Nazi Germany A Political Conspiracy By The Jewish...

The term â€Å"Judeo-Bolshevism† was used in Nazi Germany to describe a political conspiracy by the Jewish population of Easter Europe (mainly Soviet Russia) to take command of the government and instill communist ideals amongst the Slavic peoples and eventually the rest of Europe. The propaganda created to promote belief in this conspiracy was part of Germanys’ attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, as a â€Å"legitimate† reason to invade, to stop the spread of Jewish communist ideology. The belief that Jews were responsible for the creation and growth of communism existed in Germany well before 1941 but it only became useful as propaganda in combination with Hitler’s expressed fears of a Soviet betrayal and possible invasion of Germany. â€Å"Given†¦show more content†¦Hitler believed Jewish control over the Slavic peoples as proof that they were sub-human and could not govern themselves. In 1941 he preached that the war with Russia was a â€Å"w ar of ideology and racial differences†, Nazi Germany vs Soviet Judeo Bolshevism. The German plan for Eastern Europe combined the objectives of Lebensraum with Slavic slave-labor, and Jewish annihilation. â€Å"It was decided that 14 million of the indigenous Slavs would be deported and used as slaves along with the Jews; as the Jews died from overwork they would be replaced by Slavs†. Creating room for German colonization and agricultural settlements was the most important aspect of going east; the native Slavs were seen as unimportant â€Å"Redskins† by Hitler as he compared his policy towards them to the U.S. treatment of Native Americans. Under Operation Barbarossa the violent treatment of the Slavic people established itself militarily, specifically with the pre-invasion â€Å"Commissar Order†. The orders given to German soldiers stated that they were not to follow any international rules of warfare in regards to Soviet prisoners; they were to be s hown no mercy and killed. The Commissar order in regards to Soviet political commissars (Communist political officers) was to separate them from the regular army and kill them. From the Nazi perspective, the Soviet