Jews were not allowed to have a job. All money in banks were confiscated. A Judenrat, a Jewish council created under German orders, was created putting a few Jews responsible for the entire Jewish community. Armbands were used to recognize Jews and orders came everyday for people to go work hard labor. Going against orders resulted in death.
This made it really hard for them to really fight back because most of them were poor and could not afford weapons like guns or knives ( Hass). Since the Jews had no power over The Nazis they were forced to do anything they wanted them to do. From 1933 to 1945 Jews were in a tough time along with the people that were against Hitler and his group of Nazis that were out to kill the Jews. Over those twelve years, many things had happened, many lives and businesses were lost in the Holocaust. Many people moved to the United States or Israel(US Holocaust memorial) because they couldn’t stand living in Europe during the time of the Holocaust.
During World War II, the Jewish people were treated like objects rather than people by their Nazi captors. The Nazi’s view of the Jews was not a good one. They weren’t viewed as human anymore. The Nazis had absolutely no respect for the Jewish people whatsoever.
The Jewish people were murdered in camps, put to hard labor work, or looked down at by the Germans in general. Being a Jewish person meant that you couldn't travel, or own land, or do anything normal (German) person would do. Even as something simple like giving a piece of bread or painting over Jewish slurs, would get questioned about your loyalty and would get people thinking that they are agisnt the “Nazis”. The Nazi regime had brought radical and daunting social, economic change to the German Jewish community. If you were a terribly poor German with no money or food or good family.
This played a large role in the dehumanization role because by taking away the beliefs of the Jews, which is a big part of their identity, they were reduced to shells of the people they
The Nazi propaganda machine portrayed the Jews as subhuman, portraying them as greedy, manipulative, and inferior. They were depicted as a parasitic race that threatened the purity of the Aryan race and the German nation. This dehumanization was not limited to the Jews alone, many groups like homosexuals, disabled, and others were also dehumanized. This dehumanization was reinforced by the laws and policies that were implemented by the Nazi government, which stripped Jews of their rights and gradually reduced them to second-class citizens.
They were trying to survive the germans dehumanization tactics being forced upon them. Therefore they tried to break the Jewish people's hope and spirit. Nazi’s use several oppressive and inhuman dehumanization methods to weaken the hope of the Jewish people. The first tactic used by the Nazi’s to try and dehumanize the Jewish people was to try and strip them from their identity.
From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany murdered 6 million Jews. The Nazis treated and murdered Jews as if they were pigs in a slaughterhouse. The Nazi Party's justification for the horrors they committed is often credited to dehumanization. By viewing Jews as less than human, they rationalize treating them as less than human. Elie Wiesel's memoir Night recounts his experience as a Jew during the Holocaust of being treated as less than human.
The Nazis no longer regarded the Jews as humans but as vermin and sub-human. There is a picture in Source C that the Nazis used as propaganda and it was a drawing of Jews. The drawing portrays the Jewish people as disgusting and disabled and like they weren't part of the human race. This propaganda helped turn people against the Jews and made it feel like it was right what the Nazis were doing to them. Next were the concentration camps.
Throughout the Holocaust the Jewish people were dehumanized by inhumane conditions and brutal treatment. For example, the Jews were dehumanized through violence. When the Jewish people were in the concentration camps or killing centers, they were constantly abused by the SS guards. “Count the blows.
(?) Just because they were Jews they were tormented, starved, and even killed. Every Jew was considered an outsider or outcast in Germany and the horrific experience they went through was all because of their religion. This proves that being declared an outcast by society can be a punishing experience because of the torture that the Jews had to go through from the point of view of Adolf Hitler, who viewed them as
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”).
“The Dust Storm Black Sunday” elucidates descriptive importance and affects of the Dust Bowl in the early 20th century. The authors provide some insight into the concept of what is causing the disastrous dust storms, taking a serious approach to the realities of people exposing to the Dust. Families living in the south struggle to survive in a harsh condition; with limited resources and health problems, so much damage was done to the land that drought hit the area and there was nothing anyone could do to stop the disaster. After the drought ended by the 1940s a wide range of migration took place in the south that led people to migrate to California. This information led into deeper understanding and further knowledge about the Dust bowl and
Jewish businesses were reprimanded, Jewish property was taken, and Jews were increasingly expelled from society. Nazi Germany's policies led
Jews were carted away into prison or segregated areas by the cartful each day on the streets. Furthermore, Jews were not allowed to do simple actions, such as take pictures or play sports. They were regarded by the government as “subhuman”. The hate grew even stronger on November 19, 1938 when the Nazis destroyed every synagogue or Jewish owned store in Germany. Hitler’s book Mein Kampf became propaganda which allowed him and his National Socialist Party to rise to power.
