This cleaning up of our culture must extend to nearly all domains. Theater, art, literature, movies, the press, posters, and window displays must be cleaned of the symptoms of a rotting world and put into the service of a moral idea of state and culture.” -Adolf Hitler. This meant exterminating anyone or anything that didn’t fit his standards. Hitler wanted to “cleanse” Germany of imperfections. People that Hitler didn’t deem fit for benefitting Germany were disposed of. Many groups of people were targets of discrimination during the holocaust, including jews, homosexuals, the mentally handicapped and the list goes on. The treatments the mentally handicapped had to endure were often overlooked and ignored, almost more than the other victims
The Holocaust was one of the most horrific events in history. It involved the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews and certain groups of people that were unable to meet the standards of the Aryans. The Holocaust involved the slaughter of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators under Adolf Hitler. The three main causes of the Holocaust were, Anti-semitism, Propaganda, and Hitler.
If one hates someone or something that means they have an intense dislike towards them. Sometimes this hate can be so large it can be an influence for mass destruction. We have learned, or even have seen examples of hate turning into something bigger throughout our history. These examples include the multiple wars, terrorist’s attacks, and genocides. Many of these incidents were drove by hate, and did not end well. What drives this hate? How can people turn on one another with just feeling hate towards them? The Holocaust being one of the many genocides in our history was indeed influenced by an intense dislike. That intense dislike was towards certain types of people it ended up taking multiple lives.
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
What causes conflict? Well, conflict is caused when there is a disagreement or miscommunication. The Holocaust was a huge and bloody disagreement that led to World War II and was a horrific event that took place in the 1930-1940’s. A man that we’ve probably all heard of, named Adolf Hitler, came into power and participated in the slaughter of nearly 6 million jews, 250,000 disabled, and 196,000-220,000 Gypsies (according to the National Holocaust Memorial Museum website). These deaths were all over the European continent that were under German rule. My position on the main cause for the Holocaust was that the end of World War I left Germany in poverty. With the government in corruption, the people were desperate for change, so they allowed Hitler into power with the belief that others could control him if he did something bad. This obviously wasn’t true.
“Though it be to die, we will fight… We will fight not for ourselves, but for future generations… Although we will not survive to see it, our murderers will pay for their crimes after we are gone. And our deeds will live forever.” -Izhak Katznelson. The Holocaust illustrated the consequences of racism, prejudice, as well as stereotyping upon our society, which compelled us to realize what our conducts have led to in the future. Similar to the quote by Izhak, a myriad of Jews had the desire of dying, for they couldn’t manage to attempt to continue living any longer because they were either forced to attend labored camps or were enduring through the suffering of being in hiding. The Holocaust and all the horrors associated with it became a reality
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in history which ended innocent Jew lives it was led by one man and his followers named Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. It was an tragic event that murdered millions and of the Jewish people and left thousands of them with physical and mental scars. The Nazis who came to power in Germany in January 1933 felt that Germans were " racially superior " and that the Jews deemed " inferior " were an alien threat to their German community. In the 20th century was the start of WWI political and economic dislocation. Nazi persecution of Jews led to the Holocaust they suffered in many ways they were discriminated against and forced to go into hiding they were sent into the "Ghetto" and treated unfairly in very
According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, legal is defined as “conforming to or permitted by law or established rule” (merriam webster). It then defines moral as, “expressing or teaching a conception or right behavior” (merriam webster). Dr. King gives a touching look at the difference between legality and morality with the example of events that took place with Germany under the leadership of Hitler. He explains that in Nazi Germany, it was “legal” to abuse and humiliate Jews. He then states that the comforting and aiding to Jews in Nazi Germany was illegal. While the first is legal and the second is illegal, what is legal is blatantly immoral whereas what is illegal is boldly moral. The abuse and mistreatment of Jews during the
From 1933 through 1945 was a period of history called the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, people were being killed for their looks, race, and disability. About 11 million people were killed in brutal and tragic ways. Adolf Hitler, the leader, wanted to create a pure race. Racism helped Hitler organize the population into the way he wanted. He wanted people to support the cause of making a pure race. If people opposed, they would be persecuted. Racism allowed Hitler to influence the German people into following his leadership even if it meant genocide.
The Holocaust is one of the horrible things that can, and did, happen during war, when hate and prejudice was at its highest. It forced many people to hide away in small cramped areas with little to no privacy and food. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. It ended in 1945 when Allied powers defeated the Nazis. 1.1 million children were killed or died during this horrendous time in history. Not just Jews were murdered, many people were homsexual, hiding a Jew, or did not agree with Hitler and the Nazis. These people were escaping a horrible injustice based in stereotype, discrimination, and
In her memoir, We Are On Our Own, Miriam Katin tells the story of how she and her mother escaped from Nazi soldiers during World War II. Katin and her mother are two Jews that are completely on their own. Katin has no other siblings and her father is fighting in the war(12) Jews were discriminated during World War II by the Nazis, who believed their Aryan race was superior to the Jewish race and all other races. Over six million innocent Jews were killed during World War II while the world watched, and countless other Jews were oppressed and discriminated against leading up to the war. In her moving memoir, Miriam Katin retells the story of how she and her mother escaped from Nazi soldiers and survived the oppression of Nazi Germany.
The Holocaust is most often associated with the slaughter of millions of Jewish people. However they are not the only ones to be brutally murdered. In order to fit in with Hitler’s “Aryan Race”, one must be blond, blue eyed, German and essentially “perfect.” For Hitler, that meant that people with disabilities were to be slaughtered as well as sterilized. Some of the first to be exterminated are the mentally, physically and emotionally disabled. He used propaganda to make the Germans “okay” with it. Parents were told their children passed away from their disabilities. When he actually had them experimented on, murdered, and wiped off the face of the earth. He wanted to “clean” the gene pool.
The Holocaust is one of the most well-known genocides of all time because of the large number of the human killed during the year. During the Holocaust genocide approximately six million (6,000, 000) European Jewish were killed. Conducted by Hitler, most of the Jewish were arrested and killed with stray bullets before being burned down to ashes. In the entire Europe continent, approximately nine million Jewish lived with the rest of the population in Germany. However, after the Holocaust, almost two-thirds of the population perished.
Discrimination may also occur to individuals who belong to different ancestors or ethnic groups. During my Freshman year at college I was able to go on The March: Bearing Witness to Hope. This trip consisted of traveling in Germany and Poland for a little over a week and going to locations significant when studying the Holocaust. We learned that in Germany, there were many discriminatory laws put into place before any major violence occurred. These laws were designed to identify who was different and cut them off from society as a whole. Some of the laws which separated neighbor from neighbor included a set time that Jews could use the phone and specific times they could go shopping. When observing the extreme violence that discrimination
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.
Jews have faced many discriminations throughout their history besides the event of the well-known Holocaust. Most Jews had lived in Palestine and parts of the Middle East before the second century B.C. Many Jews were to serve time as slaves in Rome before being set free through a process call manumission. They were then made citizens and then there became such a large population of Jews that special laws were made referencing to the Jewish religion by the end of the first century B.C., because the Empire was highly populated with Jews. In the empire, Jews received a protected status. Jews were kicked out of the city of Rome in 19A.D.