...This essay attempts to answer the question “To what extent does the Nazi persecution of Roma and the Nazi persecution of Jews mirror each other 1933-1945?” focusing on the time period between Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 to the Holocaust’s end in 1945 . This essay makes a wide range of use of primary and secondary sources such as essays, books, websites, and encyclopedias. Some primary sources included are testimonies of former Holocaust Roma and Jew victims telling their story; also, there are some parts of speeches made by Nazi leaders about Jews and Roma. The essay begins by outlining the Nazi persecution of Roma and stating its importance. Afterwards, there is an analysis about the perspective of the Roma and the Jews in the Nazi party...
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... the Holocaust was the systematic, state sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by Nazi regimes and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community (ushmm.org). To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps for Jews during the war years” (ushmm.org). Nazis deported more than a million...
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...treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. According to, Jspace News, Kovner was a Jewish-Hebrew poet who used his voice to shed light on the details of the Holocaust, and he strived to make a difference for those being persecuted. The Holocaust may be the most famous instance of Jewish persecution, but it is not the only occurrence. Throughout history, Jews have been targeted as a popular scapegoat, which has led to their history of extreme persecution. The persecution of the Jews has occurred on many occasions. To start, persecution has always been a huge aspect of the history of Jews. Their persecution has affected the history and the development...
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...‘Abraham’ and the Jews regarded him as the first Patriarch (head) of the Jewish people. Abraham was the first person to teach the idea that there was only one God; before then, people believed in many Gods. The history of the Jewish people is one fraught with discrimination and persecution. Jews have been discriminated against in the Western world for more than 2,000 years. They have been excluded from society and forced to live separately on many occasions. In bad times, the Jews were hunted, tortured and killed. Although...
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...In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and transformed it into a totalitarian state. Through persecution and propaganda, Hitler convinced the German people that all of their problems could be blamed on the Jews, making the events of the Holocaust plausible. Throughout Europe, Jews were historically ostracized due to their minority status and beliefs contrasting with those of Christians. For these reasons, when Hitler came to power the Jews were a natural group to blame Germany’s struggles on. During World War One, people often said that “The Jews, [...] had done much to spread defeatism and thus destroy the German army” (Rise of the Nazis and Beginning of Persecution). As a result of this rumor, many people in Germany already had...
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...supported Hitler’s quest to annihilate the Jews; some Germans opposed it or remained neutral towards it. The reasons for why Germans supported Hitler’s quest to annihilate the Jews was split between the distress of Germany that had been created by an economic crisis, threats that were carried out by the Nazi regime, and propaganda that was used to persuade Germans. Firstly, many Germans supported Hitler because during the Great Depression, which hit the citizens of Germany harshly, Germans were in need of a political savior. Therefore, they looked to Hitler and saw him as a determined leader who could save the nation (“Great Depression”). Furthermore, the Nazi Party threatened those who dared to oppose them. Some members of individual Nazi Party units were granted license to punish whomever they felt was against them, and perceived opponents were thrown in concentration camps (“Nazi Terror Begins”). In addition to pressuring the Germans with fear,...
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...the cause of the persecution. The diffusion of their teachings and the appearance of their organization in the Rhineland, the Low Countries, the Languedoc and the cities of Lombardy and Tuscany during the eleventh and twelfth...
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...of European Jews by the Nazis before and during World War II. When Hitler came into power, Germany turned into a totalitarian government, “The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that the Jews, deemed “inferior,” were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community” ("Introduction to the Holocaust." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council. Web. 20 Mar. 2016). Hitler’s goal for Germany was to create the perfect Aryan race. The Nazis accepted that it was their duty to exterminate the Jews. Hitler’s twisted notion brainwashed German citizens into thinking that it was fine if other people...
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...be the Holocaust. During the 1900s, Germany had recently lost World War One and like many Germans who fought during this war, Adolf Hitler blamed the Jews for the defeat. So, after taking power over Germany, Hitler and his political group, the Nazis, found many ways to persecute the inferior Jews. But eventually, they decided on a more “permanent” solution; gassing the Jews. During this time, Germany had also declared another war, World War Two. After six long...
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...the Nazi policy towards the Jews by the German People. Source B says that ‘Anti-Semitism has undoubtedly taken root in wide circles of the population’, implying that many German people were in favour of Anti-Semitism. The source then goes on to say that if a German citizen was to buy from a Jewish person, it would have been just to annoy the Nazi’s, not ‘in order to help the Jews’. This also suggests that many German’s were not in favour of the Jews. Source B also mentions these people being in favour of ‘restricting Jews to certain activities’, once again supporting the Nazi policy. This relates to my own knowledge on the Nazi policy, as I know that the Nazi party bought in many laws which restricted Jews from certain activities; such as the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, which forbade marriage between Germans and Jews. Many German’s supported such Laws opposing the Jews. This source originates from A Socialist Party report in 1936, therefore the reliability is debatable. As an opposing party to the Nazi’s, the Socialist Party would be like to give biased information, against the Nazi Party. Similarly, Source C discusses the ‘reprisals were carried out against Jewish buildings and places of businesses’, suggesting that many German’s participated in the Kristallnacht. In this Source, Goebbels goes on to say that ‘the whole population is now firmly asked to abstain from all further action of whatever nature against the Jews’. Goebbels uses the phrase ‘the...
