The Effects Of Dehumanization Of The Holocaust

The holocaust, or Shoah was a systematic, planned program of genocide to exterminate all Jews. This government based program was carried out by Hitler, and its allies in the Nazi army during world war two. Approximately 6 million Jews were killed, and if the murder of the Romani, Soviet civilians and prisoners, the disabled, homosexuals, and others who apposed to Hitler’s religious, political and social views were counted, this number would be more like 11 to 17 million. The holocaust is generally described with two periods, 1933-1939, and 1939-1945, the end of WWII.

In 1933, one man, with the help of his many troops tried to wipe out an entire religion. This became known as the Holocaust. When Adolf Hitler came into power in Germany, he and his Nazi army tried to destroy the Jews. Over 11 Million people were killed, not just Jews, during this time. Jews were put into Nazi concentration camps, killed in gas chambers, and forced to do brutal physical labor. These concentration camps were meant to starve and kill these innocent people.

From 1941 to 1945, over 9,000,000 people were murdered by Hitler and his Nazi forces. The Nazis killed millions of people just because they were barely different from them. This was called the Holocaust. A holocaust is the almost complete or complete destruction of a race or religion. Of the 9 million killed, over 6 million were Jews. The Nazis came very close to succeeding the Final Solution.

The Holocaust was a period approximately in the same period of the Nazi Party’s power in Germany, and around the length of World War II. It began with just a simple persecution of a minority, but eventually in the later stages of the war it became something much more horrific and detestable. The Nazi Party sent Jews from all of Europe that it controlled into brutal death camps to be exterminated in one of the most bone-chillingly effective attempts at exterminating a people in all of human history. The dehumanized people in those camps died en masse, and the Jewish people are still recovering from the effects of this genocide. In the utterly grave situation during the Holocaust that people found themselves in, it is ironic that this was how

The Holocaust During World War II, a destruction known to many as the Holocaust began and slaughtered more than six million Jews. This event caused many to cower in fear before Hitler and his army. Many of the victims had not only their bones and life broken, but they also had their spirits taken away from them being replaced by fear. However, some victims were able to keep their head held high and triumph with the power of Love, Laughter, and Nature. One factor that caused many to endure was Love.

The Holocaust was a tragic event filled with murder, abuse and dehumanization mirroring its true meaning sacrifice by fire. During the Holocaust Nazi (A German political party) killed Jews and anyone the Germans thought were not Aryan. The Nazis blamed the Jews for the reason Germany lost WWI so Adolf Hitler and the Nazi's invaded Poland started WWII by killing all Jews and non Aryans. In Elie Wiesel’s Night Wiesel’s experiences of dehumanization are reflection through, mental abuse, physical abuse, and starvation.

In the World War II-era, Jewish people were picked upon by the Nazis to kill off to “purify” their bloodlines. The Holocaust is an example of pure hatred and dehumanization. Dehumanize is to deprive someone of human qualities. The Nazis did this to the Jewish people by putting them in concentration camps to make them work to the brink of death, or they would kill them. They separated them from their families and took away all human rights from the Jewish people.

Without dehumanization, the Holocaust would not have affected the Jews the way it did. Dehumanization affected Hitler’s plan, how the Jews were treated and how they felt. When the Jews were dehumanized it played a big role in the Holocaust. The Jews were dehumanized because of the inhumane conditions and the brutal treatment they faced. The process of dehumanization began with taking the valuables the Jewish owned.

The Holocaust was one of the saddest moments in our history. The Holocaust was the destruction of a racial, ethnic, religious and national group. Approximately six million individuals were killed by the Nazi’s under the command of Adolf Hitler’s and his collaborators. Most of these killings took place throughout Germany. The Nazis only targeted three major groups for their killings: Jews, Gypsies and people with disabilities; such as metal illness, learning disabilities, physical deformity, epilepsy, blindness and deafness.

