During the time period of Second World War from 1939 to 1945, millions of lives in Europe would be affected from a horrible event known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocidal plan devised by Adolf Hitler in order to eliminate various ethnic and social groups who he saw were inferiors. Apart of this plan, methods such as the Nuremberg Laws and the Final Solutions were enforced by the German Nazi. These methods were used to impact and make the lives of the various ethnic and social groups more gruesome.
As a country, Germany suffered immensely from their Great Depression in the early 1930’s. However, a new political party called the Nazis, lead by Adolf Hitler, made the promise to return Germany to greatness. Eventually, the Nazi party would emerge as a favorite among the German citizens and would become the largest party in the German legislature. On January 1933, Adolf Hitler would take over the position of chancellor. He and the Nazis would then carry out and enforce …show more content…
new laws onto the minorities in Germany and later on, other countries in Europe. Some of the groups such the Jews, Gypsies, Poles, and were targeted by the Nazis. Specifically for the Jews living in Germany, Adolf Hitler blamed them for the Great Depression and Germany’s downfall. Also, in Hitler’s eye, he believed that anyone who doesn’t have certain characteristics such as having blue eyes and blonde hair were inferiors.
From 1935 to 1945, new methods were created by the Nazis to make the lives of various groups living in Germany more dreadful.
The Nuremberg Laws, created in 1935, targeted specifically at Jews. Some of these laws included the forbidding of marriage between a German and a Jew and being permitted to display Jewish colors. The laws were used to strip away almost every right that the Jewish people could have such as their citizenships being revoked and no longer having the ability to vote. Eventually, a new method, called the Final Solution, was created in 1941 to exterminate all of the Jews. Jews were forced to live and work in concentration camps where the living conditions were horrible. In these camps, various methods such gassing chambers and firing squads were used to murder millions of Jewish people as well as other ethnic groups. By the end of the war, the death count of the Jewish people reached over six million and the total amount reached to around nineteen
million.
In conclusion, the long term lesson that humanity should learn is the impact that this event had on the world. The lives of millions of people were taken from them due to a belief of a group of people. Those who lived to tell the story had to endure through tremendous torment and mostly likely didn’t get to see their friends and families again. This event should never be repeated again as long as humanity still exist.