Did you know that over 6 million Jews died in WWII? Hitler had the idea that Aryans were the superior race and that anyone not Aryan should die, and that is what he did. The Nazis sent millions of Jews to concentration camps to kill them; some died of labor, some were sent to the gas chamber, and some died of starvation. This is one of the worst things that a leader has ever done. As the Holocaust unfolded, the Nazis used strategies such as separation and their laws to get as many Jews as possible into the concentration camps. Separation The first strategy the Nazis used was to separate the Jews from the Aryans. They did this by using propaganda and telling people that Jews were evil and dirty, and people did believe the Nazis. In Shores Beyond …show more content…
At this time, the Jews did not know what was going on, so Irene’s dad was hurt and confused. Still, that wasn’t the worst. For example, in Maus by Art Spiegelman, he tells us how they were told to go to the stadium, but while they were there, they were separated into two different lines. Vladeks explains, “They sent me here to the left. Four children were too many.” (91). When they were at the stadium, one of the ways to get Jews to the concentration camps was to separate them into lines, and the line they sent Vladeks daughter to was the bad one. At the beginning of Hitler's rule, the Nazis just used propaganda to separate the Jews and make them feel less than human, but the laws that they would make would decriminate the Jews even more. Laws Nazis Made At the beginning of Hitler's rule, the Jews felt like they were being separated, but later the Jews would really be separated by the laws that the Nazis made. Some of the laws that the Nazis made were worse than others. For example, in the article The Daily Jewish Bulletin, there was a law that Jewish women could not go to college, “Because of the sentiment against women in the professions in Germany. Especially a “non-Aryan.”