...To what extent were the German public active participants in the persecution of the Jewish population during the Holocaust? Throughout the timeframe of the holocaust, people wanted to know if Germans were active participants throughout the holocaust. Most of the old Germans currently admit that they knew about the holocaust. Most did not want to know about it even after the war. Living life form in Denmark and Bulgaria could of effectively stand against the Nazis. People tried in Germany however it was not enough. In Germany back in the time of the Holocaust many of the Germans were not expecting such a horrifying event, in fact they thought it was going to be good as Adolf Hitler claimed that he was going to make Germany great again. Through the time of the holocaust there was specific laws to follow. Laws...
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...Professor Johnson April 24, 2013 Jewish Life during World War 2 Anti-Semitism – the hatred of Jews has traumatized Jews around the world for a long time. Most of this occurred during the holocaust, which started in around 1939, will be remembered throughout the world, not just among Jews but all people that inhabit the earth. The holocaust was severe tragedy that caused distress among all the people involved on the wrong side of it. It is known as the as the mass genocide of around six million Jews during World War 2. There was extermination by the German Nazi’s who followed their leader Adolf Hitler. On September 1, 1939 was the turning point the people because the most horrifying event was yet to happen. On this day Hitler began his reign and terror with his Autocratic leadership over the people of Germany. Adolf Hitler was on a mission to make the Nazi party the strongest power and have all people follow his reign. Hitler thought the Aryan race was the most intelligent and perfect race and sought out to exterminate all who were not. Hitler believed that the superiority of the Aryan race was being in danger of the Jewish race. Hitler also thought that the Jewish race, who was a small part of the population, were slowly taking over the country. While Germany was starting to take a turn for the worst Jewish owned companies started to take big hits as they were collapsing under financial pressure and declining profits. As part of Germany’s Reign Jewish owners were forced to sell out...
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...Nazis that resided in Germany during World War II. Hitler was the leader of the Nazis. He felt that the Nazis were superior to the lower classes, such as the Jews, Gypsies, disabled, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, Communists, and Socialists. There were many groups that were persecuted by the Nazis but the Jews were the group that the Nazis targeted the most. The Nazis killed over at least six million Jews. The Hitler demanded the extermination of the Jews because he felt they were to blame for Germany’s lost during World War I. This paper will explain: how Adolf Hitler came to power, the pre-war experience of German Jews; the treatment of the German Jews during the war; the implementation of “Final Solution” and why this event should be considered the most destructive event, committed by members of the human, in history. Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1919. This was considered the interwar period for Germany. When Germany lost in World War I the German leaders had to sign the Treaty of Versailles. This document was sign on May 7, 1919. The treaty put limits on Germany. It caused them to have to give up territories, reduce their military, and “perhaps the most humiliating portion of the treaty for defeated Germany was Article 231, commonly known as the “War Guilt Clause,” which forced the German nation to accept complete responsibility for initiating World War I. As such Germany was liable for all material damages…” This is one thing that caused Germany and the Nazis to blame...
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...Name: Global II Date: The Holocaust Historical Information: According to the Holocaust Museum, the Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945 (www.ushmm.org). The Task: View the United States Holocaust Museum web site to familiarize yourself with this horrific time period. As you browse, please click on and view the pictures, maps and graphics that accompany the text you read. Step by Step: 1. Type in www.ushmm.org 2. Scroll down and look to the left menu bar. 3. Under Education, click on “for students” 4. Scroll down and on the bottom, click on “The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students.” 5. Click on “View More.” 6. Click on the headings that match the headings on your web quest. Click on Jews in Pre War Germany 1. How did Hitler define a “Jew?” How did this alter the number of Jews in Germany? 2. ________% of Jews held German citizenship, totaling approximately _________________ people. _________________ percent of Jews in Germany lived in _______________________. The largest Jewish populated area was _______________________. Click on Anti-Semitism 1. Describe reasons for anti-Semitism in Europe. European leaders who wanted to establish colonies in Africa and Asia argued that whites were superior to other races and therefore had to spread and take over the "weaker"...
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...The Holocaust was one of the most traumatic and horrific events of the 20th Century. It played a very significant part of not only World War II (WWII) but of Germany and Europe’s history. WWII lasted from 1939-1945. Throughout this time many innocent European people were killed because of their Jewish religion or their ancestor’s Jewish religion or culture. In the years of WWII, Germany was under Adolf Hitler’s total rule. Hitler and his Nazi party planned to kill all nine million European Jews. This mass scale genocide was referred to by the Nazi’s as “the final solution”. Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany after The Great Depression when Europe and the rest of the world was in an economic crisis. Some elements of European society and in...
