told “that we haven’t noticed how the Jews are trying once again to spread themselves over all our streets; the Jews ought to please to observe laws of hospitality and not behave the same as us” (“Joseph Goebbels” par. 8). His propaganda caused Kristallnacht (“ Joseph Goebbels” par.…
Over 9 million people were killed within a span of four years in the 1940’s. One and a half million of these were children and over five thousand Jewish communities were destroyed by the Nazi party. This group was lead by Adolf Hitler, a german politician who became a military leader and dictator of Nazi Germany. Since a young age Hitler had a deep hatred for Jews, and referred to them as a people and compared the activities they took part in “like a maggot in a rotten body.” (Rice, p.19)…
In the 20th century, a fascist group called the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, which was also known as the Nazis, had emerged. The party was run by the Austrian, Adolf Hitler, who is credited with starting the party with his novel Mein Kampf (Neel). The Nazis were characterized by intense nationalism (Neel).The Nazis had emerged from pre existing groups and had built from the existing disillusion from the German loss in World War I (Neel). Nazis were anti semitic and used Jews as…
Something that was so extreme that Jews would have to leave. This event was called Kristallnacht meaning night of the broken glass. Kristallnacht was triggered by an assasination of a low german official in the German embassy in france by a Jew. The Nazis saw this as an excuse to cause mass outrage at the Jews. On this night thousands of Jewish properties such as…
rights, their land, their culture. They were not seen as German citizens from 1935 onwards, they could not own businesses, couldn’t hold a professional job i.e. doctors, teachers, accountants and children could not attend school. The night of the Kristallnacht is something one cannot forget. That night of 9th - 10th November 1938, was an anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland where “Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked, as the attackers demolished buildings…
severely months after the Nazis came I lived with most of my family in Inge. My parents were always scared of my safety so, every time I asked them if i could play outside they said no. When I was five the Nazi’s did a nationwide pogrom known as Kristallnacht (the Night Of Broken Glass). At that time I didn’t know what was going on and, who was doing it. One of our neighbors came by and said the Nazis are coming. I didn’t know what was going on but my parents took me by the hand and, took…
Freedom has meant many things to many people over time, from the relatively few rights/freedoms or oppressive cultures to countries like the U.S. with lots of rights and freedoms. Today I will talk about freedom is politically, socially, and spiritually, along with how it is won and lost, and how people react when different types of freedom are threatened or taken away. Freedom is one of the most important gifts given to us by god. But most peoples do not have this until stable governments were…
target for unjust actions against themselves. It is a problem that not just people face but the world faces. Being different or standing up for what is right versus what is popular has plagued mankind throughout the modern era. In the case of Kristallnacht people realized that a greater power was upon them and the best way to avoid the greater evil is join them or physically agree with what they are saying or acting upon. Still mentally they feel different and want to support the persecuted but…
declare race laws in order to create a “racially pure” Germany. Soon, Jews were being shunned, isolated, and even worse, their stores were being vandalized and destroyed. The destruction of Jewish shops became so numerous and violent that the term Kristallnacht, Night of Broken Glass, was created to describe the shattered windows of the Jewish stores littering the streets. Things only further escalated and eventually the Jewish concentration camps were created and the lives of many were…
It is difficult to comprehend that Adolf Hitler was not always an antisemite, right? Well, according to his autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf (My Struggle), it was not even until he moved to Vienna that he opened up to the idea of anti-semitism. That seems peculiar, considering the fact that today, Hitler is most famously known as the heinous totalitarian dictator of Nazi Germany, and the core of an immense amount of drastic atrocities, including the Holocaust. Born in Austria, Hitler grew…