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How Did Hitler Dehumanize Jews

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Hitler's goal for the Holocaust was to eliminate Jews in Germany, the World, just so only those of German blood/descent as well as those who he considered to be Aryans, could rule his Reich for 1,000 years. Hitler's goal was biased and insane, his ‘Reich’ only lasted 12 of the 1,000 years, but during these 12 years he put Jews through the ringer and then some. He dehumanized the people by stripping away everything that made them humans, he transported them as if they were animals and he even controlled what they ate in the concentration camps, Hitler confiscated their belongings and in return treated them as things, he turned almost all of Germany against them so they could be discriminated against and treated as nothing but a nuisance.

In the concentration camps that they were forced like animals into, Hitler and his Nazis controlled what their prisoners ate. One of his many attempts at dehumanizing Jews was when he had 80-100 people packed into one cattle car so they were forced to stand for days. When Eliezer and other inmates were on their way to Buchenwald, a SchutzStaffel(or SS) officer thought it would be entertaining to watch starving human beings act like …show more content…

Hitler falsely accused the entire Jewish race of being responsible for World War II. His use of propaganda in school text books and media was extremely effective. People began to discriminate against Jews so heavily that they were forced to have large J’s stamped on their passports restricting them from leaving Germany and entering Austria a “Jew- friendly” territory. The hatred infused into Hitler’s followers boiled so hot, they formed into angry mobs one night and began to vandalize synagogues, Jewish owned businesses, the homes of many Jewish citizens, this was known as Kristallnacht. In fact, that night, tens of thousands of Jewish citizens were deported to concentration

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