The Holocaust was one of the darkest periods in human history as it consisted of the tormenting persecution and slaughter of over 10 million Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and mentally challenged. Everyday life for minorities during The Holocaust was full of fear and agony, many began to flee Germany before The Holocaust began because they feared for the safety of themselves and those around them under Hitler’s rule. By the end of The Nazi rule, millions had been taken from their homes and loved ones only to be placed in concentration/death camps and killed for things that they could only wish to change.
Between 1933 and 1939 over 100,000 German and Austrian Jews fled to neighbouring countries such as France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands Czechoslovakia, and …show more content…
Shortly after the Nazi’s took control they set a series of laws to diminish the rights of Jewish people in Germany. The first major law to be set was the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service of April 7, 1933, which ostracized Jews and other non-Aryans from organisations, professions and other aspects of public life. This first law became the foundation for the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935, which defined Jews by ancestral lineage instead of religious belief which purposely excluded them from the ‘perfect’ Aryan population. Between 1937 and 1938 German authorities once again stepped up congressional affliction and maltreatment of Jews and other minorities. They set out to impoverish Jews and attempted to eradicate them from the German economy by preventing them from providing for their families. Jewish doctors were forbidden from treating non-Jews and Jewish lawyers had their licenses revoked, in the following months all Jews in Germany were made to carry around identification cards which indicated their Jewish heritage, and by November 1938 Jewish students had been banned from public
Between 1933 and 1939 over 100,000 German and Austrian Jews fled to neighbouring countries such as France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands Czechoslovakia, and …show more content…
Shortly after the Nazi’s took control they set a series of laws to diminish the rights of Jewish people in Germany. The first major law to be set was the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service of April 7, 1933, which ostracized Jews and other non-Aryans from organisations, professions and other aspects of public life. This first law became the foundation for the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935, which defined Jews by ancestral lineage instead of religious belief which purposely excluded them from the ‘perfect’ Aryan population. Between 1937 and 1938 German authorities once again stepped up congressional affliction and maltreatment of Jews and other minorities. They set out to impoverish Jews and attempted to eradicate them from the German economy by preventing them from providing for their families. Jewish doctors were forbidden from treating non-Jews and Jewish lawyers had their licenses revoked, in the following months all Jews in Germany were made to carry around identification cards which indicated their Jewish heritage, and by November 1938 Jewish students had been banned from public