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    the Nazi plan to kill the Jews of Europe, by hiding or escaping from German-controlled Europe. Most non-Jews neither aided nor hindered the "Final Solution." Relatively few people helped Jews escape. Those who did aid Jews were motivated by opposition to Nazi racism, by compassion, or by religious or moral principle. In a few rare instances, entire communities as well as individuals helped save Jews. They did so at tremendous risk. In many places, providing shelter to Jews was punishable by…

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    did good. You can not think of the Holocaust without thinking about Adolf’s hatred towards jews. His hatred towards the jews was because he thought “Jews were responsible for sending the world into its first world war, causing over 100,000 deaths of German soldiers.” In fact he hated them so much he said, and I quote “ I promise to get rid of German Jews.” He established concentration camps for Jews because he believed they were a…

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    By no means is it a simply answered question. Why did Hitler pick the Jews? Perhaps it could be said it was an irrational hatred to go after so many of a people. Hitler had a long stemming hatred for the Jewish people. Perhaps it can be rooted back to his childhood or his family lineage. Both are questioned by historians world wide, but nothing can be proven for a fact. The jewish people were not the only negative benefactors in hitlers psycopatical genocide. Granted they were the largest group.…

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    The Jews have been persecuted throughout time. This can be observed in the year 1349, when Jews were given the false accusation of producing the black plague. The Christians in this nation were prejudiced, discriminatory, and persecuted the Jews harshly. They claimed that the Jews had placed poison in their water sources, which therefore caused many deaths. Many Europeans had come to despise the Jews, who conceived wealth from money lending. Which was to be believed to be an evil occupation to…

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    European Jews were treated terribly by Nazi Germany during WWII. They were faced with horrific circumstances and inevitable fates. Jews were dehumanised and treated as if they were a threat to Germany and if they were not disposed of, their supposedly evil and nefarious mannerisms would, ironically, soon destroy Germany as a race. According to the film, Schindler 's List, the discrimination of Jews and the actions the Nazis took to expose them was non-expectant and unpredictable. Nazis would do…

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    The White Paper, had a ton of effects, both negative and positive. It was a document issued by the British Government in 1939 under Neville Chamberlain. The white paper had both negative and positive effects on Jews and Palestinians. It limited Jewish immigration when the persecution of Jews in Europe was increasing. Also, Palestinians did not want to wait for ten years for their own independent state. In addition, nobody was satisfied with the white paper. A negative effect on the…

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    The expression discrimination against Jews was authored in 1879 by Wilhelm Marr, a German political dissident who established the League of Anti-Semites to counter the impact of Jewish individuals in German culture. His scorn of Jews was established basically on racial, as opposed to religious, grounds. Today, discrimination against Jews portrays any individual who loathes the Jewish individuals and looks for their damage on the premise of their Jewish personality. It has taken the type of…

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    back gave Hitler the opportunity to come into power. A series of events lead up to the anti- Jewish regime that would later spread throughout the European nation. In this paper I will be examining content from Saul Friedländer’s “Nazi Germany and the Jews” as well as the film sunshine by István Szabó. I will compare the view of the time period from…

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    separated with other Jews. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he explains how the Nazis dehumanize the Jews by not giving them enough food to survive, treating them like animals, and separating them from their families. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, the Nazis don't give the Jews enough food to survive. They have to trade their own valuables that they got to keep or the Nazis don’t know they have, to get food just to survive. Some of the Jews have to take the valuables of other Jews to get…

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    left a mark of tragic and horror to all Jews. The tragedy began on January 30th 1933 and ended on May 8th 1945. The holocaust was a miserable time for the jews and other religious beliefs. The nazi army took jews captive and took them from their homes leaving them with only a suit case or two not leaving them with much. The jews would only take their most valuable possessions that was carried in the family like gold, diamonds, necklaces, ring and ect. jews were stripped down of all their…

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