For this week's blog, you will visit this website.
Here you will find accounts of various groups affected by the Holocaust.
For the comment section, please read at least two different sections. Summarize each section with at least 100 words each and be sure to include your reaction to what you read.
1.) 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust. The Jewish population of Europe went from 9.5 million to 3.5 million between 1933 to 1950. 60% of all Jews lived in Europe in 1933. By 1950, they were more scattered, and only about a third of Jews lived in Europe. By 1945, two out of every three Jews in Europe had been killed. Many of the Jews that were still alive, decided to leave Europe. I think it is very sad that so many innocent people died. I also think it is sad that thousands of Jews had to leave behind their lives and start new because of the Holocaust. (109)
ReplyDelete2.) The Nazis also persecuted homosexuals. They did this because they thought it would purify Germany. 100,000 men were arrested for not following Nazi Germany’s law against homosexuality, and 50,000 were put in prison. There were 5,000 to 15,000 gay men that were sent to concentration camps. Nazis would not harm homosexuals if they gave up their lifestyle. They believed homosexuality was a sickness that they could cure them of. They don’t know how many homosexuals died in the Holocaust. Lesbians were not targeted as much as gay males were, but they still suffered discrimination. Lesbians that did not want to attract attention to themselves married their male friends. I think that homosexuals did not deserve to be treated this way even though homosexuality is a sin. (127)
In the late 1930’s, Germany secretly started a program known as the Euthanasia Program. This program was just one part of Germany’s mission to wipe out anyone who did not fit into the “Aryan race.” The program sent word to hospitals and such that treated patients with mental or physical conditions to “collect data.” It was soon encouraged to send your disabled child to one of their special pediatric facilities, when in reality they were killing sites. This eventually led to teenagers and adults and was the first to use the gas chamber for mass killing. I think this is very disgusting as is anything else about the “Final Solution.” It seems almost impossible that Germany could get away with killing so many people of different kinds. If I didn’t know it was true I wouldn’t believe it.
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Black people in Germany during World War 2 were highly discriminated against. Although there was no systematic way of eliminating them as there was for the Jews, blacks were still in danger. It started with nearly complete unemployment for them, and continued with racist propaganda. Germany displayed that black men carried diseases and were raping their German women. Many African-German children were extremely discriminated against. Black men were secretly tested on by the government, and many just “disappeared.” Still some others ended up in concentration camps. I think this is extremely horrible. As with many of the other groups Germany targeted, black people had no control over their situations.
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From 1933 to 1945, isolation went to persecution for the black people. After World War I, The Allies took all African Colonies from Germany. The German military stationed in Africa returned to Germany with their “racist attitudes.” Racist propaganda against black soldiers depicted them as rapists of German women and carriers of diseases such as venereal and etc. The children of black soldiers and German women were called “Rhineland Bastards.” The Nazis viewed them as a threat to the purity of their race. African German mulatto children were isolated socially and economically in German society, and not allowed to attend a university. Racial discrimination prohibited them from seeking jobs (including in the military). In my opinion, they treated the blacks like the Jews and through all of this they couldn’t even go to war or they would get mistreated and they would face illegal incarceration. The Nazis poorly respected the black people instead of treating them like one of their own. (161)
ReplyDeleteThe "euthanasia" program was Nazi Germany's first program of mass murder. The program was one of many radical eugenic measures which aimed to restore the racial integrity of the German nation. The individuals who had severe psychiatric, neurological, or physical disabilities, represented both a genetic and a financial burden on German society. In 1939, a number of planners began organizing a secret killing operation that targeted disabled children. Beginning in October 1939, public health authorities began to encourage parents of children with disabilities to admit their young children to pediatric clinics throughout Germany and Austria. Conservative estimates at least 5,000 physically and mentally disabled German children perished as a result of the child "euthanasia" program during the war years. In my opinion, there should have been better care for these children instead of their parents giving them away to be killed. (141)
The euthanasia program in Germany was the murdering of thousands of innocent people by the Nazis. The program began to be organized in 1939. It was the first mass murder program the Nazis created. The program was made to "cleanse" the German race. Beginning in 1939 all newborn and infants with physical or mental disabilities were to be reported. Centers were set up in different parts of Germany as child euthanasia centers. There were disguised as places where disabled children can get help. But really they were mass murder units. The workers would kill the children either by overdose, lethal injection, or starvation. This was all kept a quiet secret by Hitler. He signed document to let the program run on its own in secret so that he didn't have to keep up with it. The age limit on these child euthanasia centers grew to about 17 years old. Then they started building adult euthanasia centers for the elderly, disabled, or those unable to work. So many families began receiving certificates of death along with the ashes of their loved ones who had been gassed to death. Soon the secret was no secret anymore. They began to figure out what was going on. Hitler put the operation on "hold", but the deaths still continued, just more cleverly. The centers continued to expand into territories now overtaken by Germany. By 1942 about 200,000 people had died due to these euthanasia centers.
