Those laws became known as the Jim Crow Laws. Both sets of laws were set in place by the two separate countries. The two laws targeted a specific race or religion, and created an extremely hostile environment within the borders of their respective countries. I will be conducting some research on the Nazi Nuremberg Laws and the American Jim Crow Laws and will compare and contrast both sets of laws to each other. Adolf Hitler was anxious to take control of Germany and start implementing the ideas he had planned for the country as well as what he had planned for the entire continent of Europe. Unsuccessful at first, he wouldn’t give up until he got the power that he was seeking. On 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany with the help of Franz von Papen. This would mark the beginning of the reshaping of Europe. The European populous in the area around Germany, which includes Austria and Poland, housed a lot of Jewish people. Unfortunately for the Jewish people, that is something Adolf Hitler didn’t like. Hitler would have a master race in mind, which was one that discriminated on all …show more content…
Almost all white males that were wealthy owned a plethora of African Americans as their personal slaves. They would work days upon days for their respective owners. Whether it was picking cotton or doing whatever their owner asked of them, they were pretty much treated like they were anything but a human being. They were treated poorly and their living conditions can probably be considered as inhumane. The quality of life for the two races in our beloved country had a huge difference. This era was more commonly known as the Jim Crow era. “Jim Crow describes the segregationist social system that emerged in the American South following Reconstruction” (Dunn, 2013, pp. 7). This was the name given to the laws that were created in the south that would segregate the two races from each other. Dunn went into a little bit of detail in regards to the social consequences of the Jim Crow laws in the