Kristallnacht: Final Solution To The Holocaust

Kristallnacht, or the "Night of Broken Glass", is one of the most crucial events in German, Jewish, and World History. Before, the Jews were simply assaulted and verbally abused. However, on the night of November 9, 1938, an unplanned and extremely violent action against the Jews occurred. In two days, over 250 synagogues were burnt down while the fire department did nothing to stop it, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, Jews were murdered, Jewish cemeteries, schools, hospitals, and homes were looted by SS while the police attempted to preserve them but failed. Before Kristallnacht, Jews ' lives were not threatened. Historically Jews were not welcome by many countries which

The years of World War II, otherwise know as the Holocaust, are arguably the worst years in Jewish history. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party constantly mistreated the Jews on a daily basis. They did everything from using anti-semitic propaganda to opening concentration camps to torture and kill Jews. Hitler was so influential he was able to completely change people’s views on a certain group of people. He even convinced most people that Jews were evil and were the reason Germany was in the bad state it was at the time. They had been used as scapegoats and mistreated before, but nothing compared to this. They were killed, their businesses were boycotted, their books were burned, they were segregated, and so on. That era of anti-semitism started in the year 1933 after Hitler was appointed chancellor, and continued until the war was ended.

Before the start of the second word war, the Jews of Germany were excluded from public life, forbidden to have sexual relations with non-Jews, boycotted, beaten but aloud to immigrate. When the war was officially declared, immigration ended and 'the final solution to the Jewish problem' came. When Germany took over Poland, the polish and German Jews were forced into over crowed gettos and employed as slave labor. The Jewish property was seized. Disease and starvation filled the gettos. Finally, the Jews were taken to concentration camps in Poland and Germany where they were murdered and killed in poisonous gas chambers in Auschwitz and many other camps despite the harsh treatment of the Jews, not many German people opposed this.

In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million by the end of the Nazi regime the number would drop by six million. This was the effect of Hitler’s “Final Solution” basically the Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews, Gypsies the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Despite this horrific event killing millions of people and displacing just as many there are people in today’s society that choose to believe that the Holocaust didn’t occur, that it was just the displacement of Jews or only a small amount were killed not the six million that we know to be true. In this article, the arguments of these Holocaust deniers will be explained and then disproved, as until they are disproved a great injustice set upon the memories of the six million that died in the Holocaust.

Anti-semitism in Germany led by Adolf Hitler would back up a plan called the final solution, to exterminate all of the Jews in Europe. Out of the 100 million Jews aimed for extermination, 6 million of them were killed. On his path to German greatness, Jews became victim to inconceivable actions. First the Nuremberg Laws were passed which stripped Jews of their german citizenship, eliminating their opportunity to flee to other countries. After Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Hitler forcefully deported Jewish people into fenced confinements called ghettos. More Jews died here than in any extermination camp due to the harsh conditions and labor. Most people living in ghettos had no access to running water or a sewage system and overcrowding

The Holocaust was a genocide lasting from 1933 to 1945 in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany killed about six to five and a half million Jews. The victims included over 1.5 million children and included about two-thirds of the nine million Jews who lived in Europe at that time. Other definitions of the Holocaust include another four million non-Jewish victims of Nazi killings, bringing the total death toll to about 11 million. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany and other German-occupied countries or territories. From 1941 to 1945, Jews were systematically murdered in one of the deadliest genocides in history, which was a piece of a broader aggregate of acts of oppression and killings of various ethnic groups in Europe by the Nazi regime.

The Holocaust The Holocaust was the “final solution” planned by the Nazis and their followers in Europe. The idea behind the “final solution” was to rid the Jewish race (Yeatts 7). The Nazis believed that the Germans were racially superior. They also believed that the Jews were a threat to the Nazis, but more importantly, to society (“Introduction to the Holocaust” par. 1).

