How did the Nazis dehumanize Jewish people?

Answer 1

In the first six years of Adolf Hitler's Dictatorship, Jews felt the effects of more than 400 decrees and regulations on all aspects of their lives. The regulations gradually but systematically took away their rights and property, transforming them from citizens into outcasts. Many of the laws were national ones issued by the German administration, affecting all Jews. State, regional, and municipal officials also issued many decrees in their own communities. As Nazi leaders prepared for war in Europe, antisemitic legislation in Germany and Austria paved the way for more radical persecution of Jews.

Answer 2

they killed them because of how they looked and they wanted to try many experiments with them because they really dint care about them and they wanted to try blonde with blue eyes so they did so many experiments on them and they also killed them if they were disabled, ill , or if they were very smart they were just jealous of them

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They were put into small ghettos where some buildings werent even finished being built. they took Jews from their jobs and homes. the Nazis would humiliate them in public and take all of their luggage promising it after the train ride only to sell it and burn it. They took their children and sent them to death camps and had days where they would separate the sick from the healthy and send the sick off the camp where they would either gas them or leave them their to die. The had to wear a star of david so they could be identified and sometimes they would even kill them for little or no reasoning. At times they would send them into water showers where they would think they were going to shower but instead a gas would be released from the cealing where they would then leave the Jews to die. They would make Jews bary and or burn other people for food and they would starve many Jews to the point where they wouldn't be able to move. Many times they would have to hide out in places like the tollet or in the walls to hide from being shipped off to death camps. They treated them like animals who had no purpose.

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Hitler and his Nazis used many ways to dehumanize the Jewish people. Some of those ways were by basically taking away their name and refering to them as only a number. They even tattood that number onto their skin, and did it intentionally on their forearms so that they would always see it, and not forget that the Germans were of more value then they were, and that were worth more than just a number and worth more then Jewish people in general. Another way Hitler and the Germans dehumanized the Jewish people was by placing them all in one type of surrounding (concentration camps). And by forcing them all to wear a yellow star to show the world that they were "Jews". By doing that they were hoping to eventually break them down and make them feel ashamed for being Jewish. Another key way was by stripping them all down and trimming all hair, on any part of the body, off. Jewish people were made to stand outside for hours while waiting for that to be done. Germans took a special Catholic cloth of the Jewish people, tore them up, and made them into underwear for the Jewish people to wear. By doing that they were showing them that their values meant nothing to them and that what ever was important to them was then going to be less then nothing to the Germans. Another way was by forcing them to bury and burn other dead Jewish people after they had been gassed, and they would do this for food. The Germans would even starve the "Jews" to the point of becomign so weak they cant move any longer, and just leaving them places to starve. Hitler was a very ignorant person and was very cruel against the Jewish people. He had the power to turn MANY people against the Jews, for no reason. The Jewish people did nothing wrong or harmful against the Germans, yet Hitler still managed to find a reason to hate them. He found ways upon ways to dehumanize them. Any way he possibly could, he did. He left the Jewish people with very little pride in being who they were, and he left them powerless against the world. That is something no human should be put through.

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In Adolf Hitlers' view, Jews, Romanies, coloureds and homosexuals were sub-human - "untermenschen".

Although the Jews were indeed Hitler's primary target - he used them as a scapegoat for Germany's financial problems, among other things - so were these other minorities. It's also important to realise that he needed more than his own monomania.

So he exploited undercurrents of nationalism (Germany's defeat in WW1 left it demoralised and bitter) and of widespread anti-Semitism, and the contemporary, widespread pseudo-science of eugenics - the notion of breeding "perfect" human beings. In Adolf Hitler's mind, this perfection was exemplified by what was a genuine race - Aryan (now called Caucasian for obvious reasons); which the Jews did not fit. Ironically, neither did Hitler and most of the Nazi High Command, in physical appearance anyway - but among its effects was the dreadful Lebensraum drive that left a generation of Norwegian children born to local women by German soldiers who had invaded the country. Many of these were punished for their origins by appalling cruelty from their subsequent Norwegian step-parents.

Nor should we forget that the social attitudes and theories Hitler exploited to extremes were widespread throughout many Northern latitude nations. Stalin was equally anti-Semite, while Switzerland (neutral in WW2) embarked on a governmental drive to rid herself of her own gypsies by kidnapping their children and passing them under new identities to State-approved families via Catholic orphanages. Their parents would simply be allowed to die of old age.

The peculiar Horror of the Holocaust (a name given by survivors) was what the Nazis called the "Final Solution" to the Jewish "problem": the calculated rounding-up and extermination of the victims on an industrial scale in facilities built for that single purpose. Stalin's regime killed at least as many people but by wilful negligence more than deliberate extermination. Initially, the nazis used harassment and cold-blooded murder by shooting or gassing (the latter also used against the mentally-ill). It was stepped up 1938 when over 7000 Jewish businesses and hundreds of synagogues were destroyed in one night called by the Nazis, 'Kristallnacht'. Subsequently the captured Jews and others were divided into two: those able to work as slaves; and the rest, gassed as quickly as possible and their bodies unceremonially cremated in extermination camps like Treblinka. ( A concentration camp is simply a mass prison camp.)

Slave labour was common to the Nazis. One terrible, unforseeable result of the Dambusters raid was that the flood from one of the breached dams drowned hundreds of Russian women prisoners in their barracks as they slept. Others managed to flee to higher ground thanks to the prison-camp's commanding officer, who only just survived the flood himself. There is also a belief that many Eastern European slave-labourers lie entombed in the collapsed underground ruins of the Nazi's V3 very-long-range gun emplacement near Calais, but this has not been verified.

Answer 3

well one is the apearence Jews have middleeastern ancestary and are an ethno religion so they have curls, light slightly orange skin and big noses (they look quite Italian) and acents that sound flemy. another method is, when they invaded a country they would look through tax files and other documents and see if people were marked as Jews, they also took membership files from synagogs or asked civilians if they knew any Jewish families

Answer 4

Hitler was a nut job for killing all the Jews.

Gentry93: actually, many who were not Jews were killed because of mistakes in appearance. The criteria for someone to be arrested because of race, was dark hair, dark skin large noses. he also tracked down Jews through geneological records, that technique was mainly used in Germany

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Answer 5

He confined them into ghettos as a method to isolate them from the rest of society. In total, the Nazis established 356 ghettos throughout Poland, the Soviet Union, Chechoslovakia, Romania and Hungary between 1939 to 1945.

Answer 6

By mandating that they wear a yellow star and by herding them into ghettos. They were also kicked out of schools and places of work.

Answer 7

The Nazis sent the Jews to concentration camp where they would work very hard for little food and shelter or they would die in a gas chamber.