The Treatment Of The Jews During The Holocaust

The Holocaust was a time period in which Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Nazi Germany. He prosecuted many Jews because he believed they were the reason World War 1 started, causing the death of 100,000 German soldiers. Because of this, he made sure nearly every Jew was put into concentration camps or killed. Adolf Hitler was a man who wanted everything his way, and because of this he killed innocent people. The Holocaust was an unfair period for the Jews. The Jews were killed because of who they were, and the citizens didn’t try to do anything to help them

The Holocaust was one of, if not the worst mass murder in history. The Nazis did one of the most horrifying things you could think of, killing so many innocent people. Many different groups of people other than jews were also victims of this tragic event. Some of those other groups were: LGBTQ individuals, the physically and mentally disabled, slavs, and members of opposing political groups. These groups of people were ripped from their homes and put into concentration camps. The Nazis would either separate them from their family or they would keep them together and they would have to watch the Nazis torture their family and friends. During this very tragic point in history, more than six million Jewish lives were taken, in total there were over 12 million victims of the Holocaust. Not only did this affect the survivors it also affected families of the victims, survivors and anybody else that was connected through this tragedy. The Nazis, came to “power” in January 1933, which was during a time Germany was going through an economic hardship. They believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, were "inferior.” Adolf Hitler played a very big factor in everything that went down. Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party and was also known as the dictator of the Holocaust. The Nazis did have others that were Hitler’s “army” and they took orders from Hitler to do awful things to the victims and they were commonly known as

King uses Apostle Paul as an example. He tells us that Paul left his village to carry on Jesus’ words, then he relates it back to himself and says he must carry the words of freedom beyond his hometown. Dr. King goes onto page 5, paragraph 2 to talk about just and unjust laws. He put the definitions of a just and unjust law in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas. St. Thomas says an unjust law is a law that is not rooted from natural law and any law to uplift human personality is just. Dr. King then says segregation is unjust because it damages and distorts the soul and human personality. When he says it “damages the personality” he’s saying it messes up the person. You make the person seem like they are odd or different so they think there is something wrong with them and try to change

The atrocities of the Holocaust placed the German Jewish population in a quagmire of antisemitic persecution, but it also spread beyond Germany to affect Jews throughout Europe. Poland was such a country. The first nation invaded by Nazi Germany and the last to be liberated, the population of Polish Jews was nearly eradicated. How were the Nazis able to accomplish such a feat in a nation where antisemitism had not been as prevalent? Aside from forcibly introducing antisemitic policy into Poland, the Nazis relied on fear and self-interest to accomplish their goals. For the average Polish Catholic in 1943, a decision had to be made on where they stood regarding the “Jewish problem”. Should they sit idly by and do nothing, or perhaps even assist in the capture of the Jews? Or maybe they could risk everything by hiding and otherwise aiding the Polish Jews. If I were such a Polish Catholic citizen living in 1943 and the opportunity arose to help a Polish Jew, my conscience would prevent me from doing any less.

There are so many remarkable people who have gone before us and shaped the world into what it is today. With the passing of yet another Veterans Day, people were reminded of the extraordinary sacrifices made by ordinary men and women who were unfortunate enough to have lived during times when their nations were at war. Many ordinary citizens lost their lives as a result of the war, just as soldiers did. While some survivors simply lived out their post war lives, others survived and influenced the world. One person who survived the atrocities of the Holocaust during World War II and used his experiences to improve social, political, and religious conditions throughout the world, is Elie Wiesel. Through the words of Elie Wiesel, the public can witness the evils of war, keep these memories alive in the collective recall of future generations, and take action upon witnessing injustices of its kind.

But what was this injustice that brought everyone to Birmingham? The letter goes on to define just and unjust laws as “Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality” (78). King went on to say how segregation was tearing communities apart. From colored water fountains to white’s only theme parks and broken hearted black children who in time very well could become angry towards the world. The pain this separation was believed to be causing the darker skinned tenants of this great nation was becoming insurmountable. Segregation was holding down the impoverished black while lifting whites into greater and greater power and indeed segregation was the injustice that brought King to

Eleven million innocent people died and many did not know what they did or why it was happening to them (Rice 11). The Holocaust happened because of the Germans after World War 2 thought that the reason that their economy was falling down was because of Jewish people. The Holocaust followed the Ladder of Prejudice is a started with speech and moved its way up to “The Final Solution” also known as extermination. Hitler did not start with killing Jews. He killed Jews,Gypsies,homosexuals and many more religions or cultural people and Hitler also sent people to concentration camps if they spoke against the Government, then he moved to the Ladder of Prejudice, he used discrimination, physical attack and, extermination.

