Nazi propaganda started off simply as a display of anti-Semitism. However as time progressed it became more and more extreme. In 1933 the Nazis passed the Nuremberg laws. The first rule of order was to prohibit Jews from holding public office. This is only the first step in their plot to diminish the Jewish community. More laws then came. In 1935, the Nuremberg laws took German citizenship away from the Jews. They also had to wear a bright yellow star attached to their clothes so the Nazis could identify them. o Page 2: Kristallnacht Then came Kristallnacht, or “The Night of Broken Glass.” In early November 1938, Nazi leaders overheard the news of a young German Jew, by the name of Herschel Grynszpan, who shot an employee of the German Embassy in revenge for the deportation of his father. In response, they launched a gruesome attack on innocent Jews. They stormed Jewish houses, destroyed property, and ended up killing over 100 Jews. This is a large jump in hostility towards Jews and displays the growing cruelty leading to the Holocaust. o Page 3: Emigration of Refugees After Kristallnacht, Jews realized that violence was certain to increase. Many Jews successfully fled by the end of 1939. However, many stayed in Germany. The Jews who stayed were forced to emigrate. Hitler thought this was the solution to the quote on quote “Jewish problem.” However, there was so many Jews emigrated that other countries simply didn’t want anymore. Germany’s Foreign Minister claimed: “We all want to get rid of our Jews. The difficulty is that no country wishes to receive them.” This is once again another stride leading up to the Holocaust. At this point, the Nazis desired to rid Germany of the Jews in a much wider scale. o Page 4: Isolation in... ... middle of paper ... ...ive this crisis. o Page 7: The Nuremberg Trials The chaos came to an end. In December 1942, Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union issued the first official noting of the violence against innocent civilians in Germany. The Nazi criminals needed to be brought to justice for their crimes. However, there were tons of difficulties in setting up the trials. There was no International Criminal Court, so the countries involved had no medium of laws against these crimes. Hitler committed suicide during this time before the trials. But on August 8, 1945, Nazi officials, high-ranking military officers, along with German businesspersons, lawyers and doctors were charged with crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes. It stood as a step towards the establishment of international law. The trial led right to the United Nations Genocide Convention (1948),
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.
“All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach,” Adolf Hitler (The National World War Museum). The German Nazi dictator utilized his power over the people using propaganda, eventually creating a sense of hatred towards Jews. After World War 1, the punishments of the League of Nations caused Germany to suffer. The Nazi party came to blame the Jews in order to have a nation-wide “scapegoat”. This hatred and prejudice towards Jews is known as anti-semitism. According to the Breman Museum, “the Nazi Party was one of the first political movements to take full advantage of mass communications technologies: radio, recorded sound, film, and the printed word” (The Breman Museum). By publishing books, releasing movies and holding campaigns against Jews, antisemitism came to grow quickly, spreading all across Germany. The Nazi Party often referred to the notion of a “People’s Community” where all of Germany was “racially pure” (Issuu). They would show images of ‘pure’, blond workers, labouring to build a new society. This appealed greatly to people who were demoralized during Germany’s defeat in World War 1 and the economic depression of the 1920’s and 1930’s. Hitler, along with Joseph Goebbels, used developed propaganda methods in order to suppress the Jews and spread anti semitism.
Kristallnacht was a savage night where hundreds where murdered. In addition, Kristallnacht means the night of broken glass in German, and The Night of Broken Glass occurred on the night of November 9th until November 10th. Kristallnacht took place in small parts of Austria, Sudentland, and all over Germany in addition discrimination of the Jews had dated all the way back to 1935 by Germans. Two years before Kristallnacht, Jews were treated unfairly and ignored by the society, furthermore Germans did not allow Jews attend public parks and in 1936, Jews were banned to come see the Olympic Games which were held in Germany at the time. Kristallnacht got its nickname The Night of Broken Glass due to the fact that during November 9th and 10th rioters and police, violent and extreme, sh...
...upying Poland in 1939, the policy of forced emigration became untenable for the Nazi regime. It was simply unrealistic to make more than 3 million Polish Jews emigrate. This led to ambitious Nazi plans for a solution to the ’Jewish Question’.” The Nazis wanted to keep their place to themselves, and they disliked the Jews. They tried moving the Jews to another place, but the amount of time it would take was too long. Therefore, they thought of the Final Solution. They sent Jews to concentration camps, where they killed many Jews. They though that this solution would keep their place to themselves, not to share with any other race. This reminds me of the Rwandan Genocide, because both genocides wanted to remove a specific group or race. In the Holocaust, they wanted to remove all Jews, and in the Rwandan Genocide, the Hutus wanted to wipe the whole Tutsis population.
