The Nazi
racial ideology practiced the racial policy of Nazi which applied as the laws
and policies implemented from 1933 to 1945 in Nazi Germany. This racial policy
created with a base on a particular racist dogma declaring the supremacy of
Aryan race, which appealed methodical legality. The policies of Nazi tagged the
ancient citizens in the German region who did not belong to the ethnic Germans.
Jews are included in that list among the Romanis, Slavs, and non-Europeans (Wilcox, 2016).
The
leaders of Nazi started to create their dominance on their pledge to hound the
Jews right after their power statement. Throughout the initial six years of
Hitler’s despotism, Jews got the effect of above than 400 policies and laws
that restricted the entire segments of both their personal and public lives. Most
of these policies were in the national stage and also had been addressed by the
German government to affect all Jews that exist in the country.
The first
movement of policy which applied between 1933 to 1934 concentrated hugely in
restricting the Jews participation in the public of German. The first main law
to restrict Jewish rights was labeled with the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service” in
April 1933. This law clearly stated that the Jewish, along with the politically
untrustworthy civil domestics, were needed to be disqualified from the country
service (Voigtländer & Voth, 2015).
Another
law established in April 1933 which restricted Jewish students to study at
German schools, as well as universities. Furthermore, within the same month,
there is a further law which harshly restricted the activities of Jewish within
the legal and medical occupation. The following rules and laws clearly
restricted compensation of the doctors who belong to Jewish citizens from the
health insurance funds provided by the country.
Later on,
the leaders of Nazi established the “Nuremberg
Laws” at their yearly party in September 1935. These laws restricted
the Jewish from Reich nationality, and also banned them from getting married to
a real German. The “Nuremberg Laws”
also foreshadowed a new movement of anti-Semitic regulation which made the
Jewish officers to be disqualified from the army. Plus, the university students
who are of Jewish origin were not permitted to attend their doctoral
examinations (Fraser, 2019).
The Nazi
racial ideology was really affected many lives of Jewish people. The most
significant one was the Kristallnacht event, which happened on November 1938.
Kristallnacht or also named with the November Massacres was a massacre against
the Jewish which performed by the SA revolutionary forces along with the
citizens throughout Nazi Germany. This event was held on November 9th
to November 10th, 1938. In this event, many Jewish families,
hospitals, as well as schools were looted by the attackers who also smashed the
buildings with sledgehammers. The revolutionaries demolished about 267
synagogues all over Germany, Austria and also the Sudetenland. In
excess of 7,000 Jewish companies were smashed or demolished, plus, there were
30,000 Jewish men were under arrest and imprisoned in Nazi’s concentration
camps. The historians interpret the
Kristallnacht event as an overture to
the Ultimate Solution and the assassination of six million Jews in World
War II (Fitzgerald, 2017).
References of
Nazi Racial Ideology
Fitzgerald, S. (2017). Kristallnacht. Capstone.
Fraser, D. (2019). Nazi Law: From
Nuremberg to Nuremberg ed. by John J. Michalczyk. German Studies Review.
Voigtländer, N., & Voth, H.-J.
(2015). Nazi indoctrination and anti-Semitic beliefs in Germany. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences.
Wilcox, D. C. (2016). The Rise of the
Nazi Ss. Xlibris Corporation.