I know it was war but was it also racism? Judging through the fact Germany was also the enemy, why didn't the U.S bomb them if they were also our enemy in WW2? This is all I have to say. Thousands of innocent Japanese people died which surely ended the war but those people who died also had family and friends. There are hundred of different ways to end the war that is better than killing thousands of innocent people. Not to be mean but the U.S used similar killing strategy that the Nazis used to kill the Jewish people during the Holocaust.

Jews were socially deprived of any privileges and liberties right after Hitler came to power in 1933. As it has been mentioned above in this paper that it was a very planned and systematic action aimed to exterminate the Jews from the Europe first and then from the entire world, it had lots of background attempts and steps to sideline the Jews from the mainstream of European population. First of all, the Jews were deprived of their rights to live a life equal to other groups living in Europe. These steps like not employing Jews in good jobs and other kinds of discrimination were made legal by changes in the legislation. It made the Jews angry and against the system. This anger and rebellion were triggered and multiplied by the mass

Have you ever thought about how many ways that Hitler tortured the innocent Jews. There are several ways but I'm going to focus down on two. Back a long time ago when there were still concentration camps millions of Jews were forced to stay there but the most terrifying thing was when they had to shower. But the story behind the showers is that the Nazis tricked the Jews saying that they could go shower but then a quick turned of events the showers were actually gas chambers. So when there were thousands of Jews in them the Nazis closed the doors tight and then from a window above the chambers they dropped gas that killed thousands.

Martin Luther King, Jr. disobeyed the law to try and end segregation for minority groups so they could be treated fairly and be equal to the non-minority group. Mr. King states,

During World War Two, millions of Jews were persecuted by Nazi Germany just because they were different than everyone else. This was a very big problem because it is not right to imprison people just because of their political views. This did not just affect the Jews, many Germans were terrified by what was going on with the Jews, their friends were being taken away and the Jewish shops were being closed. The Book Thief is a great example of how the the Germans felt about the treatment of Jews. The areas were the Jews were being sent were called Concentration camps, these camps we very inhumane and it was the worst thing the Germans did during WW2.

After World War II ended on September 2, 1945 many Jews who were persecuted, were left with no family, possessions, or most importantly their homes. This lead to a great conflict of where they would live and with a push from German officials they were encouraged to emigrate. The Israelis needed a safe place to rehabilitate from the holocaust and deserved to reclaim their once homeland, Israel.

The word Holocaust is derived from a Greek word that means “sacrifice by fire”. This term is very appropriate for this period in history because of the gruesome and brutal ways that people were killed. The Holocaust is described as the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.” (www.ushmm.org) The Holocaust took place in Nazi Germany during World War II, and was the Nazis’ way of trying to exterminate the Jewish people because they did not consider the Jews as humans and believed them to be an inferior race. Adolf Hitler himself once even said that “The Jews are undoubtedly a race, but they are not human.” During the Holocaust, many ethnicities and groups of people faced discrimination and punishment, but Jews were the main target of the Nazis. They were subjected to very inhumane treatment such as gas chambers, meaningless beatings, hangings, and many jews were forced to go into the crematorium, a large blazing fire that incinerated anything and anyone who entered and caused the deaths of thousands-if not millions-of Jews. The Nazis killed almost two out of every three Jews in Europe at the time, resulting in the devastation and collapse of many Jewish communities. As a result many Jewish people planned to leave Europe and start new lives in Israel. Only a very small percentage of European Jews survived through the hardships of the Holocaust, and even fewer shared their story with the

These were mentally and physically disabled Germans during the Holocaust. Hitler took power over the Jews and Hitler did not value these people as strong and powerful. Hitler looked down on these people because they were seen as not as capable of people without disabilities. Therefore, meaning that they did not look like everyone else. The Holocaust was from January 30, 1933 - May 1945. Physicians started to use forced sterilization (meaning it would put a stop to new births if they parents had a disability. Did not want the chance of a family having a disabled child because they were “not worthy”.) Therefore ended up being a mass murder of the disabled. The killings were being held at concentration camps where disabled Jews were being mistreated. During the Holocaust, these people had little to no chance of surviving. Many were separated from families and loved ones and more than half of these people did not return home due to murder. The human rights violations of the disabled during the Holocaust are significant because they show the divide in society that can be created when a government does not value equal opportunity and shows how people with mental illness were treated cruelly and unusually.