning and implementation of such a policy. There is a consensus in the current period among historians that were not with the Nazis in the period before the outbreak of World War II, a specific plan to kill the Jews of Europe. On the other hand, the policy that was know as the "final solution" that called for the killing of all Jews, it has evolved during World War II itself.
At a time when Germany occupied Poland in the autumn of 1939, the Nazis passed the dividing line between early forms of discrimination and mass murder. The campaigns resulted in the mass murder committed from time to time in the occupied territories, which was home to most of the Jews in Poland for the killing of thousands during the last months of 1939. Yet the invasion of the Soviet Union, which began on June 22, 1941, has been embarking on a campaign scale wider against the Jews. At the outset, the German armed formations, particularly the special units of the commando forces of Nazi Subversion. Feed. Known as "Ainzatsgrobin", in cooperation with local volunteers, the killing of males from the Jewish community was shot dead, in addition to staff communist politicians - and in a manner that organized mass murder.
On July 31, 1941 appointed "second man" in units of Subversion. Feed., Reinhard Hidrich by Hermann Goering, Hitler's deputy in charge of the "final solution to the Jewish problem in Europe." In mid-August of the same year, when he visited the commander of the units Subversion. Feed. Heinrich Himmler Soviet territories occupied by the newly expanded the scope of the Germans for the killings include women and Jewish children. After a short period of trials that began using the gas of the type "Tsyklon b" as a means of mass murder. These experiments took place in Auschwitz on Soviet prisoners of war.
And began the process of deportation of Jews from the German Reich in mid-October 1941, a decree was issued and then after a few days of that prohibits any other Jewish emigration from the Reich. In the same month of October has been chosen sites for the establishment of the first concentration camps. At the beginning of the month of December the first of December of the same year began the first extermination camp at Chelmno work. There was the murder of Jews by gas emitted from the exhaust pipe of the car shipping. During the same period, has killed tens of thousands of Jews by Nazi different formations and allies of the Nazis in Serbia, Romania and the region controlled by Romania, which was known as the "Transnistria". In light of this, the process of killing Jews become a comprehensive campaign met from different directions.
During a meeting between Hitler and members of the inner circle of the first leaders of the Nazi regime was held on 12 December 1941, the debate has killed Jews of the Soviet Union and the killing of new campaigns against German Jews. It was clear from this meeting that Hitler was closely involved in the development policy of killing Jews. At the beginning of the month of December of this year has been to set a date for the meeting of the "Wannsee" under the supervision of Hidrich to coordinate the killings of Jews, which was still ongoing at the time. On the other hand, it was decided to postpone the meeting to January 20 January 1942, in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. And inferred largely from these events that the plan the final solution has crystallized in an appointment during the second half of 1941 and that Hitler and Goering and Himmler and Hidrich and leaders of the Nazi others they are an integral part of the decision-making process that led to the mass murder of Jews.
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