The Holocaust was and still is one of the most tragic events which occurred during World War II. It was a systematic, state sponsored murder of six million Jews by the Nazi’s and their allies. When the Nazi’s came to power in Germany in 1933, they had the mindset that German’s were racially superior, and that the Jews, seen as inferior, were a threat to the German community. During this period, the Nazi’s also targeted other “inferior” groups such as; homosexuals, gypsies, communists, socialists and Jehovah’s Witnesses. With such putrid hate and discrimination for the non-purebloods, Hitler ended up slaughtering eleven million people, six million being Jews, and one million being Jewish children. On January 23rd, Hitler was announced Chancellor …show more content…
Many of the first convicted were communists. But it was soon a site of political prisoners, people who posed a threat to Hitler’s dictatorship. German authorities then helped to establish camps all over Germany to handle the masses of people who got arrested as alleged subversive or insurgent. By July they had some 27,000 people in these concentration camps in “protective custody”. More camps were established by the SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons—the elite guard of the Nazi party) in Esterwegen, Hamburg, north-west of Munich, Oranienburg and …show more content…
Then with the help of the German armed forces, Hitler takes his place as President of Germany. Shortly after, on August 19th, Hitler scrapped the President’s chair and declared himself as Führer of the German parliament and people. By the end of 1934, Hitler had complete control over Germany. Therefore, his campaign against the Jews, was in full gear. In the years of his dictatorship, Hitler had implemented over 400 different laws and regulations against the Jews restricting pretty much all aspects of their private and public lives. The sad thing was that Hitler had most of Germany behind his schemes, as he would sell propaganda to the German society, telling them that he was the supreme leader, and that Jews were inferior and should not be allowed in their country. In 1935, under the Nuremburg Laws, anyone with three or four Jewish grandparents were considered to be a Jew, while people with two, were considered to be “half breeds”. Also Hitler banned Jehovah’s Witness organisations. This is due to their refusal to swear allegiance to the state because of their religious convictions forbidding an oath of allegiance to and service in the armed forces of any temporal
Adolf Hitler, head of the NSDAP, became Chancellor of Germany on the 30th January 1933. Following the 'legal revolution' of the following months and President Hindenburg's death on the 2nd August 1934, Hitler made himself Führer and Reichskanzler. The Nazi revolution was complete and Germany was subject to a dictatorship of the extreme political right.
During World War II there was event that lead to deaths of millions of innocent people. This even is known as the holocaust, millions of innocent people were killed violently, there was mass murders, rapes and horrific tortures. The question I will attempt to answer in the course of this paper is if the holocaust was a unique event in history. In my opinion there were other mass murders that people committed justified by the feeling of being threatened. But I don 't believe that any were as horrific and inhumane as Germany’s genocide of the Jewish people.
Holocaust Facts The Holocaust has many reasons for it. Some peoples’ questions are never answered about the Holocaust, and some answers are. The Holocaust killed over 6 million Jews (Byers.p.10.) Over 1.5 million children (Byers, p. 10). They were all sent to concentration camps to do hard labor work.
It was an act of violence towards Jews, wherein synagogues, homes and Jewish-owned businesses were vandalized, antiquities destroyed and Jewish cemeteries were desecrated. Reinhard Heydrich, in his capacity as head of the Security Police sent an urgent telegram to headquarters and to the stations of the State Police and which contained directives regarding the riots.” One of the directives was for local authorities to gather and arrest as many Jews as their jails could hold. He especially wanted young, healthy males. It is estimated that more than 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and most of them were transferred to concentration camps, specifically Dachau, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen.
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.
As early as age thirteen, we start learning about the Holocaust in classrooms and in textbooks. We learn that in the 1940s, the German Nazi party (led by Adolph Hitler) intentionally performed a mass genocide in order to try to breed a perfect population of human beings. Jews were the first peoples to be put into ghettos and eventually sent by train to concentration camps like Auschwitz and Buchenwald. At these places, each person was separated from their families and given a number. In essence, these people were no longer people at all; they were machines. An estimation of six million deaths resulting from the Holocaust has been recorded and is mourned by descendants of these people every day. There are, however, some individuals who claim that this horrific event never took place.
