Evacuation of the Jews (Coursework Sample)

Evacuation of the Jews
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Week 2: Implementation of the final solution
Lebensraum in Hitler’s government was an important structure of Nazi’s ideology. The Nazi Germany supported territorial expansion to obtain lebensraum as a nature’s law for all vigorous people of superior races to chase away individuals of inferior races, specifically of the individual involved with a superior race was challenged by overpopulation in their given territorial. With the use of threat of war, Germany acquired new territories in 1938. According to Weindling, this occurred when Hitler pressured Kurt Schuschnigg, Austrian chancellor, to sign the agreement of German-Austrian that brought the Nazis into the Austrian cabinet. The first practical Lebensraum implementation started in 1939 whereby the Germanys occupied Poland. According to historians, the position of Hitler on Lebensraum was a segment of a wide program of world domination approach, in which Hitler was satisfied with the Eastern European conquest.[Weindling, P, Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945. Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 343]
Towards Auschwitz, the road was built by hatred but paved with apathy. The path was a gradual descent past the position of no going back. This means that Hitler’s core system of beliefs and the central motivation of his policies were the Anti-Semitism. Historians conclude that the direct outcome of Hitler’s ideological beliefs and his Jews’ ultimate hatred led to the Final Solution. The Jews physical annihilation was Hitler’s main objective from the beginning of his political work and was the outcome of a more consistent policy. The Jews’ actual physical extermination was not organized accordingly and that no Fuhrer order exists. At that tome, no Holocaust could be envisaged or predicted. The Final Solution originated as a hoc solution to the large Jews number brought under the Nazis’ control through the USSR invasion. Fanatically racist and Anti-Semitic individuals worked tirelessly during the war to build up their interpretation of Hitler’s vague vision of a ‘Final Solution’ to the question brought about by the Jewish.[Marras, M.R, The Holocaust in History. Penguin, 2002, pp. 31-54.] [Marras pp 33]
Week 3: Intentionalist and Functionalist
Historians divide the occurrence of Holocaust into two major segments to be clear in their explanation, which include the intentionalist and the functionalist. According to historians, intentionalists are individuals who ‘essentially come up with a case around the decisive effect of a specific individual.' Functionalist, on the other hand, are individuals who ‘specifically react against the approach of intentionalist and construct a picture of what happened in meticulous research, without any preconceived ideas.' In this case, the debate involves Hitler as a dictator and the role he performed in the Nazi Germany administration. Intentionalists believe that Hitler, when he came to power, had a plan for the Holocaust. However, functionalist argues that Hitler had no decision of annihilation’s future actions on the Holocaust, but rather his genocide idea to the Jews evolved when other decisions proved to be not successful.[Burrin P, Hitler and the Jews: The Genesis of the Holocaust. London: Edward Arnold, 2000]
The interpretation of the intentionalist focuses directly on Hitler’s intentions, rating him directly at the center of the regime. This was the viewpoint of immediate post-war, which suggested that the government of the Nazi was an organized system of command regulated by Hitler alone. They believe that Hitler’s idea was the driving force behind the Holocaust. In addition to that, he is the one who gave the order for the ‘Final Solution.' They commented that Hitler was an active dictator with an almost blueprint-like plan the Jews genocide.
The theory of the functionalist emphasizes on Nazi’s state revolutionary nature together with its internal political rivalries considered as an outcome of the chaotic decision-making as the driving force behind the Holocaust. According to them, Hitler was weak dictator, with a little inclusion in the day-to-day administration of Nazi Germany. Functionalists believe that the ‘Final Solution’ only evolved to annihilation with the evidence that Jews could not leave quickly enough.[Weindling, P, Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945. Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 343]
Week 4: The connection of the Atomic bomb and the commencement of the Cold war
While the atomic bomb marked an end to the WW2 era, historians argue that it also marked the starting of the cold war. President Harry Truman argued that he deployed the bomb to have a speedy end the WW2 and spared the American lives. Others argue that by deploying the bomb, the U.S. demonstrated their weapons of mass destruction to the Soviet Union. By 1945, the relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had deteriorated awfully. Even the Potsdam Conference ended four days into the bombing of Hiroshima. In the meeting, suspicion and recriminations arose between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.[Spielvogel, Hitler and Nazi Germany, pp. 248-253.]
Russian armies occupied most of Eastern Europe. President Truman hoped that the atomic monopoly might as well offer a diplomatic advantage with the Soviet Union. However, the U.S. had only little time to implement the plan because, by 1949, Soviet Union had their atomic bomb, and this marked the beginning of the arms race. Soviets sources say that Stalin only authorized the Soviet scientists to make a nuclear weapon only after President Truman told him about theirs. In this perspective, the deployment of the atomic bomb in Japan is seen as the first step towards the cold war.
Week 5: President Truman’s contribution to the start of the cold war
When the U.S. left the WW1, Soviets took the opportunity, rolled their tanks to in Europe, and installed puppet governments in Eastern Europe as well as Western Europe. When the U.S. President Truman met Stalin at the Potsdam conference, he feared that Soviets might do a repeat of the po...