ReplyDeleteThis is absolutely horrific the slaughtering of millions of innocent Jews was horrific enough. But killing someone just because they are old or disabled or can't work is terrible, and in no way justifiable. I feel horrible for all the families that lost loved ones, sons or daughters because of this program. (282)
Hitler was extremely racist toward African people. There was no program against them like other races such as the Jews. But they were treated just as horribly. The African people in Germany were rounded up and taken captive. Some were experimented on. Some were slaves in concentration camps, and some were killed in concentration camps. Hitler called the Africans rapists and bastards. He believed they would ruin his perfect German race so he began to get rid of them.
The Africans in Germany were treated horrible and its so sad. They were enslaved and killed and wronged just like so many other people groups at this time. It's a horrific thing. (111)
Nazi persecution of soviet prisoners of war- June 22,1941 Germany invaded The Soviet Union 3 million German solidarity and with them they were reinforced by other axis nations. Millions soviet soldiers were cut off from supplies and reinforcements and surrendered. The Germans saw the Soviet prison of war as a threat. 5.7 million soviet army personnel fell into German hands. Jan 1945. 930,000 pow remained German custody. German released 1 million and a half of million German escaped or bene liberated by Soviet Army 3.3 Soviets died while in prison by the end of the war. With 231,000 British and Americans prisoners of war only 8,300 died. I found it horrible how Germans had more hatred towards 1 nation than the other how they would kill them on site so they didn’t put them in prison. And they killed so many Soviets in camps and so little to America. 149
ReplyDeletePolish victims- Germany took over Poland in September 1939. The German police shot and killed thousand polish civilians and required polish males to work at labor camps. German tried to destroy polish culture by taking religion and polish political offices. Germans wanted to take out intelligent people and high power leaders they killer thousands of teachers, priest and political people. 50,000 polish children were taken from there families and went to Germany to learn Germanization policies. Between 1939-1945 1.5 polish citizens were departed to German territories to work at camps. 1.9 million none Jewish polish citizens died and 3 million Jewish citizen died. Reading this article it was horrible how the Germans came in and took political places took people and moved them to go work at these camps where they starved to death or killed by the gas chamber. And how Germany wanted to take children away from families so they can learn political stuff.156
1. In September 1939, German police units shot thousands of Polish civilians and required all Polish males to perform forced labor. The Nazis wanted to destroy Polish culture by eliminating the Polish political, religious, and intellectual leadership. In May 1940, the German occupation authorities launched AB-Aktion. It was to kill Polish leaders with great speed. The Germans shot thousands of teachers, priests, and others. In November 1942, the Germans forced over 100,000 people to move from the Zamosc region. Many were deported to the Auschwitz and Majdanek camps. Around 50,000 Polish children were taken from their families. I disagree with everything that happened. (103)
ReplyDelete2. Black people from 1933 to 1945 in Nazi Germany and in German-occupied territories ranged from isolation to persecution. After World War I, the Germans began having their racist attitudes. Separation of whites and blacks was mandated. Some French colonial troops were black and occupied forces of anti-black racism in Germany. Black soldiers depicted rapists of German women and carriers of venereal and other diseases. The children of black soldiers and German women were called “Rhineland Bastards.” Hitler said that “the Jews had brought the Negroes into the Rhineland with the clear aim of ruining the hated white race by the necessarily-resulting bastardization.” (104)
During the time when Nazis rule Germany they persecuted many people especially Jews but second to that are Jehovah’s witnesses because they would accept the current rules of the state and are strongly opposed to both war on behalf of a temporal authority and organized government in matters of conscience this results them to an annoying for the Nazis which eventually cause to be persecuted like Jews and you know what happens to Jews they are to death camps or just kill and the Jehovah’s witness were treated just like that for their beliefs. My reaction to this is major for this what I would expect the Nazis would have done. words111
