Night Of The Holocaust: Kristallnacht Night

The government forcibly removed black South Africans from rural areas designated as “white” to the homeland, and sold their land at low prices to white farmers. More than 3.5 million people were forcibly removed from their homes and deposited in the Bantustans, where they were plunged into poverty and hopelessness. Other human rights abuses can be seen throughout the 1930’ s for Jews and even decades before that for South African blacks. The human rights violated were in regards to social and educational abuses implemented by government. This can be seen in the government enforcement of restrictions on Jews and blacks. In Germany Jews became the “Untermenschen” (the sub humans) and suffered from systematic repression. They couldn’t …show more content…
November 1938 a Jew shot a German diplomat in Paris. Hitler ordered a seven-day campaign of terror against Jews organized by Himmler and the SS. They used terror and economic deprivation when 10,000 Jewish shops were destroyed, along with homes and synagogues were set on fire. This incident was called Kristallnacht Night or “Night of the Broken Glass” because the SS smash windows of Jewish buildings and homes. Over 42,00 camps, ghettos and other detentions like Sachsen, Dachau and Buchenwald were e setup with Warsaw being the largest ghetto. In the ghetto there was severe overcrowding, lack of hygiene, extreme starvation and denial of basic medicine, which led to widespread epidemics. The ghetto served as a source of a slave labor camps. For the South African blacks their ghetto was called Bantu. The Bantu Self-Government Act of 1959 created 10 Bantu homelands known as Bantustans. Bantustans were established for the permanent removal of the Black population in White South Africa. The Bantustans were generally poor, with few local employment opportunities. Blacks owned only thirteen percent of South Africa’s land while they represented 80% of the