Throughout Hitler’s reign from 1933 to 1939, there was a great leap of discrimination among the Jewish people and other minority groups. Prior to the holocaust, the Nazi party only wanted the Aryan people to be superior in Germany and across Europe. The Nazi party initiated concentration camps that would maintain fear among other groups. However, the concentration camps were not always meant to kill other groups. They had other purposes than exterminating other groups of people. In the beginning of concentration camps, they had people who were arrested for alleged subversives. Subversives are people trying to establish a system or institution. That means concentration camps had communist, socialist, or common criminals who have broken the
From leaving jews naked in front of hundreds of people, to leaving them without food, and even taking away their names, the German Nazis dehumanized the whole of the jewish population which helped Hitler reach his ends. As Elie Wiesel writes in his award winning novel
Religion played a large factor in the people who go into concentration camps. Nazi soldiers were ordered to “hunt” for homosexuals, gypsies, mentally ill, disabled, and primarily people of the Jewish religion. As World War II escalated, so did the amount concentration camps and Jewish murders. People were taken for their religion at Hitler’s discretion. Hitler simply did not like the Jewish and made it easy to convince the rest of Germany to despise them too.
The concept of them being "chosen people" maid them worry. At first the jewish people where okay nothing bad was happening but then events started happening and they thought they where gods choose people so they started thinking why would god allow these terrible things to happen to us. The first troubled event that happen was in 920 BCE when there kingdom fell apart and all the jewish people separated. The Jewish temple also got destroyed and they forced to move to another city called Babylon.Around the 19 century the jews got there own state which they felt they needed and they would be safe... So they where they for a while but then the holocaust came. From the 1930/1940 the jewish people where treated terrible by the nazi people! The nazi
Hitler took this hatred he possessed for the Jews and his pursues of Aryan supremacy to an extensive degree. Between 1939-1945 Hitler took action, extermination, or death camps were established for the sole purpose of killing men, women, and children. Jews were not the only victims of the Nazis during World War II, The Nazis also imprisoned and killed people who opposed their regime on grounds of their ideology; Roma (Gypsies); Germans who were mentally impaired or physically disabled; homosexuals; and captured Soviet soldiers. Heinous crimes inflicted upon the prisoners within the concentration camps and during Hitler’s reign were intense beyond belief. So called camp doctors would torture and inflict incredible suffering on Jewish children, Gypsy children and many others. Patients were put
The Holocaust nearly made the Jewish population and religion disappear from the face of the Earth. From January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945; Adolf Hitler, German politician and leader of the Nazi party, ran the Holocaust all over Germany and Eastern Europe. Prisoners and victims of the Holocaust include: the majority of the Jewish population, German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Roma (Gypsies), Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, and people accused of socially deviant or socially unacceptable behavior. They were sent to many different areas that had different purposes. The most used places they were sent to are called concentration camps. Once they entered the concentration camps, there was no escaping; those people officially became prisoners. There were 23 main concentration camps and around 900 sub camps. Concentration camps tricked the Jewish people into coming into them by offering them a better life on the welcoming signs outside. Some of the main camps had many different inhumane uses. All of the camps are notorious for their cruel and evil ways of everything that they did to prisoners, such as the genocide the Holocaust caused (Concentration Camps, Killing Methods, Jewish Population).
Adolf Hitler, a German Politician and leader of the Nazi party once said, “When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.” Hitler wanted the Jews to be afraid of him and the Nazis, while also making them suffer. He blamed many people on the downfall of Germany but was mainly directed at the Jews. Since Hitler was very patriotic, he did not want people who were not like him and therefore opened up concentration camps to store his prisoners in. This was a part of the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, concentration camps greatly impacted and changed the lives of many involved. First, there are many reasons for the creation of concentration camps. Next, the people involved in the Holocaust were transported and organized in the camps harshly. Lastly, the prisoners were organized into two types of camps, both
Likewise, Hitler and the Germans did not want other countries to gain more power than they had. These Germans led by Hitler, became known as Nazis, and they made life for many groups very hard. “Some people were undesirable by Nazi standards because of who they were, their genetic or cultural origins, or health conditions. These included Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other Slavs, and people with physical or mental disabilities” (“Victims” np). This fact proves that Jews were oppressed because only certain groups were targeted and the Jews definitely suffered the most deaths throughout the Holocaust in concentration
Beginning when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in late January of 1933 and concluding with the official end of World War II in May of 1945, the Holocaust was a period when Jews residing in the German Empire and German-occupied territories were persecuted and harshly murdered. The individuals of the Third Reich were not the first to have anti-Semitic prejudices; however, they were the first to take this type of racism and accomplish massacres on such a grand-scale. The successful killing of approximately six million Jews during the Holocaust can be best explained through the actions of ordinary German citizens as a result of convincing propaganda.
