How Did Hitler Persecuted Jews

Over the course of six years, from 1933 to 1938, countless number of innocent Jews were heavily subjected to extreme degrees of discrimination by the anti-Semitic Nazis. Although, there were many different methods that Nazis used to persecute Jewish people, some methods were more effective than others and thus were utilized more extensively. This essay will focus on the psychological, political and physical persecutions from the events of rise of Nazism, Nazi propaganda, Nuremberg Laws and, finally, Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass).
To begin, Nazis politically persecuted Jews after the rise of the Nazi Party. The Nazi Party took control of the German government on January 30, 1933. When Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor, he removed individual freedoms
Early 1933, Hitler introduced the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda and appointed Joseph Goebbels the position. Joseph Goebbels’s aim was to successfully inform and convince the general public of Nazi ideology through different forms of communication such as films, books, radio and etc. The main themes of Nazi Propaganda included Jews being subhuman with ‘Aryans’ being the elite race, Jews being associated with crime and evil in society and Jews being the enemy of the country. These themes were very negative and bias against Jews. As we see source 3, the illustration from a children’s book has a headlines which translates to “Jews are our misfortune" and "How the Jew cheats”. By using this anti-Semitic Propaganda in children’s books, it indoctrinated kids from a young age to hate Jewish people. Also, in source 4, Jewish people are portrayed as a gross and evil looking creature taking over the world. As a result, the Nazi Propaganda not only publicly humiliated and ridiculed but also imbedded a strong sense of hatred in the non-Jewish Germans against