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Anti-Semitism march in Germany

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An Overview oI the Holocaust
When one hears mention oI the Holocaust, most people think oI death camps and the
killing oI Jewish people, when in reality the Holocaust was comprised oI many more events and
much more suIIering. AdolI Hitler and the Nazi party systematically exterminated over eleven
million people including Jews, Soviet and Polish prisoners oI war, gypsies, and various other
people. The Holocaust can be viewed as one oI the most hideous events oI our time and raises
many questions as to how such events be could pulled oII in such a short amount oI time and
without anyone trying to stop it. The speed at which the genocide happened and the precision it
was carried out needs to be understood.
The website Anti-Semitism deIines anti-Semitism as the prejudice or the hatred oI Jewish
people. Furthermore, the website explains how Nazis would take the meaning oI this word to a
whole new level during the years beIore and during the Holocaust. However, the Nazi Partywas
not the Iirst to invent or practice anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism has been present throughout
history and was oIten encouraged or carried out by governments or government oIIicials.
Understanding the history oI anti-Semitism can lead one to see how the Nazis had such a
growing hatred
Ior the Jews and why the Holocaust came to be one oI the Iastest and
most devastating genocides oI any race in human history. Furthermore,
the website explains how Hitler and his Nazi party did not suddenly Iind a hatred oI the Jews and
a desire to exterminate them. BeIore Hitler ever rose to power many German philosophers had
theories and thoughts to the Ioreign idea oI the Jewish people. Hitler would be the Iirst person to
bring these theories to liIe and show the world how Iar a little propaganda could go. The Nazi
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party would demonstrate their anti-Semitism in the early years oI the Holocaust by staging anti-
Jewish boycotts and enacting laws oppressing and limiting the rights oI Jews. Anti-Semitism
would begin as ideas implanted in the head oI many German people, but with the Nazis rise to
power those ideas would come to liIe in the Iorm oI very real and horriIic actions(Anti-
Semitism). Events such as the passing oI the Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht would be just a
start Ior the Nazis leading up to the quick and brutal genocide oI the Jewish people and several
other minorities.
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws would begin to be discussed in 1935 as ministers Irom all over Germany
would meet and talk about how the Nazi party would treat the Jewish people (The Nuremberg
Laws). AdolI Wagner would be the Nazi`s lead representative at the party and would do most oI
the arguing Ior the Nazis. He debated anti-Semitism
would stop once the government Iirmlystated their
position on how the Jewish people would be treated.
While the Nazis Iought to oppress the Jews, several
others at the meeting including Dr. Schacht would argue
Jewish people had many values by saying, 'Jews had
certain entrepreneurial skills that could be useIully employed to Iurther his policies,(The
Nuremberg Laws)as the Economic Minister. FinallyaIter about a month oI review, the Party
enacted two laws at Nuremberg, thus becoming known as the Nuremberg Laws. The Iirst oI
these laws would be The Law Ior the Protection oI German Blood and German Honor. In
addition law would prohibit marriages between Jewish people and those oI German descent. The
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Iirst law would basically prevent any breeding that would make Hitler`s perIect Aryan race
unclean. Second oI the Nuremberg laws would be The Reich Citizenship Law. Main points oI
the law would strip Jews oI their German citizenship and set a clear distinction between Reich
citizens and people the Germans would reIer to as 'nationals. The second law would be a cheap
way around stating Jews no longer had the same rights as pure blood Germans. These two laws
would combine to be the Iirst in many crucial steps to the elimination oI the Jews in Europe (The
Nuremberg Laws). While a relatively un-violent move by the Nazis, the Nuremberg Laws would
be the Iirst oI many darks steps to the persecution and genocide oI many Jewish people.
Kristallnacht: Night oI Broken Glass
'Being a Jew is not a crime. I am not a dog. I have a right to live and the Jewish people have a
right to exist on earth, (The American Experience), a quote Irom Hershel Grynszpan during his
arrest days aIter shooting Ernst von Rath. The website
describes how Rath`s position as 3
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German Embassy in Paris would hold high enough
standard to the Nazis to inIuriate many oI its leaders(The
American Experience). Few could have guessed this
shooting would set Iorth a series oI events ordered by
Joseph Goebbels leading up to Kristallnacht and the beginning oI the Iirst true acts oI aggression
by the Nazi party. Goebbels speech days aIter the assassination would light a Iire in many
German hearts and state Rath`s shooting to be a hate crime against the Germans by the Jewish
people. Goebbels message would be sounded loud and clear to all Nazi police, the Jews would
have to pay Ior Rath`s death. Later the same day oI Goebbels speech, a clear and to the point
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letter would be sent out by Reinhard the Head oI Security Service Ior the Germans. In short the
letter would say that all Jewish business could be demolished but nothing could be stolen Irom
them. The letter would soon turn into very real actions by the Germans as they would destroy
Jewish business all across Germany. Kristallnacht can oIten be called night oI broken glass and
the name could not be more Iitting. Moreover businesses would be burnt and glass would litter
the street as the Germans would storm across the country terrorizing the Jewish people through
the night. Not only were the Jewish businesses destroyed and many people injured, the German
police units were also given strict orders to arrest as many Jews as the local jails would hold (The
American Experience). Many others would be deported to concentration camps and other Iorced
labor camps by the Nazis to work Ior their supposed crimes against the German people.
