When did Hitler start to kill Jews?

Answer 1

Kristallnacht of November 1938 was the final physical manifestation and the camps and the killings came.

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No, ' the final physical manifestation' was the routine, mass killings; and they started in 1941. Some Jews had been killed earlier.
Large scale, systematic killings began in June 1941 with the German invasion of the Soviet Union. However, already in 1933 some Jews were killed by Nazis ... By comparison with what followed, the numbers were relatively small - perhaps a couple of hundred in 1933.

Answer 2

Organised killing started in 1941, though Hitler had created conditions that facilitated Jewish deaths years before.

The organised killing ended in 1945, though people died from conditions that they had to face for years afterwards.

Answer 3

The decision to get rid of the Jews was taken before Hitler joined the party. The decision to kill them was made in stages, the unilateral decision to kill all Jews within the grasp of the Nazis was most likely made somewhere between the spring of 1942 and the spring of 1943.

Answer 4

One part is easy to answer, the other undesirables never had a death sentence handed to them and most of those imprisoned survived.

The decision to kill the Jews is harder to answer, it was made in three parts.

The first was the 'Commissar order', which in its initial (and written) form did not actually include Jews, but was the order that was interpreted as, and used as the order to start the killing of Jews on the Eastern front.

The second was the decision to liquidate the ghettos, this still did not include the wholsale extermination of the Jews, but the killing of those in captivity.

The third part was after the 'sucessful' use of the gas vans in the liquidation of the ghettos, that then the decision to kill all Jews under Nazi occupation was made.

Now, it has to be said that apart from a couple of written orders (like the one mentioned), there is no written record of the decisions or orders, so we can only speculate from the evidence, results and actions taken as to when and what the orders were. As there are so many historians studying the period there are many different interpretations.

One thoery that was popular immediately after the war (and well into the 1980's), which has now been proved to be unworkable is that the decision was made as early as when Hitler wrote 'Mein Kampf' or when he established the Nazi Party.

Answer 5

As he never specified, people have had to try to work it out themselves, the current thinking is 1943. This is of course years after the Nazis started to kill Jews, but this is how decisions were made in Nazi Germany.

Answer 6

About the same time he decided to use their money to fund his attempt to rule Europe.

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The most likely date is some time in the second half of 1941.

Answer 7

There is disagreement on this among historians. Please see the related question below.

Answer 8

it is not clear, but the latest consensus is that it was sometime in the last three months of 1941.