Ordinary people and the crimes against humanity


 
 
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Ordinary people and the crimes against humanity

Ordinary People And The Crimes Against Humanity: Many ordinary people felt hatred and anger when they saw someone who looked like a Jew. They marked the houses of Jews and often reported about suspicious neighbours.

They genuinely believed Nazism would bring prosperity and improve general well-being. However, other Germans organised active resistance to Nazism, suffering police repression and even death. But most Germans were passive onlookers and apathetic witnesses, as they were too scared to act, to differ or to protest.

But for the Jews, life was altogether different. Charlotte Beradt, an author, secretly recorded people’s dreams in her diary and later published them in a book called the Third Reich of Dreams. She said that Jews themselves began believing in the Nazi stereotypes about them. The stereotypical images publicised in the Nazi press haunted the Jews and they troubled even in their dreams. They died many deaths before they reached the gas chambers.

Crime against humanity carried out by Nazis included the following:

  • They suspended civil rights like freedom of speech, press and assembly.
  • Hitler banned all political parties and trade unions except the Nazi party and its affiliates.
  • Special surveillance and security forces were created to control and order society in ways that the Nazi wanted.people could now be detained in gestapo torture camps.
  • Jew teachers and 'politically' unreliable teachers were dismissed from the schools.
  • Germany occupied Czechoslovakia and Poland . Captain civilians were forced to serve as slave labour.
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