Explain how the Nazi’s persecuted the Jews between 1933-1938 This essay is going to discuss the ways in which the Nazi’s persecuted the Jews between the years of 1933 to 1938. Through the rise of Nazism, Nazi beliefs and propaganda, Nuremberg laws and the Kristallnacht in which will be explained in detail, I will provide a knowledge based analysis of pre-war life and the initial lead up to the war.
At the foundation of Nazi ideology is a strict adherence to the racial purification of the ‘Aryan race.’ Nazi propagandists and racial fanatics created ways to limit the rights of people who were deemed racially inferior; the majority of such policies focused on solving the ‘Jewish Problem.’ In an effort to increase pressures on the Jewish population of Europe, the Nazi regime imposed laws and edicts to remove any legal rights of Jewish citizens. In order to purify the German race, the Nazi regime went a step further and implemented legislation to separate the Jewish and Aryan populations; a separation of these groups would provide a quicker way to racial purification. In the mid-1930s, laws, like the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, were enacted to inhibit marriage and sexual relations between people of Jewish and Aryan descent. This particular law focuses on the purification of German blood, the Jewish-German marriage policy and the display of Reich symbols. Looking at its historical context, however, we see that this law is only a small piece of the Nazi policies focused on the persecution of Jews.
The German Soldiers did many things to Jews, and it should have been stopped earlier than it did. The way that they treated the children and the prisoners were worse than what it ever should have been. “Get up! Roll call!” We stood. We were counted. We sat down. We got up again. Over and over. We waited impatiently to be taken away. What were they waiting for? Finally, the order came: “Forward! March!” (19). They were treated like dogs doing the same thing over and over, waiting for something good to happen, waiting to be taken away. Not caring about their lives is one thing, but they also did not care if it was just one person that messed up. Everyone would be killed if one person made
The Holocaust & How It Changed Our World Forever The tragic events that occurred during world war two and the holocaust were not only horrific but also morally wrong. The Jewish culture was targeted for mass genocide, by the hand of a mad-man bent on world domination, and the only way to prevent another incident like this from happening again, is to thoroughly educate the public. The actions and events that Hitler and his followers proposed not only helped the world realize the extent of his destruction but also how horrible it would be if the events were to happen again. The aftermath of the war and holocaust left half of Europe in ruins, and more than six million Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, and Africans dead, not including
The Holocaust was the systematic killing and extermination of millions of Jews and other Europeans by the German Nazi state between 1939 and 1945. Innocent Europeans were forced from their homes into concentration camps, executed violently, and used for medical experiments. The Nazis believed their acts against this innocent society were justified when hate was the motivating factor. The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping on a society. It forces societies to examine the responsibility and role of citizenship, in addition to approaching the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. (Holden Congressional Record). Despite the adverse treatment of the Jews, there are lessons that can be learned from the Holocaust: The Nazi’s rise to power could have been prevented, the act of genocide was influenced by hate, and the remembrance of the Holocaust is of the utmost importance for humanity.
Elie Wiesel once said, “No human race is superior, no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racist make them.” Elie Wiesel was one of those Jews who could make it and survive the Holocaust. The Jews have faced one of the most gruesome crimes throughout history. The Holocaust was the genocide of millions of Jews that took place in Germany. Adolf Hitler and his racist ideology led to the death of many Jews, and this was all because of the different religion that they had. The faces of all the people who had been killed in the Holocaust can hardly be removed from many Jews’ memory. The eyes of those little kids were begging for mercy and peace. Many of them died because they were starving, and many others died
During the Holocaust, German citizens residing near concentration camps were fully aware of the atrocities being committed so close to their homes. Though they hopefully realized that the mass slaughter of innocent Jews was horrific and inhumane, no one stood up for the Jews’ violated human rights or made an effort to save Jewish lives. King Jr. writes that if he had “lived in Germany at the time, [he] would have aided and comforted [his] Jewish brothers” (King Jr. 1350). By not siding against the Nazis, German citizens essentially showed that they supported the Final Solution. Had they taken direct action, even by simply petitioning to the government or by voicing their disagreement, countless Jewish lives could have been
When one thinks about the Holocaust, they will often associate all Germanic people with the actions of a single group. This group being Hitler, as well as the SS. As an outsider, one could make many assessments on the subject of the Holocaust; especially in the psychology of those who decided to hide people during such a trying time in history. There was a very serious risk that people took in the decision to hide those who were victimized by the Holocaust, and while they should have helped anyway, we now understand why it was not an easy decision. There have been many studies done of those who hid people during the Holocaust, proving that not all German people were partial to genocide. A few of them even went as far as to hide people, in an attempt to protect them from Hitler and the SS.