‘The Holocaust’ was the massacre of nearly six million Jews in parts of Europe controlled by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party leading up to and during World War II. When the Nazi party first came to power in 1933 they began building on the anti-Semitist feelings in Germany; introducing new legislations that gradually removed the Jews from society such as the Nuremberg Laws which prohibited marriage or extramarital sexual intercourse between Jews and German citizens and required Jews to wear an armband with the Star of David on it so they could be identified as a Jew. Encouraged by the Nazi’s, people began to boycott Jewish ran businesses and in the November of 1938 they were openly attacked,

The Nazi party was anti-Semitic, against Jews, and in 1941 with the “final solution plan” the Jews began to be chased by the Gestapo, Hitler secret police, with the objective of killing all the European Jews. This could result strange to everyone because there is no reason for killing them at least we do not see that reason but the Germans did and they saw the Jewish as the guilty of everything that was wrong in the country so the solution was to send them to gethos, Jewish neighborhoods, and then pick them up with the train of the death which final stop were the labor camps were they were killed in many horrible ways. Although before this plan the Jewish were already being persecuted an example of this is “the night of the broken glasses “where In two days, over 250 synagogues were burned, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted while police and fire brigades stood by because a German general was killed in Paris.

In the Nazis’ estimation, Jews would eventually be expelled from the Reich; this plan eventually developed into the Final Solution, in which Jews were murdered en masse. However, while Nazi edicts were imposed on all German Jews and while all captured Jews faced the same ultimate fate, their experiences of the Holocaust were unique. During the 1920s and 1930s, the lives of most Jewish men and

November 10th, 1938: Kristallnacht. All around were destroyed homes, shattered glass of storefronts, and many dead. Before this night, Jews had been isolated and persecuted, but never attacked with this much violence. The assassination of the German diplomat was the immediate cause of Kristallnacht, but many factors had lead up to this night. There was minimal resistance to the Nazi’s transition from isolating Jews to exterminating them, because of Nazi propaganda, the Nazis’ need for scapegoats, new laws, the increasing stress as they prepared for wartime, and the obedience and fear the Nazis demanded.

to build a case to get revenge against the Jews. They used the S.S to

The 1978 NBC miniseries, Holocaust, tells the story of the Third Reich from the perspective of Jewish and German families whose lives intertwine. The series presented four parts that showed the events and acts that led up World War II, which included Kristallnacht, Jewish concentration camps, and gas chambers. With the characters’ tragic experiences, viewers gain a sense of the emotional, physical, and psychological impact of the Holocaust. The storyline consists of a Jewish family, the Weiss, who experiences hardships and a horrific fate while a German family, the Dorf’s, face an alteration in their moral principles. Overall, the series informs viewers of the atrocious nature of the Holocaust.

Kristallnacht, “Night of Crystal,” was a turning point between Germany and the rest of the world. On November 9th, 1938, an uprising against the Jewish residents of Germany and Austria occurred. This attack against the Jewish was referred to as a pogrom. Kristallnacht was the first marked nationwide action against religion. The Nazi regime and their wish to implement Nuremberg’s laws helped push-start the process of degrading Jews to an inferior level in life by giving reason to start the riot. The accumulation of events and new laws leading to Kristallnacht forced thousands of Jews to be stuck on the border lines of Poland and Germany, thus setting the stage for Germany’s justification for the genocide yet

2). Even though this was not a violent treatment of the Jews, it was an attempt to bankrupt and dehumanize them of everything they had worked for their whole lives (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). As a result, Jews became a segregated people. They had to ride on buses and trains only in the seat that were clearly marked for them (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). Jewish children were allowed to be bullied at school in an attempt to keep them from coming to school. Hitler used this to brand the Jews as a lazy people (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). The Nuremberg Laws passed in 1935 gave even more power to the Nazis and took away more dignity of the Jews. The Jews were stripped of their German citizenship and marriages between Jews and non-Jews were not allowed (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). At this point, the Jews who could afford to pay a fine to leave the country were allowed to do so, but the ones who could not afford it had to stay behind and were not allowed to get food or medicine (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). Hitler’s campaign against the Jews escalated in 1938 with “Krystalnacht” – The Night of the Broken Glass (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). After a Nazi diplomat was found shot to death, Hitler began a seven day war of terror against the Jews (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). Shops that were owned by Jews were destroyed and robbed, homes and synagogues burned