Kristallnacht may have been just one night in history but it`s very real aItermath would set the
stage Ior the Holocaust and one oI the most horriIic events in the history oI the world.
Rounding up oI Jews: Nazi Ghettos
Though Kristallnacht would be the Iirst terrible act by the Nazi party against the Jews, it would
certainly not be the last. Kristallnacht would not Iill the German`s urge Ior revenge against the
Jewish people and in the next step the Nazis deemed necessary would be a rounding oI the Jews.
The choice to act was never meant to be a solution to the Jewish problem; they simply hoped it
would suIIice until a more permanent decision could be made(Jewish Ghettos During the
Holocaust). The quick Iix to their problem would be a complete rounding up oI the Jewish
people and several other minorities the Nazis deemed unIit. The next question would be where to
place such a large group oI people, and the answer would come to Reinhard Heydrich Iairly
easily, ghettos. Ghettos originally were designed to imprison Jewish people until a Iinal more
lasting plan could be devised. Ghettos would spread rapidly all across Germany and would range
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in size Irom several small Iamilies in little towns to extremely big ghettos with upwards oI
500,000 people. To be expected liIe in every ghetto was harsh but that was especially true in the
larger ghettos. A prime example oI the type oI liIe Iorced upon people in the ghetto would be the
biggest example, the Warsaw ghetto. Among the terrible aspects oI Warsaw over-crowding,
starvation, and rampant disease spread reigned
supreme. II surviving these things were not hard
enough Ior the Jews in Warsaw, any attempt to escape
would be thwarted by the many Nazi police stationed
all along the walls oI the ghetto. Jews living in these
prisons had to wonder what events brought them to
their current situation, along with where and when their escape would come. The large walls oI
the ghettos would serve as a constant reminder to the inmates they were trapped and their Iutures
no longer rested in their hands but in the Nazi party who currently were oppressing them (Jewish
Ghettos During the Holocaust). Ghettos would be another step in the Nazi process oI persecuting
and eliminating the Jews. No one could have guessed the time spent in ghettos by the Jewish
people only served to pass time Ior the Nazis while their 'Final Solution`s details would be
hashed out.
The Wannasee ConIerence
In early 1942, Iourteen men would meet in a small part oI Berlin and the leader oI the meeting
would be Reinhard Heydrich (Wannasee ConIerence). Few could guess the discussions at the
Wannasee ConIerence would end where they did. The terriIying Final Solution Heydrich and his
delegates came up with would shake the Jewish people and the world. Many could argue the
House where the Wannasee ConIerence was held
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Deportation oI Jewish people acting out the Final
Solution
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Wannasee ConIerence would aIIect WWII and had the meeting never happened the shape oI
history could be entirely diIIerent. For years the Nazi party had pondered over what to do with
their Jewish problem and as these Iourteen men
madehorriIying decisions quickly leading to the Final
Solution the Germans had been searching so resiliently
Ior (Wannasee ConIerence).
The Final Solution. As the name implies the
Final Solution would be a deIinite end to the so called in-
purity oI the Jewish people. The men at the Wannasee ConIerence Iinally concluded the only
thing to do was to eliminate the Jews Irom the Iace oI the earth. Taking away the laws oI Jewish
people, persecuting them endlessly and Iinally rounding them up seemed to not be enough Ior the
Nazis (White, Murphy). The mindset Ior the Germans was to have their perIect Aryan race
takeover and that would be accomplished by
exterminating the Jewish people. The Nazis decided at
the Wannasee ConIerence deportation and
extermination at concentration and death camps would
be the most eIIicient means oI an end. The details once
the Jews reached the camps had not been hashed out,
but the Germans knew they would strive to do one
thing, eliminate. Later on in the Holocaust once deportation began, methods would quickly be
chosen to kill the Jews. For the Nazis only two main methods would become prevalent. It is also
wise to note although the true meaning oI the Final Solution was known, the word killing was
Nazi soldiers splitting prisoners into two lines during
selection
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never Iormally written at the Wannasee ConIerence. The only hints towards the tragic end would
be natural selection killing oII those too weak to survive the work camps and main rebels against
the German cause being too dangerous to let live. The orders to Iinally exterminate the deported
Jewish people would come directly Irom the Furher, Hitler (White, Murphy). His decision would
need to be carried out eIIectively and the gruesome details oI his plan would be very shocking.