In the Holocaust, people were discriminated against and treated horribly for their beliefs. They were separated and discounted. They were considered, at times, aliens. But in all of that they had a choice to make. Would they abandon everything they knew and live in fear for the rest of their lives. Or would they choose to love those around them and cherish everything they had while they had it. You can see countless cases where people decided to go with the latter. For example, the Franks. They were forced to live in hiding for
So, to make the case of how America could have responded differently would be entirely ineffective. In today’s society many people can see the similarities between the Holocaust and the way we; as a country, treat others from foreign countries. From the Great Depression to the almost “Great Recession”, and the isolation America wanted from other countries to the Muslim Ban that recently had been implemented here within the U.S. Where Nazi Antisemitism and the American Antisemitism that occurs here on a daily basis towards other religious communities and cultures. The real question that needs to be asked is, what can America, and the people of America, do to prevent something like the Holocaust from ever happening
Jewish and people from the Holocaust shouldn’t have suffered in such a terrible way just because that Nazis couldn’t accept who they were. People were teared apart seeing their others on the ground screaming
The holocaust brought out the evil from the depths of the human soul and put it on display tenfold. Obviously the Nazi regime is responsible for the extraordinary loss of life and appalling corruptions committed, but the liability should be spread across the board to the German citizens. The citizens of Germany during the holocaust and World War II might not have known to the full extent what the Nazis were planning on doing with the Jewish population, but definitely were conscious enough to notice how Jews were being treated. The German citizens could have started a movement that worked towards ending the tyranny of the Nazis. The Nazi party
The subject of the Holocaust is brought up many times but I'l now tell you the actually reality of this whole time. Back then we Jews never knew what was going on. No one ever mentioned that we would be stuck in a camp having to work our butts off just so we basically I can afford our life. During the time when we first arrived we were joyful besides having to be cramp and having to sit or stand on the train ride here. But once we finally were out and had all of our luggage we were joyful for the vacation we were promised. But that all took a mad turn in sudden minutes. The Nazis all the sudden command that we get into two lines. One was filled with mother and children while the other was filled with the men. looked around and all could see was worry in everyone's eyes. We then realized the
The Holocaust is one of the major tragic events that we are taught as a part of history. The Holocaust and all other anguishes of certain groups of people that have taken the time to impose on others, this opens the door for the dispute that religious faith is unsustainable. Religion is something that one holds near and dear to them. It is even a part of them, their personality, their overall being. They look to their religion when things go wrong and praise their religion when things go right. With that being said, it is not hard for religion to be questioned when things go awry.
Why did People Collaborate with the Nazis? Dating back to approximately seventy years ago, the Nazi party tried to create an alliance to help them dominate Europe. They made a promise that Slovaks would have their own country, and they moved factories into Slovakia so that the Slovaks could produce goods that would help the them win the war. When Ukraine was under Soviet rule, the Soviets intended to annex it to the Soviet Union permanently, confiscated the wealth of capitalist, and began to create collective farms by taking away the land of individual farmers and forcing them to join the collectives. Ukrainians believed that the Germans were going to save them from the Communists who had taken away everything from them. Hungary, the main loser of Paris treaties system, served as one of the Hitler’s