What Are Simon Wiesenthal's Three Components Of The Nuremberg Laws
In his quest to prove the truth, Simon Wiesenthal goes on an incredible journey to find the arresting officer who took the Frank family from their attic hiding place. There was an outpouring of people who thought the Diary of Anne Frank was false propaganda written by the Jewish people. Simon’s quest began after a group of young students interrupted a performance of the play. He asked a student if he found concrete, inarguable proof in the form of the admittance by the arresting Gestapo officer, if he could convince these students that Anne was real. When the student reluctantly said yes, Simon’s quest truly began. I found his journey to be incredible. He truly searched out every name from every corner, desperately trying to find the man, whose
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These despicable laws made the racism and anti-semitism in Germany legal. These laws are so important because they legally stripped the Jewish people of their basic rights and were a major catalyst to catapult the Nazi policies against Jews and the Final Solution of killing the Jewish people. The three main components of the Nuremberg Laws were German Jews stripped of citizenship, relations between Jews and non-Jews made illegal and Jews forbidden to work with non-Jews. This really began the major division and creation of the out-group of Jews. People could no longer go to the bakery they loved down the street or go to the doctor they’d been with for years. The Nazi party went so far as to stand outside these businesses and physically block people from entering. The brown shirts, as the video says, were actually encouraged to cause street violence; beating up Jews, stealing from Jews, breaking shop windows and attacking Jewish girls. The Nuremberg laws also included the heritage that qualifies a person as a Jew. Three to four Jewish grandparents qualified a person as Jewish, one to two qualified people as mischling, or half-bloods, and no Jewish grandparents was considered pure. Only one lawyer attempted to protest the laws, after he was beaten and dragged through the streets, no one else said anything. These laws became the foundation of the policies carried out by the Nazi’s and the eventual murder of the
These despicable laws made the racism and anti-semitism in Germany legal. These laws are so important because they legally stripped the Jewish people of their basic rights and were a major catalyst to catapult the Nazi policies against Jews and the Final Solution of killing the Jewish people. The three main components of the Nuremberg Laws were German Jews stripped of citizenship, relations between Jews and non-Jews made illegal and Jews forbidden to work with non-Jews. This really began the major division and creation of the out-group of Jews. People could no longer go to the bakery they loved down the street or go to the doctor they’d been with for years. The Nazi party went so far as to stand outside these businesses and physically block people from entering. The brown shirts, as the video says, were actually encouraged to cause street violence; beating up Jews, stealing from Jews, breaking shop windows and attacking Jewish girls. The Nuremberg laws also included the heritage that qualifies a person as a Jew. Three to four Jewish grandparents qualified a person as Jewish, one to two qualified people as mischling, or half-bloods, and no Jewish grandparents was considered pure. Only one lawyer attempted to protest the laws, after he was beaten and dragged through the streets, no one else said anything. These laws became the foundation of the policies carried out by the Nazi’s and the eventual murder of the