WWII Rough Draft The Holocaust all started back in 1933 when a leader named Adolf Hitler started a Nazi group that were out to kill Jews. Not all Nazis that were led by Hilter really were against the Jews. Some of the Nazis liked the Jews but were forced to either kill them or put them in concentration camps that housed jews. The concentration camps detained jews in horrible conditions.
These prisoner were of the enemy race. The Nazis imprisoned Jews while
An estimate of six million Jews were tortured and killed within the concentration camps. The holocaust is an example of institutional oppression. Institutional oppression is the idea that one group is better than another and has the right to control how the other gets embedded in the institutions of the society, the laws, the legal system and police practice, the educational system, hiring practices, public policy, etc. HItler believed Germans were the superiors and the Jew were the inferiors. He also created a variety of laws that segregated Jews and controlled how they were imbedded in the institutions of society.
The Nazis believed the Germans were “racially superior” and the Jews were inferior (The Holocaust). Over 6 million Jews lost their lives during the Holocaust (The Holocaust). The main targets were Jews, disabled, Gypsies, and slavic people (The Holocaust). If they did not match the “social norms”, they were killed (The Holocaust). Between the years 1941 and 1944, Jews were deported to concentration camps where they were then killed (The Holocaust).
In addition to the physical suffering that they had to endure in concentration camps. During the Holocaust, the Jewish people were subjected to dehumanization through various ways such as forced labor, starvation, and cruel
Schindler’s List displays this by showing how the Jews were sent to forced labour camps such as the Plaszow. When they arrived to these labour and concentration camps, they were separated by gender as told “men to the left, women to the right”, this separated families causing more effective discomfort to the Jews. In the labour camps, many Jews were shot often resulting in death because they were not working to the satisfaction of the Nazis or SS officers who were in charge of that labour camp. If any Jews were seen as unhealthy they were sent to death camps. During this stage of the holocaust many Jews were
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.
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.
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.
Dehumanization is the process of depriving a person, or group of people, of their unalienable rights such as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. From the beginning of the Holocaust, the Jews were the target of inequitable treatment from their German and allied persecutors. They were segregated from other races, seen more like animals than people, and tormented a great deal. In 1944, Wiesel describes his first sight of German soldiers in Sighet; he insisted that despite the Jewish people’s expectations, “first impressions of the Germans were most reassuring.”
Unspoken Victims of The Holocaust Of the countless victims of Adolf Hitler’s brutal genocide none were persecuted more than the Jews, however, among the large death toll many others were mercilessly punished for their race, beliefs, or occupation. A major target for Hitler’s “Final Solution” was the mentally and physically disabled. In their article on the mentally and physically handicapped the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum wrote “The Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases, proclaimed July 14, 1933, forced the sterilization of all persons who suffered from diseases considered hereditary, such as mental illness (schizophrenia and manic depression), retardation (congenital feeble-mindedness), physical deformity,
Survivalism: the Art of Self-Preservation Self-preservation is defined as the protection of oneself from harm or death, especially regarded as a base instinct in human beings and animals. It drives us to do things we otherwise would not do, to accomplish things we didn’t know were possible. Self-preservation can often be found throughout history and literature, always in the most desperate of times. Nowhere is it more prominent than in the history and literature surrounding the Holocaust, during which over six million Jews, including 1.5 million children, were brutally murdered in what has become known as one of history’s most deadly and widely publicized genocides. For almost 80 years, historians and Jewish survivors have authored and published their firsthand accounts of the pain they were forced to endure.
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Expository Report “We must do something, we can’t let them kill us like that, like cattle in the slaughterhouse, we must revolt”. These are the words from many men surrounding Elie Wiesel as he entered Auschwitz, calling out for rebellious toward the Germans harsh conditions. Of course they had no idea what they were getting themselves into, many thought that there was nothing wrong until boarding the cattle train that would send them off to their final resting place. Life during the holocaust was torturous to say the least, so much so that some 6,000,000 lives were taken during this time in Jewish descent alone. People of the Jewish descent did not have it easy; they either were forced out of their homes into concentration camps, or they would hide out only to be found and killed of they remained in their settlements.
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
