Racism During the Holocaust

Hitler, in 1934-1945, believing in the works of Charles Darwin, made concentration camps for the jews. He discriminated against the Jews, and declared The Aryan race to be superior. The killing of the Jews was both out of fear and pride for Hitler. He feared the fact that the Jews might spoil the pureness of the Aryans. He took pride in the fact that his race was superior, and so wanted to maintain his race’s superiority to keep his pride intact.

Hitler had shown unwillingness to tolerate the Jews and once he was appointed Chancellor, he started to take elimination measures like deportation, forced emigration, and isolation to enforce his belief. He took advantage of Germany’s weakness in World War One, then used it as an opportunity to blame the Jews for Germany’s defeat. Hitler’s political party was the largest political party in Germany thus allowing them to draw very large crowds to gatherings. He had very good oratory speeches with hand gestures that easily manipulated people to adhere to his views. Hitler constantly targeted the Jews because he knew people believed in these speeches. People in Germany were already anti-semitic but Hitler made it worse by constantly consuming them in his speeches. From the way he spoke about the Jews, we could clearly see the possibility of genocide. Hitler wanted Germany to be free of any humans that anyone other than his ideal master race so he personally selected bodyguards to be part of a group called the SS. Hitler was responsible for ordering the SS to carry out the extermination of anyone who did not fit this ideal. The SS handled oppositions using force and as a result of which people were forced to give into the idea of violence. Sometimes people purposely went along with this Holocaust ideal due to the fear of getting killed. These terrors allowed the holocaust occur

During the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi group (The Holocaust). In the year 1933, the German authorities attacked groups because of their racial inferior (The Holocaust). The Holocaust was so cruel that there were over 6 million Jews that were murdered (The Holocaust).Therefore, it was hard for other living Jews to return home (The Holocaust). This mass hysteria was expanded until 1945 when Adolf Hitler committed suicide (The Holocaust).

Racism is the belief centralized in the idea that a certain race is considered to be superior or inferior to another. It is a belief that labels a person’s worth, social, and moral traits based on his/her inherent nationality or biological features (Anti-Defamation League). This mentality has been around for centuries and still exists today. There are several theories about how such came about and why it continues to thrive. Racism can only be thoroughly studied by tracing its roots and history. Knowing the relevant events prior to and after the peak of a racist manifestation in the society during a certain period of time is one of the keys in understanding the nature of racism. It is important to note that the attempt to understand the nature of racism is not necessarily equivalent to the attempt to justify it. The main purpose of racism studies should be directed towards the attempt to lessen, if not eradicate such mentality. The Holocaust, the infamous racist manifestation which took place in Germany is a great example of what happens when racism is not stopped or prevented. Taking such infamous racist events in history under an extensive look, reveals some of the major arguments/concepts/causes of racism that could lead to understanding racism as a whole and thereby help address this issue in the modern-day society. Extreme ethnocentrism, rivalry for supremacy, and people lacking information are some of the causes of racism deemed to be important in studying

If one hates someone or something that means they have an intense dislike towards them. Sometimes this hate can be so large it can be an influence for mass destruction. We have learned, or even have seen examples of hate turning into something bigger throughout our history. These examples include the multiple wars, terrorist’s attacks, and genocides. Many of these incidents were drove by hate, and did not end well. What drives this hate? How can people turn on one another with just feeling hate towards them? The Holocaust being one of the many genocides in our history was indeed influenced by an intense dislike. That intense dislike was towards certain types of people it ended up taking multiple lives.

When the war ended in 1945, millions of Jews had perished. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime had almost entirely wiped out a single race of people in what would become known as the Holocaust. However, the Jews were not the only people who had been stripped of their dignity and killed. There were other groups who the Nazi’s persecuted against. The Roma, homosexuals, the mentally and physically disabled, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Political Prisoners were all systematically gathered up and killed. When the Holocaust gets mentioned, many don't talk about the other millions of innocent people who were murdered alongside the Jews. Many don't see these people as victims at all. The number of people murdered during the Holocaust reaches close to eleven million people. “Contragenics” is the term used to talk about all of the groups who were murdered under the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. These innocent lives were lost in the Holocaust, and while history hasn’t forgotten, humanity has.

The Holocaust was an event that Hitler a German leader placed upon his own country. Hitler placed knowledge on many believing that he was one of germany's best leaders in the textual it states some reasons about how Hitler became a german leader and how it effected Germany, “Germany has been struggling since 1918, When it was defeated in World War I. The German people felt humiliated, tired, and bitter. Hitler and his Nazi party rose to power by tapping into these feelings. Hitler declared that Germans were superior to everyone else. He also offered up scapegoat for all of Germany’s problems….” also found, “Hitler’s influence spread”. The Holocaust started because of why they hated the Jews is because of Hitler and how he acted towards the Jews because of the race he thought they were when they were just a religion.

