The holocaust has undoubtably been one of the worst genocides to occur in history to this day. Could it be possible for another horrific event like this to occur again? Or have others like this already occurred? What if a very similar tragedy occurred around the same time as the holocaust? A genocide is defined as “the deliberate killing of a large group of people”. Genocides go all the way back to the first millennium and as recent as 2010. There are countless records of mass destruction/slaughters previous to the holocaust. One genocide that takes a back seat to the holocaust is the Spanish civil war. Starting July 17th, 1936, and ending 3 years later, Francisco Franco seized power and gruesomely murdered hundred of thousands. The holocaust …show more content…
Hitler nearly a year later was appointed president after Paul von Hindenburg’s death. During this time, jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsher persecution. This ultimately lead to the murder of 6,000,000 jews. It happened progressively from 1933 all the way until 1945. On September 15th, 1935, Hitler put in place the infamous nuremberg laws. These laws marked a major step in clarifying racial policy and removing jewish influence from Aryan society. The nuremberg laws contained two different laws within the document. However when the document was published a third law was published along with it. The first law was often known as Blutschutzgesetz in German; or commonly known as today "Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor”. This laws main concern was to protect German blood and honor. This law made it illegal for Jews to marry non-Jews. It also made it illegal for these people to have sexual relation with one another. If violated, long prison terms was a typically punishment. Violations were really only imposed on men and women could get away with no prison sentence. The second law was Reichsbürgergesetz. This law stated that only people of German or closely related blood could become citizens. This prevented Jews and a few others from never becoming citizens. This also required all Jews employed by the government to quit their jobs. The final restriction this law imposed was the loss of the right to vote for the non citizens of Germany. The third law that was published at the same time but not actually part of the Nuremberg laws was Reichsflaggengesetz. This was the simplest of the three and officially made the swastika the official flag of
The Holocaust was an extraordinary event that affected the lives of millions of people, including Elie Wiesel, and led to the death of many innocent lives. It all began when Adolf Hitler became Germany’s dictator in 1933. Hitler praised the German population and seemed to ban all other competing races, specifically the Jewish population in Germany. This hatred toward the Jews led to extreme discrimination. Hitler’s main goal was to lead the Jewish race out of the country through the establishment of harsh laws against them (Barrett). After having little effect, Hitler decided to force the Jews into political imprisonment which led to the creation of the first concentration camps in 1933. However,
Adolf Hitler came into power of Germany in 1934. Wanting power, land and revenge, Hitler gets troops ready to attack. Hitler was a troop in WWI for Germany. Once the Germans lost the war, Hitler took that personally, and wanted revenge. After coming into power with his army of Nazis, Hitler is quick to blame Jewish people for all the harsh debt and corruption in Germany. The Germans believe him, causing them to hate Jewish people. The holocaust happened throughout 1933-1945, it ended when Hitler killed himself.
Throughout history there have been many horrifying genocides, the most famous of which is the Holocaust. However, there have been many other genocides, some dating centuries prior to the Holocaust, or even during the Holocaust, such as the Asian Holocaust. One of these genocides predating the Holocaust is known as the Holodomor, A man-made famine lasting from 1932 to 1933, and, in more broader terms, the deportation and execution in Ukraine and other areas where the Ukrainian nationality is dominant.
A total of 11 million people died during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was started by the Nazi’s in the 1930’s. It was where about six million Jews were killed. Misinformed individuals theorize that the Holocaust is not a form of genocide, but they are misguided. The Holocaust should be considered an example of genocide based on the UN’s definition, the stages of genocide and the specific evidence provided in the memoir Night.
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).
Racial inferiority ideas at the time drove this law to become a benchmark for defining German Aryans as the sole benefactors of German government citizenship. The Reich Citizenship law made it necessary to further protect those deemed Aryans or citizens of Germany and following the passage of the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor, which banned sexual intercourse and marriage between Jews and Germans. According to the statute of this law, intercourse between Jews and citizens of German or kindred blood is forbidden. This law was enacted to keep true Aryan Germans pure, and not to defile their genetics with the believed “inferior” race of the Jews. By defining what a citizen was Hitler was able to control who was protected under the new government, and whose rights were deemed unjustifiable and could be persecuted at
The Nazi Party, controlled by Adolf Hitler, ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. In 1933, Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi government began to take over. Hitler became a very influential speaker and attracted new members to his party by blaming Jews for Germany’s problems and developed a concept of a “master race.” The Nazis believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that the Jewish people were a threat to the German racial community and also targeted other groups because of their “perceived racial inferiority” such as Gypsies, disabled persons, Polish people and Russians as well as many others. In 1938, Jewish people were banned from public places in Germany and many were sent to concentration camps where they were either murdered or forced to work.