The Holocaust was a dark period of time, occurring in the 20th century. It had began in the early 1930’s, and grew to become increasingly gruesome up until the mid-fourtees. The Holocaust was a mass murder of Jewish people, Romas, homosexuals, mentally and physically disabled, Jehovah’s witnesses, trade unionists and many other classes of people. Though the Holocaust was a very important part of history, there were many things distracting the German population, along with the rest of the world, leaving the Holocaust in the dark and left unknown.

The Jews were dehumanized by first being stripped of their rights as a human and their identities. A quote from Maus I states that, “They registered us in … They took from us our names.” (pg. 6) The Jews were forced to be stripped of their clothes as a form of public humiliation. By doing this, they made everyone feel as if they were worthless and that they were not special in any type of way. The Nazis mowed people down in a “Holocaust of Bullets” and also subjected Jews to horrendous public humiliation by forcing them to strip in the streets. In the concentration camps the Jews also had to go through the process of getting all their hair cut off.

The Holocaust which was one of many of the controversial events that have happened in the history of our world demonstrated a significant amount of cruelty and dehumanization. Because of such a controversial event, many have suffered through physical and unfortunately psychological upheaval and distress. With previous knowledge and novels’ read on the Holocaust, it came to be known that the event was triggered through obedience and conformity due to the not specifically the Germans’ beliefs of anti-Semitic and propaganda, but more of leader Adolf Hitler. The time of the Holocaust was used to dehumanize which enhanced the understanding of mental health and human psychology. During the Holocaust, many psychological principles affected individuals forever. The principles include groupthink and of course knowing the outcome of the event. Such principles sooner explain the reality of life because it stresses how individuals react due to their past experiences like the Holocaust and most importantly how traumatic events build them as who they are today.  Innocent Jews went through starvation, terrible working conditions, and the elimination of race through torture such as gas chambers. Furthermore, the history of this controversial event is now being used to be alert of the health and wellness of those who have gone through such events that sooner change their behavior and mentality for the better or even worse.

During the Holocaust something interesting began to happen without many people noticing: the unfair treatment towards minorities in, particular the jewish . At the time, it didn’t attract much attention because no one really noticed. The nazis referred to the Jews as rats and people who did not have human-like characteristics. More than six million lost their lives through the government supported torture and the destruction of both men and women. In Milgram’s Obedience to Authority, Lower’s Hitler’s Furies, and Miller’s “What Can The Milgram Obedience Experiments Tell Us About The Holocaust?” one can see that dehumanization played a big component in the dreadfulness like the Holocaust. Most of us believe that we have all have basic human rights and those should not be violated. Dehumanization means that someone treats another individual as not having human-like qualities. In terms of Social Psychology says

The Holocaust was a mass murder of millions of individuals’ primary to and during World War II. “Only 54 percent of the people surveyed by the Anti- Defamation League (ADL) in a massive, global poll has ever heard of the Holocaust” (Wiener-Bronner). The Holocaust was from 1933-1945 and was run by German leader named Adolf Hitler. Hitler was a man who wanted to create his own race of people. Therefore to create this race, he wiped out anyone who did not have the specific descriptions that he wanted. For people to fit into his race, they had to have blue eyes and blond hair. This excluded the Jews and from then on Hitler slowly dehumanized them. In the concentration camp the first thing they had to pass was the selection test. The selection test was what the SS man (German soldiers) used to determine who was fit for work. Usually children, mothers, and elders were the first to die because they were not mentally fit for the work they were going to be given. People who passed the selection process either died of starvation, disease, fatigue, or assassination. It took twelve years before anyone intervened and by then it was too late for millions of people. Even though over twelve million people died during the Holocaust, genocides have still happened in Rwanda, Darfur and Cambodia.

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places]”- Ephesians 6:12. This verse from a book of the Bible holds true in the event of the Holocaust. Dehumanization is the process in which the Nazis reduced the people of Jewish religion to nearly nothing just because the Nazis viewed the Jewish people as a nuisance. The horrendous effect of this process reduced the Jews not only in number, but also in spirit through many different unethicical actions. This helped the Nazis in many different ways. The German persecution of the Jewish as well as many other groups, had a generarion gapping effect on the people of