Dehumanization Vs Holocaust

M.O.V. Holocaust Essay Project

In the Merchant of Venice, Shylock states, “He hath disgraced me and laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies- and what’s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath now a Jew eyes? Hath not Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?” (Shakespeare 110) This quote explains Shylock’s relationship with Antonio by stating that Antonio has laughed at his losses, made fun of his earnings, humiliated his race and turned his friends against him. Upset Shylock goes on stating that all of this is because he’s a Jew. He goes on claiming that Jews are just as human as anyone else. This statement exemplifies the idea of how Jews were treated,
In January of 1933 the Nazis came to power in Germany, believing that Germans were "racially superior" and that the "inferior” Jews were an alien threat to the German community. German authorities targeted other groups because of their racial inferiority. For example, groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them were Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled and homosexuals were all targeted. During the era of the Holocaust, Jewish immigrants were denaturalized and native Jews were precluded from citizenship. Restricted, Jews were forbidden to live in marriage or to have extramarital relations with persons of German blood. Wistfully, Jews were denied the right to vote and the right to hold public office or civil service. Furthermore, Jews were relegated to an inferior status by the denial of common privileges and freedoms. Thus, denied access to certain city areas, sidewalks, transportation, places of amusement, restaurants, as well as the practice of law and the practice of medicine was forbidden. A reason for why dehumanization occurs is by the statement that Nazis thought of Jews as subhuman and not metaphorically. All of these statements are examples of how Jews and others were treating as being less than
It teaches us about prejudice by learning how cruel the Jews were treated for just being human. Learning about the Holocaust and what is caused can prevent future genocides like this occurring. In addition, it is important to be grateful for what the world has to offer. The Holocaust was highly impactful resulting in a slow healing process. Struggling, Germans had trouble with the Holocaust’s bitter legacy. In a situation regarding the German government in 1953, the government made payments to individual Jews and Jewish people, acknowledging the German people’s responsibility for the crimes committed. There were several results of the Holocaust. One of the effects includes several of the survivors finding shelter in displaced persons, camps administered by the Allied powers. As a matter of fact, between 1948 and 1951, almost 700,000 Jews migrated to Israel. Other Jewish displaced persons moved to the United States and other nations. The last displaced person camp closed in 1957. A consequence of the Holocaust occurred in April-May of 1943 as Jews in the Warsaw ghetto rose in armed revolt after hearing rumors that the Germans would deport the ghetto inhabitants remaining to the Treblinka killing center. As the German police units entered the ghettos, the Jewish Fighting Organization and other Jewish groups attacked with Molotov cocktails, hand