The Holocaust was one of the most despicable acts of crime committed in history. It was the slaughtering of six million Jews along with other minority groups. Anti-semitism was on the rise in Germany due to one man, Adolf Hitler. The Nazi leader is known to be one of the most infamous dictators that were able to rise to power. Leading Germany, Hitler improved the economy, started World War II with the idea of Lebensraum, and exterminated Jews due to youth anti-semitic influences.

The holocaust was a time of pure darkness. The German Nazi’s thought their race would be better off without Jews and so they decided to kill them off. The Nazi’s were a group who was under Adolf Hitler’s control and had the power to kill Jews. The Nazi’s were basically Hitler’s soldiers. Adolf Hitler was the current Chancellor of Germany during that time. The Nazi’s however did not only target Jews which accounted for nine million of Europe’s population alone, but also homosexual’s, Jehovah’s witnesses, Gypsies, disabled individuals, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, communists and socialists. The holocaust plays a role in the start of World War II. During the war, the Nazi’s managed to wipe out hundreds of Jewish communities and ended up killing around six million people total. They used to make Jews wear a badge on their clothes when going anywhere to show everyone they were Jewish. It used to be a law for Jews to wear such garments up until the nineteenth century and if they failed to do so, there was severe punishment. This is how Nazi’s chose whom to persecute.

But why racism? It is generally believed by sociologists that one cannot be a racist unless he is distinguishing between different biological traits between people, which somehow make one biological 'race' superior to another. And Hitler knew how bitter the Germans were about the loss of the First World War, so he needed a reason to give them as to why they lost. So he turned to racism and began distinguishing the Aryans from other races in Germany such as the Jews and homosexuals. By blaming the mixing of these inferior races into Aryan blood he gave the people a reason to believe they were better than someone else, and gave them a purpose, people to blame for Germanys devastated economy.

The Holocaust was a tragic event filled with murder, abuse and dehumanization mirroring its true meaning sacrifice by fire. During the Holocaust Nazi (A German political party) killed Jews and anyone the Germans thought were not Aryan. The Nazis blamed the Jews for the reason Germany lost WWI so Adolf Hitler and the Nazi's invaded Poland started WWII by killing all Jews and non Aryans. In Elie Wiesel’s Night Wiesel’s experiences of dehumanization are reflection through, mental abuse, physical abuse, and starvation.

German dictator, Adolf Hitler wanted a new order for Germany and his so-called Aryan race. As a part of achieving his ultimate goal, he would have to eliminate any and all other inferior races. This evil plan later became known as the Holocaust. Hitler, with the aid of the Nazis and concentration camps, brought terror and devastation to the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe.

The word Holocaust means a sacrificial offering that is completely burned. The Holocaust was a state-sponsored time when Jews were murdered in a genocide by the Nazis and its leader, Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Germany at the time, during World War II. Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany’s defeat in World War I and other German problems. This included the lack of jobs, financial problems, etc.. The Germans believed that their race was more superior compared to the Jews. The Holocaust also killed many priests, disabled people, homosextuals, political opponents, and Communists.

The Holocaust was the systematic murder of the Jews in Europe by the German Nazis during the Second World War. Between 1933 and 1945 in any location that Hitler controlled, Jews were systematically selected for discrimination and extermination as Hitler attempted to make his land Judenrein, free of Jews. Upon their rise to power in 1933, Nazi Germany persecuted Jews in Germany with laws and propaganda, even blaming the country’s economic trials on Jews and calling for their removal from positions of authority. This anti-Semitism became violent during Kristallnacht, in which Jewish businesses were destroyed in Germany. The anti-Semitism continued into WWII, when the Nazis began the mass shootings of Jews by mobile killing squads made up of Nazis

One of the causes of the Holocaust was the need for a scapegoat. Like any thriving society Germany needed a lower class; a grouping of people that could be discriminated against. Hitler extended this to more than one group of people instead targeting everyone who wasn’t what he saw as perfect or in his words Aryan. He victimised everyone in society who did not fit his ideal vision and did this in his vision to unite Germany and make it a powerful country again. In every society there is a scapegoat or a group of people discriminated against based off of one or more differences. After suffering great losses in the war Germany was in turmoil. In 1923 the country was facing an economic crisis of epic proportions. Unemployment rates had skyrocketed as did inflation making money useless. Along with economic trouble the German people had lost faith in their leaders and their government, forced into democracy and the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 they were prime and ready for Hitler to take control and were happy when he did. The first thing hitler did when he took power was find an enemy. Using this strategy he united the German people against others and gave them faith in their leaders. He used it to start his campaign and it propelled him to control. His