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...destroying the Jewish race, but what events led up to their dire judgement? In this study I aim to uncover the events, reasons and changes which led to the Holocaust and the further changes in the treatment of the Jewish race by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. In the aftermath of the First World War, Germany is under the Judgment of the Allies as a result of Allied victory Germany is being blamed for most of the war, The Treaty of Versailles stated that they: * Are to pay compensation to the Allies: £6.6 Million, which was well over Germany’s financial capacity at the time. * Portions of Germany’s land has been claimed and will distributed under Allied power to form new nations and also will be given to allied nations who lost land during the war. * Germany’s army will be reduced to only 100,000 men plus their naval vessels have been limited to 6 capital ships. The west of Rhineland had been Demilitarised and occupied by Allied forces. * Germany was not allowed to join with Austria to boost its economy. These were only just a few of the terms of the treaty. In Germany, many people were ‘pointing fingers’ and putting the blame on others, one group of people however, is taking the most fire: The Jewish Race. The Jewish Race have been known to be persecuted since ancient times, right from the time when the Egyptians were ruling the Israelites, this was due to hatred towards Jewish Culture and way of life. The Jewish population in Germany was approximately...
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...Laws: A Giant Step Backward Josh Portnoy The West and the World Period 7 5/10/13 In 1935, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party’s anti-Semitic ideas were gaining strength in many parts of Germany. Many restaurants and department stores displayed signs that forbade Jews from entering, and some areas of Germany banned Jews from using public transportation or public parks. Thousands of Jewish teachers and civil servants had been laid off, national boycotts enforced by paramilitary forces regularly barred Germans from buying from Jewish businesses, and citizens were discouraged from visiting Jewish doctors and lawyers. These actions were intended to cause a mass emigration of Jews from Germany. During the annual Nazi Party Rally held in Nuremberg in September 1935, Adolf Hitler passed two new laws, the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor. These laws—to be know as the “Nuremberg Laws”-- deprived Jews of German citizenship and many civil rights. Unresolved in the initial Nuremberg Laws were the actual definition of Jews. The first of thirteen supplementary decrees, all designating the biological composition of Jewish blood, was published on November 14, l935, and defined Jews in terms of their lineage. These laws enforced a new morality on Germans that made it acceptable to ostracize, discriminate, and expel Jews from society. According to Hitler, the Nuremberg Laws...
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...Eric Snyder History 300W Reign of Terror: German Public Opinion of the Jews 1933-1939 Historian Marc Bloch describes history as something that is “progressive which constantly transforms and perfects itself.” There are many different opinions that persist in pre-war Nazi Germany. There is the opinion of the Jewish people living in Germany, the opinion of the Nazis living in Germany under the command of Adolf Hitler, and there is the opinion of the German people who were not Nazis which this paper is focused on. Events such as Kristallnacht positively affected the opinion of the Jewish people to the German public during pre-war Nazi Germany. The Chancellor of Germany from 1933-1945 was Adolf Hitler, an outspoken anti-Semitic man who was an accomplished mimic, an excellent actor, and “used language in a way that was untranslatably funny.” Hitler believed that the Jewish people were inferior to his Aryan race. Hitler believed that race was not only defined by skin color or heritage, it was defined by an elitist set of criteria that had to be met such as a person’s religion, or ideals. As a result, any intermingling or marriage or offspring made by an Aryan and any other race was downright wrong in Hitler’s eyes. He says of intermingling of the races that, “If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such a case all her efforts, throughout hundreds...
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...Mildred, a descendant of Germany, a strong woman and successor. Mildred Schimpf is her full name and she created the reason why I have spent numerous hours going through academic journals to understand what may have been the motive behind her relocation to America. She was a daughter, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother to three generations. She was born in 1919 and passed away in 1997.She lived in Germany in her early childhood and moved to America in 1924. This made her a first generation American ancestor. In essay one, I explained the evolution of my family’s history and why they may have chosen to emigrate to America. Not only did I gather important information from Mildred’s child, Carol, but I also opened doors to new and unknown information through research on Germany. The time period this essay allocates is between 1904 and 1944. The time period that Mildred and her family immigrated to America may have been affected by the events that occurred around that time period. In 1914 World War 1 began. This may have driven the Zambelli family out of Germany. Around this time, Adolf Hitler’s authority sabotages over Germany and becomes a political catastrophe to the German nation. This historical event is explained in...
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...Synopsis Born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, Anne Frank lived in Amsterdam with her family during World War II. Fleeing Nazi persecution of Jews, the family went into hiding for two years; during this time, Frank wrote about her experiences and wishes. She was 15 when the family was found and sent to the camps, where she died. Her work, The Diary of Anne Frank, has gone on to be read by millions. Early Life Holocaust victim and famous diarist Anne Frank was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. Her mother was Edith Frank, and her father, Otto Frank, was a lieutenant in the German army during World War I, later becoming a businessman in Germany and the Netherlands. Frank also had a sister named Margot who was three years her senior. The Franks were a typical upper middle-class German-Jewish family living in a quiet, religiously diverse neighborhood near the outskirts of Frankfurt. However, Frank was born on the eve of dramatic changes in German society that would soon disrupt her family's happy, tranquil life as well as the lives of all other German Jews. Due in large part to the harsh sanctions imposed on Germany by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I, the German economy struggled terribly in the 1920s. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, the virulently anti-Semitic National German Socialist Workers Party (Nazi Party) led by Adolph Hitler became Germany's leading political force, winning control of the...
