Research Papers
The Holocaust by Samantha Haseloff
Holocaust survivor and author Primo Levi once stated, “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.” These wise and noble words were spoken to express that there are some corrupt people, and its only dangerous when people ready to follow don’t ask themselves, why is am I doing this? An indisposed and hypocritical man by the name of Adolf Hitler was one of those monsters, who convinced the Germans to enact on his beliefs. For instance, The Night of Broken Glass and the Nazi’s abuse of power. In addition, the Ghettos that Hitler forced people who were Jewish and others considered undesirable to live. Furthermore, the atrocious and ignorant Nuremburg Laws, that discriminate and abolish the Jewish rights. Hitler’s inhumane beliefs and actions have led to economic and social privileges to dissipate for his victims, the Jews and other so-called Undesirables.
The Night of Broken Glass was an invasion of Jewish lifestyle and an abuse of power on the Nazis behalf. Glass everywhere, fires crackling in the distance. People screaming, pleading, and no one to show mercy. Fires, bombs, and gunfire echoing throughout the streets. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, “Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted while police and fire brigades stood by.” Not one person tried to help those innocent victims. This horrible event all began on November 9th, 1938. Just after a German official named Ernst Vom Rath was assassinated by a young teenage Jew. Due to the Germans anger over this event, over 30,000 people were sent to concentration camps. In addition, over 250 Jewish synagogues, a place for Jewish members to pray, were burned and demolished. Amongst that, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were terminated and looted. Thus creating the economic issues for the Jewish. The Nazis had gained this mass amount of power from a psychotic man with evident arrogance against social matters.
Ghettos were used as a storehouse to sunder the Jewish from the world. There were over 1,000 ghettos in Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union alone. Each and every one was created for the same exact purpose: to capture Jews. As it states in “Ghettos” by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC,” The Germans regarded the establishment of ghettos as a provisional measure to control and segregate Jews while the Nazi leadership in Berlin deliberated upon options to realize the goal of removing the Jewish population.” They wanted to contain the Jews before they sent them to their deaths. The Germans would pick a section of houses to wrap a wall of barbed wire around so the Jews couldn’t escape. Thus, making them unable to interact with anyone outside. Cutting them off from their families, friends, and even other Jewish and Undesirables. Then, they would wait until the right time to round up all the people, and take them to the beginning of their death. Also known more commonly and concentration camps. What could anyone have done to even deserve anything remotely close to being taken from your home and being forced to live in a small and crowded community where almost no one has stepped foot outside of the gate.
The Nuremburg Laws were supremacist and discriminating laws created by Hitler and his diseased beliefs. First made in 1935, they predominantly stated the Jewish no longer had any rights. As stated in “The Nuremburg Laws” by The History Place, “From the moment the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Jews of Germany were subjected to a never-ending series of discriminatory laws. There would be, during the twelve years of Hitler's Reich, over 400 separate regulations issued against Jews prohibiting everything from performing in a symphony orchestra to owning a pet cat.” All their rights were taken away, even the most unthinkable ones. Not only did they no longer have rights, but the laws were meant to intimidate them. To make them obey, or face the penalty of death. The first law, “The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor,” was to make sure that Germans and Jews were never again allowed to get married. Since they wanted to exterminate them, then the Jews couldn’t mix with the Germans anymore. The second, “The Reich Citizenship Law,” stated that Jewish are seen as subjects, not citizens. Forcing a feeling of shame and loneliness upon the Jewish. Finally, the third, which stated that when married, every Jew needed to submit medical information. All in all, the laws were meant to crush the Jewish’ dignity and self-confidence.
Hitler’s inhumane beliefs and actions have led to economic and social privileges to dissipate for all Jews during the period of World War II. The
Nuremburg laws were conceivably even more unaccommodating than just going out and shooting all the Jewish. They wanted to strike fear into their
hearts. They wanted to achieve in making their lives pitiful. Ghettos were a cruel and toxic way to contain the Jews. Finally, the Night of Broken
Glass was both redundant and abusive. The Jewish try to make them pay for their cruelties and instead, the Germans lash out as if to say, “Who are
you to do this to us?” The most hypocritical action known to man. Therefore, this is why Hitler has a massive effect on the economy and lifestyle of
Jews.
