Berlin Memorial Activity
During the activity, I learned that the Nazi's implemented many, many specific laws (more than 300!) that targeted the Jews. By looking at the dates of when the laws were released, and what order they put them out in, we can see that the Nazi's systematically trapped the Jews in Germany, and proceeded to kill them and take away their human rights.
I believe the monuments were built to inform people about the horrible mistakes that were made in the past. Because with a thing like a holocaust, the aftereffects are permanent, they cannot be reversed. But if you make it so that people know about the horrible event, it may prevent people from doing it in the future. These memorials are also in remembrance of the several million people killed by the holocaust.
Also, I mentioned earlier that the Nazi's systematically trapped the Jews in Germany. This is because the Nazi's purposefully created and passed anti-Semitic laws in bursts. They released a lot of laws in a short span of time as if to catch Germany's Jewish population off guard. They repeated this 2 or three times, releasing very few laws in between these bursts. For the first few years after the Nazi's came into power, they systematically labeled every Jewish person in Germany, they did not commit any acts of violence but instead decreased the income of Jewish people by making it so that they can't have certain jobs. After that, they trapped the Jews in Germany by only letting Jews emigrate out from Germany if they gave up all their valuables. The Nazi's then took away almost all job opportunities from Jews and segregated them from the rest of Germany. Finally, the Nazi's had the Jews already in certain areas, making it easy to mass-murder Jews.
I believe I would have the most trouble with the immigration ban. In the early 1940's Nazi Germany introduced a law which made it so that if Jewish people wanted to leave Germany, they would have to leave ALL of their valuables. If I was a Jew in Nazi Germany, I probably wouldn't understand any of the languages in Europe or America, which would result in it being very hard for me to start from scratch, because I would not be able to get a job. That would lead to me not having a reliable source of income, which I would need for basic resources like clean water and warm food.
I believe the monuments were built to inform people about the horrible mistakes that were made in the past. Because with a thing like a holocaust, the aftereffects are permanent, they cannot be reversed. But if you make it so that people know about the horrible event, it may prevent people from doing it in the future. These memorials are also in remembrance of the several million people killed by the holocaust.
Also, I mentioned earlier that the Nazi's systematically trapped the Jews in Germany. This is because the Nazi's purposefully created and passed anti-Semitic laws in bursts. They released a lot of laws in a short span of time as if to catch Germany's Jewish population off guard. They repeated this 2 or three times, releasing very few laws in between these bursts. For the first few years after the Nazi's came into power, they systematically labeled every Jewish person in Germany, they did not commit any acts of violence but instead decreased the income of Jewish people by making it so that they can't have certain jobs. After that, they trapped the Jews in Germany by only letting Jews emigrate out from Germany if they gave up all their valuables. The Nazi's then took away almost all job opportunities from Jews and segregated them from the rest of Germany. Finally, the Nazi's had the Jews already in certain areas, making it easy to mass-murder Jews.
I believe I would have the most trouble with the immigration ban. In the early 1940's Nazi Germany introduced a law which made it so that if Jewish people wanted to leave Germany, they would have to leave ALL of their valuables. If I was a Jew in Nazi Germany, I probably wouldn't understand any of the languages in Europe or America, which would result in it being very hard for me to start from scratch, because I would not be able to get a job. That would lead to me not having a reliable source of income, which I would need for basic resources like clean water and warm food.
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