Anti Semitism and the Holocaust
The Nuremberg Laws
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The Aryan Race and the Final Solution
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Interesting Fact
The Holocaust in Hebrew is called the Shoah which means catastrophe.
Quote
“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.”
-Elie Wiesel
-Elie Wiesel
Subjunctive Question
If other countries did not have the same anti-semitism views as Nazi Germany did, would the Holocaust have been stopped?
Summary
The lead up to the Holocaust was The Nuremberg Laws. These laws were anti-Jewish laws that forced Jews to register and wear the Star of David, forced them out of careers and homes and prohibited marriage between Jews and Non Jewish German. As a result of this Jews lost their citizenship. The next event was Kristallnacht. On November 9, 1938 thousands of Jewish shops and synagogue windows were smashed and burned. The Nuremburg mass rallies promoted all of Hitlers ideas in his book Mein Kampf. The final solution is what mainly lead to the Holocaust. It was Hitlers idea that the Aryan (Nordic race) thought to be superior beings. Jews were made out to be universal scapegoats. At first Jews were sent to work camps to do manual labour, but it ended up being a complete exterminaton of the Jewish race. This was done first through shooting and burying them, but it was not fast enough. Gas chambers became popular. The first reports of the Holocaust coming to the west came in Jan. of 1942 when the New York Time reported 100 000 Jews bad been machine gunned in the Baltic States. Following, in July 1944 Allied powers got their first eye witness accounts when the Soviets liberated a camp called Majdanek. In 1945 Auschwitz was finally discovered. Circa 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust.