Holocaust Final Essay Jewish people were forced into ghettos and death camps. By a group called the “Nazis”. In the 1930s, the Nazis came into power. They then proceeded to oppress and reduce the status of every Jewish person that they could find. They segregated them into death camps and ghettos. They could do this without getting shut down by reducing their status and using propaganda. As the Holocaust unfolded, the Nazis used strategies such as reducing status and propaganda to get people to go along with their plan. The Nazis reduced Jewish people's status many times by impoverishing people to oppress the Jewish population. For example, Jewish people were being arrested and killed for not having work papers. Spigelman, 78. -. Nazis Forced …show more content…
If the main worker in the family were arrested, the family would fail. Another example of Nazis reducing Jewish people's status is when the butcher was being thrown into the back of a truck during a crystal nacht (Heck, 3). This could have made the family of the butcher go homeless, starve, or even die because he would not be there to supply the money for the basic life essentials. One final piece of evidence of Nazis reducing Jewish status is when Jewish people were being hung for selling food on a “black market”. This impoverished people by not letting them get food and not letting them help their families get food. They made these “black markets” because they were only allowed a certain amount of coupons for food and if they ran out of coupons they couldn't buy food. As you can see from this Nazis reduced and impoverished Jewish people until they could barely survive. Another thing that the Nazis did was put up propaganda to make the outside community support what they were doing. There is evidence of this when Reni walks around the city and sees posters of Nazis and Jewish symbols all over. Butter, 2,26. This shows how the Nazis tried to paint an “image” of what they were doing in their new