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Genocide: Hatred, Discrimination, Torture
April 1st of 1933 is a date to be remembered. On this day, the hatred and discrimination toward the Jewish community and their fellow minorities officially started. This day was the day that Adolf Hitler, the man later recalled as one of the most evil and diabolical men on the earth, began the boycott of Jewish businesses and professionals.
“On the day of the boycott, Storm Troopers stood menacingly in front of Jewish-owned department stores and retail establishments,” as well as the offices of doctors and lawyers (USHMM). “The Star of David was painted in yellow and black across thousands of doors and windows, with accompanying anti-semitic slogans” (USHMM). Signs were posted everywhere saying, “Don’t
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Although Hitler claimed “that the Nuremberg Laws would actually help the Jews by creating a ‘level ground on which German people may find a tolerable relation with the Jewish people,” his implementation of those laws were “to ostracize, discriminate, and expel Jews from German Society” (Noakes and Pridham). With these laws, Hitler took “the first step toward getting rid of” the Jews, thus “imposing racial conformity on society” (Noakes and Pridham). Subsequently, “the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 laid the foundation for the next ten years of racial policy” (Noakes and …show more content…
Along with other groups being “persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals” (USHMM). But even then, Jews were the Nazis main target. “In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million” and by 1945, “the Germans and their collaborators” had “killed nearly two out of every three European Jews” which is about six million as part of the “Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe” (USHMM). Most Jews either “died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment” or were simply gassed in “killing centers, often called extermination camps” (USHMM). And an additional “200,000 Gypsies” and “mentally or physically disabled patients” were murdered
Among 1.5 million Jews were shot to death in the most brutal way by different Nazi units. The so-called Einsatzgruppen, which operated behind the front against the Soviet Union, were
In conclusion, there were many groups besides the Jews that became victims to the persecution and murder by the Nazis. There were motivations in creating a master race, and occupying new land to create space for the German people, protecting and watching out for any political parties or cultures that may have gone against Hitler or damaged his master race, and he wanted to rid his country of those unhelpful to it or going against religious traditions.
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
In the Summer of 1941, Adolf Hitler started exterminating Jews and other non-Aryans, as a part of his plan to create a perfect Germany and to carry out his ‘Final Solution’ to the ‘Jewish Question’. Before exterminating 6,000,000 Jewish people, Adolf Hitler had already performed several actions which singled out the Jew as an evil person and one who should be killed. In 1923, Hitler was caught while trying to overturn the Bavarian government and was imprisoned for 5 years. In prison, he wrote the famed autobiography, Mein Kampf, in which he stated his first publicly known anti-Semitic beliefs and his ‘Final Solution’ to the ‘Jewish Question’. While imprisoned, there was a worldwide depression as economic markets crashed worldwide. This would help Hitler because once out of prison he would use this to help gain power both for the Nazi’s and for himself politically by promising better things to come in the future. In 1933, while preaching in front of a large Nazi crowd, Hitler used the Jews as scapegoats for Germany’s loss in World War One. “If at the beginning of the War and during the War twelve or fifteen thousand of these Hebrew corrupters of the people had been held under poison gas, as happened to hundreds of thousands of our very best German workers in the field, the sacrifice of millions at the front would not have been in vain.'; Many people were upset at the loss, and blaming the Jews made many people anti-Semites. Once he was named chancellor in 1933, Hitler preached about creating a Germany for true German people and a more centralized Germany. This included eliminating those who were non-Aryans and/or non-German. He would later detail about what a true German was in the Nuremberg Laws. He stated that Jews were not really Germans but instead, they were non-Aryan, and they were malignant tumors.
A total of 11 million people died during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was started by the Nazi’s in the 1930’s. It was were about six million Jews were killed. Misinformed individuals theorize that the Holocaust is not a form of genocide but they are misguided. The Holocaust should be considered an example of genocide based on the UN’s definition, the stages of genocide and the specific evidence provided in the memoir Night.
