In what ways was the Nazis' treatment of the Jews unprecedented?

Question

one last question, i have a test tomorrow

Answer 1

It wasn't unprecedented. Adolph Hitler based his "answer to the Jewish problem" on Andrew Jackson's "answer to the Indian problem" 100 years earlier, and the Spanish Inquisition. Political burnings of people has been around for centuries, perhaps milenia. India has practiced the caste system based on physical appearance for centuries. He did nothing new, he just did it bigger. Oh, and by the way, the Jews were by far not his only victims.

Answer 2

It was unprecedented in the sense that the Nazis managed to put genocide on an industrial footing, and even managed to make a profit doing it.
The Nazis murdered Jews, Gypsies, dissidents, homosexuals, the mentally infirm - in much the same way that General Motors makes cars: on a vast scale.

Answer 3

Actually, in many ways it WAS precedented. Mistreatment of Jews had been going on since the Crusades, at least. Cursaders killed Jews and seized their property. Jewish communities were often blamed for the Black Death, since typically fewer Jews contracted the plague (their practices involve a greater sense of cleanliness).

The Nazis, however, did a lot of new things. Before the Nazis, no one had systematically rounded up Jews and submitted them to various forms of persecution. So basically, the level of organization with which Jews were rounded up and killed/forced into labor camps was unprecedented up to that point in time.

Answer 4

It was a pretty cookie-cutter story. Tyrant disarms an entire class of people, and when they're safely toothless, marches 'em off to the ovens.
The United States, along with the other Allies, created the conditions which led to Hitler's rise to power, however, as the
treaties signed after WW1 led Germany to greatly de-value its money, devaluing it to the point that it was worth more as tinder than as currency.

Of course, there may be the thing about an attempted genocide carried out on the orders of a man who was genetically connected to the victims...
Of course, I don't have a source for that, but it'll be easy for you to look up.


-Ooh... two thumbs down... We must have some Nazi sympathizers here...

Answer 5

(1) The systematic way, the unbelievable detailed records they kept of their extermination of the Jews, and other undesirables as they saw them.

(2) Their callous, torturous use of them for medical and other kinds of experiments. To say they were inhumane, is a gross understatement. They were truly unbelievable.

Wotan

Answer 6

The collection of people from a wide area into extermination camps where they could be eliminated in large numbers on a daily basis.

Answer 7

only in the systematic mass killings. The hatred was common in Europe and not exclusive of the Germans.

Answer 8

That is was sdone on such a mass scale, right down to the cremations

Answer 9

The use of Film footage.