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Life in The Third Reich
Jews in the Third Reich
Hitler believed
Hitler's paranoid imagination Jews were responsible for everything from anti-nationalist views in the Weimar press, to poor wages for working people, to trends in modern art that Hitler thought degenerate.
He believed that Jews controlled both Communism and international high finance, and that they had been responsible for the 'Stab in the Back' at the end of First World War.
In Hitler's worldview, the jews were like disease in the body of the German people, poisoning the racial community from within.
The persecution of Jews
In the Third Reich, Jews experienced a slowly escalating persecution from the moment Hitler came to power. They were gradually stripped of their rights and excluded from mainstream German society
In 1933, Jews were excluded from the civil service. They were also banned from a range of professions, including teaching.
Soon afterwards, the Nazis began systematically forcing Jews out of their homes and businesses, driving many to emigrate from Germany altogether.
Jewish shops were marked with a Star of David, and the German people were discouraged from shopping in them
In 1935, came a pair of laws called Nuremberg Laws
In 1938, all Jewish people were required to take the additional name 'Israel' (for men) or 'Sarah' (for women)
Jewish children were expelled from state-run primary schools, and Jewish newspapers and other publications were banned.
The persecution of German Jews took its most violent form yet in the massive pogrom that occurred on the night of 9 November 1938
This pogrom became known as Kristallnacht
All of these events paved for the mass murder Jews, known as the Holocaust, that would begin in 1941
Non Jews
Roma (gypsies), Jehovah's Witnesses, Black people, the mentally ill, the disabled, LGBT people, alcoholics, the homeless, repeat criminals, and the unemployed all faced discriminatory measures.
The killing of the disabled
In 1939, the Nazis began committing their first organised, systematic murders.
The victim were the physically or mentally disabled, who were regarded as a burden on society and a corruption of the German race
Parents of disabled children were encouraged to admit their children to special treatment wards, where they would be secretly killed.
They were killed in gas vans