The Holocaust During WWII, the single, most aggressive act towards a race of people occurred, the Holocaust. The Holocaust refers to the period from January 30, 1933 - when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany - to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe officially ended. During this time, Jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsher persecution that ultimately led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews and the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities. The Jews who died were not casualties of the fighting that ravaged Europe during World War II. Rather, they were the victims of Germany's deliberate and systematic attempt to annihilate the entire Jewish population of Europe, a plan Hitler called the “Final Solution”.
Hitler deliberately expressed his hate toward Jews and gave ample warnings, as it was all written down in his autobiography “Mein Kampf”. In 1935, the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship and civil rights. Jewish rights were steadily restricted, as in many cases Jewish political and intellectual leaders were the first to be sent to concentration camps. The Night of Broken Glass, on November 9, 1938 lead to the death of approximately 100 Jews, while other 30,000 were sent to concentration camps. Jewish businesses along with almost every synagogue in Germany were damaged or completely destroyed.
It was also seemed as opposition to roman rule. So then rulers also used Christians as scapegoats for political and economic troubles. For example the emperor Nero was blamed for a disastrous fire in Rome, he said Christians were responsible fire in Rome and were ordered to be persecuted. The emperors after Nero did not continue the persecution. Later on as the pax romana began to crumble the romans executed Christians for refusing to worship roman gods.
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 .
The Hasmonaean and the Hasidim - the pious - resisted the pagan infiltration and application of force to make them abandon their religion. Every Jew who would not worship Greek idols, and live their relatively morally lax life-style, was murdered on the spot. Many circumcised children and their mothers were slaughtered. Every available copy of the Holy Scriptures was destroyed by fire. Perhaps some of the Old Testament Scriptures were actually hidden by the Maccabees in the nearby caves.
“Genocide is the systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial or cultural group. During WWII about 6 million Jews were killed the other 5million were homosexuals, gypsies, and etc. The elements that lead to the Holocaust were totalitarism combined with nationalism, the history of anti- Semitism, Hitler’s belief in the master race, and the Final Solution. Totalitarism centralized control by an autocratic authority and political
Upon hearing the claims from the Magi that they had come to worship the King of the Jews, he ordered what has become known as the “Massacre of the Innocents”[10]. How could a king order the murder of every male child ages 2 years and younger in a single city? Did the “massacre” actually happen? If Herod ordered this mass murder who else were victims of his deranged mental state? Over the next 3 lessons, we will examine the course of events that occurred during Herod the Great’s reign as king of the Jews that might have led him to such a drastic measure.
The Holocaust “By warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lords work” (Harran 50). This quote is the exact words of the worlds most accomplished mass murderer in history, Adolf Hitler. His goal was to exterminate the complete Jewish race, to make room for the “Aryan” race. “Jews have been discriminated against, hated, and killed because prejudiced non-Jews believed they belonged to the wrong religion, lacked citizenship qualifications, practiced business improperly, behaved inappropriately, or possessed inferior racial characteristics” (Harran 41). Due to the hatred that was formed against the Jewish people, over the years of 1933 to 1945, about six million innocent people lost their lives.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Preceding World War II, the Nazi party in Germany rose to power and, under Adolf Hitler, committed the largest genocide the world has ever seen: the Holocaust. The ideology of the Nazi party led to the discrimination and extremely harsh persecution of the Jewish people, as well as many others who did not seem fit for the perfect German race. Jews, as well as the handicapped, homosexual, disabled, and so on, were sent to concentration camps where they were forced to perform manual labor and then killed. However, before the Nazis sent the Jews to concentration camps, they set up ghettos throughout German-controlled territory in Europe. The largest of these ghettos was the Warsaw Ghetto, located in Poland.
Emperor Nero of Rome and the persecution of Christians A generation after the death of Christ, Christianity had reached Rome in the form of an obscure offshoot of Judaism popular among the city's poor and destitute. Members of this religious sect spoke of the coming of a new kingdom and a new king. These views provoked suspicion among the Jewish authorities who rejected the group and fear among the Roman authorities who perceived these sentiments as a threat to the Empire. In the summer of 64, Rome suffered a terrible fire that burned for six days and seven nights consuming almost three quarters of the city. The people accused the Emperor Nero for the devastation claiming he set the fire for his own amusement.