Abuse Of Human Rights During The Holocaust

Throughout history, human rights have been violated. Human rights are rights and liberties that are guaranteed to everyone at birth and that belongs to every human being. On December 10th 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It was created to protect every living human in this world to obey. The main purpose of these rights are to enforce balanced rights of all people. Making sure that all humans have the right of freedom, justice, and peace in the world. It also says that everyone has the right to nationality, religion, and his or her own opinion. Abuses of human rights can be seen throughout all of history such as, back when bigger and stronger nations took over weaker places

However this still continues on today, where a lot of human rights are violated. Such as, women's rights. Were women continue to fight constantly for rights they already have but aren't being respected.

One of the major abuses of Human Rights was seen in the World War II era, during the Holocaust. In the period of 1933 to 1945, the Nazis waged a vicious war against Jews. Hitler, the leader of the Nazis, passed a law called the Nuremberg Laws. The Nuremberg Laws was passed in 1935, it excluded Jewish people from their civil rights in Germany. Jews were denied their citizenship, there were limited jobs that only jews could have, there were no intermarriages, and it was prohibited to have sexual relations between Germans and Jews. It wasn't just the Jews that the Nazis killed it was other groups of people too just more of them were killed, such as European Gypsies. Nazis began to find many brutal ways to deal with Jewish civilians. At first Jews were forced to live in Ghettos. These Ghettos were surrounded by walls or barbed wire fences to prevent jewish people from leaving. In time, they come up with a “Final Solution” where Jews and other

The indigenous Native Americans genocide is also another example of human rights violation. The native Americans genocide is also another example. Spanish conquistadors made the natives of “new, undiscovered” lands into slaves. One Spanish conquistador named Francisco Pizarro, led the expedition to Peru. Pizarro had heard about the wealth of Peru’s Incas Empire. He led the expedition in hopes to take over and govern the as Empire. He also hoped to win some of the wealth. Before Pizarro arrived to Peru, a civil war broke out and the smallpox disease recently swept through killing many people. Including the empero. Hence, when Pizarro and the conquistadors arrived to Peru, was significantly weak and a new leader, named Atahualpa, was ruling the empire (Holt World History: Human Legacy: New York Global History and Geography Regents Test Prep Workbook. Orlando: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2008. Print.). Pizarro wanted to meet with Atahualpa. Atahualpa agreed to see Pizarro in person. They decided to meet the next day in Cajamarca. However, the meeting at Cajamarca turned into a massacre. Pizarro was trying to convince Atahualpa to convert to the Catholic religion claiming that it was the "one true religion”. Pizarro handed over a bible to the Inca emperor, stating that it had all the answers. Astonished of the sight of a book, something he has never seen before,