Emigration was, and has been the goto method for anti-semites to rid themselves of their …show more content…
As such the laws passed, before and after Hitler attempted to expel Jews from his country that infringed upon the liberties and freedom of the Jews living in Germany should be discussed. Starting when Hitler became chancellor the situation quickly deteriorated for Jews living in Germany. Jews were banned from having health care in early 1934, while various newspapers accused Jews of a various number of horrible things. In 1935 the Nuremburg Laws are passed preventing Jews from being German citizens, marrying non-Jews, and relationships between Germans and Jews. Eventually Jews were banned from holding ‘professional jobs’ and government jobs. It only got worse from there, Kristallnacht occurred, one hundred were killed, many sent to concentration camps, synagogues, homes, and shops were burned down or vandalised. After which Jews were banned from public places. And in 1941 thousands of Jews were deported to Polish ghettos and the first Jews were gassed at …show more content…
Initially this was not the intention of concentration camps, as many of the them were opened and used long before the first gassing of Jews at Chelmno in 1941. They were originally used as detention and forced labour camps to detain enemies of the state(especially Jews). The system of camps was not even formalised until 1934 when the SS retained its independence from the SA , and Himmler was order by Hitler to streamline and formalise the camps. After the system was established the SS operated Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, and Lichtenburg. Later these expanded and even more were built throughout Großdeutschland(Greater Germany). Eventually, after the start of WW2 the SS expanded the camps, and started to exploit labour for economic gain. As well they began using them to exterminate small groups that angered the government, or were considered dangerous. This period(1939-42) the SS also built gas chambers into many camps to execute undesirables. After the US entered the war and the slow progress in Russia the SS started contracting with arms companies to produce war material at camps. During the later half of the war the SS performed many immoral medical experiments on prisoners. As well during this period the SS, not wanting prisoners to be liberated by the Allies, forced them to march hundreds of miles without food or rest to other camps causing thousands of