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Social Change Dbq

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Rise of the Nazis Caused Life Change After World War I, Adolf Hitler was one of the dictators that arose; which then gained power in Germany in its Great Depression. Hitler rose to power using techniques such as propaganda, censorship, charisma and terror, but that was not all he did. Hitler started his own fascist party in Germany and called it the Nazi Party. Later, Hitler developed anti-semitism, or prejudice against Jews and dehumanized them. He viewed Jews as a separate race not a religion. This caused many changes particularly to the Jews. During World War I the Nazi’s treatment of the Jews caused political, economic, and social changes. Regarding to how the Nazi’s treated the Jews and changed their life politically one of the …show more content…

“Smuggling began at the very moment that the Jewish area of residence was established; its inhabitants were forced to live on 180 grams of sugar a month, 1kg. of jam and 1 kg. of honey, etc it was very calculated that the officially supplied rations did not cover even 10 percent of the normal requirements”(Doc.2). The food for the ghettos was rationed and many died from poor nutrition especially when one needed to make the rations last. “... The German authorities did everything to seal off the ghetto hermetically and not allow a single gram of food”(Doc.2). They Nazi’s isolated the Jews and impoverished them from their lives. In addition, they were excluded from various things that affected them financially and healthwise. “They were excluded from the practice of dentistry… practice of law was denied to them… practice of medicine… They were denied employment by press or radio… excluded from stock exchanges and stock brokerage… They were excluded from farming” (Doc.3). They were excluded from various practices, jobs, and money. Jews were not accepted in several places and it changed their life economically especially with money to get the things they

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