Hitler`s goal was to physically exterminate each and every Jew in Europe.
Selection Process
As with every other step in the Nazi Holocaust things grew increasingly worse Ior the Jewish
people. The Final Solution was set and the Nazi party would begin to carry it out with great
eIIiciency. Ghettos were up and running, so the next logical step Ior the Germans would be to
deport every resident oI them to Nazi camps across Germany (Auschwitz-Birkenau). Cattle cars
oIten carrying thousands oI Jewish people and other minorities would bring people Irom all oI
Germany to death camps across the country. These trains were rampant with disease, starvation,
and over-crowding. Terrible as these Iactors were Ior the Jews they would not compare to the
atrocities to be committed at the camps. II the passengers survived the journey to the camps the
next terriIying part oI the Final Solution would begin.
Stepping oII the train would lead the Jews straight into the
Nazi selection process. In almost all cases the Nazi
leaders at the camps would have the prisoners split into
two lines. Although neither oI these lines led to good
things Ior the people in them, one line led to an
unthinkable end. Women and children were usually
'iew Irom the Iront oI the notorious Auschwitz
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never given a second thought and sent immediately to a line that led to a gas chamber and
immediate death. The lucky Iew, iI they could be called that, would be chosen Ior work at the
camp. These usually consisted oI able-bodied men and young adults. Their heads would be
shaved and stripped pajamas given to them to identiIy them. Any possessions oI value would be
quickly conIiscated and oIten times a tattoo given to them to recognize them merely as a number.
While they did not meet an immediate end, their path usually led to a much more drawn out
agonizing death. Few would live to survive the tedious work put upon by Nazi oIIicers and those
Iew survivors could scarcely be recognized as human. The selection process merely served as a
deciding Iactor between a quick death or a work until your dead liIe. 'ery Iew realized what
each line would mean and many would see their Iamily Ior the last time here. While departures
Irom Iamily were saddening and the unknown terriIying, nothing could prepare the Jewish
people Ior what lay ahead at the end oI the line (Auschwitz-Birkenau).
Death Camps
Concentration and work camps would also be implemented by the German leaders, death camps
would be their crowning achievement. Death camps were the answer to the Final Solution Ior the
Nazis, and the quickest most eIIective way imaginable
Ior them to eliminate their most hated enemy (The
Danish Center). While methods oI killing varied Irom
camp to camp, one thing was a common Iactor Ior each
camp. Many Jewish people were massacred and adding
to the list oI atrocities were Nazi camp workers trying to
cover up their massive killings. Crematoriums and mass graves would top the list oI choices to
dispose oI bodies once they were shot or gassed. No matter which technique was chosen a Iew
things were certain. Many people would be killed quickly in the death camps and the Nazis were
eIIicient at hiding their handiwork (The Danish Center).
Chelmno. Chelmno would be the Iirst oI the death camps to be established by the Nazis
(The Danish Center). The death camp would be used entirely Ior the extermination oI Jews and
several other races but its methods would not entirely be polished. Chelmno would use
extermination trucks to mass murder Jew`s. These trucks would pump their exhausts into a room
Iull oI trapped prisoners choking them to death. Not perIected and Iar Irom operational, Chelmno
was a step in the direction the Nazis were looking Ior and over 140,000 people would lose their
liIe at its doorsteps (The Danish Center).
Auschwitz.Four other operational death camps would be devised and built between the
time oI Iirst Chelmno and the last Auschwitz (The Danish Center). While each progressed and
took the lives oI many Jewish people, nothing could prepare the world or the people being
persecuted in Germany by the events to take place at Auschwitz. During its three years oI
operational killing, Auschwitz would go Irom an experimental gassing Iacility at Auschwitz I to
a tuned and polished murdering machine in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Birkenau would perIect the use
oI Zyklon-B to gas the prisoners to death. Along with the sophisticated killing methods,
Birkenau also played host to several high-tech crematoriums. They would be where a majority oI
the bodies would be disposed oI at Birkenau until the later years when the crematoriums broke
down and mass graves had to be dug to hide the atrocities. During its three years running as a
death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau would claim the lives oI an estimated 1 to 2 million prisoners,
a horriIying number even in today`s world (The Danish Center).
