Human Rights Dbq Analysis

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Human rights is something really important to people, but Totalitarian leaders broke down this democratic ideal because Totalitarian leaders wanted to be the only leaders ruling. Human rights is something that helps us have an opinion on what we believe is acceptable for every person. Human rights was something that was limited when Hitler and other Totalitarian leaders had power. Document D was written by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Chief of propaganda in 1930. “Why do we oppose the Jews? We are enemies of the Jews because we are fighters for the freedom of the German people. The Jew is the cause and the beneficiary of our misery...He has made two halves of Germany. He is the real cause for our loss of the Great War. The Jew is responsible for our misery and he lives on it. That is the reason why we, as Nationalists and Socialists, oppose the Jew.” In this document, Joseph Goebbels, is explaining to people why the Nazis hate Jews. This evidence explains why Hitler hated Jews. The quote says that the Jews were the real cause that Germany had lost the Great War. I believe that this is one of the many reasons why Hitler hated Jews. This shows us that Hitler gave Jew no human rights. Not only do we see this in this document, we see it in other documents too. For example, in document H we can see an example of non-human rights. This document is similar to the Kristallnacht Order which was written in the year 1938. “Regards: Measures against Jews …show more content…

One of the few considerations were that no severe actions were to be made if German life or property were in danger. This means that Germans were given more human rights than Jews. This now lets us see how Totalitarian leaders gave people no human

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