The Persecution Of Jews By Kristallnacht

30000 Jews were sent to concentration camps during Kristallnacht. The Nazi's came to power in 1932 as they were elected 608 seats in the German parliament. After this event, the Nazi's used fear and propaganda to slowly hypnotize and imbed their beliefs into the minds of every German citizen. However in November of 1938, the Nazi's showed everyone what they really believed in. during "the night of broken glass" or Kristallnacht. The Nazi's ransacked and destroyed many Jewish businesses while they also killed and captured many Jewish citizens . The purpose of Kristallnacht was to strike fear into Jewish communities, which in turn also sparked the beginning of the Nazi war machine that would sweep through Europe over the course of the upcoming years. To assess the significance of Kristallnacht I will look at the consequences, what caused it to happen.

n November 9 to November 10, 1938, in an incident known as “Kristallnacht”, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, also called the “Night of Broken Glass,” some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. German Jews had been subjected to repressive policies since 1933, when Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) became chancellor of Germany. However, prior to Kristallnacht, these Nazi policies had been primarily nonviolent. After Kristallnacht, conditions for German Jews grew increasingly worse. During World War II (1939-45), Hitler and the Nazis implemented their so-called “Final Solution” to the what

There are so many remarkable people who have gone before us and shaped the world into what it is today. With the passing of yet another Veterans Day, people were reminded of the extraordinary sacrifices made by ordinary men and women who were unfortunate enough to have lived during times when their nations were at war. Many ordinary citizens lost their lives as a result of the war, just as soldiers did. While some survivors simply lived out their post war lives, others survived and influenced the world. One person who survived the atrocities of the Holocaust during World War II and used his experiences to improve social, political, and religious conditions throughout the world, is Elie Wiesel. Through the words of Elie Wiesel, the public can witness the evils of war, keep these memories alive in the collective recall of future generations, and take action upon witnessing injustices of its kind.

At the same time, a carefully orchestrated smear campaign under the direction of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels portrayed Jews as enemies of the German people. Daily anti-Semitic slurs appeared in Nazi newspapers, on posters, the movies, radio, in speeches by Hitler and top Nazis, and in the classroom. As a result, State-sanctioned anti-Semitism became the norm throughout Germany. The Jews lost everything, including their homes and businesses, with no protest or public

In the years leading up to Kristallnacht Jews were already being discriminated and repressed for they were opened up to the strict policies created when Adolf Hitler had come to power in 1933. The different policies created by Hitler had singled out the German Jews leading them towards persecution,

November 10th, 1938: Kristallnacht. All around were destroyed homes, shattered glass of storefronts, and many dead. Before this night, Jews had been isolated and persecuted, but never attacked with this much violence. The assassination of the German diplomat was the immediate cause of Kristallnacht, but many factors had lead up to this night. There was minimal resistance to the Nazi’s transition from isolating Jews to exterminating them, because of Nazi propaganda, the Nazis’ need for scapegoats, new laws, the increasing stress as they prepared for wartime, and the obedience and fear the Nazis demanded.

Jews and Germans, very two different races. On the day of August 1, 1944, A girl named Anne Frank and her family were captured by the Nazis. Anne Frank and her family were in Amsterdam at the time, they were hiding in the annex for two whole years. They were deported to Germany in Westerbork transit camp and then to Auschwitz . Otto Frank, Anne’s father was the only one who survived from the Secret Annex. The others all died. The night before they were captured, someone had broken into their house and stolen items, which could have caught the Nazis attention. Which lead to them being captured. The identity of their betrayer has never been established. The Nazis separated the men from the women. Often Jewish men, Especially in Poland, were

Eleven million innocent people died and many did not know what they did or why it was happening to them (Rice 11). The Holocaust happened because of the Germans after World War 2 thought that the reason that their economy was falling down was because of Jewish people. The Holocaust followed the Ladder of Prejudice is a started with speech and moved its way up to “The Final Solution” also known as extermination. Hitler did not start with killing Jews. He killed Jews,Gypsies,homosexuals and many more religions or cultural people and Hitler also sent people to concentration camps if they spoke against the Government, then he moved to the Ladder of Prejudice, he used discrimination, physical attack and, extermination.

