Speer was instantly enchanted by Hitler’s speech and voice, he described himself as being in awe. Speer later claimed that he had joined the Nazi Party as a follower of Hitler. Albert Speer’s luck became a key element as to how he rose to prominence, beginning with Karl Hanke offering Speer early redecoration work for the Nazi Party. Speer succeeded in this job, and impressed Hanke greatly hence giving Speer many more opportunities with the Nazi Party. It wasn’t long before he became a rather highly regarded member of the Nazi party, being asked to take on high-ranking jobs Nazi’s.
www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/. The Germans wanted the Jews to get out, to go anywhere. The Nazi’s where holding vicious pogroms—state sanctioned, anti-Jewish riots—against the Jewish community of Germany. The Nazi’s encouraged the rioters and when they did that, the rioters destroyed 267 synagogues; vandalized or looted 7,500 Jewish businesses; 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps and killed at least 91 Jewish people were killed. The glass left over from all the destruction is why it was called the Night of The Broken Glass.
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. The origin of the Nazi group was Hitler’s opinion that the German people and the entire world needed a solution to the so-called “Jewish question”; which he preached to young German men everywhere. His belief was that there was need for a pure and elite race, specifically the Aryan race, and he would go to extraordinary lengths in
Albert Speer was with no uncertainty a significant figure and member within the Nationalist Socialist Party who contributed a noteworthy amount to Nazi ideology and practice. His influence however within the Nazi Party grew as time went on holding key positions such as Hitler's architect, Head of German Labour Front and Minister for Armaments and Munitions from 8 February 1942 among other tasks. At this position Speer had substantial power and was also said to be the second most powerful man in the Third Reich after Hitler. In 1934 Speer became the ˜First Architect of the Reich,' before this however he had menial tasks such as renovating the Gauhaus in Berlin and organising a backdrop for the May Day rally at the Templehof airfield in Berlin
The theme of “Dehumanization” by the Nazis to the Jews was expressed in Elie Wiesel’s novel Night. Elie Wiesel elaborated on the methods in which the Nazis demoralized the Jews and the devastating results their actions have produced. As an author he successfully used figurative language to create his accounts of the experience in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Mr. Wiesel clearly expressed the Nazi’s dehumanization of the Jews with brutal actions and absolute vigor. These brutal actions led Elie and many of the other Jewish people to undergo drastic changes.
Hitler had already convinced Germany that Jews were a disgrace. He started the extermination by taking over Poland, a country with over three million Jews. Then, he continued taking over Belgium, Luxemburg, France, and Holland, placing every single Jew under Nazis control. Hitler and his people did not know what to do with the millions of Jews, so he proposed, and executed, the Final Solution. This means, kill them all!
During his quest for power, Hitler carried out his anti-sematic beliefs, which had a devatating effect on the Jewish community, and eventually led to the Holocaust. In the beginning Hitler saw the Jews as he saw everyone else. After contact with them, and extensive research, he began to view them not as Germans, but as their own inferior race. As Hitler wrote his book, Mein Kampf, his criticisms toward
The Holocaust The Holocaust (1) all started with one crazy German Nazi named Adolf Hitler. Hitler started the holocaust to start a scapegoat due to the repercussions due to World War 1. After World War 1 Germany was forced to pay for all the damages in all the places that they had invaded which had put them in an economic crisis. Hitler decided to pin the Jews at the root of all of Germany’s problems. He aimed his violence towards Jews, but not just Jews it was also towards outsiders like communists, gypsies, Jehovah Witnesses, and homosexuals.
In his speech to the president of the United States, Mr. Wiesel described how he personally felt about the topic of indifference. He also reminded the President and the other important figures in the White House at that time about “the depressing tale of the St. Louis” (paragraph 19). For instance, he states, “[…] one thousand Jews [were aboard the St. Louis] [that] was turned back to Nazis Germany. And that happened after Kristallnacht, after the first state sponsored pogrom, with hundreds of Jewish shops destroyed, synagogues burned, thousands of people put in concentration camps. And that ship, which was already on the shores of the United States, was sent back.” His words described a prime example of indifference that took place in the violent twentieth century.
The Holocaust was the organised murder and persecution of roughly 6,000,000 Jews by the Nazis. The Nazi party came to power in 1933 and they believed the Germans were a superior race. This meant the Jews, Gypsies, Slavic and disabled people were inferior. The Nazi influence spread across Europe and 2 out of every 3 European Jews were killed. The Nazis led by Adolf Hitler changed the Constitution so that they could make laws without a vote and whenever they wish.