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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Jews were constantly persecuted before the Holocaust because they were deemed racially inferior. During the 1930’s, the Nazis sent thousands of Jews to concentration camps. Hitler wanted to
People sometimes ask why the Jews were the people to get harmed during the Holocaust or why Holocaust even happened. Jews were the targets of Holocaust because Adolf Hitler hated Jews and blamed them for all of the problems in the world. He mainly blamed them for Germany's loss in World War I. Hitler told the German that they could have won the war, if the Germany had not been "stabbed in the back" by the Jews.
After The Great depression and World War I, Germany was left in a fragile state. The economy was ruined, many people were unemployed and all hope was lost. The Nazis believed it wasn’t their own fault for the mess, but those who were inferior to the German people. These Nazi beliefs lead to and resulted in cruelty and suffering for the Jewish people. The Nazis wanted to purify Germany and put an end to all the inferior races, including Jews because they considered them a race. They set up concentration camps, where Jews and other inferior races were put into hard labor and murdered. They did this because Nazis believed that they were the only ones that belonged in Germany because they were pure Germans. This is the beginning of World War 2. The Nazi beliefs that led to and resulted in the cruelty and suffering of the Jewish people
When the Holocaust began Jews were discriminated for the way they looked and their beliefs, In fact, the Nazi dictator ,Adolf Hitler, wanted to eliminate all Jews as a part of his aim to conquer the war (Stier, “Holocaust American Style”). Hitler was a leader of a party of people and he had enormous amount of control over a excellent amount
The fear of the Jews that was created by the Nazis was effective. Small Jewish shops were burned or heavily destroyed by the German people. The propaganda that was used to cause the hatred of Jews was created to show how to solve Germany’s problems. According to the Anne Frank House, the solution to all of Germany’s problems was to banish Jews from society (“Banish”). According to A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, Jews were not allowed in movie theaters, swimming pools, and resorts (“Victims”). Jews were forced out of Germany at one point. The whole point was to get rid of any other race beside Aryan. Hitler believed if Germany was completely Aryan and stro...
Tent, James F. In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Nazi Persecution of Jewish-Christian Germans. Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2003.
Everyone thought slavery was horrific but what Hitler did to the Jewish community was just as bad, if not, worse. A lot of us are oblivious to what really happened; the Jews were just another minority that got the short end of the stick. Millions of innocent Jews died due to Hitler and his rules.
When people first hear about the Holocaust, they are so surprised to hear how horrible and sick the whole time period was for Jews. Everyone is really shocked to know that so many horrible and hateful things could be done. The idea that countries were taken over, families and children were torn apart and people were tortured and murdered, is unbelievable. Propaganda and psychological conditioning played a large role in the genocide and overall indifference towards Jews during the holocaust. Not only was Hitler and his troops able to control armies, but he was able to influence other countries through precise planning and strategic moves.
The Jewish people were targeted, hunted, tortured, and killed, just for being Jewish, Hitler came to office on January 20, 1933; he believed that the German race had superiority over the Jews in Germany. The Jewish peoples’ lives were destroyed; they were treated inhumanly for the next 12 years, “Between 1933 and 1945, more than 11 million men, women, and children were murdered in the Holocaust. Approximately six million of these were Jews” (Levy). Hitler blamed a lot of the problems on the Jewish people, being a great orator Hitler got the support from Germany, killing off millions of Jews and other people, the German people thought it was the right thing to do. “To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community” (History.com Staff).
German children would grow up under the impression that the Holocaust was “sins of their Fathers” and would be expected to deny the existence of the event. Studies show that most German children did not in fact think anything of the lack of Jewish in their environment due to the denial by their own people5. During the time of the Holocaust, the media and education was very meticulously manipulated to where it wasn’t as obvious as to what was taking place. German schools would educated pupils in a way that portrayed Hitler as good and Jews as different. Hitler also would found something known as the Hitler youth program in which the German children would attend in order to have early learning and military training. Youth were taught at a young age to respect the government and the leader, and would not be allowed to complete any action or thought that could conclude mistrust or suspicion to authority. The kids would live a life of mistrust and oblivious thinking due to events of the Holocaust, these practices have been passed down to further generations as
By looking at The Dog in the Wood, we can see that the treatment of Germans after World War II was unfair. The people of Germany after the war were beaten, stolen from, raped, put in refugee camps, and were forced to deal with many other hardships. They had to learn to deal with the consequences presented before them, so they could retain their culture. This is important because an entire way of life was being torn apart and was being replaced against the peoples’ will.
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The Holocaust was very different from all other genocides in history. This was not a result of government issues, a power struggle between two groups, a holy crusade, or an attempt to defeat an enemy to win. Instead, the Jews were murdered simply because they were Jews. The Nazi group believed that the Jews were inferior to most other peoples and sought to literally wipe them from the face of the Earth. Many people saw this as wrong and unjust, but there was still other people like, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi leaders who still looked at the Jews as somehow less human. When the Nazis came into power in the 1930’s, they began to round up the Jews, and send them to concentration camps. The number of Jews that they gathered up was imaginable. The Jews were forced to do hard labor in the camps. Others soon died or were later to “death camps”, as they were called.
The holocaust was a horrible and unthinkable event in history. It was instigated by one cruel individual with the right tactics to get millions of followers. This man was known as Adolf Hitler. Hitler was a very powerful and convincing individual. He made the German people believe he was a compassionate man looking at the best options to get Germany back to where there needed to be post WWI. Hitler did not step into office and bluntly tell the German people he was going to completely annex the race of Jews. If he did this then he would have never been given the authority he was given. With that being said, the German people as a whole should not be guilty. Majority of the German people supported Hitler for many reasons. He found ways to get
Through the events of the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazis, is responsible for the executions of nearly six million Jewish people. The Holocaust was caused by a strong sense of racism, or the belief that the German race was superior to the Jewish race. The Germans, however, were not the first group to develop a strong hatred for the Jewish people; throughout history, Jews have often served as scapegoat for the rest of the world’s problems. Hilter was able to convince the Germans to kill the Jews by using propaganda, building upon the European hatred for Jews, and by exercising his power over the Germans.