Discrimination against Jews

Discrimination against Jews

1. Discrimination against Jews is classified as racial or religious?

·        It is classified as religious as Jew is a religion and the Jews were put into concentration camps based on their religions.

2. What are “Concentration Camps”?

·        A camp where civilians, enemy aliens, political prisoners, and sometimes prisoners of war are detained and confined, typically under harsh conditions.

3. What is “Genocide” and “Holocaust”?

·        Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.

·        Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany. Two-thirds of the population of nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust were killed. Some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' genocide of millions of people in other groups, including Romani (more commonly known in English by the exonym "Gypsy"), Soviet prisoners of war, Polish and Soviet civilians, homosexuals, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses and other political and religious opponents, which occurred whether they were of German or non-German ethnic origin. By this definition, the total number of Holocaust victims would be between 11 million and 17 million people.

4. Mein Kampf

·       Mein Kampf is a book written by Nazi politician Adolf Hitler. It combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's political ideology.