Jewish Holocaust
The German holocaust was an unfortunate historical killing of the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Communists, twins, the disabled and other groups perceived as minority in the German society (Fischer, 1995:646). Although the holocaust era exploded in the Nazi era, its can be traced back to the late 19th century. Earlier on the Weimar of Germany had created an environment in which relative liberty and affluence reigned for all individuals and a period in which many Jews had gained unmatched prominence all through the German society (Evans, 2005:2). According to Evans however, a bad ideology of racism and anti-Semitism cropped the minds of Germans in the 1870s and 1880s and whose results began to exhibit themselves early before the Nazi regime. For instance, the racial anti-Semitism got rooted in the German politics and society when a German journalist Wilhelm Marr established and launched an anti-Semitism league in 1878 and whose members viewed the Jews as a foreign race and who could neither belong to nor be accepted as members of the German society (Fischer, 1995:652).
Historically, the Jews just like all the other minority groups in the German society were discriminated against, seen as outsider and at all times attributed to all the bad things of the German society (Fischer, 1995:651). With this ideology in the mind of the German majority, the collapse of Weimar democracy and the onset of the Nazi between 1919 and 1933, the holocaust blown up which led to capturing, sterilization, forced resentment, severance from family and friends, beatings, tormenting, starvation, and/or death and all form of inhuman/ cruel treatment of the Jews, homosexuals, disabled, Jehovah witnesses and other minority group (Evans, 2005:3). It is therefore the attitude of the German towards the minority groups, the pride and the intention to maintain a “clean” society that led to the holocaust.
All through the Third Reich, the Germans were treated as superiors with guaranteed basis rights while the perceived minority particularly the Jews were maltreated, discriminated against and even massacred. This attitude and treatment of the Jews to a great extent prevented their liberation and encouraged more persecutions and discrimination. This is because the tenets of the Nazi policies were typically built on a racism ideology. A major drawback in the Jews emancipation during this era was the prevention of the minority from absolute procreation and using women to bear a “racially pure” generation by encouraging German women to give birth to as many “Aryan” children as possible (Evans, 2005: p.2).The declaration of the final solution by Adolf Hitler in 1941 crowned it all as the killing and declaration was now official (Heinrich, 2001)
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