Explain why the Nazis persecuted the Jews and other minorities and then, considering one minority, show how such persecution developed.

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3. Explain why the Nazis persecuted the Jews and other minorities and then, considering one minority, show how such persecution developed. By Mahmoud Elsherif

The Second World War is, possibly, most notorious because of the enormous figure of deaths throughout the holocaust, and the terrible persecution of minorities in Nazi Germany. Hitler's vision of an Aryan Race extensive far enough for him to ultimately desire to eliminate any other races that did not meet his principle; atrocious though it was, most of the German nation began to accept it. The Nazis believed that the Aryan race was the best built and the top; consequently, all other race were inferior.

The Nazi notes about Semitic inadequacy were not new; in Russia, Pogroms, or persecution had been held for years. The Jews were scapegoats for practically every dilemma known to man, and especially the hyperinflation and economic disruption in Germany, and even the whole of World War One. Though these accusations were ludicrous to the extreme, the German nation needed to abuse someone, and blame is simply placed when people are distressed. 'Asocials' and homosexuals were also persecuted by the Nazis, who were social Darwinists, believing that the Aryan Race was advanced to any other, and the asocial behaviour, (such as tramps, the homeless, prostitutes and alcoholics) and homosexuality, was the consequence of some kind of genetic defect, nothing to do with human being choice, or the outcome of the surroundings. Homosexuals were mainly looked down upon because they were totally out of custody with the Aryan information of maleness. Therefore, if this group of people was sterilised, or even entirely eradicated, civilization would profit, and the Aryan race could succeed and make an improved German nation. In November 1933, the 'Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals' authorised compulsory castration for certain types of criminal; in 1937 this also began to take in the castration of young offenders. When in 1936 there was a labour shortage, 'offenders' were sent off to concentration camps to be experimented upon. That was popular with the German people, and local councils welcomed it.

Gypsies were persecuted cruelly, although they had been stared down ahead for years because of their vernacular, way of life, society and looks. They were the opposite of the ideal Aryan race- dark features, instead of blond, and the fact that they were not frequently working meant that people had no admiration for them. The Nazis labelled them as thieves. Vagrants and layabouts, and they too were incorporated in the law for the Protection of German Blood and Honour on 15th September 1935, which banned intermarriage between Aryans and non-Aryans, and was designed to separate 'pure' blood from 'impure' blood.
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In 1938, a Decree for the Struggle against the Gypsy plague was issued by Himmler, many experiments had been carried out, and they now separated Gypsies into classes, responsibility on their being half-blood or full-blood, or only part Gypsy and they were then rounded up and sent to Labour camps with 'Asocials'. Gypsies were dealt less harshly at the opening of Hitler's rule, because they were measured as a very small and insignificant racial group; the Jews were considered to be a main concern. Even though Himmler accepted the pure gypsies, and desired to make them into a ...

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