Why Were Jews Singled Out?

officials that were against Hitler. This facility, the first of its kind to be constructed, would eventually be turned into a death camp for Jews, the physically and mentally unstable, gypsies, and homosexuals. I have always wondered why the Nazis singled out the Jews and killed so many of them. Why the Jews? For a number of reasons. First, because the Jews were considered one of the “undesirable” groups because their genetic and cultural make-up did not meet Nazi standards, that is, they were not of

horribly the Jews were tortured, their lack of freedom, and the pure dehumanization the prisoners of concentration camps had to go through. Article five of the UDHR states, “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” In Elie Wiesel's memoir Night violation of this right happens repeatedly throughout the book, as soon as the Wiesel family arrives at the camp. In the camps the Jews were beaten regularly by the guards, kapo, SS, and other Jews. If the

000 to 12,702,000 people were executed in the period of 1942-1945. That is killing 2,109,250 to 3,175,500 people a year! A majority of the people familiar with the Holocaust think that only Jewish people were persecuted when in fact there were many more groups of people, these groups included Slavs, Serbs, Soviet POWs, Romani people, colored people, the disabled, homosexuals, Freemasons, Spanish republicans, Gypsies, the mentally ill, and Jehovah's witnesses. These people were executed because they

some other big and exciting things happened! Three of the most important events were, The Holocaust History Project was founded, John Gacy; The Clown Killer was convicted of killing young boys and even the death of Paul McCartney’s wife, Linda McCartney. The first event I did research on was the Founding of the Holocaust History Project that had begun in 1998. The Holocaust was basically Hitler targeting every single Jew, Roma also known as Gypsies, Poles and Other Slavs, Political Dissidents and

sent to prison for treason. Even after he got out, he worked with the government of Germany. He even rose to be the Dictator of Germany, with the luck of the last leader's passing. He blamed others for his "struggle." He passed laws, to make it legal to descriminate and to single out groups of people, races, and religions. During the Holocaust, terrible and devistating things happened. Jews, and other races, religions, and eve people were singled out and killed. A&E's History of the Holocoust would

Why was the world silent during the Holocaust? By: Mary Katherine Mayes and Sarah Grace Whitt Gadsden Middle School Hitler had an invincible ally without whom he could have never flourished. His ally was the world that chose to endure silence as Germany kept challenging the boundaries of the universal acceptance for its evil actions. The Holocaust didn't begin with crematoria. Hitler moved gradually, carefully intensifying his anti-Jewish guidelines. In 1935, he approved

hated the Jews, we see this in World War II with the Holocaust. The Holocaust started in 1933 when Hitler rose to power; he made a plan in 1941 which was to eradicate the whole Jewish population. Hitler called this plan the “Final Solution” (An Introductory History of The Holocaust). Why did Hitler and the Nazis single out the Jews for genocide? And in what ways did the Nazis single them out? Well first off, Hitler and the Nazis weren’t the first people to treat the Jews poorly; they were just the

developing a pamphlet on the eradication of the Jews from Poland because he deemed them a “problem”. Along with her father’s propaganda, he idolized the Nazi’s rise to power. He believed he deserved to work alongside the commandants in occupied Cracow, but, in a cruel form of irony, he was executed along with some fellow professors. He communicated his confusion to his wife and Sophie through one small message that read “ I have my pamphlet…I cannot understand why I am unable to through to the authorities

more plausibly linked to a set of ‘mobilizing passions’ that shape fascist action than to a consistent and fully articulate philosophy.” We can see these “mobilizing passions” being portrayed in the excerpts that we watched in class from The Eternal Jew and Triumph of the Will. These two films are very different, but they show how a group of people can be persuaded to think a certain way. They show two approaches to propaganda that can be equally as effective. This essay will show how these two films

Targeting Jews for Genocide When discussing The Holocaust, our minds tend to jump straight to the genocide of the Jewish populations of Europe. This is because of the approximate 11 million people killed during The Holocaust; roughly 6 million of them were Jews. Many people are now left to wonder why Hitler and the Nazi Party specifically targeted the Jews for genocide. The main reason was because the Nazi Party took the idea of nationalism to an extreme, new level. Hitler also thought the Jews were