IB History IA - Anti-Semitism

During Adolf Hitler 's reign as Fuhrer in Germany between 1934 and 1945, estimates of about 6 million Jews were discriminated against and killed. Hitler passed several laws abolishing all Jewish rights by 1935 due to several reasons such as his personal hatred for Jews and his views that most of the things that had gone wrong in Germany was because of the wealthy and selfish Jews. Though Anti-Semitism was common before Hitler in Europe, the extremes that were met during Hitler 's chancellorship in order to discriminate Jews had never been seen in history before. During the time where Hitler was chancellor of Germany, his anti Jewish policies, discrimination and propaganda against the Jews and their forced displacement from their own public lives that they had been accustomed to for centuries caused a ruckus and an unpleasant time in the lives of all Jews in Germany. The Holocaust, now known as the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime from 1941 until 1945 was an extremely violent and bloody period of time in which many Jews were sent to concentration camps where they would work until death from exhaustion or disease. They were required to wear yellow stars for identification, were stripped of their rights and citizenships, and were forced to live in ghettos until they would be shipped off to concentration camps. All these things happened in Germany, and one begins to wonder whether or not the German people were aware of this. Several people today question whether or not the German people under Nazi Germany were aware of the discrimination against Jews at the time, whether or not they were aware that there were millions of people being murdered. And if they were aware, did anyone attempt to stop this? Though Anti-Semitism had begun since way before 1933, when Hitler came to power as Chancellor on January 30th, 1933, it had become widely know that if you were a Jewish person in the state of Germany, you were "an enemy of the state." Jewish people were

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