The Nazis felt like this political group was trying to undermine their “people’s community”. Hitler made it very clear that he did not want the communists in his people community when he and the Nazi party realised their 25 point programme of 1920.However the Nazis also portrayed the socialist and any other party of which had taken part in coalition governments during the Weimar republic as they collaborated with communism and Jewish democracy. Hitler wanted to introduce the policy of volksgeminschaft in this case because if he could eliminate the communists and the other parties who were associated as collaborating with them, the Nazis could then get their votes as they had a high amount of supporters, which would mean them having the majority and coming into power. Anybody who the Nazis believed that represented a threat to the racial purity of which Hitler wanted would come under the socialism categories. This included, Jews, gypsies and those who were seen as mentally or physically unfit.
How accurate is it to describe the Nazi persecution of Jews in the years 1933-1942 as increasing steadily in Germany? Hitler and his Nazi party held deeply anti-sematic views, persecuting and killing millions of Jews. Although there was a definite increase in persecution from the years 1933-1942 I do not believe that this increase was steady, instead consisting of escalations and dips in persecution and violence. Although Hitler and his party was undoubtedly deeply anti-sematic and street violence against Jews was common, in the first years of his rule, Hitler did not introduce any Anti-Jewish Policies and his anti-Semitism was toned down for the January 1933 election campaign. It is argued that his first anti-Jewish policies, the boycotting of shops and the law for the restoration of the civil service, were not planned but rather a quick response to growing pressure from below and an attempt to reduce public violence that was damaging Germany’s reputation.
Rumkowski’s plan was cut short after the Germans slowly decreased the deliveries of food into the ghetto, attempting to make it easier on the Nazis. Rumkowski delivered an infamous speech to the Jews of Lodz, known as the “Give Me Your Children” speech. This speech pleaded with parents to give up their children in order to save others that were more capable of working. People cried out from the audience, refusing to let their children be sent away. In 1944, the Germans ordered Rumkowski to announce that Germany was in need of workers to repair damage.
It was this point that caused much of the contention and caused his wife to continue her crusade to have her husband freed from life imprisonment on Devil’s Island. One of the main issues of contention is that the press was freed from censorship, which caused the press to exaggerate the initial story. It should also be noted that many of the news publication had anti Semitic feelings and were using the fact that Dreyfus was Jewish to bolster the anti Semitic agenda. Edouard Drumont used his publication La Libre Parole to pressure the army and hasten the trial of Dreyfus . It is clear that the press was using the Dreyfus trial to their advantage by circulating false information to get support and profit from the rapid selling of newspapers.
There was an influx of Jewish people into Germany, therefore the anti-emetic actions grew larger, despite it already being apparent that the Kaiser was anti-Semitic himself, at the end of the19th century there was a wave of anti Semitic publications, the Kaiser is known to have read these books etc.., this causes great tensions, as clearly the population agrees with their Kaiser’s opinion causing anti-Semitism to rise. Another source of tension was the anti-Semitism being clear through the idea that no Jews were able to do more traditional career areas, such as government, the army and judiciary’, this meant the they had no choice but to become bankers and lawyers act, all high earning jobs, this caused some tension within the country as they were the higher earning majority,
Eugenics has historically been tainted with "scientific" racism. By the mid-20th century eugenics had fallen into disfavor, because many associated eugenics with Nazi abuses, such as enforced racial hygiene, human experimentation, and the extermination of "undesired" population groups. Margaret Sanger commenced the birth control movement during the 1920’s and there has been great controversy over her motives for beginning this movement. Some believed that she promoted birth control as a woman’s rights advocate. However, several people disagreed with Margaret
Everyday Life in Nazi Germany Ordinary life for German citizens during Nazi Germany can be a challenging topic to study. Given the complexity of individual human nature as well as varying group ideologies, makes this a difficult topic to analyze. Robert Gellately offers an interesting perspective in his book, The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy. Gellately’s book demonstrates vast amounts of German individuals willing to participle in the enforcement of Nazi racial policy. In contrast to Gellately, John Delaney purports certain groups of German civilians were less inclined to follow racial policies, in his article, “Sowing Volksgemeinschaft in Bavaria’s Stony Village Soil: Catholic Peasant Rejection of Anti-Polish Racial Policy, 1939-1945.” Examination of the two articles displays that geographical location, wealth, and one’s pre-existing ideologies played a ample role in how individual citizens experienced ordinary life during Nazi Germany.
The Pankhurst women were militant suffragist who stood by the notion of “deeds, not words”. This idea meant that women needed to use drastic measures to achieve gender equality because subtle efforts such as petitioning and picketing were not proven to be effective. Alice joined the Pankhurst women and brought attention to the movement landing them front page coverage in local newspapers with their unconventional, yet effective methods such as window smashing and heckling. Alice became a revolutionary which led her to imprisonment and hunger strikes where she was fed under forceful conditions. While imprisoned she remained steadfast and was encouraged by words written upon prison walls: “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to
Unfortunately, when speaking of the Holocaust, Jehovah's Witnesses are often forgotten or left out. Unending persecution against Jehovah's Witnesses as a group and its members as individuals spanned the Nazi years. Unlike Jews, who were persecuted and killed because of their ethnicity, Jehovah's Witnesses were persecuted for not renouncing their religious beliefs. The courage the vast majority displayed in refusing to do so, in the face of torture, maltreatment in concentration camps, and execution, won them the respect of many contemporaries. “Within months of the Nazi takeover, regional governments, primarily those of Bavaria and Prussia, initiated aggressive steps against Jehovah's Witnesses, breaking up their meetings, ransacking and then occupying their local offices.
Only native born white gentile Americans were allowed to join. Everywhere across the nation Anglo-Saxon Protestant men flocked into the newly formed chapters seeking to relieve their anxiety over a changing society by embracing the KKK's unusual rituals and by demonstrating their hatred against blacks, Jews, and Catholics. The Klan attributed much of the tension and conflict in society to the prewar flood of immigrants; foreigners spoke different languages or worshipped in strange churches and lived in distant threatening cities. They punished blacks who did not know their place, women who practiced the new morality, and aliens who refused to conform. Being, flogging, burning with acid, even murder was condemned.