Holocaust survivor and author Primo Levi once stated, “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.” These wise and noble words were spoken to express that there are some corrupt people, and its only dangerous when people ready to follow don’t ask themselves, why is am I doing this? An indisposed and hypocritical man by the name of Adolf Hitler was one of those monsters, who convinced the Germans to enact on his beliefs. For instance, The Night of Broken Glass and the Nazi’s abuse of power. In addition, the Ghettos that Hitler forced people who were Jewish and others considered undesirable to live. Furthermore, the atrocious and ignorant Nuremburg Laws, that discriminate and abolish the Jewish rights. Hitler’s inhumane beliefs and actions have led to economic and social privileges to dissipate for his victims, the Jews and other so-called Undesirables.
The Night of Broken Glass was an invasion of Jewish lifestyle and an abuse of power on the Nazis behalf. Glass everywhere, fires crackling in the distance. People screaming, pleading, and no one to show mercy. Fires, bombs, and gunfire echoing throughout the streets. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, “Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted while police and fire brigades stood by.” Not one person tried to help those innocent victims. This horrible event all began on November 9th, 1938. Just after a German official named Ernst Vom Rath was assassinated by a young teenage Jew. Due to the Germans anger over this event, over 30,000 people were sent to concentration camps. In addition, over 250 Jewish synagogues, a place for Jewish members to pray, were burned and demolished. Amongst that, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were terminated and looted. Thus creating the economic issues for the Jewish. The Nazis had gained this mass amount of power from a psychotic man with evident arrogance against social matters.
Ghettos were used as a storehouse to sunder the Jewish from the world. There were over 1,000 ghettos in Germany, Poland, and the Soviet Union alone. Each and every one was created for the same exact purpose: to capture Jews. As it states in “Ghettos” by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC,” The Germans regarded the establishment of ghettos as a provisional measure to control and segregate Jews while the Nazi leadership in Berlin deliberated upon options to realize the goal of removing the Jewish population.” They wanted to contain the Jews before they sent them to their deaths. The Germans would pick a section of houses to wrap a wall of barbed wire around so the Jews couldn’t escape. Thus, making them unable to interact with anyone outside. Cutting them off from their families, friends, and even other Jewish and Undesirables. Then, they would wait until the right time to round up all the people, and take them to the beginning of their death. Also known more commonly and concentration camps. What could anyone have done to even deserve anything remotely close to being taken from your home and being forced to live in a small and crowded community where almost no one has stepped foot outside of the gate.
The Nuremburg Laws were supremacist and discriminating laws created by Hitler and his diseased beliefs. First made in 1935, they predominantly stated the Jewish no longer had any rights. As stated in “The Nuremburg Laws” by The History Place, “From the moment the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Jews of Germany were subjected to a never-ending series of discriminatory laws. There would be, during the twelve years of Hitler's Reich, over 400 separate regulations issued against Jews prohibiting everything from performing in a symphony orchestra to owning a pet cat.” All their rights were taken away, even the most unthinkable ones. Not only did they no longer have rights, but the laws were meant to intimidate them. To make them obey, or face the penalty of death. The first law, “The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor,” was to make sure that Germans and Jews were never again allowed to get married. Since they wanted to exterminate them, then the Jews couldn’t mix with the Germans anymore. The second, “The Reich Citizenship Law,” stated that Jewish are seen as subjects, not citizens. Forcing a feeling of shame and loneliness upon the Jewish. Finally, the third, which stated that when married, every Jew needed to submit medical information. All in all, the laws were meant to crush the Jewish’ dignity and self-confidence.
Hitler’s inhumane beliefs and actions have led to economic and social privileges to dissipate for all Jews during the period of World War II. The
Nuremburg laws were conceivably even more unaccommodating than just going out and shooting all the Jewish. They wanted to strike fear into their
hearts. They wanted to achieve in making their lives pitiful. Ghettos were a cruel and toxic way to contain the Jews. Finally, the Night of Broken
Glass was both redundant and abusive. The Jewish try to make them pay for their cruelties and instead, the Germans lash out as if to say, “Who are
you to do this to us?” The most hypocritical action known to man. Therefore, this is why Hitler has a massive effect on the economy and lifestyle of
Jews.
