The Holocaust
During the early 1930s, Germany experienced economic and social suffering because it was defeated in World War I by the Allies Forces, including the United States, Great Britain, Russia, and Italy. Germany was forced to lose territory, reduce its armed forces, and admit guilt for the war. Germany was also mandated to pay a lot of money in fines for the wrongs they had committed, resulting in extraordinarily high inflation and tremendous unemployment. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazi Party), blamed the Jews for all the troubles that Germany faced. His anti-Semitic policies led to a horrific widespread plan to exterminate the Jewish people from Nazi-occupied Europe. Hitler’s plan, known as the Holocaust, occurred between January 30, 1933 and May 8, 1945 in which the Nazis murdered 11 million people including six of the nine million Jews living in Europe. The Holocaust, the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities and the senseless murder of two-thirds of Europe’s Jews, showed extreme racism on the part of the Nazis against the Jews by attempting to exterminate the Jews as a race through personal persecution, legal injustices, and the horrific torture the Jews endured in the ghettos, death cars, and …show more content…
Jews were fired from their civil service jobs. Jewish doctors were no longer free to treat any patient. They were required to treat only Jewish patients. Laws passed in 1937, brought further personal restrictions on the Jews, including exclusion from cinemas, theaters, concerts, restaurants, parks, and swimming pools. Soon, the Nazis were holding public book-burnings of any books, novels, or poetry written by Jewish authors, such as Heinrich Heine and Sigmund Freud. Signs declaring "No Jews" sprung up all over the country during the summer of 1935 outside restaurants, stores, and villages forbidding Jewish
During the early 1930s, Germany experienced economic and social suffering because it was defeated in World War I by the Allies Forces, including the United States, Great Britain, Russia, and Italy. Germany was forced to lose territory, reduce its armed forces, and admit guilt for the war. Germany was also mandated to pay a lot of money in fines for the wrongs they had committed, resulting in extraordinarily high inflation and tremendous unemployment. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazi Party), blamed the Jews for all the troubles that Germany faced. His anti-Semitic policies led to a horrific widespread plan to exterminate the Jewish people from Nazi-occupied Europe. Hitler’s plan, known as the Holocaust, occurred between January 30, 1933 and May 8, 1945 in which the Nazis murdered 11 million people including six of the nine million Jews living in Europe. The Holocaust, the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities and the senseless murder of two-thirds of Europe’s Jews, showed extreme racism on the part of the Nazis against the Jews by attempting to exterminate the Jews as a race through personal persecution, legal injustices, and the horrific torture the Jews endured in the ghettos, death cars, and …show more content…
Jews were fired from their civil service jobs. Jewish doctors were no longer free to treat any patient. They were required to treat only Jewish patients. Laws passed in 1937, brought further personal restrictions on the Jews, including exclusion from cinemas, theaters, concerts, restaurants, parks, and swimming pools. Soon, the Nazis were holding public book-burnings of any books, novels, or poetry written by Jewish authors, such as Heinrich Heine and Sigmund Freud. Signs declaring "No Jews" sprung up all over the country during the summer of 1935 outside restaurants, stores, and villages forbidding Jewish