The Holocaust was one of the most dehumanizing and horrific events in the history of mankind. In the 12 years that Hitler ruled Germany, 1933-1945, the satanic Nazis and their collaborators annLast printed 12/18/00 11:43 PMihilated more than six million Jewish people. In the beginning of 1933 about nine million Jews lived in 21 countries of Europe. By 1945 two out of every three European Jews had been killed. (www.mtsu.edu).
Upon hearing evidence of such usurpations a number of questions arise. One of the most troubling is how can people claim to have not had any knowledge of the devastation the Nazis were carrying out?
Immediately after Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor on January 30,1933, he began to initiate his diabolic plans against the Jews. Once he had obtained the most powerful position in the German government he made swift actions to end democracy in Germany.
The Nazis began to put into action to their racial ideologies. The Nazis believed that the Germans of pure Aryan blood were racially superior to all other races. Th
is was the implementation of The "Final Solution"- the decision or plans to completely destroy all European Jewry.
By 1935 Hitler had implemented the Nuremberg laws. These laws were designed to establish the requirements of citizenship and the position of the Jews in the Third Reich and to ensure the purity of the Aryan race. These laws forced Jews to quit their civil service jobs; university and laws court positions and any other areas of prominence or public view. The people of Germany could not have been as naïve as to not realize what their tyrannical leader was doing.(www.geocites.com/heartland).
Another injustice committed against the Jews by the Nazis was the boycott of their businesses in order to force them out of the economy. One of the most shocking occurrences of this plan is was Kristallnacht. Kristallnacht is also known as The Night of the Broken Glass. The Nazis unleashed a reign of destruction. Gangs of Nazi youth rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods burning schools and synagogues. They broke store windows, looted t