Nazi Germany 's Anti Semitic Laws

One event that encouraged Anti-Semitism and increased tensions leading up to Kristallnacht and beyond was the announcement of the Nuremberg Laws in September of 1935. This set of laws created by the Nazi party made sharp distinctions between the rights and privileges of Germans and Jews (Sigward 291). This redefined citizenship in the Third Reich and laid the groundwork for a racial state. For example, the Reich of Citizenship Law stripped Jews of their citizenship, claiming they didn’t have “German blood” (Sigward 291). Those of Jewish descent were denied the right to vote and the ability to obtain a valid passport or visa to leave the country. This law completely dehumanized Jews living in Germany and made them stateless, which caused those of the Aryan race or pure German descent to feel superior. In the Nuremburg Laws, Article 5 of the First Regulation to the Reich Citizenship Law defined a Jew as a descendant of three or more Jewish grandparents or two Jewish parents (Sigward 293). These laws lead to the Jews being persecuted for who they were, rather than the faith they believed during previous years. As a result of these laws being carried out, German nationalism and Anti-Semitism across the Reich increased drastically .

To summarize, the Nazis and Hitler had anti semitic ideas and had crazy ideas of a perfect race, made up of people with blonde hair, blue eyes, and that were tall. Along with that, the people who weren’t part of this “perfect” race, was humiliated and treated horrible, for no

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.

"It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people an the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed."-Elie Weisel. Imagine you wake up one morning and everyone around you was being beaten, killed, put in jail, all because they are Jewish, Gypsies, Handicapped, Slavic people, Homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and many others. So many people suffered during the holocaust, and it all started when the Anti-Semitism Nazi leader Adolf Hitler decided that they were an "Inferior race" and a threat to German racial purity and community. It effects today by giving us remembrance of the sinister things that happened during Hitler's reign of power.

On September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler and his army of Nazis attacked Poland, marking the first day of six years of war, fear, and suffering. Hitler had long since came to power in Germany. After World War I, Germany was stripped of many things; money, cultural worth, dignity and power. The Germans needed a place to look to for help; they needed a promising future, and Adolf Hitler promised them just that. Blaming the Jewish religion, Hitler began to rise from the masses of Germans. He convinced Germany that the Jews were “untermenschen”, of what roughly translates to in English as “subhuman” or less of a human. So eager for hope of a better way of life, the rest of Germany trusted and gave him the power he needed to carry out multiple acts of destruction.

The Third Reich was a racially motivated killing machine that resulted in the death of six million Jews. However, the regime’s murderous campaign was a response to a set of circumstances that allowed it to obtain control over Germany. Today, the question of what circumstances ignited the Third Reich has gained attention from historians all over the world while creating a variety of possibilities. Thus, the different perspectives have caused the subject to become controversial among the devoted historians. This is especially true when considering the views of writers Daniel J. Goldhagen, Robert Gellately, Hans Mommsen, and Norman M. Naimark.

Millions of people witnessed the crimes of the Holocaust all over Europe in there every day lives. There were numerous people across Europe who willingly collaborated or were complicit in the Nazi crimes during Holocaust. What could motivate so many people to turn against other human beings and treat them as lesser? Why did others not help? There were a lot of people who did help the Jews. Everyone believes in something and has ideas of what they believe to be right or wrong. Most people will stand up for what they believe in. People tend to waver in their support of their beliefs when they come up against scrutiny by a perceived group of power or influence. There are some people who will stand up for what they believe or oppose something

The year is 1933. A new political power has emerged in Germany, and is quickly expanding its' reach throughout the country. The Nazi Party, led by charismatic leader Adolf Hitler, has appealed to the German people, anxious for decisive action that will reverse the economic downturn they had been experiencing. Although the German people gave power to the Nazi party because of their determination for change and while under the impression that compromise with their more extreme ideologies would occur, the Nazi party would prove to be unrelenting. For the Jewish population in Germany between the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 and the outbreak of WWII in 1939, life became progressively worse with each passing year until life in Germany as a Jew

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During the years of 1933-1945, the German Nazi regime killed around 6 million European Jews as well as others who were seen as mentally retarded or homosexual (McMorran). To the Nazis’ leader, Adolf Hitler, people of Jewish decent were seen as inferior. Hitler had a stereotype that Jewish people were a threat to the German racial purity and community. The Jewish people living in Europe during Hitler’s rule were discriminated against and ultimately were segregated from all other races. During the segregation of Jewish people, Adolf Hitler wanted the Jews to be physically separate from all other ethnic groups and racial groups by forcefully moving the Jews into concentration camps, keeping the Germans the dominant group in Hitler’s eyes. The social concepts and theories of prejudice, segregation and discrimination forced upon the Jewish people were seen as a result of Adolf Hitler’s stereotype about the Jewish ethnicity.

From January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945, a genocide, The Holocaust, in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany. The collaborators killed about six million Jews. Perpetrators of the Holocaust were Rudolf Lange, Friedrich Jeckeln. Franz Walter Stahlecker, Viktors Arajas, Erich Koch, Otto Ohlendorf, Paul Blobel. This all takes place in Nazi Germany, Ukraine, and Latvia.

“Germans believed they were the ‘master race.’ They had even created tables of races with Aryans at the top and Jews, Gypsies, and Blacks at the bottom.” (Bulow, Louis, Holocaust FAQ, 3) Germans felt superior, that everyone else was below them, inferior. These “inferior people” were seen as a threat to the “purity and strength” of the German nation. “When power was gained by the Nazis, they persecuted these people, took away their rights as human beings, and eventually decided that they should be exterminated.” (Bulow, Louis, Holocaust FAQ, 3) Nazis went straight to thinking of ways to execute Jews and other “inferiors” once they had the power. No one could have imagined just how morbid their plans

The Jewish population in Germany was around 9 million in 1933. Most of the European Jews also lived in places that the Nazi’s would occupy in World War II. As part of the “final solution”, a Nazi policy to murder European Jews, two out of every three European Jews had been offed by Nazis by the year 1945. Hitler went around collecting Jews and other minorities he found inferior for 12 years and executed them. Those who were not immediately killed were brought to concentration camps where they would either be killed off in gas chambers or worked to death. When the camps were liberated, many of the Jews had no place to go because their homes had been destroyed by the Nazis and the war all together.

In what ways did Hitler and the Nazi Party adopt and adapt various elements of ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ forms of anti-Semitism? The Nazi party rise to power during the 1930’s was radically influenced and inspired by anti-Semitic philosophy, in a number of forms, that being, drawing on their historical origins of traditional anti Semitism - that is religious bias, to evolving to modern forms which ultimately for Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party was illustrated through discrimination and racial prejudice. The anti-Semitic beliefs also had a significant impact on economic and political circumstance in Germany following World War 1. At that time, Germany was not known for its stability as a country, a trend that had been reoccurring in German

To begin, before the initiation of WW2, Hitler enforced extremely strict policies on the country of Germany. For instance, Hitler emphasized amongst the population, a clear divide between those who were Volksgenossen (pure German blood) and Gemeinshcaftsfremade (outsiders) (Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster). Visible distinctions were forced to be worn by the latter group such as the Star of David on those who were Jewish (Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster). The divide amongst the population was created mainly due to antisemitism which was extremely prevalent throughout the time. For example, Jewish people were blamed for Germany’s loss in WWI and in return, their businesses were boycotted, those who were lawyers got disbarred from practicing and their German citizenship was revoked (Adolf Hitler: Man and Monster). Additionally, police