When the economy in Germany started to fall apart, everyone was looking for a scapegoat. Adolf Hitler made it clear in his book Mein Kampf that he hated Jews and thought that they were the inferior race. He preyed on the fact that the Germans were looking for someone to blame for their struggles, and was able to convince the Nazi party and the Aryans that the Jews were to blame for the economic problems and were the inferior race. He persuaded the people to believe that the only way to make the economy better was to exterminate all the Jews. The movie Schindler's List gives a very vivid view of anti-Semitism during this time period. This film is a look at how the Jews were treated in the 1940's. At the beginning of the movie, the main character, Oskar Schindler, was a very mean and greedy man. He extorted the Jews for cheap labor, forcing them to work in his factory. Once Schindler realized what was happening to the Jews, he decided to turn his factory into a refuge for them. Schindler ended up saving over 1,000 Jews, keeping them out of the concentration camps and the gas chambers. This movie was very disturbing although it probably did not even depict half of the terror that occurred during the Holocaust. The Jews were run out of their homes and moved into ghettos by the Nazi party, where they were forced to live in rooms packed with other families that they did not even know. After living in the ghettos for a while, the Jews were forced to move once again. They were not allowed to take any of their belongings with them, and they were separated from their families. The men went to one concentration camp and the women and children went to another. The people with some sort of skill were sent off to work, while those who were old or sick were sent to be killed. "An estimated 6 million Jews died in the years from 1933 to 1945." .
Nowadays Jews are still being persecuted.
