The Rise Of The Nazi War

In the 1930’s in Germany, people of all ethnicities were faced with hateful laws, which were prejudice and discriminating. Hitler’s idea was to exterminate as any people that did not fit the superior German race. People who didn’t fit Hitler's expectations were treated with no respect and were condemned of what they owned. As a result, people lived in poverty and were soon moved to different concentration camps. Inside of the concentration camps people suffered from intense hunger, extreme sorrow for family members that were killed by Nazi Soldiers or died from diseases in the camp, forced labor, and further agony.

Roma Gypsies were the second-largest group of people killed on racial grounds in the Holocaust. Even before the Holocaust, the Gypsies were treated unfairly. During the Holocaust, many Gypsies were put under a law that permitted the sterilization of mental defectives. Slightly less than one million Roma believed to have been living in Europe before the war. However, that number decreased after the Germans and their Axis partners killed about 220,000 of them. The Nazis, “For efficiency, Gypsies were shot naked in pre-dug graves and according to Nazi shooters, Jews were easier to kill because they would stay still, while the Gypsies would run around screaming, and some would fall in the grave and pretend to be dead(Amack 1)”. This example shows that during the Holocaust, the Roma Gypsies were deprived of their rights. Under the Nazi rule, German authorities subjected Roma to internment, forced labor, and brutal mass murder. They were even brought to concentration camps. At one specific concentration camp, called Sachsenhausen, the Gypsies had special experiments done to them to prove that their blood was different from the German’s. Unfortunately, the Roma Gypsies, just like the Jews, lacked many rights. During World War ll, the Gypsies were stripped away from their rights, taken away from their everyday lives, and even murdered for no apparent

Each difficult time led to him believing that he was standing up for the right thing. While Germany was left in a terrible depression from World War 1, their trade had been severely limited. Germany could not import or export goods. All their resources had been given to the War effort. This left Germany in a terrible way, dropping themselves from the rank of the second greatest economy. Germany began printing money at a large rate, leading to hyperinflation. Money, in turn, was worth little to nothing. Unemployment also reached record high levels. Approximately 6 million people were left unemployed. Hitler began to think like many of the racist organizations at the time, believing that the Jews were the sole reason for World War 1 and Germany’s economic

Upon the rise of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazi Party) in Germany, homosexuals, were one of the various groups targeted by the Nazis and were ultimately among the Holocaust victims. Commencing in the early rule of Hitler, homosexual organizations were expelled, scholarly books about homosexuality, and sexuality in general, were destroyed, and homosexuals within the Nazi Party itself were detained or executed. The Gestapo assembled lists of homosexuals in Germany, who were obliged to sexually obey or conform to the "German norm or expectations." This is evident in direct reference to the memoirs of Pierre Seel and the atrocious suffering he endured due to his sexuality in Nazi Germany. “I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror” provides historians with an insight into the Nazi regime and the miseries endured by the minorities of that time. This response will consider the context, content and importance of these texts, as well as the difficulties that it poses as a primary source to historians.

Do unto others what one would want done unto him or herself. In World War II with Nazi control in much of Europe, even if individuals had problems with how certain people were being treated, not many actually took action. A particular person who decided to counter the flow of what was accepted, was Pastor André Trocmé. That particular pastor was a member of a small French village, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. There, many Jewish people were housed and protected as much as the small community could provide from their Nazi persecutors; who otherwise would have put into concentration camps or in some cases death camps. The entirety of the village needed to work together in order to achieve the pursuits they hoped to accomplish. The level of their

Although Berlin commanded that the operation was to be continued as planned, Best had one more card to play. In a meeting between Best, Mildner, and the plenipotentiary’s deputy and old friend, SS-Brigadeführer Paul Kanstein, who would later be involved in the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler as the would-be new head of the German security police, it was decided that a warning should be issued to the Jewish community. This warning would be “leaked” by Best’s confidant, Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz.

