Kristallnacht

Short Response #2 Throughout the rise of Nazism in Germany from 1933 to 1939 social and political laws were being proclaimed that isolated the German race and the Jewish race. Before 1939, many ordinary Germans joined actively in measures of violence and discriminated toward the Jewish’s minority population. Marion Kaplan highlights both virtous and prejudicial elements of German-Jewish relations in Between Dignity and Despair. Kaplan talks about the Nazi’s and Germans themselves who made the…

Anti-semitism, defined as hostility to or prejudice against Jews, was the most integral part of the Third Reich. Blaming Jewish people for various economic and national problems had been common in European culture for many, many years, and was made explicit in Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. Through Hitler's rule over Germany, anti-Semitism became a central part of German society. The Nazis aimed to purge the Jews from German life, which turned into the Final Solution. This is known as the Holocaust,…

History textbooks only briefly explain the Holocaust without entailing the brutal experiences the Jews had to face every day of their lives. People need to be informed of the legitimate terrors that took place in and out of the camps so history doesn't repeat itself. The Holocaust eliminated Jews by lethal experiments, death camps, and destruction of Jewish societies. Why the Jews were Targeted “If they (the Jews) bring about another world war, they will experience their annihilation. Since…

The National Socialist German Workers Party, formally known as the Nazis, was established in 1919. The profound group was directed by Adolf Hitler. Hitler was an Austrian native but he served as a German soldier. After partaking in the military, he became the leader of the Nazi party. Beginning in 1918, a fiscal crisis devastated the German economy. Many people relied on the Nazis to restore their faith in the economy. The Great Depression, which occurred all over the world, caused even more…

In class we discussed Kristallnacht and the events that led to these actions. This was the first event in Germany where they physically and violently hurt and arrested many Jewish people. The reason this goes into conformity because it was not even the Nazi’s who commited these crimes…

Even without stepping into the museums themselves, an initial sense of what they are about can be felt. A waterwheel turns across Historic Tredegar, repurposed from Tredegar Iron Works that overlooks the James River. The Virginia Holocaust Museum provides a stark contrast as it blends in with other multi-story buildings in downtown Richmond, easy to overlook even with the parking lot that provides a sign for the museum. The museums both represent pivotal moments in history, whether specific to…

During World War II, every nation used propaganda posters to encourage support and participation by its citizens. The Allies created many types of propaganda to encourage citizens to purchase war bonds, to join in the conservation efforts, and for women to fill the critical jobs on the home-front while the men were serving on the front lines. Allied propaganda also served the purpose of boosting public morale when it looked like the Axis might win the war. The most infamous propaganda of the…

In the year 1933 Adolf Hitler was in charge Germany. When he was in charge, he had repeatedly blamed the Jews for not winning World War I. He also hated people with blond hair and blue eyes. Hitler had thought that the Jews were the complete opposite of them At this time the jews were only one percent of the German population. That was around 55 million people. But they were gradually shut out of German society by the Nazis through a never-ending series of laws. Which deprived them of their…

in Europe!’ Consequently, the Law for the restoration of the Civil Service (April 1933) and the Nuremberg laws were introduced, as well as propaganda to further unite Germany. This escalated to the extermination (Goldhagen) of Jews, as seen in Kristallnacht. Therefore, Hitler’s role in the Society for the Nazi State was of…

His first use of terrorism is known as Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass), in which Hitler ordered the destruction and burning of Jewish businesses and Jewish synagogues. While these buildings were burning, the firemen would ignore the Jewish burning buildings and focus on saving the buildings…