Before World War II began in 1938 Hitler and the Nazi party’s rise to power came with persecutions before the war even began, especially against the Jewish population with the Nuremburg Laws that were established in November of 1935.Hitler was not the only one persecuting those within their own country before the war, Stalin was also persecuting Soviet Ukrainians in the 1930s with a large spread famine across the Ukrainian farmland. Saul Friedländer’s book, Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume 1 gives the background needed in order to understand the Nazis ideals within their political group as well as their ideals of what Germany should be, this included Eugenic racial ideals and how those who did not fit in with those ideals, mainly Jews, should
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“THE JEWS ARE GUILTY! Goebbels thundered in Der Angriff. ‘The Jews are guilty, the punishment is coming. . . The hour will strike when the state prosecutor will have other task to fulfill than to protect the traitors to the people from the anger of the people. Forget it never, comrades! Tell it to yourself a hundred times a day, so that it may follow you in your deepest dreams: The Jews are guilty! And they will escape the punishment they deserve’” (Friedländer 111). There were different Reich Laws that were put into place. The First was the Reich Flag Law and that the colors black, red and white were the national colors and the swastika flag was the national flag (Friedländer 142). The Second was the Citizenship Law which distinguished the difference between who was a citizen within the Reich and therefore entitled full political and civic rights and those who were not deemed citizens were not granted those rights. The Nuremburg Laws were to establish within Germany that there was a country that was struggled against the internal enemies, or the Jewish population and that the Third Reich was going to stop their enemies. The Nuremburg Laws, “‘These laws are applicable to full Jews only.’ That sentence was meant to exclude Mischlinge from the legislation, now their fate also hung in the balance” (Friedländer 148). Hitler’s answer to Gobble’s question as to what to do with the Jewish population and his answer was, “. . . The Jews must get out of the whole of Europe. It will still take some time but it must happen, and it will happen” (F
“THE JEWS ARE GUILTY! Goebbels thundered in Der Angriff. ‘The Jews are guilty, the punishment is coming. . . The hour will strike when the state prosecutor will have other task to fulfill than to protect the traitors to the people from the anger of the people. Forget it never, comrades! Tell it to yourself a hundred times a day, so that it may follow you in your deepest dreams: The Jews are guilty! And they will escape the punishment they deserve’” (Friedländer 111). There were different Reich Laws that were put into place. The First was the Reich Flag Law and that the colors black, red and white were the national colors and the swastika flag was the national flag (Friedländer 142). The Second was the Citizenship Law which distinguished the difference between who was a citizen within the Reich and therefore entitled full political and civic rights and those who were not deemed citizens were not granted those rights. The Nuremburg Laws were to establish within Germany that there was a country that was struggled against the internal enemies, or the Jewish population and that the Third Reich was going to stop their enemies. The Nuremburg Laws, “‘These laws are applicable to full Jews only.’ That sentence was meant to exclude Mischlinge from the legislation, now their fate also hung in the balance” (Friedländer 148). Hitler’s answer to Gobble’s question as to what to do with the Jewish population and his answer was, “. . . The Jews must get out of the whole of Europe. It will still take some time but it must happen, and it will happen” (F