The Aryan Race: The Persecution Of Nazi Germany

When people think of Nazi Germany, most will convey an image of Hitler, the Concentration Camps, and the Jewish persecution. But, it is much deeper than just this. What it almost never brought up is how the Nazis accomplished what they did. They were able to not only control an entire society but blind them from one of the world’s largest genocides to date. Because of the economic state that Germany was in, and the constant brainwashing by propaganda, the Nazi Party was able to thrive. In order to fully grasp what allowed such an evil and hateful party to rise and spread, one must understand the economic condition that Germany was in after World War I. Due to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was held legally responsible for
Hitler was trying to achieve the creation of the Aryan Race. The term was used to describe his idea of a pure German race. In his eyes, the Jewish people were the chief corruptors of the Aryan Race and the only way to rid themselves of the threat of them was to murder them all (Lace 44-45). In order to turn the people of Germany against the Jews, the Nazi Party began to push out massive amounts of propaganda pertaining them. They used any means necessary to spread the hate, such as movies, art, music, books, radio, the press, etc. The article “Defining the Enemy” provides further knowledge into the propaganda: Exploiting pre-existing images and stereotypes, Nazi propagandists portrayed Jews as an “alien race” that fed off the host nation, poisoned its culture, seized its economy, and enslaved its workers and farmers. This hateful depiction, although neither new nor unique to the Nazi Party, now became a state-supported image. (n.p.) Even those who did not support Anti-Jewish violence still accepted the discrimination of Jews. The majority of people disliked the Jews, even those outside of the Nazi party (“Defining the” n. p.). This gave Hitler the perfect opportunity to exterminate the Jewish people with little resistance or outcry from non-Jewish
They were shipped to concentration camps throughout Poland and Germany by the trainload (Lace 52-54). Conditions in these camps were awful. Food and water were scarce and diseases such as typhus spread rapidly through the camps (Mitchell n.p.). New prisoners that arrived at the camps were either killed immediately or kept alive for slave labor and human experimentation. Medical experiments were done on a daily basis by Nazi doctors to dehumanize inmates (Mitchell n.p.). These experiments were devilish in nature. For example, a Nazi doctor quizzed a starving inmate about the effects of undernourishment on his body. He was then killed so that the doctor could dissect his organs and find out for himself. Any inmate who attempted to escape any camp was roasted over a giant frying pan when they were recaptured. They were killed without and remorse or morals. The Nazis had created killing factories that could dispose of people in just a matter of hours (Rees 206-207). When the Holocaust ended, over six million Jews had been murdered (Brockington 1033). “No blueprint for the Holocaust existed before 1941: the Nazi Regime was too chaotic for that” (Rees