Adolf Hitler and the Nazis passed laws and legislation that helped implement the Holocaust by creating special legislation that benefit the Nazis, affecting and breaking down the minorites, and eventually being able to mass murder these minorities in concentration camps. More specifically, Jews and Gypsies. Some of their methods were creating propaganda to throw dirt, guilt and shade on the Jews and Gypsies, create laws or legislation that prevented the minorities from doing much and stripped them of their natural rights, and even advancing the technologies of their methods to systematically mass murder the minorities. All three methods were used to implement the Holocaust. I will focus on the legislation created against minorities because this will clearly present how the Nazis were able to commit murder without penalty in Germany.
From 1933 to 1939 there were many laws and legislation created inorder to hurt and affect Jews in a very negative way. On March 31,
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That law passed prevented any Jewish man or woman from being a doctor. On April 7, a law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service removes Jews from government service. This law prevents Jews from working in or for Germany's government. On July 14 a de-naturalization law revokes the citizenship of naturalized Jews and “undesirables.” This is a key fact because this is the law passed that meant that Jews were not natural citizens therefore do not have the same rights as natural citizens. On September 15, 1935, Nazi leaders announce the Nuremberg Laws. The Nuremberg Laws were laws that revoked citizenship from jews and prevented jews from having sexual affairs with people of German blood. On April 9,
The first dehumanizing act the Nazis perpetrate on the Jews is removing the normality from their everyday life. In Spring 1941, “German Army vehicles made their appearance” (Wiesel 9) on the streets of Sighet, yet the Jews showed no anguish. However, the harmony is short-lived; “the race toward death had begun” (Wiesel 10). The Nazis enforce rules that strip the Jews of their humanity: “jews were prohibited from
While in Passover the German was in power and coming into people towns 3 days and Jews was not allowed to leave there home or penalty
On the seventh day of Passover the Germans arrested all the leaders of the Jewish community. The first step Germans took was forbid Jews from
In the beginning stages of the Nazi regime, the Nuremberg Laws were put into place. These laws included social and economic rules for those with a Jewish ancestry. Some of the social rules were the ID badges Jews had to wear (Doc. G), prohibition of relationships between Aryans and Jews (Doc. D), loss of access to public spaces (Doc. D), and the end of schooling for Jewish children (Doc. H). The worst of the economic laws happened
The Night of the Broken Glass was the first time it was seen as publicly acceptable to harm Jews. Laws were put in place to restrict Jews and confine them to their homes. These laws were put in place by the Nazi Government. “[Joseph] Goebbels could be heard explaining about an attack he was going to launch in a few hours time. Hitler approved because he squealed with delight…”
The holocaust begin in 1933 and ended in 1945. The Jewish people were targeted by the nazis because Hitler and the nazis blamed Jewish people for the cause of WWI to cover up the fact of how bad they were. The way Jewish people were discriminated against was by the government they would use their power to target and exclude Jewish people from German society. First, they would strip them of their rights.
The Nazis put signs in front of the Jewish stores telling the German citizens not to shop there (Doc 4). This affected their businesses because now that the Germans weren’t coming there, not enough money was being made. The Jews were also banned from farming, this meant that they weren’t able to provide as much food for their families (Doc 3). A lot of Jews were left jobless because the Germans would not hire them. A lot of this was because of all the propaganda going around.
Kristallnacht happened in 1938. This was when German mobs attacked Jewish synagogues and Jewish homes were destroyed and so were their businesses. Germans citizens were responsible for the Holocaust because no one did anything to stop this from happening nor did they try to help the Jewish people . This was a form of polarization because since they hated the Jewish people, they decided to destroy everything they had. In document #1, in 1938, Ernst Hiemer wrote a book for German children that talked about how Jewish people were being stereotyped as cheaters.
Nuremberg Laws Laws approved by the Nazi Party in 1935, depriving Jews of German citizenship and taking some rights away from
They convinced the German people to stop buying from Jewish businesses. This drove many Jewish businesses to go bankrupt. The Jewish families that remained in Germany and the surrounding countries were given ration cards. Families were only given so much food. Next, men came and took people away.
In 1933, Nazis came in power in Germany and they believed that Germans are “superior” race where Jews are “inferior” and evil race. Economically Jews were strong and Hitler and Nazis did not like
They were told, “be killed or work.” The Germans dehumanized Jews by calling them a number instead of their God given names. “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name.” (Wiesel pg 42)
January 30, 1933 was the day that President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany, which was the beginning of the Holocaust (Google History). In Source A, a young Jewish girl, Anne Frank, wrote in her diary that the Gestapo was taking away Jewish friends and acquaintances and sending them away to concentration camps. She listened to the English radio to later find out that they were being killed and gassed. Source B reveals, that in the steps to genocide, people classified as different are prohibited rights and personal honor. They are referred to as “sub-human, while the Nazis referred to Jews as vermin” (Source B).
The German Nazi party, which was recognized as a political party and a political movement at the time of its creation, disrespected and displayed acts of cruel and unusual punishment towards the Jewish People, and this message was spread around to the masses through multiple very calculated moves and acts of propaganda at the time, spread by ex-German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, whom of which displayed and possessed a definitive hate of the Jewish
Was Hitler a Ruthless tyrant, masterful tactician, or a cowardly leader? The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of around six million Jews by Hitler and the Nazi party. First the Jews were first regularly transported by trains to extermination camps, there were killed in gas chambers. This continued until April–May 1945.