The Nuremberg Laws made in 1935 said that if one has three Jewish grandparents or two Jewish grandparents who followed Jewish faith, they were considered Jewish, even if he or she didn’t follow the faith themselves. They believed it was ancestry that made people Jewish. The Jews couldn’t marry non-Jews, be German citizens, or employ anyone under the age of 45 who had any sort of “German Blood” (Shuter …show more content…
They stood outside and drew The Star of David on the company windows. They posted signs that said to not buy from The Jews and showed critical comments toward their businesses. Acts of violence against Jews and their properties occurred while there was rare visits from the police (“Boycott”). Next, the Ladder of Prejudice uses discrimination, showing how the Holocaust intensified. Hitler’s first goal was to rip away all Jews’ rights and make himself head of authority (Byers 16). The Germans held many riots against the Jews, including the more popular one, Kristallnacht (“Kristallnacht”). New laws were made and anyone who endangered state security was sent to a concentration camp (Byers 22). If the Jewish people weren’t in the camps, they were forced to live in certain areas of the city, also known as the ghettos, with miserable conditions …show more content…
This one along with the others was near railway lines to make transportation of the victims easy (“Extermination Camps”). Murder operations began in December of 1941 and continued until January of 1945. Most were taken from the ghettos and sent to the camp. When they first arrived, the prisoners were undressed, stripped of belongings, and tricked into boarding a van that was actually connected to its interior. The van would drive toward a designated burial place in the forest. No one survived after getting into the van. By using three vans, 300,000 Jews were killed and only three prisoners survived the whole camp. They also sent some Jews directly to permanent gas chambers. Carbon monoxide from large tank engines was released into sealed chambers where they died of suffocation within minutes. The corpses were removed by laborers and thrown into big pits where they were later burned to erase all evidence. The Nazis purpose was to carry out the systematic murder of Jews as part of the final solution (“The