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...Immigrating to America allowed for immigrants to escape the religious persecution that was occurring in their home countries, permitting them to obtain a part of their identity which was previously not welcomed. Orthodox Jews, such as Mary Antin’s family, were persecuted in Russia at the time, and American provided a safe haven. These immigrants felt as though they had no place to call home, as they were being persecuted in their own towns, and coming to America provided them a country they could call their own. Antin writes that in Russia “it came to pass that… [her family,] did not know what [their] country could mean to a man. And as [they] had no country, so [they] had no flag to love” (Antin, 179). As Orthodox Jews were treated as non-citizens...
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...containing the five books of Moses,” History: the book of Joshua to the book of Esther, Wisdom: the book of Job to the book of Song of Solomon, Prophetic Books: the book Isaiah to the book of Daniel and the last twelve books are the Minor Prophets: the book of Hosea to the book of Malachi. The Old Testament books are pivotal to the birth of the New Testament because if God did not keep his promises to the Old Testament patriarchs Christianity would have not been born. In this research I will focus on early Christianity and how it began. Next I will speak upon how the gospel went from Judaism to a world religion. I will then talk about the persecution of the Jewish people by Christians. Lastly I will discuss the conflict between the two. Early Christianity In the first century there were four main religious sects made up of the Palestinian Jews: the Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes, and the Zealots. The Sadducees were religious conservative priest and wanted to maintain the authenticity of the Hebrew teachings, they also did not believe in the resurrection of the dead or an afterlife. The Pharisees unlike the Sadducees took a more liberal mindset towards the Mosaic Law, they allowed multiple interpretations of the Torah, they accepted oral tradition of the Torah (the passing down of the Mosaic Law by word of mouth from generation to generation), and they believed in the afterlife. The Essenes formed the semimonastic community by the Dead Sea and it is said that the Essenes...
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...6 million Jews died in the Holocaust, but some survived. Those that made it through the Holocaust went through much pain and hardship, often losing loved ones or their home. To survive, they had to push through sorrow and fear, and hope luck would be on their side. But it wasn’t all up to luck, as many made it through by their own skills or bravery. People survived the horrors of concentration camps, discrimination, and hiding during the Holocaust, and their stories are remembered through fighting against ignorance of the crimes committed by literature and films of today. Jews had to overcome terrible conditions and disease in concentration camps, which can be clearly seen the book Eva’s Story. The water was unsanitary and “carries typhus...
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...those viewed as different or inferior. Furthermore, such feelings of hatred have been translated into outright acts of violence against those viewed as inferior, and this at times often prompted retaliation against their oppressors, such as the case in Rwanda. With these premises, the world has been witness to various acts of violence, including the massacre of a significant number of people, all in the name of racial superiority. The concerned countries of the world have often refused to act in time to stop these events even though ample signs of trouble were apparent. Racial superiority has traditionally been an issue for various countries at one point or another in their history, but none worse than that displayed by the Nazis over the Jews and by the Tutsis over the Hutus in Rwanda. Similarities can be seen between the events of the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide. “Rwandan genocide took place between April and June 1994. During this tragic period of 3 months some 800,000 Rwandans died, the majority were ethnically Tutsis murdered by their rival countrymen the Hutus”...
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...3. German soldiers and the German people went along with the Nazi policy of the persecution of the Jews. There are many reasons for this. One reason is the Nazi treatment of those people who disagrees. If German's did not follow Hitler and his rules, they would either be killed or put in jail. Another reason they went along with the Nazi policy is because of all the propaganda. The Nazi party put pictures everywhere putting the Jews down. They blamed them for all the problems of Germany, like economic problems and the lost of World War II. They made Jewish people look like bad people and that it would be a good thing to get rid of them. A last reason that people supported the persecution of the Jews is the political and social conditions in Germany at the time. They didn't have a steady government at all and their economy was going down the drain. So when Hitler said exterminating Jews would help this, people agreed because they were desperate. The German people thought they had no other solution because of how bad everything in Germany was at this time. Homework#6 2. Aftermath of World War II in Europe and Japan Europe Only: -Nazi reign fell and lost power. -There was no power, no food, no shelter, no water. -There was a famine because there was no way for the food to get to the Germans since the transportation system was damaged. Both: -Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed. -Major cities were destroyed. -Land was taken away. Japan Only: ...
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