Starting with creating a Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship. Then moving on to pass a law allowing for forced sterilization of those found by a Hereditary Health Court to have genetic defects. They also prohibit Jews from owning land, also from being newspaper editors. Jewish people are also banned from the German labor front and stripped of national health insurance. The Jews where also prohibited from receiving legal qualifications. The Nazis ban Jewish people from serving in the military. Hitler was trying to form his version of a perfect race by not only stripping Jews of their rights but also Gypsies, the mentally ill, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s witnesses. The name for the plan of the mass extermination was called “the final solution”. The Jews where sentenced to death there was really no escape for them. Some people where very lucky, some people of Jewish ancestry were sometimes able to escape being sent to the Nazi death camps if their grandparents had converted to Christianity before the date of January 18, of 1871. This date marked the start of Germanys unification and the start of the German empire. After the beginning of World War II, N...
6,000 Jehovah witnesses, over 15,000 homosexuals, 400 “colored” children, and over 5,000,000 Jews were killed. Hitler’s anti-Semitism grew out of anger because the Germans lost the war. He blamed the Jews for Germany’s defeat in the war. Hitler also used the Jews as an excuse for all the problems that Germany was facing. To get the Jews to get deported, Hitler and his Nazis made the Jews think that they were moving to a better, happier place, when in reality, they were moving to concentration camps, or death camps.
The Nuremberg trial was built up to be the trial of the century. In the word's of Norman Birkett, who served as a British alternate judge: it was "the greatest trial in history" . The four most intriguing characters of this trial were of vast contradiction to each other; there was Herman Georing the relentless leader, Joachim von Ribbentrop the guilty and indecisive follower of Hitler, Hjalmar Schacth the arrogant financial wizard of the Rich and Albert Speer the remorseful head of armament and munitions. Three of the four allies wanted the Nazi leaders to be executed without a trial Winston Churchill said, "They should be rounded up and shot like dog's" but the Americans persuaded the other allies that a trial would be most beneficial from a public relations standpoint, so now with the allies agreed the stage for Nuremberg was set.
Judgment at Nuremberg The Nuremberg trials took place between 1945 and 1949 and were used to judge the acts of over a hundred judges accused of committing war crimes. The movie "Trials at Nuremberg" dealt specifically with the justice trials. The justice trials adjudicated the criminal responsibility of judges accused of enforcing immoral, unjust, and inhumane laws set by the Nazi party. =
Approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million other people starting from the year 1933 were killed. They were put to death. There was one main person responsible for all of this.
During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Germany was experiencing great economic and social hardship. Germany was defeated in World War I and the Treaty of Versailles forced giant reparations upon the country. As a result of these reparations, Germany suffered terrible inflation and mass unemployment. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party who blamed Jews for Germany’s problems. His incredible public speaking skills, widespread propaganda, and the need to blame someone for Germany’s loss led to Hitler’s great popularity among the German people and the spread of anti-Semitism like wildfire. Hitler initially had a plan to force the Jews out of Germany, but this attempt quickly turned into the biggest genocide in history. The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933.“...the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.” –Adolf Hitler
Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, after World War 1 when tensions were high because the Treaty of Versailles blamed Germany for the destruction the war caused and they were faced with the payment for all the damages, which sent Germany into economic downfall. The Nazi party got a lot of electoral votes that year in the government, and started creating propaganda against the Jews; they blamed the Jews for the terrible things happening in Germany at the time. Some of the propaganda the Nazi party made were pictures of Jews pointing out what makes them Jewish and their distinctive traits, so you can spot them. These were on the front of newspapers printed everywhere in Germany. (An Introductory History of the Holocaust) They began to take away individual rights, and picked the Jews apart. They also put the Star of David on all Jews clothing, so they could easily be spotted in public.
The Nuremberg Laws originated at a rally held by the NAZI Party in Nuremberg on September 15, 1935. The laws, which were divided into seven sections, were designed by Adolf Hitler himself (Britannica). The majority of the laws took effect in 1935, but every law was active by 1938 (USHMM). The purpose of the Nuremberg Laws was to take away the rights of the Jewish people living in NAZI Germany and to further promote the cause of the party, which was to blame Germany’s troubles on the Jews (Owlnet). Along with this, the Nuremberg Laws also were a source of propaganda for the regime.