ReplyDeleteThe blacks during the Holocaust suffered similar fates just like Jews they were either put in isolation or persecuted they were also went through sterilization, medical experimentation, incarceration, brutality, and even murder but systematic program for their elimination like Jews and others who suffered from this. The main reason why Nazis also persecuted blacks because blacks help the French to fight the anti-black racism in Germany which a racist propaganda group who made the people believe that blacks were rapist of Germany women and carriers of venereal and other diseases. I was actual surprise why Nazis persecuted blacks for that reason. words101
ReplyDeletebeing homosexual in Weimar Germany was extremely illegal. there were activists who tried to make an effort to reform society and change its view of looking down on homosexuality, but in Germany, it was stopped quickly. they persecuted the male homosexual community with the goal to stop that movement and make its strength look great and put fear into different racial rights movements also. from 1933-1945 over 100 thousand gay men were arrested and between 5-15 thousand of them were sent to concentration camps, where they all most likely died. in may of 1933, nazi troops broke into the Institute for sexual science in berlin and burned everything they had there. 111 words
ReplyDeletepeople with dissabilities were given "an easy way out." they killed off physically and mentally dissabled people because they "Hindered" them and the economy. many were put in the "euthaniasia" program and killed off systematically. they looked at these people as a burden and the govt. seeked to remove them. In 1939, they even started a Child euthanasia program. they started killing off any child 3 and below if it had even signs of mental or physical dissability. this became a widely practiced method by physicians, nurses, and midwives. they had to report it to the govt. and theyd come in and take care of them. 106 words.
On June 22, 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Three million German soldiers were reinforced by Finnish, Romanian, Hungarian, Italian, Slovak, and Croatian troops. Within weeks, German divisions conquered the Baltic republics of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. I think its safe to say Germany had more people on their side. During this time period, they were just power hungry and all they wanted to do was take over other countries. Germany also had over 5.7 million of the Soviets troops as war victims, this is the largest group of Nazi war victims. (101)
ReplyDeleteJews weren't the only people in the Hollocaust that were persecuted. Black people had it bad as well. Many of them were isolated from other people and then put to work in the concentration camps and when they got weak they killed them liked they did the jews and got another one out of there isolation camps. also, the African Americans that were lucky enough not to be caught had to join the army. Every African American that joined the army was put in the same tank division. Many of them found this racist but didn't say anything about it because they were scared that they would get kicked out of the army.(109)
Homosexuals
ReplyDeleteHomosexuals were highly persecuted in Nazi Germany. Those who were openly gay were sentenced to prison or concentration camps. The persecution of gays was a part of Nazi Germany’s plan to purify Germany. Gay men were especially persecuted because they were viewed to carriers of a “contagion” that weakened society and did not contribute to the desired growth of the Aryan race. Between 1933 and 1945, around 100,000 men were arrested for violating Germany’s homosexuality laws. 50,000 of these were sentenced to prison. 5,000 to 15,000 were sentenced to concentration camps. Lesbians weren’t really persecuted. Well I don’t really like gay people but I think putting them in prison is a little extreme. But looking at homosexuality from the point of view of Nazi Germany, gay people didn’t really contribute to society and are only really good for labor. (141)
Disabilties
People with disabilities were viewed as a burden on society. Both genetically and financially. They were considered unworthy of life, so therefore Germany created a euthanasia program. In 1939, all physicians, midwifes, and nurses were forced to report any infant under the age of three with any signs of disabilities were to be admitted to pediatric clinics. These clinics were actually death wards. There, special medical staff would kill their patients by lethal overdose or starvation. Then they broadened the scope, including up to 17 year olds. At least 5,000 children died as the result of this. This is terrible that Germany ever did this. To their own people, this is just horrific. To look at it from the Nazi side, “How do people with disabilities contribute to society, and what’s the point of having them around?” They do not contribute to the Reich in any way. But this is horrible and inhumane.(154)
