Causes Of Racism In The Holocaust

Racism is the act of one race or religious group believing as though they are superior to another race or religion. In this case, the “superior” race would be whites and the “inferior” race would be any race other than white (Hispanic, african american, asian, etc.) It is stated in a website about race and racism that, “In the U.S., blacks, Mexicans, Chinese and Japanese immigrants were targets of discrimination in employment and property ownership.” This may not be happening in the modern era, but over a past history of hundreds of years it was seen as if white people were the race that controlled all the others. No it was not for the reason that they showed superior characteristics, the reason was their skin color. Anyone who wasn’t white was seen as a lower class, and treated in despicable ways that words can …show more content…
Previously mentioned, Jews were excluded from many things, including their rights, because of their beliefs. This kind of racism is where an individual is seen as inferior because of their religious beliefs, not because of their skin color. In the year of 1933, the Holocaust began. The Holocaust was the act of Adolf Hitler taking any Jewish person and placing them in concentration camps, where they would be abused and killed without any remorse. The Jews were forced into hard labor, being switched from various concentration camps, struggling to keep their physical and mental health in tact. The Holocaust concentration camps had also kept a gas chamber, where an abundant amount of prisoners would be herded into, and suffocated with the intoxicating gas inside. “There was no running water, or sanitary equipment, resulting in the rapidspread of disease.” An online article had stated. These abusive acts carried on up until the year of 1945, then releasing all of the remaining prisoners