In January 30, 1933, he was appointed as Chancellor of Germany, after the Nazis won 33% of the vote in a Reichstag election. By March, the current president of Germany, Paul von Hindenburg, soon surrendered to Hitler's party, and died a while after. Because the president was dead, Hitler automatically declared himself as the Füher. Germany had a Jewish po...
January 30th, 1933 marked the beginning of the end for the Jews of Eastern Germany. On this day, President Paul von Hindenburg named Adolf Hitler the chancellor of Germany. Hitler’s rise to power was fueled by the people’s frustration that stemmed from the harsh blow of the Treaty of Versailles and the economic downturn of their country (“The Nuremberg Laws”). As a member of the Nazi Party, Hitler believed that as the Aryan race, they were in fierce competition with the Jews for world domination.
How one person views almost caused a race to become completely erased. On September 15, 1935, Hitler introduced and the Nazi government passed the Nuremberg Laws during World War II, which discriminated against people of Jewish descent. The Nuremberg Laws consisted of the, Reich Citizenship Law, Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, and Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. The laws stated that if you had more than three Jewish grandparents you were identified as a Jew. These laws were not meant to be good for the Jews that lived in Germany, but were meant to strip the Jews of their citizenship. Hitler wanted to eliminate any Jewish customs from the German culture. The Jewish community was not aware of how the Nuremberg Laws would affect their rights. These laws were very important, because they are stepping stones for what was to come for the Jewish people living in Germany. What caused the laws to come about? How did these laws restrict Jews. What does these laws really mean? What were the long term effects on the Jewish culture? Ultimately, the Nuremberg laws shaped World War II and
The Holocaust, the mass killing of the Jewish people in Europe, is the largest genocide in history to this date. Over the course of the Holocaust nearly six million Jewish people were killed by the Nazi Party and Germany led by Adolf Hitler. There are multiple contributing factors to the Holocaust that made it so large in scope. Historians argue which of these factors were most significant. The most significant contributing factor is the source of the Holocaust, the reason it occurred. This source is Adolf Hitler and his hatred for Jewish people. In comparison to the choices of the Allies to not accept Jewish refugees and to not take direct military action to end the Holocaust, the most significant contributing factor of the Holocaust is that Adolf Hitler was able to easily rise to power with the support of the German people and rule Germany.
HItler created laws, named the "Nuremburg Race Laws," which set barriers on Jewish people. The laws would give all Jewish people a curfew and restricted them from using public transportation. Over time the Nuremburg Race Laws grew, they eventually restricted Jews form owning a business and seperated them from the rest of the country. They were forced to attend Jewish schools. These actions are very similar to the Jim Crow Laws in the United States during the period of segregation. The race laws Hitler created expanded to include more people including mentally handicapped, physically disabled, and colored people.
Ever wondered what it was like to be alive during the Holocaust? Ever wondered what it was like to walk in the shoes of a Jew themselves? To be restricted and pushed off like you were nothing? The Nuremberg Laws excluded Jews from German citizenship, which ultimately led the dehumanization of the Jewish people. To be a German citizen is to have basic power over basically every Jew, giving them the right to dehumanize them, and to be racist to them.
Hitler became leader of the Nazi party and chancellor of Germany. For example,’ ‘ Hitler was never elected, he came second, until President Hindenburg was forced to appoint Hitler as chancellor in 1933.’’ (www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/adolf-hitler)
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic and trying times for the Jewish people. Hundreds of thousands of Jews and other minorities that the Nazis considered undesirable were detained in concentration camps, death camps, or labor camps. There, they were forced to work and live in the harshest of conditions, starved, and brutally murdered. Horrific things went on in Auschwitz and Majdenek during the Holocaust that wiped out approximately 1,378,000 people combined. “There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.” –Fidel Castro
Once the Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935, Jewish children could no longer attend schools. The Nuremberg Laws took away German citizenship of the Jews and prohibited sexual relationships and marriage between Germans and Jews. Taking away someone’s citizenship means they are somewhat of an illegal resident in the country so Hitler has the power to not allow Jewish children to go to school. These laws weren’t just for Jews; it was extended to negroes, gypsies and anything else different.