How The Holocaust Followed The Ladder Of Prejudice

In 1941 11 million people died when Adolf Hitler spread his hate to many religions. Six million of the people who died were from the Jewish religion, and five million were non-Jewish (Beyer 6). The Holocaust followed the Ladder of Prejudice. The Ladder of Prejudice started from speech and ended with extermination. The Holocaust followed the Ladder of Prejudice, through different examples of speech, discrimination, and extermination.
First, one of the begging rungs of the Ladder of Prejudice was discrimination. In May of 1942 the Jewish religion had to sew a yellow star on some part of their clothing with the word “Jude” permanently put onto the yellow star. This was a six pointed star that has an outline of two stars. (Star). The star on their clothes was called the Star of David. If they did not have a yellow star somewhere on their …show more content…
Many Jews were brought for many places and some were killed in a gas chamber just hours after getting the their camp. When they got to the camp they were examined and if they were unable to work or were very sick they were sent to a gas chamber being told they were going to medicine to help them get better but were killed by poisonous gasses (“Centers”). Gas was one of their best way of killing them because they could do it in large groups of people. The way they did this was they locked them in chambers and killed them with gas and disposed of their bodies by burning them (“Gassing”). When they were sick they were told they could get medicine that would help them get better but it was poisonous gasses that killed them. Some victims were told they had to take showers and were killed by gas. If they were too weak or unfit to work they would be killed (“Gas”). In the camps they were put into groups once or sometimes twice a day they had to be thinned. Once they were too thin they got sick and then after they could not work anymore they were killed (Byers