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Reasons for persecution Cause of death Friedl Dicker-Brandeis: 1896–1944: Austrian: artist Jewish: gas chamber in Auschwitz: Josef Čapek: 1887–1945: Czech: painter, draughtsman, illustrator, writer Resistance in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: typhoid fever at Bergen-Belsen: Fiszel Zylberberg-Zber: 1909–1942: Polish: Woodcuts ...
The regional Nazi leader and Hitler's deputy Martin Bormann called for Galen to be hanged, but Hitler and Goebbels urged a delay in retribution till war's end. [62] The intervention led to, in the words of Richard J. Evans, "the strongest, most explicit and most widespread protest movement against any policy since the beginning of the Third Reich."
Catholic leaders denounced Nazi doctrine before 1933, and Catholic regions generally did not vote Nazi. [13] The Nazi Party first developed in largely-Catholic Munich, however, where many Catholics provided enthusiastic support; [14] this early affinity decreased after 1923.
Nazi persecution of the Jews grew steadily worse throughout era of the Third Reich. Hamerow wrote that during the prelude to the Holocaust between Kristallnacht in November 1938 and the 1941 invasion of Soviet Russia, the position of the Jews "deteriorated steadily from disenfranchisement to segregation, ghettoization and sporadic mass murder". [18]
Persecution of the Catholic Church in Germany followed the Nazi takeover. Hitler moved quickly to eliminate political Catholicism. Amid harassment of the Church, the Reich concordat treaty with the Vatican was signed in 1933, and promised to respect Church autonomy. Hitler routinely disregarded the Concordat, closing all Catholic institutions ...
Hitler himself disdained Christianity, as Alan Bullock noted: [14] In Hitler's eyes, Christianity was a religion fit only for slaves; he detested its ethics in particular. Its teaching, he declared, was a rebellion against the natural law of selection by struggle and the survival of the fittest.
The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɒ l ə k ɔː s t / ⓘ), [1] known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה), was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.
Networks of Nazi Persecution: Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust (1 ed.). Berghahn Books. pp. 269– 294. ISBN 978-1-84545-163-9. JSTOR j.ctt9qd8kr.20. Gruner, Wolf (2014). The Persecution of the Jews in Berlin, 1933-1945: A Chronology of Measures by the Authorities in the German Capital. Berlin: Stiftung Topographie ...