Although we know there was opposition against Hitler and the Nazi regime it is hard to assess who and how many people took a negative approach to him. Fear of the Gestapo (the secret police) was vast and always present as people were regularly being arrested for crimes of speaking out against Hitler and the Government and sent to the early concentration camps which were later became the ‘death camps’. After the war people were all too keen to announce their distrust and negative feelings towards Hitler as they were ashamed of what he had done, however during his regime many people did not openly oppose him. This makes it hard to know how many people really opposed Hitler. There were different types of opposition towards the Nazi
Lauren Watanabe English, Per.6 Ms. Shapiro 1/12/12 Lauren Watanabe English, Per.6 Ms. Shapiro 1/12/12 Holocaust Research Report: Rough Draft Many gypsies were sent to concentration camps. They were sent because Hitler believed that they were “racially inferior” and useless. He also thought they were a threat to Aryan authority and superiority. He believed gypsies were non-Aryan and were part of his “Final Solution”. Hitler’s Final Solution was what to do with the non-Aryans.
The Holocaust in Europe all began in 1940. Adolf Hitler blamed the Jews for every problem Germany was experiencing at the time. Death camps were set up to exterminate them all and leave behind the perfect Ayrian race. Despite all the hatred toward the Jews there were still many people who did not believe in this sort of treatment. Raoul Wallenberg and Hans and Sophie Scholl were three of these good, moral souls who tried to help the Jewish people.
They orchestrated the majority of the Holocaust; the solution to the “Jewish question” as it was called by German forces (USHMM: SS and the Holocaust). The SS were known for their harsh, merciless brutality toward the prisoners in concentration camps and often abused them simply for their own personal enjoyment. The SS are covered extensively in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel and other accounts of the Holocaust, and their acts can be divided into categories; including their rise to and fall from power, key figures in the establishment of the SS, and the treatment of prisoners at concentration camps. One category with major significance is the Nazis’ rise to and fall from power. The Nazis rose to governmental power through a long, thought-out series of actions that turned Hitler’s leadership into a dictatorship and started the Holocaust and World War II.
Concentration Camps were an easy way to keep them out of his path. “When I came into power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioner’s homes, but instruments of terror.” (Hitler, 1) Concentration camps were places full of torture and cruel punishments. The first concentration camp was established after his appointment as Chancellor on January of 1933.Concentration camps are still visited and studied today. Proof is found that torture was done there. Inactive concentration camps still remain today, which is another reason that holocaust
If a jew tried to escape, they would just get shot. The Nazis were instructed by hitler to have no mercy or feelings towards the jews. During the invasion of Poland, they captured half the jews living there and instantly shot the other half of the jews in Poland. Since Poland was close to germany, they invaded them. And also invaded them because of the jewish people .
These included Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other Slavs, and people with physical or mental disabilities. Others were Nazi victims because of what they did. These victims of the Nazi regime included Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, the dissenting clergy, Communists, Socialists, asocials, and other political enemies. List some of the places where Jews hid from the Nazis. They would put up fake walls such as replacing doorways with movable bookshelves or anything else they could put up.
The key defendants that were removed were Trotsky, Kamenev, Buhkarin, Yagoda and Zinoviev. This was significant in allowing Stalin to establish his personal dictatorship as they removed all of Stalin’s rivals from the 1920’s thus creating fear among the USSR showing that if you did anything that Stalin disliked, your life would be in danger, particularly because these people had been in positions of power therefore people obeyed all of Stalin’s orders. This lead to the wider terror among ordinary people. They were denounces, arrested and sent to Gulags by the NKVD. It is estimated that between 1934-8, 20 million Russians were sent to these gulags.
Dulffer argue that holocaust was above all due to Hitler, “but to recognize that this is not to free from blame the hundreds thousands of others who were involved in carrying out the Holocaust”Dulffer. Goldhagen says that "hitlers ideal was broadly shared by germany”goldhagen. The bureaucracy was involved and had massive collaborations with the SS, the civil service, army, and the business corporations. This depressed Jews of their rights and property, isolated them, and killed them. The army was also
Introduction: The destruction both systematic and deliberate of a group is known as a genocide. It is the act of destroying a whole group of ethnic, race, religious and national group by killing. Genocides have taken place throughout history; two of the most influential people on the definition of a genocide are Stalin and Hitler. Many people were killed because of their race or religion in Hitler’s range of rule. Stalin, on the other hand, was also a cold leader but did not deliberately create a genocide and was doing it as a part of political motivations.