The Nuremberg Laws Of The Holocaust

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Neema Khan Final Paper Essay # 3 05/23/2012 History The term Holocaust refers to the murder of millions Jewish men, women and children as a result of the national policy of Nazi Germany to murder all Jews. The Holocaust represents the transformation of historic anti- Semitism and sporadic, undisciplined mob violence into a relentless, systematic, nationally organized hate and murder machines. The Holocaust also refers to the period from January 30, 1933, when Hitler became chancellor of Germany, to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe ended. After the invasion of Poland in 1939 the Germans established ghettos in many Polish cities, where Jews were confined. This is how the “Holocaust” started. The living conditions in the ghettos…show more content…
The Nuremberg Laws, issued on September 15, 1935, began to exclude Jews from public life. The Nuremberg Laws included a law that stripped German Jews of their citizenship and a law that prohibited marriages and extramarital sex between Jews and Germans. The Nuremberg Laws set the legal precedent for further anti-Jewish legislation. Nazis then issued additional anti-Jews laws over the next several years. For example, some of these laws excluded Jews from places like parks, fired them from civil service jobs, made Jews register their property, and prevented Jewish doctors from working on non- Jewish patients. The Jews also ordered to wear a label or a yellow star, which helped identify Jews in public places. The first story of physical abuse against the Jews came from Germany and Austria where the Jewish establishments were demolished and ravaged, Jewish were attacked and many were sent to concentration…show more content…
The first known concentration camp was Dachau, which opened on March 20, 1933. Most prisoners in the concentration camps were political prisoners and people the Nazi called as “asocial.” However, after the Kristallnacht, the killing of Jews became more systematic, which led to an increase in the number of Jews sent to concentration camps. These camps were horrible and crowded. People were forced to do harsh physical labor and given no or very little food. They slept on with no mattress or pillow. The weak children were killed and the healthy ones were kept as slaves. Nazi doctors did medical experiments on the prisoners against their will. Extermination camps sole purpose was to kill large number of Jews quickly and efficiently. There were six extermination camps: Chelmo, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Auschwitz and Majdanek. Most prisoners of the extermination camps were told to undress for a shower but then were moved to the gas chambers and killed. Jews resisted the Germans for 27 days using homemade bombs and stolen or bartered weapons. This did not stop the Germans but gave hope to the Jews that one day the sufferings will
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