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Adolf Hitler Human Rights Violations

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Adolf Hitler despised those who didn’t uphold the ‘Aryan’ race, having blue eyes and blonde hair, deserved to have their rights taken away causing a violation in Human Rights. One of the many violations was Article 4 “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade show be prohibited in all forms”, this also includes “no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment” (APA). As a result of Hitler removing all the basic requirements of Jews, they were given a strict curfew, being prohibited from entering designated areas, reduced food rationing and limited time periods in which Jews could purchase food and other supplies, losing of property such as radios, electrical appliances
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Hitler also changed the religious culture in many parts of Europe. One of Hitler’s main goals while in office was to eliminate the jewish and any other non-aryan people. In the process, Hitler made The Nuremberg Laws. Adolf Hitler, “implemented these laws to ostracize, discriminate and expel Jews from German society” (3) Diverse culture was rejected. Physically, the people of Germany, mostly jews, were affected because of Hitler trying to make the population one master race.

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Summary Adolf Hitler asses race in terms of ranks producing lower and higher groups of people. In his assessment, he alludes to the argument that the lower groups of people mainly Jews polluted the higher groups in their mixing. He contends that when racial mixing occurs the higher group is lowered both physically and intellectually. Hitler also paints the imagery of conflict that would result if the two

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For years, our society has been driven to identify who is “like you”. Often times, this includes excluding and judging others because they are not similar to you. Every person is a complex bunch made up of objectives, feelings, and other characteristics that can be different than ours. It is easier to disregard a person as less human and less worthy than we are. The term othering is when one views or treats someone as different from oneself because the group or individual is mentally classifies as “not one of us”.

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The first dehumanizing act the Nazis perpetrate on the Jews is removing the normality from their everyday life. In Spring 1941, “German Army vehicles made their appearance” (Wiesel 9) on the streets of Sighet, yet the Jews showed no anguish. However, the harmony is short-lived; “the race toward death had begun” (Wiesel 10). The Nazis enforce rules that strip the Jews of their humanity: “jews were prohibited from

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In the beginning stages of the Nazi regime, the Nuremberg Laws were put into place. These laws included social and economic rules for those with a Jewish ancestry. Some of the social rules were the ID badges Jews had to wear (Doc. G), prohibition of relationships between Aryans and Jews (Doc. D), loss of access to public spaces (Doc. D), and the end of schooling for Jewish children (Doc. H). The worst of the economic laws happened

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During the holocaust, The Nazis used a form of treatment towards the Jews to make them feel less and less human it was called dehumanization. This means to deprive someone of their human like qualities and merely make them feel like a “thing” that gets in peoples way. They used this method to make it seem like the Nazis were doing them a favor, they were killing the jews to “purify” germany in their eyes. To begin, some inmates at the concentration camps (mostly the newer ones) were usually told that if they were fifteen, “No. you're eighteen” (Wiesel 133).

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In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel shows an inside glimpse of how jews were treated in the holocaust. It shows what his daily life was in the concentration camp Auschwitz and how he had to fight for his life every day and how harsh the weather and the cruelty was. The book also shows how the human rights were broken. One of the human rights that were broken was article 13 which states “Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.” and in the book it says “Jews were prohibited from leaving their residences for three days, under penalty of death” (Wiesel 10).

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After World War I, Germany, forced to take responsibility for the war, was in political and economic turmoil. During this time, an infamous Adolf Hitler rose to power, promising a new and prosperous Germany and accused the Jewish population for causing Germany’s problems. Hitler’s rise to power marked a shift from mere discrimination to outright violence against the Jewish people (Wiener). Hitler and the Nazis proceeded to take measures to strip Jews of their rights to create a Germany free from "racially inferior" people. The 1935 Nuremberg laws banned German Jews from marrying or having relations with the German “master race” (“The Holocaust”).

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Article 5, which states that that people can’t be tortured or treated cruelly, was broken. “ You will be burned, turned to ashes”(Pg. 31,Wiesel) was said by a prisoner to Wiesel and his father. “He began beating him with an iron bar.” ( ,Wiesel) another quote from Night which gives proof to cruelty of Jews.

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After losing World War One in 1918, the Germans were in an utter state of disillusionment and despair. Due to the Treaty of Versailles, they lost vast amounts of territory, became demilitarized, and had to pay millions in restitutions. A bleak time such as this was the perfect opportunity for fascist dictator, Adolf Hitler, to rise to power. Hitler managed to brainwash millions of vulnerable Germans into believing that the Jews were responsible for all the misfortune that had befallen them. Countless images and videos of Nazi propaganda circulated through Europe, depicting Jews as evil vermin that must be exterminated in order for the “master race” to reign supreme.

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First, he made all Jews wear the yellow star, which was discriminatory and others did not even see them as people anymore. Next, they would be sent off to the extermination camps or concentration

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In Night one of the ways that the Jews were dehumanized was by abuse. There were beatings, “I never felt anything except the lashes of the whip... Only the first really hurt.” (Wiesel, 57) “They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs.

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In many ways, Nazis had physically, mentally, and emotionally dehumanized their victims. The Jews were treated so badly by the Nazis that they felt as if they weren’t even humans; they felt like animals. For example, the Jewish prisoners were always being yelled at with harsh tones. Eliezer only remembers one time when a Polish

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