Kristallnacht has been described by James M. Deem as “a night of terror, where the Nazis raided the Jews shops by breaking the windows and destroying their things” (Deem 6). Kristallnacht was also referred to as “the night of the broken glass” because of all the broken windows from the Jewish houses and shops. In “Night”, Kristallnacht was described as a night of anti-Jewish riots. During this time Jewish homes were robbed, synagogues burned, Jewish businesses destroyed, and many Jews were, arrested, tortured, beaten, or killed. A tax was then imposed by the government on the Jews. They were being forced to pay for Kristallnacht property damage. The Germans wanted to try and terrorize the Jews by doing this. After the night of Kristallnacht, over 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps. Also lots of Jewish artifacts were destroyed. The rest of the world started to become aware of what was happening and decided that they should help them. They started sending their armies to rescue the Jews in the concentration
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 on finding this solution, that he promised one way or another he would reach his goal in 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. The German officials even supported emigration and Zionistic movements. By 1939 only half of the Jews had left so the Jewish problem still rested unfinished. In September of 1939, the German declared war on Poland in an attempt to conquer Lebensraum. [Living space] After starting the war, they decided they could no longer let the Jews emigrate (Browning 12). By capturing Poland they inherited three million Jews. Hitler summoned all of the Jews in the German empire into ghettos in Poland until he could find another plan. Himmler, Hitler’s right hand man, proposed two plans to expel the Jews to either Lublin or to Madagascar. Hitler approved both but neither was put into affect. The Nazis’ inability to solve the Jewish question once again disappoints them. The obligation to solve the problem still weighed heavily upon them, which lead to frustration, which lead to the radical decisions to liquidate th...
November 9th, 1938: The precursor to the Holocaust or the start of it itself? In either case, by November 11th––with thousands of Jewish stores looted and/ or destroyed, several hundred synagogues burned down, and houses vandalized and robbed––the appearance of war had seemingly passed through Central Germany. Kristallnacht, otherwise known as the “Night of Broken Glass”, was one the events that most likely struck fear into all the hearts and minds of the Jewish family's within Hitler's Third Reich. The atrocities committed against a whole population within a region were all caused by one young man's actions, which shows how ruthless yet organized the Nazi regime truly was. Oppressing Jews was the Nazi's way of showing Germany who was in control and those against it would be silenced in one way or another.
Jews tried to escape this targeting however. As the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh states, even before the Holocaust, Jewish people had to flee Germany due to discrimination and anti-Semitism. They most of the time emigrated to Palestine, England, and the United States. Small numbers of Jews also immigrated to countries in South America. The amount of Jews that immigrated took an even larger jump when Hitler took leadership in 1933, especially when he introduced the Nuremberg Laws which began to actively restrict Jews in Germany (“Jewish Life during the Holocaust”). In the end we see that anti-Semitism, Germany’s loss of World War I and its economic decline, and a racial struggle between Aryans and Jews caused the Jews to be singled out for extermination.
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.
It is told that on the night of November 9 and early November 10, 1938, Nazis incited a pogrom against the Jewish in Austria and Germany. It is termed, “Kristallnact” (“Night of Broken Glass). This night of violence included pillaging and burning of synagogues, breaking of the windows in Jewish owned businesses, looting, and physically attacking of Jewish people. Approximately, 30,000...
...s of the Holocaust, the Allies held the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46, which made the horrifying actions of the Nazis known all over. The Ally forces pressured Germany to create a homeland for those who suffered through the Holocaust. Over the decades that followed, ordinary Germans struggled with the Holocaust’s bitter legacy, as survivors and the families of victims tried to regain their property and wealth that was taking away during the Holocaust. In 1953, the German government made payments to individual Jews and to the Jewish people as a way of apologizing for the crimes which were committed by the German people.
During World War II the Jewish Holocaust happened because of Adolf Hitler the leader of the Nazi party. In 1935 the Nazis placed severe restrictions on Jews. The Nazis physically abused the Jews. Hitler suspended civil rights and banned all political parties. Hitler's "Final Solution" was extermination of all Jews. Jews were sent to force labor camps and to gas
Propaganda is information, usually of biased or misleading nature, used to advertise a political cause or point of view. It aims to influence the opinions or behavior of people, and implant ideas with the intention to persuade them to commit to a certain belief or act. However, it was originally defined as neutral and referred to uses that were generally positive, such as public health recommendations and notices that encourage citizens to participate in current elections. Not until the 20th century it acquired negative connotations, when totalitarian regimes used it to spread distorted facts and falsified information. Primarily, it was invested heavily by the Nazi Germany during the second World War; to provoke the emotions of the German public over the restrictions put
The Nazi Government were very effective in controlling German citizens. Once Hitler rose to power in 1933 he needed to control the German people and to make them believe in the Nazi philosophies. Hitler did this in several different ways (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2015). Propaganda was one of the most focused on ways in how the Nazi government could change the views of people and control them as all newspapers and films were censored and controlled by the Nazis as all as radio broadcasts. The Nazi government also change the education system so that schools taught Nazi values and history was taught in a way which glorified Germany and Hitler Youth was made compulsory which trained boys up for war. The SS was a big factor in keeping
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.