Holocaust is a Greek word meaning "scarified by fire." In 1933 the Nazi power started to grow and along with that power came the spread of their belief of anti-Semitism. They hated the Jews because they thought of them as an inferior race to the Germans. The goal of the Nazi power during this time was to eliminate anybody that was not a German or somebody they deemed racially superior.
After World War 1 ended Germany was in chaos with over a dozen political parties trying to gain control. Some of these parties had large followings but most of them did not. One of the smallest parties was the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or German Workers’ Party, which later became known as the Nazi Party (“The Nazis” 18). The platform for the Nazi Party was …show more content…
Three days before the 9th a German diplomat was shot by a Polish Jew, whose parents were put into concentration camps. The assignation of this diplomat caused the Nazis to do something to the Jews to scare and harm them. During the night of the 9th German synagogues were burned and the windows in Jewish shops were mashed. About 100 Jews were killed that night and thousands were arrested (“The Holocaust”) . The night became known as the Night of the Broken Glass because of all the glass that was left on the streets after Nazi storm troopers went through and smashed all of the shops windows. The really tragedy came later when the Nazis blamed the Jews for all the damage and demanded they pay for the damages. This meant that any insurance money they received was confiscated and given to pay their “abominable crimes” (“The Nazis” 71) . Many people today consider that night the start of the …show more content…
Jews were forced to live in these sections. Disease spread quickly throughout the ghettos causing many people to get very sick and usually die. Ghettos were usually overcrowded and had very harsh living conditions (“The Death Camps” 20). The main ghettos during Holocaust were Warsaw and Lodz which were both located in Poland. Warsaw was home to over 400,000 people; Lodz housed 205,000 people. In the ghettos, there was no sewage system which only aided in the spread of disease amongst the people living there (“Rice Jr.” 56). Food within the ghettos was very scares because the Germans controlled it. Anyone who was caught smuggling extra food rations would be in danger of death. Most of the people living there didn’t care about the possible penalty of death because they couldn’t live with the fact that their children were starving to death (“Rice Jr. 58). There were two types of ghettos during the holocaust. The first type of the ghetto was called a “closed” ghetto. A closed ghetto is when the people that live there are forced to spend their whole day within the confines of the ghetto walls. The second type of the ghetto was called an “open” ghetto. This is when the people who lived there could leave during the daytime and just had to come back to the ghetto before curfew. If people failed to return to the ghetto before curfew they were rounded up by the Nazis and
After World War 1 ended Germany was in chaos with over a dozen political parties trying to gain control. Some of these parties had large followings but most of them did not. One of the smallest parties was the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or German Workers’ Party, which later became known as the Nazi Party (“The Nazis” 18). The platform for the Nazi Party was …show more content…
Three days before the 9th a German diplomat was shot by a Polish Jew, whose parents were put into concentration camps. The assignation of this diplomat caused the Nazis to do something to the Jews to scare and harm them. During the night of the 9th German synagogues were burned and the windows in Jewish shops were mashed. About 100 Jews were killed that night and thousands were arrested (“The Holocaust”) . The night became known as the Night of the Broken Glass because of all the glass that was left on the streets after Nazi storm troopers went through and smashed all of the shops windows. The really tragedy came later when the Nazis blamed the Jews for all the damage and demanded they pay for the damages. This meant that any insurance money they received was confiscated and given to pay their “abominable crimes” (“The Nazis” 71) . Many people today consider that night the start of the …show more content…
Jews were forced to live in these sections. Disease spread quickly throughout the ghettos causing many people to get very sick and usually die. Ghettos were usually overcrowded and had very harsh living conditions (“The Death Camps” 20). The main ghettos during Holocaust were Warsaw and Lodz which were both located in Poland. Warsaw was home to over 400,000 people; Lodz housed 205,000 people. In the ghettos, there was no sewage system which only aided in the spread of disease amongst the people living there (“Rice Jr.” 56). Food within the ghettos was very scares because the Germans controlled it. Anyone who was caught smuggling extra food rations would be in danger of death. Most of the people living there didn’t care about the possible penalty of death because they couldn’t live with the fact that their children were starving to death (“Rice Jr. 58). There were two types of ghettos during the holocaust. The first type of the ghetto was called a “closed” ghetto. A closed ghetto is when the people that live there are forced to spend their whole day within the confines of the ghetto walls. The second type of the ghetto was called an “open” ghetto. This is when the people who lived there could leave during the daytime and just had to come back to the ghetto before curfew. If people failed to return to the ghetto before curfew they were rounded up by the Nazis and