So at this point in time Jews were very restricted. One Jewish teenager, Herschel Grinszpan, was living in Paris. His father was relocated by the Nazis to Poland. He decided that he was going to assassinate the German ambassador. He went to the embassy, but he was not able to locate his target. So he tried to assassinate Third Secretary Ernst vom Rath instead. Ironically, Rath was an anti-Nazi. Even though Rath was only a minor official, Hitler used propaganda to convince people that the act was an international conspiracy by Jews everywhere. Hitler made it seem as though Jews were attacking Germany itself. This is what led to Kristallnacht. The act of one Jew gave Hitler exactly the excuse he needed to hurt the Jews en masse and in public. It gave him the excuse for the government to condone mass destruction of Jewish property and businesses.

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, legal is defined as “conforming to or permitted by law or established rule” (merriam webster). It then defines moral as, “expressing or teaching a conception or right behavior” (merriam webster). Dr. King gives a touching look at the difference between legality and morality with the example of events that took place with Germany under the leadership of Hitler. He explains that in Nazi Germany, it was “legal” to abuse and humiliate Jews. He then states that the comforting and aiding to Jews in Nazi Germany was illegal. While the first is legal and the second is illegal, what is legal is blatantly immoral whereas what is illegal is boldly moral. The abuse and mistreatment of Jews during the

“There was no choice.” Schindler said these words, reflecting on his moral decision to save over 1000 Jews from death and labor camps. He knew there was a right way, and also a wrong way, morally, and that he had no other option. For other industrialists in Schindler 's position, it wasn 't as easy a choice. During the Third Reich, German industrialists had a moral decision to make: whether to cooperate with the Nazis and profit from the persecution of Jews, or to resist and risk their lives and fortune. The Nazis created laws in order to persecute Jews, which contributed to the industrialists’ decisions. In 1939, Jews were made to wear identifying stars, and they were forced to live together in isolated ghettos. In the next few years, more laws were passed inflicting pain and cruelty upon Jews. Then, the Nazis moved beyond persecution, and threatened Jewish people’s jobs and economic stability. First, Jews had to register their property, and then, their privately-owned businesses were sold to non-Jewish German industrialists at a very low price. When their companies were sold, all of their managers and employees were kicked out. Later, once Jews were forced to work in non-Jewish Germans’ factories, a rule was passed in the spring of 1940, declaring that the wages of all the Jewish workers went directly to the SS, instead of the actual workers. Soon after, everyone except for “work-essential” Jews had to leave the city, causing every Jew to desperately try to find

Most everyone reflects on and thinks of the Holocaust as a horrifying, heartless slaughter of the Jews. The Holocaust can be a very hard, depressing issue to discuss but it is a major part of history and cannot be ignored. The Holocaust affected countless numbers of people in the past and it continues to affect many to this day. The Jewish population was the population that most affected the most through the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler had way too much power and he used that position of excessive power to nearly destroy the Jews.

stop people from been able to go in. At the same time Jews were banned

January of 1933 was the start of the Nazi’s gaining power in Germany. The Nazi’s were known as the culprits who committed the mass killing of Jews across Europe. The Holocaust started because Adolf Hitler felt that Jews were ruining Germany. He stated in his first letter of Anti-Semitic Writing, “the danger posed by Jewry for our people today finds expression in the undeniable aversion of wide sections of our people” (Hitler). Hitler used several facts to describe why he hated the Jews so much and why he wanted to wipe them out completely from society. The first reason he gave was that being Jewish was a race and not a religious group. Hitler also says that Jews are not Germans, because they live in Germany and use the language, “He doe not thereby become a German” (Hitler). The Jews were viewed as an alien race and weren’t able or wished to give up on their culture or tradition, but had all the rights of a natural born German. Hitler’s overall goal with the Holocaust was to remove all Jews from society. Hitler says in his letter, “The ultimate objective [of such legislation] must, however, be the irrevocable removal of the Jews in General” (Hitler). This letter shows

The Holocaust was a long, sad, and depressing period in time. Poland, Soviet Union, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Lithuania, and Holland are some of the countries that were included in the Holocaust. The word “Holocaust”, from the Greek word “holos” (whole) and “kaustas” (buried) was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the mass murder of nearly 6 million European Jews (as well as members of some other persecuted groups such as Gypsies and homosexuals) by the German Nazi regime during the second World War.