Totalitarianism: The Persecution Of Hitler And The Nazis

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The totalitarianism traits of persecution and ideology also led to the atrocity of liquidation of the Jewish ghettos by the German Nazis. Between 1935 and 1942, Hitler and the Nazis wanted to eliminate parties other than the their own Nazi party. This objective set by Hitler and the Nazis is an example of ideology, goals set to help or improve the state or government. Likewise, the craving to dispose of the Jews and only the Jews is an example of persecution, blaming one 's ethnic group, religion or political viewpoint for things that go wrong to in order to solidify the government. Hitler and the Nazis had a very strong hatred toward the Jewish community in Europe and wanted them completely eliminated. One event that led to the hatred of …show more content…

The Nazis placed Jews into ghettos, concentration camps and death camps and over the entire period of the Holocaust, they killed over six million Jews in Europe. The ghettos, concentration camps and death camps had terrible condition for living and working. The Jewish prisoners were put to work and either died naturally or were beaten or shot to death. The Warsaw ghetto in Poland was one that was liquidated and four hundred thousand Jews were slaughtered. The extermination camp in Auschwitz was a camp with large gas chambers that could kill six thousand people per day (Textbook pg. 502-505). Because of Hitler and the Nazis hatred toward Jews and the result of Kristallnacht, the liquidation and extermination of six million Jews occurred. Kristallnacht really made Hitler mad and made him want all Jews dead even more than he already did. The Nazi’s ideology that the Jews should be blamed for political wrongdoings led to this atrocity of the Nazis persecuting the Jews in an effort to eliminate their race. The persecution of Jews by the Nazis was that they were separated from society and they were given armbands to show they were Jews. In summary, the German Nazis used persecution and ideology to commit the atrocity of the liquidation of ghettos