The Worsening of the Status and Position of Jews in Germany in the Years 1933 to 1939
The status and position of Jews in Germany grew worse in the years
1933
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to 1939 because Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party came to power.
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Hitler's ideas were not his own and certainly not new. When Hitler was
a
young failed art student he may have read Anti- Semitic books by
Wilhelm Marr and Theodor Fritsch, later Fritsch was honoured as an
elder statesman by the Nazis. They both suggested Jews were a separate
race, '...powerless against this foreign power.'
In 1933 the Nazis had practically the same Anti-Semitic views. They
believed Jews as an inferior race to the ideal person, an Aryan
(Northern European, tall, blond hair and blue eyes). Hitler believed
the Germans were of Aryan descent and had been polluted by inferior
races Jews, black people and Roma (gypsies).
When Hitler came to power he started to apply his beliefs to the way
he dictated. The Nazis started a selective breeding programme of the
Aryan race, small race farms were opened in Germany and women approved
by the authorities were brought and were to breed with SS officers.
This was just a small operation that was supposed to increase in the
future. The indoctrination of the German people also began. In schools
Jews were segregated from 'Germans'. The subjects included in a German
pupil's timetable were race study and eugenics, the science of
improving the German population by controlled breeding of Aryans. They
even tried to change religion by saying the Old Testament had a Jewish
strand and an Aryan one. He did this to get the German people on his
side, so he could later get rid of the Jews. '..the final objective
must be the complete removal of the Jews.' Hitler, 1919.
There were different stages of persecution by the Nazis. They
encouraged the German people to avoid Jews. This started in 1933 with
the boycott of Jewish shops, SS officers stood in Jewish doorways and
A Ghetto is a section of a city were members of a racial group are
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Why the Nazis' Treatment of the Jews Change from 1939-1945 Jewish discrimination was prominent in Germany, and was vastly spreading to nearby countries. Yet the Nazi treatment of the Jews immensely changed during the years of World War II. When Poland was invaded by Germany at the beginning of September, Britain and France finally realized that Hitler would have to be stopped. They declared war. Hitler had built up a powerful and efficient German army.
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
Before the nineteenth century anti-Semitism was largely religious, based on the belief that the Jews were responsible for Jesus’ crucifixion. It was expressed later in the Middle Ages by persecutions and expulsions, economic restrictions and personal restrictions. After Jewish emancipation during the enlightenment, or later, religious anti-Semitism was slowly replaced in the nineteenth century by racial prejudice, stemming from the idea of Jews as a distinct race. In Germany theories of Aryan racial superiority and charges of Jewish domination in the economy and politics in addition with other anti-Jewish propaganda led to the rise of anti-Semitism. This growth in anti-Semitic belief led to Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and eventual extermination of nearly six million Jews in the holocaust of World War II.
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Adolf Hitler came to power over Germany in January of 1933. He hated Jews and blamed them for everything bad that had ever happened to Germany. Hitler’s goal in life was to eliminate the Jewish population. With his rise to power in Germany, he would put into action his plan of elimination. This is not only why German Jews were the main target of the Holocaust, but why they were a large part of the years before, during, and after the Holocaust. Hitler’s “final solution” almost eliminated the Jewish population in Europe during World War II. At the end of the war and along with his suicide, the Jewish population would survive the horror known as the Holocaust and the Jews would eventually find their way back to their homeland of Israel as well as find new communities to call home.
While he was imprisoned, he wrote a book, Mein Kampf, or My Struggle, as it is translated to in English. In his book, he talked about his thoughts on a 'perfect' Germanic race. This race is known as the Aryan race. The Aryan race consisted of people with fair skin, blue eyes and blonde hair. Since he pictured a superior race, he thought there were weaker races as well.
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.
German Jews responded to the Nazi attacks in many ways. Departing was not a simple task, especially for those with families and deep roots in Germany, but nevertheless some still left the country. There was no place for Jews to go because of immigration policies. Economic problems caused by the Great Depression made governments hostile to immigrants. Thirty-seven thousand Jews fled Germany during Hitler’s first year of rule despite the restricted immigration policies. German Jews tried to come together within Germany by self-help efforts. They tried to reduce social isolation by providing social and educational opportunities for themselves. A group of Jewish leaders created the Reich Representation of the German Jews in September 1933, to preserve
The Jews were used as scapegoats by the Germans. They were treated terribly and lived in very poor conditions. Many of the Jewish children were put into homes,ther...
The Jews were different from the general population of the countries where they were. They had different customs, had a different religion and dressed different. Because they were grouped in the ghettos these differences were increased. However, when Germany became a nation in 1871, there was a halt in anti-Semitic laws. In 1900, Jews could buy houses, and while they were subject to restrictions, they were more comfortable under Ge...
When the infamous Hitler began his reign in Germany in 1933, 530,000 Jews were settled in his land. In a matter of years the amount of Jews greatly decreased. After World War II, only 15,000 Jews remained. This small population of Jews was a result of inhumane killings and also the fleeing of Jews to surrounding nations for refuge. After the war, emaciated concentration camp inmates and slave laborers turned up in their previous homes.1 Those who had survived had escaped death from epidemics, starvation, sadistic camp guards, and mass murder plants. Others withstood racial persecution while hiding underground or living illegally under assumed identities and were now free to come forth. Among all the survivors, most wished not to return to Germany because the memories were too strong. Also, some become loyal to the new country they had entered. Others feared the Nazis would rise again to power, or that they would not be treated as an equal in their own land. There were a few, though, who felt a duty to return to their home land, Germany, to find closure and to face the reality of the recent years. 2 They felt they could not run anymore. Those survivors wanted to rejoin their national community, and show others who had persecuted them that they could succeed.
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