A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust: The Nuremburg Laws

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The Jews were specifically singled out to be killed by the Nazi’s. The Nazi’s also killed gypsies, homosexuals, etc. but the Nazi’s were trying to completely erase the “race” of Jews. According to Six Million Crucifixions most Germans had been raised to just naturally hate Jews and blame them (“The Holocaust”). Hitler blamed the Jews for everything, including losing World War I, and most people saw them as being different so they singled them out and blamed them for all chaos that happened in Germany (“The Holocaust”). According to A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, Hitler passed the Nuremburg Laws which were laws that described who was Jewish (“Victims”). Some people who weren’t even Jewish were under Nazi suspicion because of these laws that he passed (“Victims”). In my opinion, this was obviously unfair for the Jews because no one would listen to them. Children are told to always obey their parents and listen to what they have to say, so you can see how this opinion to hate Jews caught on fast.
When you are little you don’t know about politics. Since you don’t know anything about politics, it’s common to just go along with whatever your parents believe since they are older and wiser. This same kind of process happened in Germany during the Holocaust. Most little kids didn’t know much about the Nazi’s or Hitler so they went along with what their parents told them. Parents told their kids whatever the Nazi’s told them to tell their kids. So the children grew up loving Hitler and hating the Jews. If you are raised believing a certain way then you won’t understand anything different. For example, if I came up to you and told you that pigs could fly you wouldn’t believe me because you have always been told that pigs could never fly...

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... some of them should’ve thought about it a little more. People also gave in to peer pressure when they believed the rumors about the Jews. Rumors would go around about how bad and evil the Jews were, and no one gave them a chance. Obviously, this was all Hitler’s fault for setting up this scheme. Personally, I believe the Germans should receive some of the blame too. The Holocaust was a very appalling period in history, and it is something that we can learn about today.

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