During the time period of Second World War from 1939 to 1945, millions of lives in Europe would be affected from a horrible event known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a genocidal plan devised by Adolf Hitler in order to eliminate various ethnic and social groups who he saw were inferiors. Apart of this plan, methods such as the Nuremberg Laws and the Final Solutions were enforced by the German Nazi. These methods were used to impact and make the lives of the various ethnic and social groups more gruesome.
As a country, Germany suffered immensely from their Great Depression in the early 1930’s. However, a new political party called the Nazis, lead by Adolf Hitler, made the promise to return Germany to greatness. Eventually, the Nazi party would emerge as a favorite among the German citizens and would become the largest party in the German legislature. On January 1933, Adolf Hitler would take over the position of chancellor. He and the Nazis would then carry out and enforce …show more content…
The Nuremberg Laws, created in 1935, targeted specifically at Jews. Some of these laws included the forbidding of marriage between a German and a Jew and being permitted to display Jewish colors. The laws were used to strip away almost every right that the Jewish people could have such as their citizenships being revoked and no longer having the ability to vote. Eventually, a new method, called the Final Solution, was created in 1941 to exterminate all of the Jews. Jews were forced to live and work in concentration camps where the living conditions were horrible. In these camps, various methods such gassing chambers and firing squads were used to murder millions of Jewish people as well as other ethnic groups. By the end of the war, the death count of the Jewish people reached over six million and the total amount reached to around nineteen