Extermination Methods
A Nazi Iiring squad with a mass grave
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The goal oI the Nazi party was to carry out the Final Solution as eIIectively and quickly as they
could. Thus, some oI the most innovative extermination methods were devised during the time.
Among the most simplistic and least eIIective oI these methods were mass shootings oI
undesirables (The Danish Center). More oIten than not Jewish people and other small minorities
would be lined up along pre-dug graves and simply Iired upon. While the killings were quick and
disposal oI the bodies relatively easy, this was not the mass
solution to the Jewish problem Hitler was looking Ior. The
next method devised by the Germans would be gassing
trucks sealed and locked so neither the exhaust nor the
prisoners could escape. The trucks provided killing by
suIIocation but once again it did solve the problem oI an
easy way to mass exterminate the Jews. Finally as the
Holocaust progressed, mass gassing chambers would be
implemented to quickly dispose oI death camp prisoners. Jewish people would be led into what
they believed to be showers but in reality were large sealed rooms. Once in the doors would be
locked and more oIten than not Zyklon-B Ied into the rooms. The gas provided Ior an extremely
painIul death Ior its victims and at last the Germans had Iound their grand Final Solution to the
Jewish problem (The Danish Center).
Liberation
Liberation to the prisoners oI the Nazi death and concentration camps could not come quickly
enough during the latter years oI the Holocaust and Ior many never came at all. By the end oI
1944 the Soviets began to push into Germany and while pushing in discovered some oI the most
horriIic scenes in human history (BBC-History). While the world had an idea oI the cruelty the
Prisoners waiting to be liberated by Allied Forces
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Germans had intended Ior the Jews oI Europe, they had no idea oI how quickly and eIIectively it
had been carried out. The soldiers would soon discover in the camps bodies oI the deceased and
what was leIt oI the living. Mal-nutrition, starvation, and disease plagued many iI not all oI the
survivors oI these camps. Many were Iorced on death
marches and died as the Germans Iled. Those leIt would
serve as prooI oI the cruelties the Nazi party had
committed. 'This understanding oI the extent oI Nazi
brutality was considerably broadened in early 1945,
aIter the Red Army liberated Auschwitz in south-western
Poland, (BBC-History, Paragraph 2) was how one
soldier would describe their push into Auschwitz. True scenes oI un-imaginable horror would Iill
the soldiers eyes as the Iew bodies leIt breathing could barely be described as human (BBC-
History). While the scene as Auschwitz was not a lone example, it would serve as the most
scarring and horriIic prooI to the Nazi crimes against humanity.
While the Holocaust and death camps as most remember lasted 3 years, the actual
persecution and hatred oI Jews stems back much Iarther. From Kristallnacht to the Iinal
liberation oI Auschwitz, Nazi hatred has been brutal and un-explainable. The mass genocide
carried out by the Germans during the Holocaust serves as a chilling reminder as to what one
group oI people can accomplish behind the world`s back. The killing oI over 10 million people
during the Holocaust is hard to imagine and even more impossible to understand how such a
event could be carried out. One thing can be said Ior certain though; the evidence oI the Nazi
crimes and millions oI lives lost will never be Iorgotten and should serve as an example to the
world showing how Iar hate can lead people.



Works Cited
"The American Experience.America and the Holocaust.People& Events , "Kristallnacht" , PBS."PBS.
Public Broadcasting Service. 2009. Web. 18 Nov. 2011.
"Antisemitism." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 6 Jan. 2011. Web. 18 Nov. 2011.
"Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp Complex --data and Summary Facts."Holocaust
Remembrance, Sanctuary, and Tribute to Survivors.Web. 18 Nov. 2011.
"BBC - History - World Wars: Liberation oI the Concentration Camps." BBC - Homepage. 2011. Web.
18 Nov. 2011.
The Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 2002. Web. 18 Nov. 2011. ~.
"Jewish Ghetto's During The Holocaust Www.HolocaustResearchProject.org." Holocaust Education &
Archive Research Team. 2006. Web. 18 Nov. 2011.
"The Nuremberg Laws."Jewish Jirtual Library - Homepage. 2011. Web. 18 Nov. 2011.
"Wannsee ConIerence." The Holocaust History Profect Homepage. 2004. Web. 18 Nov. 2011.
White, By David, and Daniel P. Murphy."The Final Solution - World War II."Netplaces.Web. 18 Nov.
2011.

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