The Holocaust started with Kristallnacht, which is “the Night of Broken Glass.” This occurred on November 7th, 1938. Over 7,000 Jewish shops were vandalized, synagogues were destroyed, and at least 91 people died. Many Jews were sent to concentration camps, but were released eventually. From 1933 to 1945, Jews were sent to concentration camps, these were used as a way to exterminate the Jewish population. In the beginning of the Holocaust, many people were sent to labor camps but died of infections or from working so much.
Kristallnatch the prelude to the Holocaust, kristallnatch was an open attack on the Jewish community in Germany, named for the broken glass of the windows of Jewish businesses destroyed in that night. In this essay we will study the antecedents of kristallnatch, what happened in that night and what were the consequences of that act. Kristallnatch's Antecedents, with the night of broken glass began an open and systematic persecution of Jews on the 3rd reich. The 3rd Reich had been persecuting Jews but not openly, in 1938 20000 German Jews from polish origin were kidnapped and deported to Poland. On 7 November 1938, Grynszpan a Jew who had escaped to France shot Von Rath a secretary of the German Embassy in France for denying help to Grynszpan's parents who were deported to Poland.
In this essay, I will be including and explaining the real facts and figures of what happened in the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a time of devastation and corruption. It was a time of cruelty and it was terribly inhumane. The Holocaust and its supporters tried vainly to make the world perfect, but only succeeded in killing millions. The Nazi’s and Adolph Hitler spoke against Jews even before the start of World War II, they blamed them for
Beginning in sixty six AD with Jewish uprisings under Rome and ending with the destruction of Jerusalem in seventy AD the first Jewish War was a prolonged massacre of the Jews in their homeland, had the Jewish Diaspora not spread the Jews over the known world the Romans might have eradicated the entire religion. The Babylonians in five hundred and eighty seven BC scattered the Jews thus bringing chaos and division within the religion. Years later in sixty six AD the Jews living in Israel revolt against their Roman rulers. Over the assuming four years the Romans obliterated the Jews and destroyed their capital. Without the Diaspora the Romans might have crushed the entire Jewish religion by devouring the revolts and their siege of Jerusalem.
On the night of November 9, 1938, violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned, set off by Germans' anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager. During the Holocaust, six million Jews were murdered while others were thrown out of their homes with nowhere to go, hundreds became homeless and sick. One of the most significant events that took place during this time is called Kristallnacht. This is better known as, "the night of broken glass".
The Holocaust Many people are doubtful that a thing called the Holocaust ever happened but, after all of the evidence put in front of us; someone would have to be foolish to say that the Holocaust ever happened. In 1932 Hitler came to power in Germany, and it was downhill for the Jews from there. In 1935, Hitler introduced the Nuremburg laws to the Jews. Most of these laws were very foolish, such as all Jews had to wear the Star of David on themselves whenever in public, they were no longer allowed to be educated, they weren’t allowed to hire any German workers, and they were not permitted to display their national flag or colors. Eventually the Jews weren’t even considered citizens of Germany any more.
It can also be expressed in the form of vandalism and racial slurs that target these people (Hertzberg 1989). Religious teachings can also be used to fuel this hate. Anti-Semitism has been around for many centuries. The first recorded instance of this hate was during the Roman invasion of Jerusalem (Nicholls 1993). The hate increased after the death of Christ because the Jews were seen as the people who let the Romans crucify Jesus (Crossan 1995).
Emperor Nero of Rome and the persecution of Christians A generation after the death of Christ, Christianity had reached Rome in the form of an obscure offshoot of Judaism popular among the city's poor and destitute. Members of this religious sect spoke of the coming of a new kingdom and a new king. These views provoked suspicion among the Jewish authorities who rejected the group and fear among the Roman authorities who perceived these sentiments as a threat to the Empire. In the summer of 64, Rome suffered a terrible fire that burned for six days and seven nights consuming almost three quarters of the city. The people accused the Emperor Nero for the devastation claiming he set the fire for his own amusement.
The Kristeller had moved in 1933 to Amsterdam form Dusseldorf, Germany to escape living under Nazi oppression. Alfred’s father worked for the Deutsche in Amsterdam. With the occupation, the Germans enacted harsh anti-Semitic measures. Jewish businesses and bank accounts were confiscated and Jews were barred from most professions. In addition, Jews were excluded from public schools and universities.
ADJUSTMENT AND STEREOTYPES AGAINST JEWISH IMMIGRANTS 1 Insight on Hardships of Jewish Immigrants Matt Fischetti Union County College Professor Cohen; Minorities in America, Sociology 206 ADJUSTMENT AND STEREOTYPES AGAINST JEWISH IMMIGRANTS 2 In the late 1930’s and early 1940’s the world was falling into despair and chaos. Some European Countries, especially Germany were staging a genocide of an entire ethnicity. At the helm of all these horrific actions was a man named Adolph Hitler. He still could not get over the mortifying truth behind the World War I. He tried so desparately to create a total blonde-haired, blue eyed poplation and anyone who wasn’t of that demographic was to be executed.