The Perfect German had blonde hair and blue eyes.
Jews had dark coloured hair and eyes and became easy targets.
Also when the Nazi’s took control of Germany most of the Jews living there were rich and owned shops with good jobs, however they lived in small numbers and could not fight the Nazi’s, therefore the Nazi’s found it easy to pick on this certain group who were actually richer and better than them and totally destroy them. It seemed that the Jew’s were in control of all the riches and the Nazi’s wanted to be in control of these.
Also Hitler saw himself as a ‘good Christian’ and felt he wanted to please god. He thought that the Jew’s killed Jesus and therefore to get revenge he should kill the Jew’s.
Finally, because most of the Jew’s were not blonde haired and blue eyed the Nazi’s could easily spot them and separate them from a crowd. Therefore they became easy targets to locate and kill.
The Nazi’s treated Jews in very bad ways and when they start killing them they decided that they wanted to get rid of them in mass numbers. Hitler decided that he only wanted German people to live in Germany as he saw them as the ‘master race’, so he begun to kill all handicapped and gypsies’ people in the country. However the main group of people that where wanted to be destroyed where Jew’s. Some possible reasons for this could also be that Jews owned about 80% of the best businesses in Germany and Hitler was jealous of them.
In the holocaust the exact number of Jews killed across Europe was not known, so many had been sent to concentration camps and their bodies burnt so no one had a record of them and it was as if they never existed. However estimated figures of Jews who where killed are as follows,
This totals to an estimated amount of six million Jews being killed across Europe. And this was the exact aim of the Nazis. To cause mass destruction and try and erase the Jewish community from Germany. In Germany only 10% of Jews survived the holocaust and they are haunt by memories that will never leave them.
So many Jews where murdered in such brutal ways in Germany and had to face such horrible deaths. Some of the ways in which they where murdered are,
- Machine Gunned – Many Jews where just killed instantly on the spot they where found or even set up in a line and gunned down one by one.
- Starvation – Many Jews where treated so badly their bodies just gave up and stopped working. They where deprived of food and water for days until they died.
- Sickness- Many ill Jews in concentration camps where ill and not given medicine to recover they finally ended up dying due to sickness.
- Gas chambers – Jews where tricked into thinking they would take showers, but in fact they where killed in mass numbers in the concentration camps by lethal gases.
Jews where also treated very badly in the follow up to their deaths. They were forced to follow rules by the Nazi government. Some of which are,
- Jews must go Jews school.
- Jews must wear yellow star.
- Jews are banned from trams.
- Jews can not go to the theatre or cinema.
Many other rules where also made for the Jewish people to follow, this was because they could easily be located by the Nazi army when they followed these rules and it also made them realise that they were different from the German society. They were made to feel like outcasts and rejected.
Also in Germany there was a period of time when the Nazis started attacks on Jews and burnt down synagogues, this is a place where Jewish people practiced their religion. The Nazis also destroyed Jewish people homes and made them homeless causing them to flee and wonder streets. They also closed down their businesses and took away their wealth. Jewish children where deprived from education when they where kicked out of German schools and curfews where set for which hours the Jews could go out. Germany then decided to kick Jews out of their country and then they sent them to concentration camps and killed them in mass numbers.
Many German people had liked Jewish people for years and they had lived together as a happy community until the Nazis started to cause friction between all of the people of Germany. They wanted to separate the German people and destroy the Jewish people. The main reason that this was is because, Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany losing World War Two, because they did not want to fight in a war and the Jewish people did not join the army and therefore the Germans wanted to fight against them.
I believe that Nazi propaganda did cause the German people to turn against Jewish people. This was because Jews where portrayed as bad people and seen to be the reason that the Germans lost the war. Many posters where created that showed the Jews in a bad light. One of which is the following, ‘Eternal Jew Poster’.
The Nazi propaganda caused German people hatred against Jews, because the Jewish people where seen as lower class compared to the German people they where also seen as bad and not good for the German country. Germany wanted to be a pure, clean country that was rid of all Jews and problems and therefore the Nazis created propaganda to turn against the Jewish people. This caused all Jews to have false views of the Jewish people and turn against them. They where then hated and murdered.
To conclude with I find that the Jewish people where treated very unfairly in Germany and many of the German people who had been living with Jews for years where forced to turn against them, because of Nazi propaganda and false illusions that had been created of Jewish people. They where shown to be the main reason that Germany lost the world war and therefore the Nazis turned against them and caused other people to also turn against them and kill them in mass numbers.
There were some survivors of the holocaust, only about 10% of the total Jewish population who lived in Germany before the holocaust. They survived in very bad conditions and stayed in hide outs away from the Nazis who were out to kill them. These people have very bad memories of the Holocaust and are haunted by most of what they saw. Many of their friends and relatives where murdered in horrific ways and they live with this guilt everyday of there lives. The only way that they managed to survive was by always staying one step ahead on the Nazi’s and escaping their death sentences. There are also some famous memories from the holocaust such as The Diary Of Anne Frank. She was a young Jewish girl who was hiding out behind her father’s work place and purchased a diary one day before they fled to shelter. She wrote in it everyday until her family where killed. Anne was ages 13. Her diary was found shortly after the holocaust and published world wide where it sold greatly. It expressed feelings, pain and sorrow that was faced by Jewish people during the holocaust.
