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The Nazi government had control over the entire country of Germany when the Kindertransport was put into motion. Very well known, the Nazi government was taking Jewish people and sending them to concentration camps. There was antisemisitm propangada being postered across Germany. Every non-Jewish person in Germany was being shown this propoganda, even Jewish people saw it. The Nazi government wanted the entire country of Germany to hate all Jewish people. Hitler wanted to purify the country of Germany to only have pure Germans living in it. He had imagnined a country where all German speakers had a pure country for themselves. This was only the start of many implications to get rid of the Jewish population from not only Germany, but all of Europe.
The creation of the Kindertransport was to protect Jewish children from dying and get them to safety in a different country. Antisemitism was the driving force for the Nazi government to want to commit mass genocide against the Jewish population. Jewish children were trying to escape the impending danger. The main, and viewed as the only cause, of the Kindertransport was the Nazi government and their ruthless and malicious intentions. The creation of the Nuremberg Laws also contributed to the pressure and discrimination that the Jewish people were feeling. This pressure would cause many people to leave and want to get their children to safety, which caused the Kindertransport to be created.
When the Nazi party came to power in the late 1930s, many children who traveled on the Kindertransport remembered a very distinct change in the treatment of Jewish Germans. Many Jewish Germans didn't feel safe because before the Nazi party came to power, they felt safe and happy with living in Germany.
Image caption: A list of all the children going on one of the transports, from National Archives
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Antisemitism has become a huge problem throughout the entire world since this event. Although people try to avoid it, it is still prevalent throughout the world. Before Kristallnacht, Jewish people started to become more unified in their religion of Judaism. There was a huge unification and confinement with Jewish people across Germany and soon after, across the world. Emigration became something that was talked about all the time because they knew there was impending danger. Many people wanted to leave Nazi Germany and confine with their fellow Jewish people in another, safer place. The Jewish population in Germany felt personally threatened and attacked from the first day Hitler became the leader of Nazi Germany.
The idea of antisemitism was something that became so normal in Germany that it started spreading. Many countries had thousands of antisemetic movmements, but none of them acted on their hatred like Hitler did. Hitler would wait many years to take action against the Jewish population in Europe. When he did, it would strike fear into every Jewish person across the globe. For many years, Hitler instilled in the German people that Jewish people were the cause of all their problems, including the cause of World War l.
The antisemitism was engraved in everyone's minds since the day he took over. It was something that he everyone to believe in so they could all be united against the Jewish people. The amount of propaganda that Hitler used only made German people hate Jewish people even more as the years went on, even following the mass genocide. German people still believed in Hitler's plan to purify Germany to the superior race and religion, years after Hitler died and World War ll ended.
Image captions:
Children waiting to get on the Kindertransport, from Union of Jewish Students (Top Photo)
Children looking out the window from the train, from the National Archives (Bottom Photo)
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