Month: June 2018

With the new Chancellor, Hitler, and a general dislike of abnormalities in people (Which was practiced in many countries). Hitler (Who was excessively intolerant of things that weren’t normal such as: Homosexuality, Other religions, and mental disabilities) was able to push heavily intolerant laws that were primarily directed towards Jews. Laws against Jews would then continue to ramp up to extremes where you could not be a German citizen if you were Jewish, and on your passport a J was stamped indicating you were Jewish. These laws were pushed with no resistance and normalized a hatred of Jewish people, a famous example of this hatred is Kristallnacht or “Night of broken glass”. On Kristallnacht people were encouraged to vandalize Jewish shops and torch synagogues and because of the amount of shop windows broken in the streets it was dubbed as Kristallnacht. This isn’t particularly significant but it symbolizes the views on Jewish people in Holocaust era Germany. Later, when the Germans started their Polish invasions Jews were placed in communities called ghettos which had horrible conditions and it was a struggle to survive in. 1.5 million Jews were executed while staying in these ghettos and only a couple years later Hitler passed the authorization of what is now known as genocide of Jewish people. During 1942 Jews were transported by train to concentration camps where they were forced to do labour with hardly any food, and if they couldn’t work anymore they were executed by poison gas. This resulted in the death of over 6 million Jewish people and was the reason the word “genocide” was created.

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