Holocaust essay by Emme Vornlocker
A perfect world would be without war, hatred and most importantly, The Holocaust. Although we try to forget the appalling times where over 6 million Jewish people were brutally and maliciously murdered we have to follow wise words of Elie Wiesel, a holocaust survivor,“I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.” To explain, this quote means that no one should forget about all the terrible things that occurred during the Holocaust, and if they are forgotten, then it gives the dead no justice to what happened to them. So given the fact that the Holocaust in general should not be forgotten, neither should the inhumane things that were done to Jewish people during that time. This includes The Nuremberg laws, which were an immense contribution to all the things that took away from the humanity of the Jews and undesirables. One law was the Star of David, which all Jewish people would have to wear on every clothing item. Another would be the marriage laws, in which were distinct about who they could and could not marry. Lastly, would be the work participation laws which brought many Jews to an economic disruption. All of these rules which were occurrences in the Nuremberg laws play a big role in the things that should not be forgotten about when it comes to the general topic of the Holocaust.
The Star of David law was a terrible injustice to all Jews across Europe. It caused all Jewish people to wear a big star or arm band visibly on every clothing item. The law was brought to attention and recommended by Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Main security Office during the Holocaust. The wearing of the Star of David became an extreme law by the end of 1939 (holocasutcenter.org). To break it would mean the penalty of death by shooting. One of the points of this law was to pick the Jewish people from regular Germans in a shameful way. Additionally, and according to the website article Holocaust Encyclopedia it states,” The Nazi soldiers main goal was to dehumanize the Jewish people as much as they possibly could.” The Germans went to high extents to have every country enforcing this law. But when confronting King Christian X he had told the Nazi soldiers that to impose such a rule on his Jewish population would he wear the Star of David as well (ushmm.org). The Germans also regulated that in some concentration camps every clothed Jew was to wear the golden Star of David. All in all, this dreadful law held back the Jewish people from ever being created equal as it went on.
Various styles, colors, and shapes of The Star of David gave the law a whole new level of dehumanization.The stars were all very different, with meanings for multiple different things. If a Jew was a criminal, they would have a green inverted triangle attached to their Star of David (holocaustcenter.org). Had the Jewish person been homosexual, a bright pink triangle would be stuck onto their Star, acknowledging that persons sexuality to everyone around them. This law also affected non-Germans, in which they would be forced to wear the first letter of the German name for that individual's home country. This additional law was meant to expose the Jews even more, as if they were to give a folder of all personal things about themselves to every passerby on the street. For instance, if a Jewish being also happened to be of the Jehovah’s witness religion they would have a bold purple triangle attached onto every clothing item. Overall this new rule put a new weight on to the already burdened shoulder of the Jewish people.
The marriage law happened to be one of the most animal like law of them all.The Germans simply did not care of the human rights, if a person was Jewish, the Germans had the right over their marriage. No German was allowed to marry a Jew, because Hitler believed that there should be as little descendants of a Jew as possible. Although the law did not clarify that a German could not marry a non-Jew. The Jewish people use this as a loophole for the marriage laws.This barbaric law was then followed by the law for "The Protection of Genetic Health" for the German people which required all people wanting to marry to submit a medical examination after which a certificate of fitness to marry would be issued if they were found to be disease-free (historypalace.com). This was required in order to get a marriage license. And yet most marriages during this time we're still not legalized nor approved. Not only was law put against the Jewish people, but it also affected the Aryan Germans as well (jewishvirtuallibrary.com). Therefore by taking away the privilege of free marriage that concludes how inhuman the Germans were to the Jewish.
Work laws turned the economy into nothing for those of the Jewish ethnicity. A new law stated that if a Jewish person owned a business they must hand it over to a German (shmm.org). Also, the Nazi leadership decided to stage an economic boycott against the Jews of many European countries. To ignore this unnatural law would mean a penalty of death. Additionally, the law also included the all Jewish women under the age of 45 could not work anywhere, as it was prohibited. A Jew was also declined work of a German maid as a part of the law. To conclude,this last law of many contributed to the unfairness of all the laws put against the Jews.
All in all, the Nuremberg Laws greatly affect the human rights the Jews and undesirables had as people. First by forcing a Star of David upon them to be worn on all clothing.Not only was this embarrassing but a complete thing to make a law. Then the marriage law, forcing a Jew to get an appraisal before marrying. Lastly, the work participation laws, in which robbed the Jews of a workplace leading to their money burning through their pockets. As a result of The Nuremberg Laws, many Jewish people were completely taken away their own humanity from the psalms of their hands.