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The Nazis, who came to power in Germany on January 1933, believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that the Jews, deemed “Inferior,” were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. Hostility discrimination against Jews Is anti-Semitism, a term that has wide currency even unto this day in the 21 SST century. In the 20th century the economic and political dislocation caused by World War I intensified anti-Semitism, and racist anti-Semitism thrived in Nazi Germany. Nazi persecution of the Jews led to the Holocaust.
Hatred of the Jews has long been established in Europe. The Jews in Christendom were humiliated, banished from their homes, forced to wear marks to Identify them, and confined to separate living quarters. They were characterized as offspring of the Devil. One mall concept for the Nazis was racial hygiene. Hitter’s early policies targeted children with physical and developmental disabilities, and later authorized an euthanasia program for disabled adults. The Holocaust was also conducted under the auspices of racial hygiene.
Nazis and their collaborators were responsible for the deaths of 11 million to 14 million people, including about 6 lion Jews, representing two-thirds of the Jewish population In Europe (1939-1945). Deaths took place In concentration and extermination camps and through mass executions. Concentration camps in Germany served a number of purposes. These camps were used to jail people who opposed Hitter’s government or who threatened it. Officially concentration camps were to “reform” people who had expressed opposition to Hitter’s regime.
The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitter’s appointment as chancellor (1933). Between 1933 and 945, Nazi Germany established about 20,000 camps to Imprison Its many millions of victims. These camps were used for a range of purposes including forced-labor camps, transit camps which served as temporary way stations, and extermination camps built primarily or exclusively for mass murder. To facilitate the “Final Solution” (the genocide or mass destruction of the Jews), the Nazis established killing centers in Poland, the country with the largest Jewish population. The killing centers December 1941.
Jews and Room were gassed in mobile gas vans there. Later, the Nazis constructed gas chambers (rooms that filled with poison gas to kill those inside) to increase killing efficiency and to make the process more impersonal for the perpetrators. The men killing the men, women, and children day after day became tired of seeing it so when they (Nazis) made the gas chambers (concrete bunkers with steel doors) the men didn’t have to see the Jews die. Millions of people were imprisoned and abused in the various types of Nazi camps. The Germans and their collaborators murdered more than three million Jews in the killing centers alone.
Only a small fraction of those imprisoned in Nazi camps survived. The Holocaust was the annihilation of the Jewish population by Nazis and Hitler. The Holocaust can be called one of the darkest sides and the biggest tragedies of the human civilization. This tragedy should never be forgotten. Most people all over the world of various ages are aware of the notion Holocaust and extreme sufferings it brought to millions of people. The injustice that was demonstrated on the Jews during the 4 year reign of the Final Solution was racist, intolerant, and offensive.