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...weren’t flawless. At some point in his life many people believe that he developed a mental problem which caused him to make irrational decisions and to ignore advice from his subordinates who were methodical professional which ultimately lead to the loss of Germany in WWII. One of the reasons why Hitler wanted to kill the Jews was because he wanted to create the perfect race, the Aryans. He believed that the Aryans were far more superior that any other race. Hitler was the one who introduced the idea to rid this world of minorities, especially the Jews via death camps. He was greatly influenced by Charles Darwin and his evolution and survival of the fittest theories, but he twisted them around to fit his own agenda. He was not successful in killing all the minorities, but he still killed off 11 million people and 6 million of those people were Jews. The killing of the minorities was stopped in 1945 when Germany lost the war and Russian troops liberated the death camps. Hitler’s view of the Aryans were Germanic people who had blonde...
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...changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) and Hyperinflation in 1923 with the Weimer Government ruined the middle class and furthered the dissatisfaction of the German people with the current Government. This presented the NSDAP an opportunity to present a policy that would benefit Germany. The regime offered opportunities to the population with security across the community and a direction of supremacy for their race. Policies of the Nazis did not include involving the broader population in the more brutal and violent parts of their rule, thus the people’s communities were forged through genocide. Hitler was obsessed with having a pure racial community in Germany and an extension of land for Germany eventuating in world domination and he pursued these objectives with ruthlessness and inhuman brutality. Progressive radicalization was inevitable due to the chaotic anti-Semitism beliefs and competitive nature of an elite ruler and a few devout followers. The propaganda campaigns are what paved the way to anti-Semitism becoming a way of life throughout Germany responsible for desensitizing people to human compassion and portrayed the Jewish people as evil sub-species who needed to be eradicated in order to achieve a pure race fit for the Utopian society Adolf Hitler had envisioned and promised. The Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 is an event that continues to resurface in the numerous literatures I came...
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...9.1 Anti Semitism — * def: Hostility/Hatred towards the Jewish people * Now a new feeling: Jewish Communities have face judgement and violence all throughout history. * From time to time, Jewish population has experienced deliberate attacks (pogroms) yet have managed to survive as a group and as a religion. * Nazi policy towards the Jews was the most brutal and horrific example of anti-Semitic behaviour in history * Nazis developed a deliberate policy to kill the Hews who lived in Germany — In 1922, 60% of the worl’d’s population of Jews occupied land in German and its area. By 1945, 2/3 of the Jewish population had been killed * By the 19th Century: German-Jews had won greater acceptance in that they made very important contributions to the intellectual, financial, educational and cultural life of the nation. * During WW1, 100 000 Jewish soldiers died during the conflict. * In the Weimar Republic, Jews enjoyed equal rights with all other Germans and some even rose to high positions in the civil service and the government. * Late 19th Century: Jews represented a challenge to the concept of the nationalism, especially when there was a development of the Volkisch movement. * Bt the start of the 20th Century, ideology of the racially pure was being embraced by all, and the Jews were not part of it. * German Historian Heinrich von Treitschke in the 1880’s said that ‘The Jews are our misfortune’ — A quote which...
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...Nataniella Pleshtiyeva 11A Jewish History Mrs. Meth March 13, 2015 Rav Yitzchak Dov Bamberger Rav Seligman Baer Bamberger, also known as Rav Yitzchak Dov was born in Wiesenbronn,Bavaria on November 6, 1807. He was the son of the great talmid chacham, Rav Simcha Bamberger. He grew up in the traditions of the Frankish Orthodox Judaism country and attended Yeshiva from his youth. He was a Talmudist of the old school and leader of the Orthodox Party in Germany. When he was was fifteen years old, his parents sent him to the Yeshiva at Furth, where he studied Torah under Wolf Hamburger and Yehuda Lob Halberstadt. He was a very eager student, and at age twenty, he received his Semichah to become a Rav. However, Rav Bamberger didn’t want to make business out of Torah, so he didn’t take the position of becoming the town’s Rav (Chyet 121, 125). Rav Bamberger then decided to open up a business store for a living, but his studies were always his main focus. Once, a customer came into his store, while Rav Bamberger was deeply absorbed in his studies. When the customer came up to the Rav, the Rav said: “Is there no other store in town that you came to bother me?!” Everyday Rav Bamberger would daven that he should have no customers that day so that he could peacefully learn Torah and not be disturbed.(Jewishencyclopedia.com) Soon, in 1829, at the age of twenty- two, he married the daughter of Rabbi Seckel Wormser...
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...Nazi Germany had one major requirement if they wanted to be successful in the extermination the Jewish race: Dehumanization. The belittling of a person and their identity of a person puts an oppressor above the oppressed and sets up a course for action against the oppressed. The Nazis took advantage of this fact, as evident in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Shaving the heads of the prisoners, the hanging of a child in front of thousands, and the civilians watching the prisoners fight to the death over bread are all prime examples shown by Elie of how dehumanization was used as a tactic in Nazi Germany. One of the first significant acts of dehumanization displayed in Night was the shaving of the heads of the Jewish people when they arrived...
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