How Did The Nuremberg Laws Affect Poland

Between 1942-1945 over 250,000 men, women and child were murdered at the Sobibor death camp in Poland. This horrendous event was the result of unrelenting bigotry and hate perpetrated by the Nazi regime on the majority of Europe citizenry and in particular members of the Jewish community. In the 1942 uprising in Sobibor Death Camp, the Jewish people took a stand against the Nazis.

On the first of September 1939, Poland was ruthlessly invaded by Nazi Germany. Soon after the invasion, both Great Britain and France called for a military alliance and declared war on Germany two days later. Although the invasion was condemned worldwide and despite support from Great Britain and France, Poland, with it’s outdated military was unable to withstand the onslaught of Nazi Germany’s military superiority.

In addition, Poland was further weakened when Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed an agreement known as the

Although the Nazis went after many people of whom they did not approve such as Gypsies, communists, socialists, homosexuals and even members of the clergy to name a few, no one suffered more under the Nazi regime as did members of the Jewish community and not just in Poland, but eventually throughout Europe. In 1935, Nazi Germany passed what is known as the Nuremberg Laws. The bigoted and hateful intent of these laws was to “protection of German blood and Honor” and severely restricted the act of Jewish observance and forbade their participation in daily life. In fact, the restrictions were so severe that people were forbidden the simple dignity and joy of walking in a park on a beautiful day.

It was in this environment of unbridled bigotry and hate that the Nazi’s established a series of concentration camps in Poland, and tragically in other countries throughout Europe, as the war grew and Nazi aggression and hate encompassed all of