How Jews were Discriminated Against in Germany from 1933-1939
The discrimination of Jews was prevalent in Germany in the 1930’s.
Attacks on the Jews had occurred in Christian countries since the
Middle Ages, but intensified between 1933 and 1939 due to the Reign of
Hitler’s power.
According to Hitler’s racial theories, the Jews deliberately planned
to destroy the German people, as they did at the time of war. He
influenced the Germans, that it was the Jews and such invalids, who
caused the failure and collapse of Germany in World War I. The
Germans, being in a vulnerable and desperate state, believed this, and
subsequently, the beliefs of anti-Semitism in Germany increased.
Hitler’s words and dictations were influential, but there was another
factor that manipulated the Germans into discriminating Jews.
Propaganda played a great part in the persecution of Jews. Posters
were put up all around Germany, saying, “Jews not allowed”, and “Jews
are our greatest misfortune. Children were easily misled by
propaganda, and were indoctrinated into Nazi beliefs.
Adults were also bombarded with anti- Semitic propaganda. Germans had
to do everything in their power to eliminate all Jews from Germany.
Many Germans believed the Nazi propaganda blaming the Jews for
Germany’s economic and political problems.
Hitler seemed afraid of the Jews, as he believed they were a threat to
the Aryan race, because they played a prominent role in certain
spheres of the German daily life.
The Nazi Policy aimed to make Jews’ lives so unbearable, that they
would voluntarily emigrate from Germany. Between 1933 and 1939, no
fewer than 45 decrees, laws a...
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... it was permitted to assault and kill them. Many Jews immigrated to
other countries; yet many also stayed, as a number of countries were
not as co- operative as others.
Fear of the SA and Gestapo meant that only a few sympathetic Germans
were willing to defend Jews when they were attacked.
In the early years of his power, Hitler made persecution of the Jews
his priority. Of the 550,000 German Jews in 1933, 38,000 left
immediately after Hitler came to power.
Very few people were in any doubt about Hitler's dislike of the Jews
when he came to power; however, no one could have guessed how far he
would go in his vendetta against them. He continued his terror regime
over the years, where many of the undesirables were sent to
concentration camps. These camps ensured, that life for the Jews would
never be the same.
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
Christopher Browning believes that Hitler did not have a pre-existing plan to liquidate the Jews but rather, the Final Solution was a reaction to the cumulative radicalization amongst the German nation from 1939 to 1941. Although Hitler was notoriously one of the most anti-Semitic people to walk the Earth, he had not intended to mass slaughter the Jews, but rather attempted to find another solution to the Jewish problem. Hitler had such an obsession with finding this solution, that he promised one way or another he would reach his goal of perfecting a Judenfrei Germany (Browning 424). The first solution to the Jewish problem in Germany was through emigration. Once Hitler seized power he imposed the Nuremberg Laws, which stripped the Jews of all of their rights, expecting the Jewish people to comprehend the message and leave the country.
That is the biggest impact that he had on World War II. What the reader should have taken away from this paper is why Hitler did what he did, and why he did the way he did. Also, what the reader should take away is the problems he had when he was little and the problems he had when he was on his own. How he dealt with all these problems and why he was doing what he was doing. And why he developed his hate for Jews and how that happened.
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).
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.
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. They were deported on packed trains. Many people died on the trains from hunger, disease, thirst, and suffocation. The jews could be on the trains for months at a time.
Anti-Semitism was influencing the minds of ordinary German civilians. Adolf Hitler had previously been in prison before he became ruler of Germany in his second attempt. During the time he was in prison, he wrote a book called 'Mien Kamph'. His book was incredibly racist. Anti-Semitic, Hitler expressed his hatred for the Jews and influenced his readers into hating these 'impure' people.
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...
Beginning in 1933, Hitler and his Nazi party targeted not only those of the Jewish religion but many other sets. Hitler was motivated by religion and nationalism to eradicate any threats to his state. It was Hitler’s ideology that his Aryan race was superior to any other. Hitler’s goal was to create a “master race” by eliminating the chance for “inferiors” to reproduce. Besides the Jews the other victims of the genocide include the Roma (Gypsies), African-Germans, the mentally disabled, handicapped, Poles, Slavs, Anti-Nazi political parties, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Homosexuals. In Hitler’s eyes all of these groups needed to be eliminated in order for his master race to be a success.
Hitler had thought that the Jews did not believe in the “right” thing so he tried to eliminate the race. He did not want them to believe in what they did and still do. He thought that the Jewish race was inferior and did not mean anything. The way that Hitler treated the Jews were crimes against humanity and I know that many non Jews saw that but did...
Jews were constantly persecuted before the Holocaust because they were deemed racially inferior. During the 1930’s, the Nazis sent thousands of Jews to concentration camps. Hitler wanted to
Hitler used propaganda and manufacturing enemies such as Jews and five million other people, to prepare the country for war. This shows Hitler’s attempt of genocide toward the Jewish race and other races.
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