Hitler wanted the non-Jewish Germans to dislike the Jews before he began violently persecuting the Jews. In 1934 Hitler boosted the anti-Jewish propaganda, which would indoctrinated the non-Jewish public. This propaganda included misleading information such as: Jews were an inferior race, the Jews were planning on taking over the world, and that all the problems of Germany were because of the Jews.
In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were passed. These laws were passed to protect the Aryan race. The laws were aimed at keeping the inferior races, such as the Jews, from mixing with Aryans. Marriages between non-Jews and Jews were banned, along with sexual relationships between Jews and citizens of German blood. This was due to the Nazi belief of Jews contaminating the Germans. For this to be said to anyone that they could contaminate someone because of their religion, would be extremely offending. The Nuremberg Laws also sorted out Jews from non-Jews. It said that if your Grand parents were Jewish, then you were Jewish.
The Nuremberg Laws also took away the citizenship of the Jews. As they were no longer citizens of the Reich, they didn’t have the protection of the police. The laws also stated that they weren’t allowed to vote or fill any public office.
After three years as Chancellor of Germany, Hitler had finished brainwashing most of the non-Jewish Germans in hating the Jews. He wanted to maintain this whilst further persecuting the Jews. He began to cut off the Jews from the Human world. He stopped Jews from getting a good education and being able to work at well-paid jobs, for example, Jewish doctors were banned.
Many Jewish students were picked on at school, not only by the children but also by the teachers. They were forced to sit lessons about how the Aryan brain was far superior to the Jewish. In mathematics, they would have to work out how much money would be saved if there were no Jews. All of this different type of teaching was part of the Nazi’s attempt on indoctrinating the German population. They would calculate where a bomb would land, and many other things that would train children for war.
The Jewish education deteriorated among all the warlike training. They were discriminated against at school so much that by the time Hitler announced Jews were to be educated outside German schools, the Jewish children were happy. However, as Aryan children excelled in mathematics, German and the sciences, the Jewish intelligence was becoming increasingly limited every month.
If Jews were an inferior race, then why do they have businesses, and shops? In 1937 Hitler made this point and forwarded it to the German Aryans. The result of this was an increase of persecution and Jewish businesses being confiscated and given to Aryans. A year later, all Jews had to register their property to the Nazis. This made it easier for the Nazis to confiscate the property.
To make the Jews stand out and to be easily seen, the Nazis forced Jews to wear a yellow Star of David wherever it could be seen. The aim of this star was so that the German Aryans could persecute the Jews when they were shopping, walking about, or going to work. It was also like an identity card. If a Jew was out after prohibited hours, they could have been seen with the star on their clothes.
After so much persecution, someone had to do something. In 1938, a Polish Jew assassinated a German ambassador, which gave the Nazis the excuse to hurt the Jews even more. In November, the SS disguised themselves as ordinary Germans and rioted against the Jews without identifying themselves. Many Jewish businesses were destroyed, and many Jews were killed on that night which they called “Kristalnacht” or the night of the broken glass. As a result, the Jews were blamed for the incident and had to pay one billion Marks for the damages.
The Jewish lives were deteriorating extremely quickly. A month after Kristalnacht, all Jewish businesses were confiscated. The Jews had near to nothing in Germany, and emigration was encouraged. The Jews were dehumanised by the Nazis and oppressed them to a certain degree that there couldn’t have been any point to there lives except to die under Nazi rule.
The Nazis also took away the Jew’s freedom to name themselves. They were forced by the Nazis to add names at the beginning of their existing names. Israel was added to the boys names and Sarah was added to the girls names. The Nazis were definitely separating the Jews from the Aryans.
Altogether the treatment of the Jews became unbearable for the victims. The Jewish lifestyles became no better than an animal’s and later on it was to become worse. The Nazis had been taking away their proof to be human, separating them from the Aryans and treating them like rubbish. The Nazis brainwashed the German public into thinking that they owned the Jews and could do anything they liked to them.
