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.
In 1923 he led an unsuccessful coup attempt known as a putsch in Munich. He was sent to prison where he wrote Mein Kampt (my struggle), which outlined his beliefs. Hitler’s beliefs: * Hitler was anti- Semitic (hatred of Jews). He blamed them for all Germany’s problems. * He believed Germans belonged to the master race.
In 15 hours over 7,500 Jewish-owned stores were destroyed and 100 Jews were killed. The rest were arrested and imprisoned in camps. Nearly half of the Jews of Germany emigrated out of Germany, but for those who couldn't had to go through the roughest times of their lifes. "I saw the fire engines standing in front of a building and in the back of this building was the Orthodox synagogue," This are some of the words that Hanne Hirsch Liebmann a witness to Kristallnacht had said with such fear and anger towards
In what ways did the Nazis treatment of Jews change between 1938 and 1945? The Jews were violated throughout the Second World War and the intensity of the violence elevated as the war progressed. In 1938 Kristallnacht took place where German citizens including the SS and the Hitler youth boycotted Jewish shops and businesses due to an assassination of a German politician by a French student . This was persecution of the Jews as many of them were removed from everyday life either by being sent to a concentration camp , 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps on that night, or by having property and businesses vandalised and destroyed which left them with nothing. Also more persecution happened the next day as Jewish communities were asked to pay $1 million marks in reparations to what took place on that night .
Lots of Jews were moved to ghettos in a “single stroke” on February 8, 1940. Once all of the Jews were moved to the concentration camps, the gates were closed to the ghettos in November of 1940 (Byers 72). The conditions of the ghettos were horrible. Most of the ghettos had high, sturdy walls, armed guards, and barbed wire (Allen 4). Germans made the Jews wear armbands, or identification badges, like the Jewish Star of David (Ghettos).
It is unknown exactly how many people died during the Holocaust, According to Telegraph.co.uk the death toll list was between five and six million Jews, more than three million Soviet prisoners of war, more than two million Soviet civilians, more than one million Polish civilians, more than one million Yugoslav civilians about 70,000 men, women and children with mental and physical handicaps, more than 200,000 gypsies and an unknown number of political prisoners, resistance fighters, homosexuals and deportees. As said above by January 1942 the Jewish were sent to seven camps designated as extermination camps: Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Maly Trostenets, Sobibor and Treblinka. These death camps were located outside Germany. These camps were all located in Poland with the exception of Maly Trostenets which was in Belarus. There was another camp called Jasenova that was located in Croatia run by Croation Ustashe collaborators.
The consequences of Kristallnatch, the event in Germany was rejected by various and praised by others, many governments cut off relations with Germany in protest. The Jews who remained in Germany were forced to pay a fine of one billion marks for the damage in kristallnatch, Jewish children were not accepted in schools and there was a mass escape of Jews living in territories ruled by the 3rd Reich. As we saw the Kristallnatch was not a spontaneous act but an act orchestrated by the nazis who had been waiting for the right occasion to performed it, with that act the Nazis declared an
Not only were the Jewish people killed, but Hitler and his group of supporters weren’t happy with that. They wiped out the mentally ill and the physically handicapped. Hitler remarked them "un worthy of life." The Nazi’s even kidnapped children with a German origin to Germany. Catholic priests and nuns were also Nazi targets.
It’s also occurred in other parts of Europe that were under the Nazis control. Adolf was a much hated man. He made many different concentration camps for Jews, There were three different types: Work Camps, Red Cross Camps, and Death Camps. Manly everyone was taken to the death camp. Sometimes, there were thousands of Jews being killed every day.
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.