The Kristallnacht And The Holocaust

The Holocaust was organized by Adolf Hitler and it targeted Jewish people. In the beginning, the Nazis only targeted their political opponents such as Communists or Social Democrats. These were the people that were sent to the first concentration camp. The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 labeled anyone with three or four grandparents as a Jew and those with two Jewish grandparents as half-breeds. Under the Nuremberg Laws, Jews became routine targets for stigmatization and persecution (“History”). The Nazis portrayed Jews as a race and not a religious group. Religious anti-Semitism could be resolved by conversion, political anti-Semitism by expulsion. Ultimately, the logic of Nazi racial anti-Semitism led to annihilation (Berenbaum 1). “Kristallnacht” was a night in November of

The Holocaust was perhaps one of the most gruesome and horrific time period that the world has ever seen. The Holocaust was the time period when the Jews were being horrible treated and were being executed by German forces in World War Two. In several books about the dark and horrible time period, the authors used many different techniques to convey the central idea and the theme. However, the authors uses different techniques in different genres to get shoe the reader the central idea and theme. For instance, there are different techniques in historical fiction and nonfiction, but they both develop the same theme and central idea.

Before WWII started Germany’s new dictator was starting a revolution. That only Adolf Hitler and his army knew about. The Nazis were what hitler’s army was called their job was to collect and kill as many Jewish people as they could. If anyone got in the way they were killed to. Hitler’s reasoning for killing all the jews he says they are the reason why they lost the first world war. How he killed all of these jews hitler and his nazis would force the jews to leave their houses and towns. Then he would get them all on a cattle car and take them to concentration camps. How hitler killed the jews were mostly gas chambers ,but he kept some few thousands to work or do certain things in these concentration camps. Some of those jews survived the holocaust to tell their story of what happened to them and their families.

Well first off, Hitler and the Nazis weren’t the first people to treat the Jews poorly; they were just the ones to treat them the worst and the most recent. But up until recent time the Jewish people have always been treated poorly throughout the history of their religion. The Jews have always been like the little guy in school that always gets beat up on. According to the website Why Did Hitler Hate The Jews? Hitler just built upon and used anti-Semitic ideas that already existed from past cultures and societies. The Nazis hatred of the Jews was so different in that they believed that the Jews were biologically and racially distinct, that there was a kind of biological struggle for dominance over the entire human race between the Jews and everybody else (The Nazi Hatred of the Jews). The Nazis singled them out because they thought the Jewish people were pests, the Nazis didn’t even consider them humans, and needed to be eradicated to make the world

The Holocaust was a system established by the Nazis in World War II as a means to exterminate all of the people which they considered undesirable or subhuman. This included gypsies,minorities,cripples, the mentally ill, homosexuals,communists,and anyone who opposed the Nazi regime. The main target of the Holocaust was however the Jewish people. They were the main target because the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, believed that they were the reason for Germany losing World War 1 and thus was the reason that the German economy was in a bad state. Vladek Spiegelman and Elie Weisel were to people who were both survived their experiences in the Holocaust and both told their story in books. These books are Night by Elie Wiesel and Maus by Vladek Spiegelman.The Holocaust shaped these two different men's lives in the same way. Through their losses and experiences in this horrific point in time they learned what it meant to truly struggle and this ultimately turned them into better people.

Horror struck on January 30, 1933, when Germany assigned Adolf Hitler as their chancellor. Once Hitler had finally reached power he set out to complete one goal, create a Greater Germany free from the Jews (“The reasons for the Holocaust,” 2009). This tragedy is known today as, “The Holocaust,” that explains the terrors of our histories past. The face of the Holocaust, master of death, and leader of Germany; Adolf Hitler the most deceitful, powerful, well spoken, and intelligent person that acted as the key to this mass murder. According to a research study at the University of South Florida, nearly eleven million people were targeted and killed. This disaster is a genocide that was meant to ethnically cleanse Germany of the Jews. Although Jewish people were the main target they were not the only ones targeted; gypsies, African Americans, homosexuals, socialists, political enemies, communists, and the mentally disabled were killed (Simpson, 2012, p. 113). The word to describe this hatred for Jewish people is known as antisemitism. It was brought about when German philosophers denounced that “Jewish spirit is alien to Germandom” (“Antisemitism”) which states that a Jew is non-German. Many people notice the horrible things the Germans did, but most don’t truly understand why the Holocaust occurred. To truly understand the Holocaust, you must first know the Nazis motivations. Their motivations fell into two categories including cultural explanations that focused on ideology and

At the end of WWI in 1918, Germany’s economy was in ruins. There were very few jobs, and bitterness began to take over the country. According to the text, “Hitler, a rising politician, offered Germany a scapegoat: Jewish people. Hitler said that Jewish people were to blame for Germany’s problems. He believed that Jews did not deserve to live.” (7) This was the birth of Antisemitism--prejudice against Jewish people. Europe’s Jewish people have always been persecuted due to their “different customs and beliefs that many viewed with suspicion.”(7) Hitler simply reignited the flames, and a violent hatred was born.

30000 Jews were sent to concentration camps during Kristallnacht. The Nazi's came to power in 1932 as they were elected 608 seats in the German parliament. After this event, the Nazi's used fear and propaganda to slowly hypnotize and imbed their beliefs into the minds of every German citizen. However in November of 1938, the Nazi's showed everyone what they really believed in. during "the night of broken glass" or Kristallnacht. The Nazi's ransacked and destroyed many Jewish businesses while they also killed and captured many Jewish citizens . The purpose of Kristallnacht was to strike fear into Jewish communities, which in turn also sparked the beginning of the Nazi war machine that would sweep through Europe over the course of the upcoming years. To assess the significance of Kristallnacht I will look at the consequences, what caused it to happen.

