Discrimination Against the Jews in Germany from 1933 to 1939
Assignment one: objective 1
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Describe how Jews were discriminated against in Germany from 1933 to
1939.
After gaining power, the Nazis had enormous control over every aspect
of German life. The Nazis could use the police, courts, schools,
newspapers and radio to put into practice their racist beliefs. Jews,
who made up less than one percent of the total population in 1933,
were the main target of this attack, but the Gypsies and the
handi-capped were also singled out for discrimination because they
were seen as a threat to the purity of the Aryan race. The Nazis
blamed the Jews for Germany’s defeat in World War I, its economic
problems, and for the spread of communist parties throughout Europe,
despite the obvious evidence that they didn’t.
In April 1933,Jews made up less than one percent of the German
population, they were well known in some professions – for example
sixteen percent were lawyers, seventeen percent were bankers and
approximately 10,000 were doctors. Hitler began to discriminate
against Jews. All non-Aryans were expelled from the civil service. A
non-Aryan was defined as anyone who had Jewish parents or two or more
Jewish grandparents. Son after they were recognised by their nose,
lips and eyes. In this same year the government called for a one-day
general boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses and passed laws
excluding Jews from journalism, radio, farming, teaching, the theatre,
and films. At the same time government contracts with Jewish
businesses were cancelled.
In 1934, Jews were dismissed from the army. They were excluded from
the stock exchange, law, medicine, and business. But it was the
Nuremberg Laws of 1935 that took away the citizenship of Jews born in
Germany, labelling them “subhuman.” The law was for the protection of
German blood and honour. These laws became the determination of the
Nazi attack on Jews up to 1939. Under these laws, marriage between
Jews an Aryans was forbidden and Jews were not to display the German
of the famous stories was of St. Louis. St. Louis was a ship full of
capable of killing tens of thousands of Jews in a few days and the gas
They were forbidden from having any relationships or marriages with those of the Aryan race. The Nazis boycotted all Jewish owned stores, which forced many of them to close their stores and go out of business.
On January 30, 1933, Hitler rose to power, during his time of power Jews had been dehumanized, reduced to little more than “things” by the Nazis. The many examples as to how they had been dehumanized are shown in the novel, Night by Elie Wiesel. For example, the Jews were stripped of their identity, they were abused, and they treated each other with a lack of dignity and voice.
The Change of Nazis' Treatment of the Jews From 1939-45 Hitler and the Nazi party managed to kill six million Jews throughout Europe by the end of 1945. This systematic process of killing between the years 1939 and 1945 is known as the holocaust. There were five key issues that led to the Wansee conference that took place in 1942 before the Nazi's decided upon the "final solution to the Jewish problem. These events included the outbreak of World War II, Hitler's personal agenda against the Jewish population, the rise and power of the SS and the failures of other solutions put forward to "get rid" of the Jewish problem.
By 1935 the Nazis made sure that Jews were no longer seen as a part of
The Holocaust began in 1933 when the Nazis instigated their first action against the Jews by announcing a boycott of all Jewish-run businesses. The Nuremberg Laws went into place on September 15, 1935 which began to exclude the Jews from public life. These laws went to the extent of stripping German Jews of the citizenship and then implemented a prohibition of marriage between the Jewish and the Germans. These laws set the legal precedent for further anti-Jewish legislation. Over the next several years, even more laws would be introduced. Jews would be excluded from parks, fired from civil service jobs, required to register all property and restricted Jewish doctors from practicing medicine on any person other than Jewish patients.
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.
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.
n January of 1933 the Nazi regime took control of Germany with the belief that Germans were “racially superior.” Throughout this time period called the Holocaust, which is a Greek word meaning “sacrifice by fire,” the Jewish people were deemed inferior, and were the main threat to the German racial community. Though the Holocaust was a systematic and bureaucratic war, racism is what fueled the persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime. Racism is defined as “a belief or doctrine that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” This framework of racism was what Hitler believed would “carve out a vast European empire.” (Perry,
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...