Homosexuals
ReplyDeleteOne of the main reasons Nazis whent after homosexuals, was due to the fact that they believed getting rid of them would help “purify” and lead to the perfect aryan race. Lesbians and non-German homosexuals were not persecuted as much. They only had an issue if a non-German homosexual was involved with a German. Lesbians didn't offer as much of a threat to Nazi rule so they, for the most part, left them alone. In 1936, it was made legal for Nazis to persecute homosexuals. Fifty thousand homosexuals were imprisoned and up to fifteen thousand were sent to concentration camps. It is unknown how many died. While reading this section I was appalled. It doesn't matter whether or not you agree or disagree with someone's lifestyle, it is inhumane to torture them and treat them in this manner. You don't have to accept everyone, but at the very least we need to show them kindness. (155)
Gypsies
According to Nazis, Gypsies were considered racially inferior and therefore were a threat to the development of a perfect aryan race. Many of then were sent to concentration camps including Auschwitz. There at least nineteen thousand of the twenty three thousand sent there were killed. If someone was a “pure blooded” Gypsy dating from ancient times and were integrated into German society or were part of the military, they were not persecuted as much. Many Gypsies were forced to live in disease ridden internment camps and were put in forced labor camps along with concentration camps. We should not treat anyone who is different from us like the Nazis treated the Gypsies. The pride the Nazi regime had was and still is disgusting. It is hard to believe that someone could be evil enough to condone the torture of innocent human beings. (141)
1. When people hear concentration camp people think of just Jews that suffered. Homosexuals were also put in the camps for being homosexual. Homosexuality was illegal and the Germans thought that homosexuality was a disease that could be “cured”. The Germans would send the men to the camps, up to 15,000 men were sent to the camps. Lesbians were not targeted by the Germans because they were not seen as diseased. The Germans would release the gay men in they turned away from their lifestyle. Lesbians would marry their male friends so that they would not be persecuted by the government. The Germans would government also went in and destroyed all of the books and paintings that had to do with homosexuality being acceptable(107)
ReplyDelete2. The Soviet soldiers that were captured were extremely persecuted. They were the second largest group affected by the Nazis. They were looked at as subhumans and that they are the enemy of the Nazi party. %57 of the Soviet soldiers were taken hostage by the garment and tormented and most likely later killed. There was an order that went out to shoot anyone who was racially against the Nazis. The economy in the Soviet Union was so bad that a large percentage of Soviet people starved to death because they could not get food. The Germans would also burn down an entire village of Soviet people. (110)
The Holocaust had so many people involved not just jews. The jews were the main focus though. The Jewish population was 9.5 million in Europe in 1933. Where most of the jews lived was Poland. Before the Nazi party took over the Jewish people stood and thrived in Europe. In WW1 Jews stood next to non-jews and fought with them. It all changed when Hitler took over. After WW2 ended and most of the Jewish people had ben killed, the population was 3.5 million in 1950. 3 million jews died thur the Holocaust. The once that did survived the Holocaust fled to the United States or other countries that where not under the control of Germany. What they to so many jews how could the Germans live with them selfs. (131)
ReplyDeleteIn August 18,1939 doctors, nurses, physician, midwifes were called to give the names of children who had disabilities under 3 years old. After some time passed they decided to up their ages from brith to 17 years old. They estimated the death pull was about 5,000 disabilities children under the age of 17. Late that year the Nazi decided to go up to adult with disabilities. To kill all these people they used gas chambers, and lethal injections. This whole killing the people was down in Secret they code named for it was “T4” for a street name in Berlin that where the head coordinating office was Tiergartenstrasse 4 was it. What the Germans did to these innocent people that were just born with some thing that could control. (130)
