Running head: HITLER’S GENOCIDE
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Hitler’s Genocide
Oscar Sanchez
English 122
Mrs. Irwin
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
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Hitler’s Genocide
In 1889 a child by the name Adolf Hitler was born, he later would be known as, "The
Fuhrer", the German word for the supreme leader and be responsible for one of the largest
genocide in the world. Serving and living as a citizen in Branau am Inn, Austria. He volunteered
in the Bavarian Army during war world I. Hitler was involved in Beer Hall Putsch, and strongly
supported the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party). His affiliations with these
parties led him to become the leader of the socialist party called the Nazis. Shortly after, Hitler
was sentence to prison for disrupting the government authorizes. After 5 years Hitler left prison
making strides enlarge the gaining supporters and steering clear of political authorities. During
Germanys Great depression, a time of historically high unemployment, Hitler decided to put his
plans into action. His plans would put the entire government of Germany in his hands and
eliminate all the people who would oppose him. (A+E Television Networks, 2013)
Boycott of the Jews
The first actual movement of the Nazis was the boycott of the Jews business on April 1,
1933. (WorldHistoryPresentations, 2012). The boycott was against the Jews because it was said,
that it was the Jews fault for the happening of their great depression. The Nazis troopers started
to write catchphrases against the local Jews business as well as painting the Star of David. Most
people did not care and bought there important needs for home or any want the desired anyways,
because most Jew stores were located near many homes. After the boycotting of Jews businesses
and professionals the Nazis began to create laws only against the Jew. These new laws took
many rights away from them. On April 22nd, All Jews were banned from serving as patent
lawyers and from serving as doctors in State-run insurance institutions (Place, 2001). Hitler soon
prohibited the academic learning of the Jews.
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Nuremburg Law
After the boycotting Hitler and his Nazi soldiers were in need of more regulation of the Jews.
In 1935 a new law came into effect it was called the Nuremburg law. People with one or two
Jewish parents were classified as crossbreed or Mischling. The Nuremberg Laws classified
people with four German grandparents as "German or kindred blood", while people were
classified as Jews if they descended from three or four Jewish grandparents. (Hunt, 2009) In
1938 more laws were brought in which took away any citizenship from any Jews who was from
Polish descent.
Night of Broken Glass
Hitler was not satisfied with the Jews on the earth and on November 9, 1938, the Nazis
took charge and matters into their own hands. After giving the order within hours, Jewish
business and home completely destroyed. This cruel happening was called Kristallnacht, "Night
of Broken Glass" for the shattered store windowpanes that carpeted German streets. (Historical
Overview). The rioters sent by Hitler, burned or destroyed 267 synagogues, vandalized or looted
7,500 Jewish businesses, and killed at least 91 Jewish people. They also damaged many Jewish
cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes as police and fire brigades stood aside. (Museum).
Ghettos
After the miserable obliteration, the ghettos were created specifically to hold great amounts of
Jews, gypsies and criminals as well, into small city areas before being directed to concentration
camps. Many of the people held at the ghettos died of starvation and diseases. They relied on the
Nazi soldiers to have them feed. Many families and friends were isolated from eachother while
in the ghettos and they would never see them again. Most apartments were overflowing with
families living there. With harsh living style they had very little food. Those who had money or
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valuables could afford a better amount of food to feed their families as well as themselves. Those
who did not have anything would have to steel or beg for their day’s food. The poor were the
most common in death because of this. The Nazi soldiers never made the ghettos a decent place
to live they harassed and taught many of the hostages. With overcrowded people came many
sicknesses and diseases that would spread rather quickly. Nazis kept destroying and killing Jews.
Hitler began to gain life-threatening power, by taking over countries like Denmark, Belgium, the
Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Norway, and Poland. Hitler intended that Poles were to
become the slaves of Germany and that the two million Jews there in were to be concentrated in
ghettos in Poland's larger cities. The Nazis established 356 ghettos in Poland. Hitler’s plan was
to run out the Jews from the city streets into theses ghettos and then put them in concentration
camps were they would all be killed age, size if they had a family or not, none of that had any
importance to him and his Nazi troopers. (MUSEUM H. M.)
Concentration Camps
Many Jewish men were captured and sent to concentration camps. Imprisonment in a
concentration camp meant inhuman forced labor, brutal mistreatment, hunger, disease, and
random executions. (Projetaladin.org, 2009). Usual concentration camps were fenced all around
and were toped of with barbwire for anyone trying to escape. The older Jews that were kept at
concentration camps that could not keep up with the hard forced labor were “selected” and then
killed with gas, injections or shot. Others were chosen for terrible pseudo-scientific experiments
(Projetaladin.org, 2009). Nazi concentration camps, Nazi doctors conducted medical experiments
on prisoners against their will. They did experiment’s with aviation to allow them to know how
high could aircraft parachute to safety. Nazi scientists also tested immunization compounds and
sera for the prevention and treatment of contagious diseases, including malaria, typhus,
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tuberculosis, typhoid fever, yellow fever, and infectious hepatitis. These experiments were never
safe, sanitary or pain free to the victim.
Liberation
The end was clearly at hand Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, retired to their suite in the
Führer's underground bunker to take their lives. They left instructions that their bodies be
burned. (magazine) Throughout holocaust the Germans warned other countries to not save the
Jews if attempted the Germans would kill those who tried to save them. Many followed what
they said others Courageous and brave helped those they could by hiding them and keep them
away from the Germans and there horrible ways. At the end of WWII the Germans lost war as
surrendered to the Russians and the Americans who together were called the allies. (the
holocaust) As Allied troops entered Nazi-occupied territories, the final rescue and liberation
transpired. Allied troops who stumbled upon the concentration camps were shocked at what they
found. Large ditches filled with bodies, rooms of baby shoes, and gas chambers with fingernail
marks on the walls all testified to Nazi brutality. (Florida, 2005)
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