1. Hitler singled out Jews for the extermination because they were believing in negative stereotypes. The Nazis’ thought the Jews were a race and not a religion: “they incorrectly believed Jews had a natural impulse, inherited through generations, to strive for world domination, and that this goal would not only prevent German dominance but would also enslave and destroy the German “race.” The Nazis believed that all of history was a fight between races, which would culminate either in the triumph of the superior “Aryan” race or in its total extinction. As a result, Nazi leaders considered the death of all Jews to be a precondition necessary for the survival and the eventual dominance of the so-called
“German-Aryan” race. According to the Nazis, the Jews, as an
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On the other hand, in every country in Europe, there were courageous individuals who risked their lives to save Jews.
In several countries, there were groups which aided Jews, e.g. Joop Westerweel's group in the Netherlands, Zegota in Poland, and the Assisi underground in Italy” (Center). The
Nazi’s were not giving all of the specific details of the final plan for the Jews to the ordinary Germans. They could have stopped what was happening if they knew the whole story on what was really happening.
3. The Jews did try to fight back against the Nazis. Jews used tactics that carried out: “acts of resistance in every German-occupied country and in the territory of Germany’s Axis partners. Against impossible odds, they resisted in ghettos, concentration camps, and killing centers. There were many factors that made resistance difficult, however, including a lack of weapons and resources, deception, fear, and the overwhelming power of the Germans and their collaborators” (Common). Some of the Jews were successful in their efforts, but many of them were not
The German dictator Adolf Hitler said the Jews were to blame for this. The Nazis believed Germans were racially superior and that the Jews were secondary in regard to what they believed in. Although they mostly addressed Jews, they also targeted Roma Gypsies, the disabled and the Slavic community which included Poles and Russians. By 1945, millions of Jews were exterminated as part of what they called the Final Solution. In the early years of the Nazi regime, they established concentration camps originally used to imprison prisoners of war.
Sadly the Jews were not the only targets; targets included homosexuals, Gypsies, Poles, Slavs, disabled, and anyone who spoke out against Nazis. Members of the Nazi party believed in the ideology that Germans were the master race, meaning that they are above all other races and are superior. Hitler created scapegoats with Jews. Jews were blamed for Germany's economic problems. His antisemitism grew and and a hatred towards Jews was becoming widespread.
Why is it that the only genocide we learn about in schools is The Holocaust? Yes, it was important, and yes millions of people did die, yet, genocide still goes on today. And in some, there has been more destruction and more death than in The Holocaust, making them just as important. The Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 were both catastrophic events in human history, and have many similarities, however, there are also many differences between the events, including time period/length, methods of killing, and number of people killed. While The Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide were very similar in many ways, they differed in their time periods.
Many people today state that the Jewish people were alone in their fight as they didn’t gain much help from
Although, when the Jews found out that they were going to be all killed as the “Final Solution” they didn’t think twice about the punishments and just went for it. Thinking they were making a difference, Jews shot at the Germans, blew up their equipment and even killed several Nazi thinking it was helping them. In the end, desperation arose in the holocaust with the Jews still resisting and concluding
During World War II the Germans strived to create the perfect race, and that mean no people of the Jewish faith. To be Jewish in Germany meant to look a certain way that was different than the rest, Jewish was not a religion anymore, it became a race. September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 found at (“World War II Facts”) a devastating time for the Jewish population residing in Poland and all of west Asia. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the war; he instigated ideas that Jews were bad and caused the calamitous war to begin with. In retaliation of this mass genocide the Jewish people would physically revolt against their captors or mental revolt but staying true to the Jewish faith. In the events of World War II’s holocaust, two types of resistance emerged, armed and unarmed resistance, each way a result from trying to salvage their
If you were told that the holocaust was tomorrow, what would you do? How would you react to one of the biggest events in history. How do you think they would react and handle this situation?
Many people thought the Jews were being deported or taken away to work. Not everyone in Germany was fully aware that the Jews were in fact being slaughtered by the millions in Nazi concentration camps” (Why the Holocaust Happened). They were to be regarded as their own race, one that is unfitting, impure and was not to be mixed with any others such as
The Germans who supported the Nazi regime, believed that the Jews were “inferior” to everyone else. The solution was to wipe out the entire Jew population. “Holocaust” comes from the Greek language meaning, “burned whole”. Which is exactly what Adolf Hitler managed. I believe that the German people who actively supported the Nazi regime were guilty and not the whole German population. My reason for this is because you
To conclude, Jewish partisans, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and non-Jewish people led Jews to exemption. Day after day we are reminded of these terrible times. From political to comedic views, there is no way of forgetting what happened in Germany. It is an amazing feeling to know that there were some individuals who stood against the Nazis, proudly. Without those magnificent people, the war may have never ended, who knows? From young to old, big to small, this event had an impact on everyone’s hearts, and it continues to today. Maybe it is a lesson well learned, that making an impact and trying to help does not always turn out so
The Holocaust was the mass annihilation of the European Jews by the National Socialist Party (Nazi) of Germany from 1933 to 1945. In The War of the Jews, Dawidowicz explains the conditions that made anti-Semitism politically acceptable. The Germans of the nineteenth century "inherited a Christian-inspired popular and intellectual anti-Semitism that depicted Jews as foreigners- a state within a state- killers of Christ, well poisoners, and a cause of every misfortune, whether natural, economic, or political. The forces of naturalism, Volkist theory, bogus racial science, and fear of modernity reinforced and built upon this foundation." 1 The impact of the Holocaust has greatly affected the society of the past and the
The Holocaust, original meaning “sacrifice by fire,” was a German ideology in which six million Jews were slaughtered in different ways by Nazis (“US Holocaust Memorial Museum”). Adolf Hitler believed that Jews were an inferior race to Germans and in order to ensure the safety of the German people, all Jews needed to be eliminated. Hitler also believed that Jews were Communists and that they would oppose German rule by all means necessary (Modern World History, ch. 16). Following this false ideology, Hitler and soon the Nazis, began to promote the idea that, every Jew is a “mortal enemy of the German people,” (Modern World History, ch. 16, sec. 5). Following this ideology, Jews were considered targets early on in the war and that policy became
On December 25th, 2016, 79 Nigerian students were saved to spend their Christmas with their families, a great gift to all. It was also a great New Year on 1945 due to the fact that the holocaust ended by a gradual liberation of the concentration camps as the Allies attacked the German army. At the end of the Holocaust, more than 50,000 Jewish survivors were staying in three occupation zones, namely Soviet, British and America. But there is something more to these situations than just millions or hundreds of people dying due to hatred or religious beliefs.
The Holocaust, a sad time in human history, but in all that sadness, there were heroic stories of people and Nazi prisoners standing up for what was right instead of following the awful fascist state that was called Nazi Germany. In this paper, I write about a couple of the rebellions that some of the Jewish population in this time did to fight for what was right and trying to stop Nazi’s from brutally murdering them. Here, I tell these stories of heroes and heroism in the very evil Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler.
The Holocaust was the murder and persecution of approximately 6 million Jews and many others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis came to power in Germany in January of 1933. The Nazis thought that the “inferior” Jews were a threat to the “racially superior” German racial community. The death camps were operated from 1941 to 1945, and many people lost their lives or were forced to work in concentration camps during these years. The story leading up to the Holocaust, how the terrible event affected people’s lives, and how it came to and end are all topics that make this historic event worth learning about.