Question

Write a brief note on the condition of the Jews in the Nazi regime. ( ANNE FRANK'S DIARY )

Answer 1

The Jews in Nazi Germany suffered appallingly after January 1933.Some rich Jews could afford to leave Nazi Germany (or were forced to) but many could not. Thugs in the SA and SS were given a free hand in their treatment of the Jews. The Jews were frequently referred to in “Mein Kampf” andHitler had made plain his hated for them.  References to the “filthy Jew” litter the book. In one section, Hitler wrote about how the Jews planned to “contaminate” the blood of pure Germans:

“The Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end…….spying on the unsuspicious German girl he plans to seduce……….He wants to contaminate her blood and remove her from the bosom of her own people. The Jew hates the white race and wants to lower its cultural level so that the Jews might dominate.”“Was there any form of filth or crime…without at least one Jew involved in it. If you cut even cautiously into such a sore, you find like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light – a Jew.” 

In 1920, Hitler announced to the very small Nazi Party the Five Points of national Socialism. One of these stated:

“None but members of the nation may be citizens of the State. None but those of German blood may be members of the nation. No Jew, therefore, may be  a member of the nation.”  

Early on in his political career, Hitler continued with his anti-Semitism:

“His is no master people; he is an exploiter: the Jews are a people of robbers. He has never founded any civilisation, though he has destroyed civilisations by the hundred…everything he has stolen. Foreign people, foreign workmen build him his temples, it is foreigners who create and work for him, it is foreigners who shed their blood for him.”Speech given in Munich in July 1922.