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Holocaust Bystanders Bystanders may have remained unaware, or perhaps were aware of victimization going on around them, but, being fearful of the consequences, chose not to take risk to help Nazi victims. Cynthia Ozick writes, Indifference is not so much a gesture of looking away–of choosing to be passive–as it is an active disinclination to feel. Indifference [...] Prewar German Laws Against The Jews Time-line Antisemitism and the persecution of Jews represented a central tenet of Nazi ideology. In their 25-point Party Program, published in 1920, Nazi party members publicly declared their intention to segregate Jews from “Aryan” society and to abrogate Jews’ political, legal, and civil rights. Nazi leaders began to make good on [...] Nuremberg Laws Against Jews The Nuremberg Laws greatly affected the society of Germany during WWII. Many of the Jews living there were very prosperous, which really angered those who were not so lucky. The Nazis and their leader, Adolf Hitler, wanting to support the majority of people in Germany, created the Nuremberg Laws to annoy the [...] Nuremberg Laws 1935. Nazi Laws Against Jews. What were the Nuremberg Laws? In his monumental book The Destruction of the European Jews, Raul Hilberg describes the Holocaust as a destruction process, one that unfolded step by step, but did not proceed from a definite plan. Nonetheless, he argues that one can trace the chronological order of [...] |
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