Kristallnacht

The Holocaust, the time in history where the Nazis killed six million Jews. Most of these Jews were not longer of the Jewish faith as they were only related to Jewish people but, since Hitler thought of Jews as a race it did not matter (“Introduction to the Holocaust”). The Ladder of Prejudice is the steps that the Holocaust followed in. The Holocaust followed the Ladder of Prejudice in three distinct steps they are speech, discrimination, and extermination. Speech is shown in many ways.…

who he felt was inferior or threatened his power, would be terminated. The Holocaust took place during World War II. It was orchestrated by Adolf Hitler and lasted approximately twelve years. During this time, the Nuremberg Laws were created and Kristallnacht took place. Innocent people were taken and deported to either concentration or execution camps, where they were executed or held hostage until the end of the war (“The Holocaust”). In 1935, the Nazis proclaimed new laws, known…

Adolf Hitler was a cruel man that preached a message of hate and violence towards millions of Jews and his enemies. Even though Hitler hated his enemies he never killed them himself. He relied on ruthless organizations like the SS to carry out his vision of racial purity. The SS committed countless crimes against humanity for Hitler and Nazi Germany. Only die hard Hitler supporters, Aryans and cold-blooded killers were accepted into the SS. The SS was almost unavoidable as they were apart of…

The Holocaust During the early 1930s, Germany experienced economic and social suffering because it was defeated in World War I by the Allies Forces, including the United States, Great Britain, Russia, and Italy. Germany was forced to lose territory, reduce its armed forces, and admit guilt for the war. Germany was also mandated to pay a lot of money in fines for the wrongs they had committed, resulting in extraordinarily high inflation and tremendous unemployment. Adolf Hitler, the leader of…

(Berenbaum and Whitlock 1). USHMM shares that it was located north of Sachsenhausen and south of Dachau. The camp was built in 1937 so it could initially house political enemies and followers of the Jewish faith. The population greatly increased after Kristallnacht in November of 1983. There were many medical experiments done at these camps too (“Buchenwald” 6,7). According to USHMM; Beginning in 1941, a number of physicians and scientists carried out a varied program of medical experimentation…

The Holocaust was the fault of Hitler and the leaders of the Nazi Party, the common bystanders, the military, the affluent, and the world. The Holocaust was a genocide: the mass murder of many minority groups, most predominantly the Jewish population, using concentration camps and other methods. Hitler was the leader of Germany from the early 1930’s to the early 1940’s, the man who started it all, backed by the leaders of his party, these men were the instigators. The common bystanders: the…

Keanna Limes P.3 The Jewish race, seen as pestering animals ,were dehumanized by the Nazi party in a matter of about six years. It all started with Kristallnacht and The Nuremberg Laws, when the Jews had all of their businesses, homes, and rights taken away by the infamous leader Adolf Hitler. Being dehumanized means to be gradually reduced to a little more than ¨ things “or be treated like an annoying bug that needs to be exterminated immediately. The Nazis dehumanized the Jews…

family member, someone famous, or maybe even a superhero. There were many people who performed courageous acts during the Holocaust such as Feng-Shan Ho. Ho is nothing short of a hero as his daring efforts saved over two thousand jews. After the Kristallnacht, the situation became much more difficult for the near two hundred thousand Austrian Jews. The only way Jews could escape persecution from Nazis was to leave Europe. However, they had to provide proof of emigration,such as a visa from a…

She was born May 1st. Her father was a cattle dealer and the Nazis started taking away a lot of their profits, causing them to become scared. Her father was forced to stop working in 1937. November 9th, 1938 is known as Kristallnacht when many Synagogues were burned down. Jill remembers this day well, and it haunts her today. She saw flames and heard people screaming. They escaped to a city where the rest of her family was at. Her sister is 4 years older, causing her to better…

In 1933, Adolf Hitler designed a new group. He called this large group of kids “Hitler Youth”, and used them to help the rest of the nazis destroy things and create fear all over Europe. Over all, these kids, extremely young and older alike, caused much more destruction than the world thought possible of their generation’s youth. In classrooms, they taught kids that the Jews were bad and they had to eliminate them at all costs. Many German teachers aimed to produce race-conscious, obedient,…