To begin, the Gestapo and Hitler treated the Jews horribly. Anyone who supported and helped Hitler treated the Jews as if they were not even humans. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum said “Hitler and other Nazi leaders viewed the Jews not as a religious group, but as a poisonous 'race,' which 'lived off' the other races and weakened them”. Hitler thought of Jews not as people, but as poisonous, inhuman, and
Hitler put Jewish people and other people in Concentration camps because they were not the Aryan Race. Hitler also thought that anyone that had anything with democracy was a bad thing and the Jewish people that invented it should be sent to Concentration Camp. That isn't the only reason that Jewish people were sent to Concentration Camp “ in
Horror struck on January 30, 1933, when Germany assigned Adolf Hitler as their chancellor. Once Hitler had finally reached power he set out to complete one goal, create a Greater Germany free from the Jews (“The reasons for the Holocaust,” 2009). This tragedy is known today as, “The Holocaust,” that explains the terrors of our histories past. The face of the Holocaust, master of death, and leader of Germany; Adolf Hitler the most deceitful, powerful, well spoken, and intelligent person that acted as the key to this mass murder. According to a research study at the University of South Florida, nearly eleven million people were targeted and killed. This disaster is a genocide that was meant to ethnically cleanse Germany of the Jews. Although Jewish people were the main target they were not the only ones targeted; gypsies, African Americans, homosexuals, socialists, political enemies, communists, and the mentally disabled were killed (Simpson, 2012, p. 113). The word to describe this hatred for Jewish people is known as antisemitism. It was brought about when German philosophers denounced that “Jewish spirit is alien to Germandom” (“Antisemitism”) which states that a Jew is non-German. Many people notice the horrible things the Germans did, but most don’t truly understand why the Holocaust occurred. To truly understand the Holocaust, you must first know the Nazis motivations. Their motivations fell into two categories including cultural explanations that focused on ideology and
Hitler thought of the Jewish population as a worthless society and treated the individuals as worthless creatures. When Hitler came to power, he established the camps "for the purpose of isolation, punishing, torturing, and killing Germans suspected of opposition to his regime."10 The Germans wanted to guarantee the death of as many Jews as possible "while extracting some useful labor from the doomed."11 The camps were set up technically and psychologically to
The basis of Jewish discrimination also resides in the Holocaust during World War II. The Holocaust was the systematic, brutal persecution of Jews sponsored by the Nazi regime in Germany. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazis, believed that the Germans were of the racially superior Aryan race. Jewish people, who were considered to be racially inferior, were seen as a threat to the German community. (“Introduction to the Holocaust.” 1). In order to cleanse German society of Jews, Hitler proposed the “Final Solution”, which was a plan to exterminate the Jewish population. Concentration camps, forced labor centers, and gassing facilities were soon established by German officials to round up, detain, and annihilate the Jewish population. In total, the Holocaust was responsible for the murder of six million Jews (“Introduction to the Holocaust.” 1). In modern society, Jewish people have been discriminated against because of the assumption that they refer to their treatment in the Holocaust too often. Others even believe the Holocaust to be an exaggerated event or a blown up myth. As a result, Jewish people are considered to be a population that is only
Beginning with the days of European settlement in America, the white community adopted a culture that enslaved and oppressed the blacks. Even after the Civil War which brought about the abolition of slavery, the inconsistent system by the white supremacy was still persistent. In the early twentieth century, blacks were not allowed to mingle freely with whites in public institutions including schools, hotels, beaches, movie theaters, etc. Indeed, some public institutions posted the message that ‘Negroes and Dogs Not Allowed!' It is with such discrimination that Southern black families were denied fundamental rights such as the right to vote. Worse still, there was heightened intimidation and barbaric acts such as lynching. It is for these reasons
The nazis are everywhere. They fill up the streets of Germany and theres propaganda posters in every corner. There’s a poster with a Jewish man and it reads “who is to blame for the wars”. They are giving the fault of the World War to the Jewish people. Discrimination against The jews is harsh here in Germany. A man wearing a jewish patch got attacked and beaten down the street for no reason, he was just walking like an ordinary person. People look scared especially when they walk by the police. It seems if like they were to be killed if they said a word to them. Maybe the police do torture and murder people because nobody seems that scared of someone unless they are some sort of monster. The German people seem to be somehow mind controlled