When people think of concentration they usually just think of the Jews, but there were others who suffered. Homosexuality was persecuted heavily in Germany when Hitler ad the Nazis took over. Homosexuality was in that time against the law. Homosexual men were viewed by the Nazis as a stumbling block to the growth of German population. And so if accused they were sentenced to life long prison. 50,000 were sentenced to prison, and 5-15,000 were sent to concentration camps were out died. I think that homosexuality is a sin but to persecute these people to literal death for this just not right or fair. (101)
ReplyDeleteThe blacks also suffered horrible persecution in the Holocaust. They were considered by the NAzis as the race and people group that wanted to talk over the White race. There were described and talked about as rapists and carriers of diseases. They were isolated from Germany and had many laws brought against them. Germany was a very racist country and especially towards the blacks. There was a black and white segregation mandated for all. And the backs cruelty were used for medical experimentations. This was probably the hardest thing to read about. We can make the connection of this racism and slavery and segregation in American history to too long ago. Obviously this is a horrible and unfair thing, but we can make a nnection to our own history and see many similarities. (126)
The euthanasia program was Nazi Germany's first program of mass murder. The term literally means” good death” and usually refers to the inducement of a painless death for the mentally disabled. In the Nazi context, the word was an indirect term for a clandestine murder program.The program was one of many steps aimed to restore the racial integrity of the German nation. It aimed to eliminate hat was considered “life unworthy of life”. These people were considered unworthy of life because of severe psychiatric, neurological, or physical disabilities. Eugenicists believed these disabilities represented both a genetic and financial burden on German society.(103)
ReplyDeleteAfter Germany's defeat in World War One, ideas known as radical hygiene or eugenics began to inform population policy, public health education, and government funded research. Eugenics kept the unfit alive to reproduce and multiply. By doing this, they argued that modern medicine and costly welfare programs interfered with natural selection. Members of the “fit” educated classes would marry and use birth control to limit the size of their families. This led eugenics to believe the result was an overall biological degeneration of the population.(100)
Before the war, the majority of the Jews lived in Europe. About 3,000,000 Jews resided in Poland, which was the most populated place in Europe. This was about 9.5% of the Jewish population. About 2,525,000 lived in Romania. This is about 2.5% of the Jewish population. These were the most populated areas in Eastern Europe. In Central Europe the first most popular place was Germany with about 525,000 Jews. This was about 0.75% of their population. In Western Europe the most populated area was Great Britain. There was about 300,000 Jews which was about 0.65% of the population. In Southern Europe Italy was the most populated containing about 48,000 or 0.11% of the Jewish population.
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During the Weimar Republic, ideas such as racial hygiene or eugenics started to come about, this was a policy to inform the public about health education. They called the disabled “unfit” and did not want them to stay alive so they used Charles Darwin’s method of “survival of the fittest” in this situation. They came up with a system to give tax credits to foster families with “positive” members and added negative measures to families with the physically and mentally inferior members. They would tell everyone that if they did not produce more “fit” children then it would soon lead to extinction of the human race.
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The first group that I decided to read about was the people with mental or physical disabilities. The people that suffered with disabilities were put in what was called the Euthanasia Program. The program lasted a few years longer than the Holocaust. They would kill the people with mental and physical disabilities because the thought that they were “life unworthy of life” and they saw them as a burden to society. It even got to the point where they ordered anyone who delivered a baby or saw a young child that they report that child back to the authorities.
