Ernst vom Rath

World War II was a time in which many people were discriminated against, hated, and ridiculed. Nazi Germany is infamous for the stories that came out of the brutality they displayed to the Jewish people. Japan is also very well known for their treatment of American Prisoners of War. Although both forces were, in fact, very savage in their ways, one can argue that the Japanese were ultimately more vicious toward the Allied Powers than the Nazis. The Nazis were very severe in the ways that they…

The Holocaust, a majority of people know what it is, but a slim number know how this genocide began. When the sun rose over Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia the morning of November 10, 1938, it was filled with smoke of hazy fires. Synagogues and Jewish businesses were burning, across multiple countries. The aftermath of this catastrophic event included many lives lost, a way of life, and buildings burned to ash. Historians call this massive coordinated attack on the Jews by the German reich-…

with a non-Jewish German.3 Hitler voiced his hatred for Jews all across Germany and many, many people followed him. On November 7th a 17-year-old German, Jewish refugee named Herschal Grynszpan, killed the third secretary of the German embassy, Ernst Vom Rath, as revenge for Germany deporting his father to Poland.4 This made many Germans very angry, resulting in a specific group wanting revenge on all Jewish, German people. On November 9th, 1938 the Night of Broken Glass occurred. The group of…

It began with mob violence – “the Nazis made raids and pulled out men, made them wash floors, all sorts of things.”13 This violence escalated when Herschel Grynszpan attempted to assassinate Ernst vom Rath in Paris in November of 1938, resulting in the nationwide November Pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht. During this, Nazis “[destroyed] synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses; the police would not intervene and those involved would not be arrested…

As anyone like myself who has heard of the Holocaust era, we can only imagine what a devastating and tragic time that must’ve been for the Jewish people. Imagine being torn away from your families and your basic necessities, and then thrown into captivity for no plausible reason. Then tortured like you were some kind of criminal who deserved to be mistreated and dehumanized. As I hear more about this horrific event that took place and listen to stories from some of the victims, I can’t help…

Hitler joined the German Workers’ Party, which later changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Two years later on July 29, 1921, Hitler became the party’s leader, now commonly known as the Nazi Party. During that same year, Ernst Rohm, a leader of the Nazis, set up the Sturmabteilung, or the SA. This private military group attacked other political enemies and terrorized civilians. From November 8 to November 9, 1923, Hitler and members of the Nazi Party attempted, but…

To start with, speech was used first on the Ladder of Prejudice. Everyone began to despise the Jews, mainly after Hitler stated that he began to hate them. He wrote in his autobiography that he became an anti-semite. Hitler came to the conclusion that “Its final objective must unswervingly be the removal of the Jews altogether” (Byers 13-14). The Nuremberg Laws made in 1935 said that if one has three Jewish grandparents or two Jewish grandparents who followed Jewish faith, they were…

The Holocaust- Victim, Perpetrator and Bystander Research Essay During the Holocaust, many daily dilemmas surfaced that evoked various reactions from groups and individuals in society. In response to these dilemmas, these groups and individuals made choices that defined them as either perpetrators, collaborators, bystanders, victims, or rescuers. These groups include the Church in Aryan territories, and the Hitler Youth. Both of these groups have placed themselves in various points along this…

The demise of the Jews is something that is taught in schools and described in history books yet few people know what led up to the eventual annihilation of six million Jews living in Europe, Russia and Poland. What started off as a thought with “good intentions” by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party turned out to be one of the deadliest genocides in history. The events that initiated the “final solution” can be traced back to the Nuremburg laws created and enforced by Adolf Hitler and his party.…

Chapter 1: What is the historical event about? The Final Solution: The mass killing of The Holocaust 1.1 Concept of Superiority and Anti-Semitism After the World War I, Adolf Hitler who was the leader of a political organization called Nazis, became the dictator of Germany in January 1933. During his rise to power, he successfully convinced the people to believe that Germans with fair skin tone, blond hair and blue eyes were the superior form of human which was also known as the master race of…