Throughout the 1930’s and 1940’s, there were a series of policies that the Nazi Germany implemented, which lead to the Holocaust; the genocide of 11 million people. Even though Hitler’s Nazi regime targeted a variety of religious groups based on their ethnicity and personality, Jews in particular were deemed more inferior to the so called Aryan people. It is easy for one to say that the Holocaust was the death of 6 million Jews from 1942-1945, but the reality was that the Nazi regime planned out their intention. It is clearly evident that the deaths of 6 million Jews did not happen overnight; the Holocaust was a lengthy and well-coordinated process with the assist of the Nuremberg laws, German anti-Semitism, concentration and extermination …show more content…
The Jews became isolated from German society as they were known as scapegoats for the ills that befell Germany after World War 1. Firstly, on July 14, 1933 the “Law of the Protection of Hereditary Health” was passed and this enabled the Nazi party to surgically sterilize any individual who suffered from a transmitted disease. This law was the first step for the Nazi regime to outset their goal, was to make Germany a “homogeneous and harmonious Aryan society.” This quote explains that, the purpose of the Holocaust was to discard any individual that does not meet the “master race” ; Hitler referred Aryans to the master race, believing that the “Germanic man with his fair skin, blond hair, and blue eyes.” . However, the “The Reich Citizenship Law,” which was passed on September 14, 1935, was what stripped Jews and half-Jews that practised the religion out of their civil rights and German Citizenship. Not only did this law account for Jews, but for German Jews as well. The first regulation enabled the Reich citizens to have full political rights and mixed Jewish and Jews were not allowed to vote or hold