The Holocaust

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Chetan Patel

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The Holocaust

The word Holocaust refers to any wide spread human disaster but when it is written it refers to the almost destruction of the Jews in Europe by the Nazis. The Holocaust occurred during 1933-45 and resulted in the death of millions of Jews.

Why did the Nazis persecute the Jews? 

The Nazis believed that Jews were responsible for everything bad that happened in life, which included pornography and prostitution. In Hitler’s autobiography, Mein Kampf, he believed that Germans were the most supreme race. Hitler also wrote that Jews threatened the Aryan race and tried to destroy it. Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany’s defeat in the World War 1 and for the country’s depression. He also believed that Jews were slowly taking over the world although only 1% of the world’s population were Jews. Hitler believed that the Jews were involved with Communists in a joint conspiracy to take over the world. Hitler claimed that 75% of all Communists were Jews.

Hitler blamed the Jews for everything because unlike Germans at the time, they were successful. When Germany went into the depression, Jews were the only people at the time that he could blame so he did and made them suffer

Nazi treatment of Jews

The Nazis treated the Jews extremely badly. As the reign of the Nazi Party continued, they way of life got harder and harsher for the Jews. Hitler got his ideas from the way the black people were denied their civil rights in southern America. He tried to make life for Jews hard so that they would be forced to leave the country. Then Hitler told shop owners and restaurants not to serve Jews and then he became harsher by not allowing Jews to use public transport or allow them to go to swimming pools or parks. They were banned from having jobs in the German civil service or in medicine, teaching and journalism. Jewish children were also being treated unfairly in their schools and there were many lessons where they were discriminated against. Firstly, they were left out of class activities and then it leaded to them sitting in a different part of the classroom. Soon they had to go to their own ‘Jewish Schools’ and eventually, they weren’t allowed to go to school. Jews were also being killed on streets by the Nazis and by the SS. Jews had a terrible life to lead at the time and they could do nothing about it as the whole country followed Hitler’s words and soon they began hating the Jews. It became worse when Hitler introduced the Enabling Law and could do anything he wanted to the Jews without being stopped.

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Nuremberg Laws

The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of “subjects” in Hitler’s Reich. The laws also made it forbidden for Jews to marry or have sexual relations with Aryans or to employ Aryan women as household help. (An Aryan being a person with blonde hair and blue eyes of Germanic heritage.)

The first two laws comprising the Nuremberg Race Laws were: “The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour” (regarding Jewish marriage) and “The Reich Citizenship Law” (designated Jews as subjects.)

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