HOLOCAUST AFTERMATH: THE JEWS IN GERMANY DURING WORLD WAR II

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This is a combine paper gathered from many accounts and my personal understanding is included. The holocaust issue is present in the mind of the people particularly of the Jews. Many unanswered queries, doubting thought and unorganized situation are fresh of why do Germans hated the Jews for they are people of ethnoreligious group and not a race of devil.

Jews were living in every country of Europe. A total of roughly nine million Jews lived in the countries that would be occupied by Germany during World War II. In 1933 the largest Jewish populations were concentrated in eastern Europe, including Poland, the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Romania. The distinct role played by the Jewish community in Europe, still, whatever their differences, they were the same in one respect by the 1930's, with the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany, they all became potential victims, and their lives were forever changed. It is widely believed that the catastrophe of European Jewry during World War II had a decisive influence on the establishment of the Jewish state in May 1948. According to some accounts, for the Jews the Holocaust triggered a supreme effort toward statehood, based on the understanding that only a Jewish state might again avoid the horrors of the 1940's.

For the nations of the world, shocked by the horror of the extermination and burdened by feelings of guilt, the Holocaust convinced them that the Jews were entitled to a state of their own. The Holocaust, the horrific event that placed an enormous impact on Jewish people, played a role in the creation of the state of Israel. When we talk about the holocaust issue, it is already a necessity to not to undermine and lay down all the pieces of information as to why such historical event took place and is still part of the growing curiosity of modern generations. We do not immediately delve in into the discussion regarding the holocaust issue without tracing back into the grassroots or the factors that made such event to happen and that we consider German Nazism. Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945.

According to many accounts, reflecting on to Hitler’s speeches, Postwar Germany’s unemployment, rampant inflation, hunger and economic stagnation would continue until there was a revolution in German life, hence driving away communists and Jews from the nation would solve the problem. There were various accounts that state that Anti-Antisemitism in Europe did not begin with Adolf Hitler. Though use of the term itself dates only to the 1870's, there is evidence of hostility toward Jews long before the Holocaust–even as far back as the ancient world, when Roman authorities destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and forced Jews to leave Palestine. We cannot deny the fact that the holocaust was a remarkable event in the Jewish history that built the general course of the Jewish history, a factor or an influence of how the Jewish community combats its daily living in the modern times. Now, the point of this study is to establish whether there is a connection of the Jewish diaspora as a natural reaction to the holocaust occurrence in the creation of another nation, which is later on addressed as the Jewish state, Israel.

In other words, if there’s one thing very overt about the impacts of the Holocaust aftermath to the European Jewry was its declining population in Europe. The holocaust brought devastation to European Jewry, many of those who survived were determined to leave Europe and start new lives in Israel or the United States. The population shifts brought on by the Holocaust and by Jewish emigration were astounding.

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Hayes, Peter, How was It Possible? A Holocaust Reader. Lincoln, NE: University of
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