He also banned the Social Democrat Party in June 1933, and then all other parties soon followed. There were also many other factors that made it so Hitler could establish a dictatorship. The Reichstag Fire gave him an opportunity to pass the Law for ‘The Protection of the People and the State’, which ended all the freedoms that were guaranteed by the Weimar Republic. This law gave the police total control. The police and the SA arrested all the communist leaders, their meetings were broken up and newspapers closed down.
In the speech entitled The Perils of Indifference: Lessons Learned from a Violent Century, Elie Wiesel stated that, “Indifference is not a beginning, it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor – never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.”(paragraph 12). According to most dictionaries, indifference is often known as a lack of interest or concern. However, Mr. Wiesel’s explanation of indifference as it being an end, not a beginning, and how it never benefits the victim is a much better definition than that of any dictionary. Since Mr. Wiesel was a victim of the Holocaust, he learned about indifference through experience.
The Jewish people were required to wear the Jewish star or Star of David on them at all times. When they would finally come get them off the train the higher ranking officers decided if you were going to be used for experiments or slave camps. He said the worst camp he ever went was ran by a man that would kill `15 to 20 people a day inhuman ways because the officer said that hanging was too easy for Jews. At this camp he was tattooed with KL which stands for concentration camp in Germany. Max also said his father was killed at this camp.
On April 1, 1933, it all began. The Nazis initially provoked their first actions on Germany and German Jews by beginning a boycott against all Jewish businesses. This took an enormous toll on all Jewish families, quickly putting an end to their businesses, and bringing poverty to an all-time-high. Only five months later, on September 15, 1935, Hitler made his second move in persecution, by issuing the Nuremburg Laws. The Nuremburg Laws were made to exclude the Jews from all public life, forbidding them from all parks, firing them from all civil service jobs, making them register all property, and taking way all citizenship rights.
Warsaw Ghetto and Uprising Warsaw is the capital of Poland. In 1935 the city was fifty-four square miles in area with one million and three hundred thousand people living in it(Gutman). The Germans reached Warsaw in early September after their initial invasion of Poland on the thirty-first of august(Gutman). From October of Nineteen thirty-nine through December many decrees were published to restrict Jews from being able to sell from their shops. They also had to deposit all of their money into a blocked bank account which would give the holder of the account no more than two hundred and fifty zlotys a week(Gutman).
The Holocaust Amanda Marie Flores HIS 104 World Civilizations II Instructor: Jennifer Bridges November 27th 2011 Holocaust is a Greek word coming from the word “holos” meaning (whole), and “kaustos” meaning (burned). The holocaust was a state-sponsored discrimination along with murder of about six million Jews by the collaboration of the Nazi regime. The Nazis who were in power in Germany in January of 1933, believed that the Jews reckoned inferior, and the Germens were racially superior to the fact. Adolf Hitler was one of the men who helped form the Holocaust, among being the main ruler during this time. Hitler like many others of this time blamed the Jews for the country’s defeat back in 1918.
Rosenberg also stated that he “closed all the banks” and let them “reopen once they were stabilized”, made programs like the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration), the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps), and the WPA (Works Progress Administration) attempting to “help curb unemployment by hiring people for various projects”(Rosenberg). For Roosevelt’s presidency of a three year term he made these plans for Americans. Although the New Deal did not fix the economy, he did, however, “ease the hardships of the Great Depression” (Rosenberg). She said “The major turn-around for the U.S. economy occurred after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the entrance of the United States into World War II” (Rosenberg). President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that we would join war so with his words we joined a war that turned our economy around.
He also blamed Germany’s difficulties on the Jews but did not tell the people his true intention was to exterminate them. Thus he created an atmosphere of hatred in Germany that later would be proven by his draconian measures towards the Jews. The first real brutal attack against the Jews came in June 1934, when Hitler had about 1,000 people murdered in the Night of the Long Knives. He then introduced the Nuremburg Laws which were as follows: all Jews had to wear the Star of David, they lost their professional careers and property, Jews could not mingle with the German population, and ultimately the Jews lost their citizenship. These laws passed without any resistance and should have been a sign to the world of things to
The German forces intended to begin the operation to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto on April 19, 1943, the eve of Passover. When SS and police units entered the ghetto that morning, the streets were deserted. Nearly all of the residents of the ghetto had gone into hiding places or bunkers. The renewal of deportations was the signal for an armed uprising within the
The Jews were physically attacked, and about 30,000 Jews were arrested and taken to the concentration camps. As SS leader Heydrich stated during the later meeting, “7,500 businesses were destroyed, 267 temples burned and 91 Jews were killed.” He also requested, “that new decrees barring Jews from any contact with Germans by excluding them from public transportation, schools, even hospitals, essentially forcing them into ghettos or out of the country.” In that meeting, Hermann Goring stated regarding the economic damage of the night that the Jews themselves would be billed for the damage, and that any insurance money due to them would be confiscated by the Nazi order the Jews lived in.