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The next group of people that I decide to read about was the homosexual community. The Nazis were very much against homosexuality and they even saw homosexuals as a impure group. They thought that they “weakened” their society. Homosexuality was even banned in a particular part of Germany. They Nazis mainly targeted gay men. If they found out that someone was gay then they would send them to a concentration camp. The Nazis found 100,000 homosexual during this time and of that many 50,000 were sent to prison. Even though they targeted gay men they did not do much about lesbians.
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9.5 million Jews lived in Europe in 1933. they were about 1.7 percent of the total European population. The majority of Jews lived in eastern Europe. The largest Jewish communities in this area were in Poland. In Central Europe the largest Jewish community was in Germany. in Western Europe the largest communities were in Great Britain. In the Southern part the largest communities were in Yugoslavia. Europe had a very diverse set of Jewish cultures before the the Nazis took power in 1933. before all this Jews stood beside non jews in world war 1. its sad how things can switch from good to terrible so quickly. I think what the nazis did to the jews was horrible.
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the nazis stood as "moral crusaders" who wanted to get rid of the homosexuality in Germany in order to help wit the racist struggle. when the nazis took power in 1933 they increased the persecution of German males who were gay. they put them in concentration camps. the nazis wanted to culturally purify germany so they thought removing homosexuals would do that. Between 1933 and 1945 an estimated 100,000 men were arrested for violating Nazi Germany's law against homosexuality. out of these, 50,000 were sentenced to prison and up to 15,000 were sent to concentration camps and its unknown if they lived or not.104 words
The where treated very poorly by the Germans. They were seen as a impurity in the eyes of Hitler and the Nazi party. They were put in ghettos in Nazi occupied areas, arrested, used for medical experiments, brutally beat and murder in the camps. Sometimes the Gustavo would take the blacks and murder them in the spot no questions asked. They would do all these terrible things to the blacks just because the color of their skin. But if you think about it this is kind of similar to what we had been doing to them just a couple years earlier. (101)
ReplyDeleteBefore the Nazi party came to power the Jews were spread out all over Europe. There were an estimated 9.5 million Jews lived in Europe making up about 1.7% of the European population. And about 60% of Jews lived in Europe about the time of World War II. Some Jewish families had lived in Europe hundreds of years and some even thousand of years. They were in community's with great mixtures of religious belief. They were also known as a wealthy class all across Europe.
In the holocaust about 63% of all the European Jews died. This was a huge hit on Jewish communities across the world to see their own people die at the hands of some crazy ruler.(120)
In the 1930s and 1940s, homosexuals were persecuted by the nazis. They were looked at as a block for the arian race and the nazis wanted them to be gone. So, that is what they did. They made it illegal to be gay and arrested thousands of homosexuals. The Nazis kept lists of the names of homosexual men. They would have undercover agents to root out the gay men. Once the Nazis arrested the gay men, they would either put them in prison, or send them to concentration camps. They also burned research about gays and we do not know how many of them the Nazis killed. I think that this was evil for them to kill and persecute the homosexuals like they did. If that would have happened in todays world, i think that the war would be a lot shorter. But, unlike the Jews and other people groups that were persecuted by the Nazis, I believe that it is a choice to be gay. I think that they were on a wayward path but is not excusable to persecute them and kill them, but in my opinion, they had an opportunity to save themselves from persecution.
ReplyDeleteAdolf Hitler and the rest of the Nazis used the "euthanasia'' program to exterminiate people who had severe physical and severe mental disabilities. He thought that they were a burden to Germany and he wanted them dead. He also thought that they would cost a lot of money and that money could be used elsewhere. He opened up clinics for people to drop off the disabled at and at those places he would kill them with gas. Then, they would cremate the remains and put them in an earn and send it to the family. They would make up fake causes of the deaths and make it seem like they died naturally. I think that this is one of the worst things that the nazis did. The people who were killed had no idea what was going on, and if they did, they would physically not be able to do anything about it. (351)