When Terror Struck

This was the Nazi’s policy to murder Jews in Europe. The Nazis believed that the Aryan German race were superior to Jews, which were a threat to German community. There were however other victims including the Roma(Gypsies), disabled, Slavic, Jehovah’s witnesses, war prisoners, etc. Ghettos were created to segregate the Jews from the rest of the world. There were three different types of ghettos; closed, open and destruction. Most ghettos were temporary, but some lasted for several years. Inside the ghetto people were forced to wear badges to be easily identified. Many died inside the ghetto from either disease, or starvation. The ghettos also were used to temporarily hold Jews, and they would later be deported to either a concentration camp or a killing center (ushmm.org).

“The ghetto was to be liquidated entirely. Departures were to take place street by street, starting the next day” (Wiesel 13). Days later after they felt safe again, they would be taken to the camps, to be worked to death. They were dehumanized from that

During World War II when the Nazis would conquer a European city, they would force all of the Jews into just one area of the town called a ghetto. This area was guarded and was fenced with barbed wire. The jewish people had access to very little water, food, and medicine. All Jewish people were told they were being relocated to a newer and better place; then would eventually be brought into concentration camps. These camps were like prison. The people there were forced to do hard labor and the weak either were killed or died of starvation. Some of these camps included gas chambers. Large groups of people would be led into these chambers and killed with poisoned gas.

Most Jews thought that they were being taken to death camps. They didn't know that the SS men were taking them to work camps. Because of this, they resisted deportation. Jews started to form resistance groups.

There were many concentration camps all over Germany. Prisoners could be sent to another camp to survive or for other various reasons. The concentration camps were unstable and unsanitary. The main epidemics or diseases that was within the camps was dysentery (diarrhea) and typhoid. The Prisoners had little to no food and had little clothing. At certain times a SS officer could call for selection meaning he or she will pick the prisoners of best fit that can continue to work. If you ended up on the right, you were safe and if you ended up on the left, you were in danger of being killed, later or on the spot. When enemies or invaders were coming near the camps, the camp officials would call for evacuation or “Death March.” Not many prisoners would survive because they were already starving and would have to run in the cold nonstop. Officials and the guards ran with the prisoners but they eventually got a break by switching with another official or guard. If you stopped while running, you were shot and killed on the spot.

In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. noted in his speech that “he who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting it is really cooperating with it”. This is the perfect example to show how Germans did not fight for humanity. People needed to break the silence and protest. There was not a moment were the Germans felt sympathy for the Jews. The same way that Hitler gained widespread support in Germany by degrading a group of individuals for the way they look, sadly it is still occurring.

During the years of 1933-1945, the German Nazi regime killed around 6 million European Jews as well as others who were seen as mentally retarded or homosexual (McMorran). To the Nazis’ leader, Adolf Hitler, people of Jewish decent were seen as inferior. Hitler had a stereotype that Jewish people were a threat to the German racial purity and community. The Jewish people living in Europe during Hitler’s rule were discriminated against and ultimately were segregated from all other races. During the segregation of Jewish people, Adolf Hitler wanted the Jews to be physically separate from all other ethnic groups and racial groups by forcefully moving the Jews into concentration camps, keeping the Germans the dominant group in Hitler’s eyes. The social concepts and theories of prejudice, segregation and discrimination forced upon the Jewish people were seen as a result of Adolf Hitler’s stereotype about the Jewish ethnicity.

n November 9 to November 10, 1938, in an incident known as “Kristallnacht”, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, also called the “Night of Broken Glass,” some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. German Jews had been subjected to repressive policies since 1933, when Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) became chancellor of Germany. However, prior to Kristallnacht, these Nazi policies had been primarily nonviolent. After Kristallnacht, conditions for German Jews grew increasingly worse. During World War II (1939-45), Hitler and the Nazis implemented their so-called “Final Solution” to the what

During World War II the Germans strived to create the perfect race, and that mean no people of the Jewish faith. To be Jewish in Germany meant to look a certain way that was different than the rest, Jewish was not a religion anymore, it became a race. September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 found at (“World War II Facts”) a devastating time for the Jewish population residing in Poland and all of west Asia. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the war; he instigated ideas that Jews were bad and caused the calamitous war to begin with. In retaliation of this mass genocide the Jewish people would physically revolt against their captors or mental revolt but staying true to the Jewish faith. In the events of World War II’s holocaust, two types of resistance emerged, armed and unarmed resistance, each way a result from trying to salvage their

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The Jews were stripped from most of their rights. Hitler believed that the Jews were behind all of the problems that were happening in Germany at the time. The Germans started stripping Jew

The 1930’s saw a huge fight for power, among European nation states with Germany rising to pre-eminence. As Adolf Hitler took office, he put his plans for his “Thousand Year Reich.” One of these policies came to be known as “The Final Solution” (ushmm). The main focus for the “Final Solution” was the German Jews (ushmm). Leading up to the decision on taking out every Jew that was in Germany. Over the years massive terror, took over for the Jewish Germans, and the other Jews that surround Germany.

They were then forced to live in temporary ghettos. " Whilst ghettos might be “open”, permitting some communication with the outside world, or “closed”, virtually sealed off from all exterior contact, almost all of them shared certain features in common" such as poor living conditions.(Web: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/). The ghettos could exist for 5 days, months or years. There was no knowing how long they would last, but impending doom was right around the corner. Hitler used the ghettos to kill more

On the 20th of January 1942, leading members of the Nazi party had met in Berlin to discuss how they could make the mass murder of all the Jewish people in Europe an organised and methodical procedure; this discussion would be known as ‘’the Final Solution of the Jewish Question’’. This essay will prove that the progressive development of German racial views and policies towards the Jewish people, did in fact led to the Final Solution, and ultimately an attempt at the mass genocide of the Jewish population all due to the absurd anti-Semitic mind sets of the German people.

Many religious conflicts are built from bigotry; however, only few will forever have an imprint on the world’s history. While some may leave a smear on the world’s past, some – like the homicide of Semitic people – may leave a scar. The Holocaust, closely tied to World War II, was a devastating and systematic persecution of millions of Jews by the Nazi regime and allies. Hitler, an anti-Semitic leader of the Nazis, believed that the Jewish race made the Aryan race impure. The Nazis did all in their power to annihilate the followers of Judaism, while the Jews attempted to rebel, rioted against the government, and united as one. Furthermore, the genocide had many social science factors that caused the opposition between the Jews and Nazis.