Most Americans are aware of the plight of the Jewish population during Nazi rule in Europe and the many horrific and revolting things that occurred during the Holocaust. Of the estimated eleven million people killed during the Holocaust, more than five million of these victims were not Jewish. Were non-Jewish people treated differently or did they suffer the same consequences under Nazi rule? The answer is, that while non-Jewish people often suffered the same fate as the Jews, the Jewish people suffered a more heinous and cruel version of the Nazi reign of terror as evidenced by historical accounts recounted by concentration camp survivors and those who lived during this time. Under the Nazi rule, the leader, Adolf Hitler’s design was to eradicate all groups other than the blue-eyed, fair-haired Aryans. Groups such as Polish Christians, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, Roma gypsies, the physically and intellectually disabled, prisoners of war and any other person or group opposed to Hitler were persecuted, but his first atrocities were aimed specifically at people of Jewish decent.

The first topic of the semester will explore the rise of Fascism in Nazi Germany and the methods by which citizens of Germany and Austria were influenced to join in Nazi ideology and policies or to resist them.

The Nazis were the ones responsible for the beginning of World War II and also the Holocaust. They were run by fascist and anti-Semitism principles. Adolf Hitler was originally working for the German Army to investigate political parties. When he was investigating the German Workers Party, Hitler became an active member in the party and went to meetings frequently. He became a powerful political speaker for the party and eventually became the leader (Fuhrer). Hitler believed that Jews and communists were responsibly for everything negative that was happening at the time, he also persuaded others to believe this.

The stock market crash in 1929, a catastrophe that inflicted pain not only in the United States but around the world, further aggravated the situation. Unemployment skyrocketed throughout the Western nations. The Treaty of Versailles also condemned Germany for instigating WWI, and required Germany to pay a large sum of gold marks in reparations. These events spurred the rise of Hitler, and increased the numbers of habitual criminals in Germany. The rise of the economic crisis affected the poor class more than any other groups, which forced them to become habitual criminals.

The term “Third Reich” is another phrase used to describe the Nazi Regime when Adolf Hitler was in power in Germany from January 30th, 1933, to May 8th, 1945. With the Nazis rise to power they built the foundation of the Third Reich . Homosexuals were classified as a minority group by the Nazis in contrast to “normal” people in society. The Homosexuals were treated in an immoral and inhumane manner by the barbaric Nazi Regime. In almost every case when they were caught they would be arrested, deported, brutalised, rapped, murdered and or obliged into concentration camps where they were forced into slave labour and eventually died there either by murder or lack of health. Other minority groups that also suffered during Hitler’s reign which

The year was 1941 and World War II had been going on for two years since it started in 1939. Nazi Germany had gained much territory and controlled over three-fourths of Europe. The only countries not conquered controlled or allied with Germany in Europe were Sweden, Switzerland, Russia and England. Both Sweden and Switzerland were neutral during the war, so the two biggest threats to Germany was England and Russia. (Patrick Shrier 08/06/2006)

The reign of Nazi Germany was arguably the most horrific eras the world has ever seen. Led by German chancellor, Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust annihilated six million European Jews because he felt that Jews were “inferior,” to the “racially superior” German’s. (1) The word Holocaust originates from Greek, meaning “sacrifice by fire.” (2) The rise of the Nazi empire, though, did not happen over-night.

The Nazis and their rise to power comprised many steps along the way. With the help of Adolf Hitler’s mind they came to power with their political and economic strategies. Outlining the beginning of how Hitler and his party slowly gained power and took over Germany as each of his idea and his supporters helped him to rise. Hitler consequently congregated supporters of the Nazi party to make it stronger. Before the idea of legally taking over the political and economic of Germany, he planned to take over the Reichstag building with force thinking The Putsch was his way to success. ‘… the Nazi movement legally wound back the provisions of the Weimar Constitution, exerted its control over the civil service and legal systems and outlawed

During the rise of Nazi power in Europe it was incredibly difficult to be part of a minority. Being part of a minority meant one was herded into ghettos where many starved, died of dysentery or were shot on the spot. From there the survivors of the ghettos were crammed into small cattle cars where they traveled for hours or even days on end without food or water. Once they reached the death camps the dead and dying would be left in the cars and the rest were put through selection. Men were sent one way. Women, children and elderly were sent another, usually towards the crematorium. The men were then sent to labor camps, where they were given minimal rations of food, one pair of clothes, skimpy shoes and a flimsy blanket (Berenbaum).