Nadene Goldfoot
Field Marshall Paul Von Hindenburg on March 9, 1922-Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of Germany on April 26, 1925, and inaugurated on May 12, 1925, succeeding Friedrich Ebert. As a widely respected World War I general, he won the election as an independent candidate. Hindenburg served as the second president of the Weimar Republic until his death in 1934.
- Hitler's government took over Germany on January 30, 1933, when President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor. Following this, the Nazis rapidly dismantled Germany's democratic institutions, turning the Weimar Republic into a one-party dictatorship within months.
- 1934 Plebiscite: A New York Times article from August 1934 reported that 89.9% of voters (roughly 38 million) approved of Hitler uniting the offices of President and Chancellor, while nearly 10% disapproved.
- 1933 Election: In the last, partially competitive election in March 1933, the Nazi Party received 43.9% of the vote, rising to a majority when combined with coalition partners.
- Hitler: January 1, 1939
- Support Levels: By the time war broke out in 1939, intense indoctrination and terror made public opposition extremely rare. While popular support was high, it was heavily influenced by propaganda, fear of the Gestapo, and the success of the regime's economic and foreign policies up to that point.
From 1934 to 1939, it was obvious as to what was going on in Germany that the German government, now taken over by a new regime, hated Jews and wanted them out of the country. Jews traditionally all over the world have been treated as the scapegoats, for they had not converted to Christianity. They remained the mother religion that brought about Christianity in the first place out of polytheism.
Two or Three thousand Jews traveled by boat from German ports to Shanghai and got in without visas. An English man, Captain Foley, supported this method of emigration though the Foreign Office in London hesitated. "They would rather die as free men in Shanghai than as slaves in Dachau." None had any idea how bad it would become.
Hitler's Speech
Six days before Hitler's 1939 speech, Field Marshall Goering had instructed General Heydrich to "solve" the so-called Jewish problem "by emigration and evacuation". An empty army camp in England at Richborough in Kent was opened In February for future arrivals which could hold 3,000 at a time. Individual visas were not required by those who arrived. They only needed a block permit. So England was aware of Germany's goal. Did the USA?
Reinhard Heydrich (born March 7, 1904, Halle, Germany—died June 4, 1942, Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia [now in Czech Republic]) was a Nazi German official who was Heinrich Himmler’s chief lieutenant in the Schutzstaffel (“Protective Echelon”), the paramilitary corps commonly known as the SS. He played a key role in organizing the Holocaust during the opening years of World War II.
Within 12 months 8 thousand Jews passed through getting to homes in Britain, most being young men who were sent to Dachau, Sachsenhausen and other concentration camps after the Kristallnacht, and had later been released. Kristallnacht, also known as the "Night of Broken Glass," occurred on the night of November 9-10, 1938, when Nazi paramilitary forces and civilians destroyed Jewish businesses, homes, and synagogues across Germany and Austria, marking a violent escalation of anti-Jewish persecution before the Holocaust.
Hitler spoke in Berlin on 30 January 1939, and said, "That in the event of war: the result will not be the bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe."
By March 1939, an Eric Lucas was still trying to find a foreign embassy in London willing to give his parents a visa. Following are their questions:
1. Have you sufficient money for your parents to live there without working?
Answer: "A small sum could be got together."
2. Have your parents a valid passport?
Answer: "No, because they can only apply for a passport to leave the country if they have a visa and permission to proceed to this country to which they want to go."
3. Yes, I see, but they cannot get a visa until they have a valid passport.
His parents perished in Germany 3 years later.
Jews were kept out of countries and were forced to remain in Germany until the gas chambers were ready.
The largest and most notorious of these sites was the Auschwitz camp complex, which combined a concentration camp and a major killing center. The gas chambers at these camps were central to the Nazis' "Final Solution," their plan to systematically murder the Jewish population of Europe. Auschwitz-Birkenau was located in Oświęcim, Poland, a town in occupied Poland where Nazi Germany built a large complex of concentration and extermination camps during World War II, serving as a primary site for the Holocaust. It's now preserved as the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, honoring the victims and serving as a research center.
Resoource:
The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert, book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Reinhard-Heydrich
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