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.
How one person views almost caused a race to become completely erased. On September 15, 1935, Hitler introduced and the Nazi government passed the Nuremberg Laws during World War II, which discriminated against people of Jewish descent. The Nuremberg Laws consisted of the, Reich Citizenship Law, Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, and Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. The laws stated that if you had more than three Jewish grandparents you were identified as a Jew. These laws were not meant to be good for the Jews that lived in Germany, but were meant to strip the Jews of their citizenship. Hitler wanted to eliminate any Jewish customs from the German culture. The Jewish community was not aware of how the Nuremberg Laws would affect their rights. These laws were very important, because they are stepping stones for what was to come for the Jewish people living in Germany. What caused the laws to come about? How did these laws restrict Jews. What does these laws really mean? What were the long term effects on the Jewish culture? Ultimately, the Nuremberg laws shaped World War II and
In 1934, the death of President Hindenburg of Germany removed the last remaining obstacle for Adolf Hitler to assume power. Soon thereafter, he declared himself President and Fuehrer, which means “supreme leader”. That was just the beginning of what would almost 12 years of Jewish persecution in Germany, mainly because of Hitler’s hatred towards the Jews. It is difficult to doubt that Hitler genuinely feared and hated Jews. His whole existence was driven by an obsessive loathing of them (Hart-Davis 14).
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
When 1937 arrived, Japanese soldiers raided China’s capital of Nanking and began to mass murder citizens. A sole leader of the Japanese Imperial Army was non-existent. There were many of people in power such as generals who allowed these behaviors to occur. Baron Koki Hirota, Foreign minister at the time, proceeded to do nothing while being well aware of the Japanese’s persecution of the Chinese. These unsympathetic murders of those who were thought to be Chinese soldiers as well as woman, children and elderly. This massacre lasted between the 1937 and 1938. Within this time 300,000 Chinese citizens were viciously killed. This genocide is called Rape of Nanking because of raping the woman before killing them. Most likely this group was selected because the second world war happened in Asia. This was significant because a country was able to kill half the population of another. I believe the reason of this Genocide was for Japan to take advantage of China while expand Japan. Most likely the Japanese wished to exterminate China’s entire population.
The treatment of Jews and other minority groups by the Nazi’s can be described as actions that could only be done by a totalitarian state. Hitler believed in eugenics, the idea of improving a race by selective breeding. Nazi ideology of the Jewish race was severe anti-Semitism and pure hatred. The Nazi policy towards the Jews has been said to be the most brutal and horrific example of anti-Semitism in history.
With the idea that non-Aryans, especially Jews, were inferior to Aryans, he introduced the Nuremberg Laws, which classified the German population into Aryans and non-Aryans. This chart shows how the Nuremberg Laws used a rudimentary form of genetics to determine if a German was, in fact, German, Jewish or Mischling (“mixed-blood”) by looking at their ancestors and inheritance.
"The twentieth century was termed the 'century of genocide' because of the high number of cases of genocide during that time period," (Maritz 2012). Genocide is the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group. It is said to originate from the ideals of Enlightenment, which makes men have the desire to control nature and, therefore, other people. The extermination of a group of people is done to establish a 'perfect society'. Genocide happens mostly because of prejudices. Groups are sometimes formed to think anyone outside the group is an alien and that being different is bad. "Ethnic and cultural distinctions often result in the formation of 'in-group' and 'out-group' thinking, where members of different races, religions, or cultures view each other as separate, alien, and 'different'," (McMorran, and Schultz 2003). It also happens sometimes because there is economic or political instability and limited resources. In general, genocide is a dreadful thing, except for countries with economic struggles and low rescources.
The Nuremberg laws were unfair to the jews and took away their rights to watch movies, ride bikes, and have jobs. The Nuremberg laws also took away their rights to provide for their family. The Nuremberg laws of 1935 laid the foundation for the next 10 years of the racial policy. After the 10 years were over they sent the people to concentration camps and killed them.