1945. A single date but an entire compendium of significant events in the course of our world’s history. A mere year, with so much meaning: the end to the second worldwide outbreak of horror and hatred. Additionally, the long belated end to the Holocaust, essentially the mass murder of six million Jews by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi army in secret work and killing prisons termed concentration camps. Unknown to some, but known by most which lead us to ask why did the world stay silent? Perhaps the concept was too unbelievable for many to imagine, or maybe the world truly was oblivious for some time, although the most likely guess would be fear. Fear that they would be too persecuted and snatched away from the only life they have ever known to the concentration camps where they would then be separated from their family, next forced to labor and work and starve, and finally die a terrible death as Ellie was, during the World War 2 period. Although, Ellie did not die and was one of the luckiest men in the world to survive this atrocity. Alone and thoroughly deranged, shortly after being liberated by the Americans, he is coerced (I believe out of fear) by an utter stranger with a facade of an angel. Basically, he is convinced to travel to Palestine and join the terrorists and murderers who are battling to create Israel, where Ellie becomes an important factor in these movements. Throughout Night and Dawn, a consistent emotion is fear, which is known to cause people to change, including Ellie. I believe that Ellie has become detached from his humanity, has had his religious and moral beliefs distorted, but has retained his outlook on the future between his experiences in Night and Dawn.

In the 1930s and 1940s Anti Semitism was wide spread in Germany under the Nazi Government. The treatment of Jews in Germany during this time was extremely brutal and harrowing. The human rights abuses against Jewish people in Nazi Germany during the world war two periods are extremely well documented. Anti Semitism ranged from the outlawing of marriage between Jews and gentiles, the Nazi regime sanctioned destruction of Jewish homes and synagogue and of course the holocaust. The holocaust is one of the darkest moments in modern history where approximately six million Jews were killed in extermination camps in Poland which was occupied by Nazi Germany at the time. Anti-Semitism was deeply engrained in the policies, ideology and dogma of the Nazi party in Germany during world war two. Anti-Semitism was no new phenomena in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s. Anti-Semitism in both a religious and racial sense has existed and developed for over 2000 years across

The basis of Jewish discrimination also resides in the Holocaust during World War II. The Holocaust was the systematic, brutal persecution of Jews sponsored by the Nazi regime in Germany. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazis, believed that the Germans were of the racially superior Aryan race. Jewish people, who were considered to be racially inferior, were seen as a threat to the German community. (“Introduction to the Holocaust.” 1). In order to cleanse German society of Jews, Hitler proposed the “Final Solution”, which was a plan to exterminate the Jewish population. Concentration camps, forced labor centers, and gassing facilities were soon established by German officials to round up, detain, and annihilate the Jewish population. In total, the Holocaust was responsible for the murder of six million Jews (“Introduction to the Holocaust.” 1). In modern society, Jewish people have been discriminated against because of the assumption that they refer to their treatment in the Holocaust too often. Others even believe the Holocaust to be an exaggerated event or a blown up myth. As a result, Jewish people are considered to be a population that is only

The Nazi’s had the idea in their head that the Germans were racially superior, while the Jews on the other hand were a lesser race and were supposedly, a threat to the survival of Germany. The term Anti-Semitism, which means hatred of Jews, has always been used throughout Germany and Europe, but it really got bad between the years 1933-1945. The time between 1933 and 1945 can be known as the Nazi era. The Nazi’s believed that people in the category of “Untermenschen”, which meant subhuman, could be treated cruelly. The people that were classified into the category of “Untermenschen” included: Gypsies (Roma), Poles and Russians (Slavs), and the mentally and physically disabled. There were other people who if they disagreed with the Nazi’s way of leadership of organization, then they would too be tormented, arrested, and killed.

Most of the laws Hitler had put in place were centered around anti-Semitism, meaning against Jews. For instance, Jewish people were forced to sew the star of David on their clothing to identify themselves as Jews, making them easier targets for things such as abuse. All of this chaos and discrimination led to the Kristallnacht, a night that will never be forgotten by the Jews who lived through it in Germany. Kristallnacht, or the “night of broken glass” in German, was from November 9-10, 1938. (3) It was when the Nazis destroyed Jewish-owned businesses, burned their synagogues, and sent many Jews to concentration camps. After Kristallnacht, many Jews were in real danger. The conditions in which they lived were incredibly worse than ever. The Nazis would attack them any chance they got. There was little hope for the

In the tumultuous period leading up to World War II, a series of laws were devised in Nazi Germany that subjected the Jewish people to prohibitory and discriminatory forms of treatment. Although the Jewish people only accounted for 503,000 of the 55 million occupants of the country, Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship preached the incorporation of anti-Semitism into law and practice in order to quell the people he considered to be the enemy of the country.

In January 1933, the Nazi regime came to power in Germany and enforced a harsh tyranny that waged over most of Europe. Under Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Party believed that the Germans were racially superior as opposed to the Jews who were deemed as an inferior race. The Germans saw the Jewish populace as a biological danger to the German community and blamed them for abnormal mishaps such as contagion, disease, etc. The Nazi Party also attacked those who were seen as inferior such as homosexuals, handicapped, and even mentally-ill people. With only about 500,000 Jews in 1933, the rise of anti-Semitism shoved the belief that Jews should not be in the fabric of society and as a result, Jews faced severe backlashes throughout the years leading up to World War II.