Evaluation:
Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Evaluate Nazi Treatment of the Jews', 1.
  • Essays 'Evaluate Nazi Treatment of the Jews', 2.
Extract

"Here he stops at nothing, and in his vileness he becomes so gigantic that no one need be surprised if among our people the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew." This statement from Adolf Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, demonstrates his bitter hatred of the Jewish race. Such violent hatred led to the murder of approximately six million Jews under the authority of Adolf Hitler. In Hitler's early life he developed an abhorrence of the Jewish race as he was once prohibited by a Jewish trade union member to continue working as a builder's labourer. He also saw the Jewish people, who had dark hair, dark eyes and dark skin, to be the complete opposite of what he thought the perfect German Aryan man was, a person with blonde hair, blue eyes and rosy bright skin. Before Hitler came to power, life for the Jews in Germany was of a good quality but when he did in 1933 he acted upon his anti-semitic ideas and the Jewish population faced persecution from the Nazis. When Hitler consolidated his power in 1933 there were significant turning points in the persecution of the Jews that led to Hitler's so-called "Final solution to the Jewish Problem."…

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