Racism's Role In The Holocaust

The Nazis believed in ‘Aryan’ superiority, this belief contributed to the Holocaust. In the years of Nazi rule before World War II, The Nazi group organized policies of discrimination and separation targeting especially German Jews. The Nazi political group believed in one race Aryans, they believed the Aryans were superior to all races. Hitler was an anti-Semitic, he believed Jews were the main corrupter of culture, society and Germany. Non-Aryans were seen as impure and evil.

Nazism developed several theories concerning races. The Nazis claimed to scientifically measure a strict hierarchy of human race. Once firmly in power, Hitler’s plans for the ending of the struggle between the Aryan race and the “inferior races” was set to work. These races feared as a biological threat to the master race purity. At the bottom of this hierarchy were “parasitic” races which were perceived to be dangerous to society. Hitler’s Nazi theory also claimed that his Aryan race is superior to all other races, that a

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.

Every concentration camp was different in the way they decided to deal with Jews. During the course of the Holocaust, many Jews from all over were forced into labor and worked until they no longer could. They moved frequently and had to decide whether they should fight to survive or give in to death. (Webb) Auschwitz was known as the Final Solution for prisoners. They were sent there to be killed. Auschwitz was separated into many sections that were always worse than the last. Prisoners were given the very minimum amount of food and were forced to suffer at the SS guards hands. They were worked at least 12 hours of the day, given horrible living conditions and were treated as animals, not humans. (“Auschwitz: The Camp of Death”). Mauthausen was the only category three camp which meant that prisoners were sent there to be tortured and exterminated. They would either be worked to death or be killed for the guard's enjoyment. (“Mauthausen Concentration Camp”). After registration, prisoners stripped down and were forced into the bathhouses. Their heads

From 1933 through 1945 was a period of history called the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, people were being killed for their looks, race, and disability. About 11 million people were killed in brutal and tragic ways. Adolf Hitler, the leader, wanted to create a pure race. Racism helped Hitler organize the population into the way he wanted. He wanted people to support the cause of making a pure race. If people opposed, they would be persecuted. Racism allowed Hitler to influence the German people into following his leadership even if it meant genocide.

The Holocaust concentration camps were one of the things that has happened in world history. The Nazi, Germany and its allies established concentration camps all throughout Germany. The concentration camps were there for a range of reasons. These camps were used to jail those who opposed Hitler’s government or were thought to threaten it. The living in the camps was a brutal time. When you were in the camp you would work from sunup to sundown and get just little piece of bread to eat in the evenings.

There were more than 40,000 concentration camps during the Holocaust. One of the worst and most destructive camp was Auschwitz, which was located in southern Poland (“Gilbert” 1). It contained three camps that were all known as Auschwitz. Auschwitz was a death camp and a concentration camp that claimed the lives of thousands. Survivors say that when the doors first open on the boxcar at Auschwitz there was an orchestra playing, this was to trick the prisoners into thinking there were somewhere better (“The Death Camps” 21). Physician Gisella Perl described the overall picture of Auschwitz she received when she first arrived as “Like big, black clouds, the smoke of the crematory hung over the camp. Sharp red tongues of flame licked the sky,

To begin with, Hitler and the Nazi regime cruelly targeted specific people with different characteristics and sent them to concentration camps because they were judged as unsuited to live in Germany. This racism was initiated by Hitler’s Nazi Theory, which blamed specific races as a scapegoat for Hitler. His theory described how ' 'No individual could overcome the innate qualities of race. All of human history could be explained in terms of racial struggle" (Ushmm.org). Hitler claimed that the underlying cause to all arguments and wars were the differences in race. As a result, this is the reason to Hitler’s motive to cleanse Germany and kill specific types of people by creating concentration camps.

Have you ever wondered what it was like for the jews living in the camps? The daily life in the camps is a realistic clarification of how jews were treated and taken cared of in the concentration camps. People were taken out of their homes by the Nazis and were forced into concentration camps. The Nazis were a party of people that believed that their German race was better than any other race that is why jews and many others were forced out of their homes into the camps. The largest number of prisoners were jews but other individuals were arrested and locked up for many purposes such as, for nationality and for political joining. Prisoners were subjugated to unbelievable torture from the very moment they reported to the camps

Megan Jehlicka November 12th, 2015 6th hour A Day In The Life At Auschwitz Introduction – First Paragraph Sentence 1: Concentration camps are places where prisoners are forced to do labor or wait for their death, and Auschwitz was one of them during the Holocaust. Sentence 2: Hitler came to power and Jews were forced out of their homes by Nazis and taken to concentration camps, with many people being sent to Auschwitz. Sentence 3: At the camp, people were treated against their human rights and forced to live in unpleasant and unsanitary conditions.

During  January 30, 1933 – May 8, 1945 the Holocaust occurred . The Holocaust is a time period where German Nazis, policemen, Stormtroopers, Gestapo, and the SS Police attempted Jewish genocide.  The German Nazis, policemen, Stormtroopers, Gestapo, and the SS Police would do anything possible to get rid of the Jewish population such as killing, threatening, humiliating, burning Jewish property, and harming Jews. There are some reason why the Holocaust happened, some reasons are that as these actions committed by the German Nazis, policemen, Stormtroopers, Gestapo, and the SS Police, most of the German citizens were bystanders that saw what was happening but did nothing to stop it, even if they disagreed Germans citizens would let it happen.

The Nazis believed that the Nordic or Aryan races, were superior and that they should rule the world. They also believed that parts of the world, particularly Europe, should be cleansed of inferior races, including Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, through genocide,. In some of their earlier experiments, they determined that other races had different blood and were inclined to criminal behavior.(Bennet) One Nazi doctor whose wife was found to be sterile adopted two children of another race, and later was investigated and beheaded for the crime.(Bennet) The Nazi’s extreme beliefs led

When most people hear the word camp, they think about going away for a short period of time to enjoy a vacation or bond with family members. However, when the Holocaust was going on, it was the exact opposite of this stereotype. The Jews and other segregated groups of Germany would not only be separated from their families, but they would never return to see them again. Concentration camps during World War 2 had huge effects on all people across the world due to their treachery.

During WWII Nazi’s owened many concentration camps. Auschwitz was the largest camp of the Nazi concentration camps. It held several racial groups hostage as prisoners. The most common types of prisoners were Jews.

Jewish people did not only suffer physically, but psychologically throughout the Holocaust. The Jewish prisoners were deprived of food and water, which resulted in a decline of morale, cruelty among fellow prisoners instead of unity, and crushed friendships. Some of the Jews did not have the desire of anything, including the desire to live because they endured such a great amount of pain and suffering (Jewish 3). Sometimes, best friends throughout life were cruel and threatening towards one another for one small piece of bread. When Jewish people were organized by gender, families were forced to split apart and never witnessed the presence of each other again.