The Nazi Uprising: The Warsaw Uprising

Jewish people were not the only ones persecuted by the Nazis during this time period. The leading group also captured and killed gypsies, disabled people, blacks, and some slavic people like the Polish and Russians. The discrimination did not stop there, people with different ideological, behavioral, or political ideas were not accepted within the german community either. Between these groups of people were also some communists, socialist, religious groups and homosexuals.

In The Nazi Seizure of Power by William Sheridan Allen, the author is able to show the reader the support building strategy used by the Nazi party in Northeim and surrounding areas. Allen's thesis is that Nazi party was able to succeed the village of Northeim and else where because they were able to reach out the lower and middle class. Since these classes held the majority of the population, the Nazi party discovered what they wanted from government officials and then used that to persuade these classes to vote for them. To give you a background of the village of Northeim is vital to the understanding of how this party could have come in and take over the political scene so quickly.

“My other two sisters and 2 brothers went to Treblinka, and after that I never saw anybody from my family again. Treblinka was on of the Nazi Extermination camps with the second Highest Mortality after Auschwitz. Most of the jews from Warsaw were put there” (Radasky). On may 1, 1943, he was shot. The bullet went through the muscle and didn’t hit the bone so he didn’t have to lose a limb. Then after that he was taken to the Umschlagplatz, which had to many people so he was split up and put on a train to Majdanek concentration camp which was another death camp.

His entire family was dead. The nazis had “liquidate” the warsaw ghetto in 1943, first burning down buildings, then taking the surviving 49,000 men, women, and children by train to death and forced labor camps. ( 10)

The Warsaw Ghetto By the middle of 1942, Jews in the ghettos realized that all their former residents were being murdered, not sent to labor camps. In the Warsaw Ghetto

During World War II, non-Jewish Poles had to decide whether to obey the new laws in German occupied Poland. These new laws greatly affected how people would act in German occupied Poland. The consequences for breaking the laws were very severe and would often result in harm to your family. But people still broke them for no other reason for the fact that the laws were wrong. They helped Jews even though it wasn't allowed by the government. Citizens responded to the laws passed by the state during the German occupation of Poland in many different ways this impacting history.

The Germans soon came to Warsaw making the Jews do as they said. If they didn't they would

Hook: Why would it be right for someone to oppress and even almost kill off half the country because of a disagreement? Hitler’s idea was that he could rule the world and oppress and most likely kill anyone who opposed him. This soon led to rebellions starting against Hitler and his Nazi empire. As soon as German people and others around the world hear about what Hitler is doing, soon people oppose Hitler and rebel against him.

Wiesel had a typical childhood until 1939, the year when Germany invaded Poland and Jews were forced under Nazi rule. Elie Wiesel was born on September thirtieth 1928, in Sighet, Romania. He wanted to grow in his relationship with God as a young man and even had a spiritual mentor. However, during this time Jews were being prosecuted. His family was forced into Jewish Ghettos under the Nazi regime. The ghettos were a part of a city, especially a slum area occupied by a minority group. The family was not able to escape in time and had to deal with the loss of their home and possessions. Elie and his father were prisoners at Auschwitz, the main concentration camp, here, Wiesel witnessed the death of newly born babies and the killing of hundreds

During the process of it, the Germans killed or captured thousands of Jews. By May 16, the Ghetto was strongly under Nazi control and on that day. In a meaningful act, the Germans blew up Warsaw’s Great Synagogue. An estimated 7,000 Jews perished during the uprising, while nearly 50,000 others who survived were sent to extermination or labor camps. People have said that the Germans lost hundreds of men in the uprising.

The Jews were able to keep up the resistance for about a month, but the fight was officially ended on May 16 with the destruction of Warsaw’s great synagogue (ushmm.org). About 7,000 Jews were killed during the uprising, and another 7,000 deported, but a few hundred German soldiers fell as well (history.com).

Theresienstadt, A gift from Hitler. A place of hope and happiness for Jews and Jewesses alike. Theresienstadt was somewhere they could wait the war out without fear until the shadow of Nazism passed. It was a place filled with the most prosperous artists and musicians, daily shows and operas, lectures and seminars, gardens and coffee shops. A place with grace and character. An entire town that was given to the Jews as a gift from the Fuehrer. A paradise for Jews. That is at least, what the Nazis wanted people to believe.

The Weimar Constitution was a genuine attempt to create a perfect democratic country. In his book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960), American historian William L. Shirer described the Weimar Constitution as "on paper, the most liberal and democratic document of its kind the twentieth century had ever seen ... full of ingenious and admirable devices which seemed to guarantee the working of an almost flawless democracy.” The constitution guaranteed equal rights to the German people, yet also contained the fundamental structural flaws that would play a major part in the Republic 's downfall (and thus the Nazi Party’s rise). Two clear examples of such weaknesses were the use of an excessively proportional electoral system and the

On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland to start the biggest war all mankind has ever seen. A man named Adolf Hitler led a group called the Nazi's. He convinced those men that Jewish people had ruined the world and caused Germany's downfall after World War One. They were also against people like gypsies, criminals, or anyone they thought were undesirable. Soon after the Germans started, Japan and Italy joined to help their cause. As the war went on the Nazi party grew bigger and stronger and countries started fighting back, but the Nazi's were to strong. Then one day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and just like that Americans were in the war. That day we became mortal enemies with all of Japan, and we weren't going to hold back on them.

Starving. You are starving. According to Germany during the Great Depression you would have been out of work and hungry for many years now. You take your trillion marks down to the corner store, wait in line, claw and fight your way for the last couple of items and then find out when you get to the cashier that due to the ever growing inflation your trillions of marks won’t be enough for a single loaf of bread, as is life in Germany in the late 20’s and early 30’s. According to Commanding Heights: The German Inflation most people especially the young have grown up in these terrible conditions were it was more cost effective to take the German marks and burn and use them as wallpaper than as actual money. Around this time you hear about a