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Selling Nazism in a Democracy 1918–1933: Democracy | State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda, exhibitions.ushmm.org/propaganda/1918-1933/weimar-democracy-in-crisis. Accessed 2 June 2025. 

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This is a picture of Nazi propaganda that was used during world war 2 (WWII).

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Citation: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-party-1. Accessed 3 June 2025. 

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Nazism is a practice that was performed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party in Nazi Germany. Nazism in itself is is "the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany." When Hitler rose to power his ideology became more and more of a reality, he started by taking his frustration out on the Jewish people by putting them in concentration camps and killing mass amounts. This was known as the Holocaust which represented the biggest symbol of anti antisemitism in the history of man kind. Whoever opposed Hitler would be killed on the spot by the Nazi army.

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Citation: YouTube, YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTw5wkS29Sc. Accessed 3 June 2025. 

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Multimedia: Documentary of Life Under Adolf Hitler: The first year of Nazi Germany. 

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Multimedia: Documentary of Life Under Adolf Hitler: The first year of Nazi Germany. 

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This documentary is about how Adolf Hitler rose to power promising economic growth and peace but his true intentions soon came out, targeting Jews and anyone else that opposed him or his ideas.

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Life Under Adolf Hitler: The First Years Of Nazi Germany

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Citation: WUNC |By Meghan Modafferi. “Holocaust Survivors Tell Their Stories.” WUNC, 28 Apr. 2014, www.wunc.org/arts-culture/2014-04-28/holocaust-survivors-tell-their-stories. 

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"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation." - Elie Wiesel

"Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim." - Elie Wiesel

"Nothing belongs to us any more; they have taken away our clothes, our shoes, even our hair; if we speak, they will not listen to us, and if they listen, they will not understand." - Primo Levi

"It is not the physical pain which hurts the most (and this applies to adults as much as to punished children); it is the mental agony caused by the injustice, the unreasonableness of it all." - Primo Levi

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Source: Scholarly Resources for Learning and Research | Gale, www.gale.com. Accessed 6 June 2025. 

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This is an informational website that gives us a deeper look into the holocaust and how it came to be.

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Image: Picture of Police parade before the arrival of Adolf Hitler. 

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Image: Picture of Police parade before the arrival of Adolf Hitler. 

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This is a picture of the German police performing a parade before Adolf Hitler's arrival.

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This is an image of the Nazi army taking a oath of Loyalty in Munich. The oath was broadcasted on television across Germany and Berlin.

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This is a picture of the youth ceremony performed by young German children in hopes to strengthen their dedication to Hitler. "Members recited verse sang patriotic songs, and performed "mock funerals" for "fallen comrades.""

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There were exactly 9 concentration camps during the holocaust. Most of which were in Poland however some were in Germany.

Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland): This camp was the largest and most notorious; over 1.1 million humans were killed, mostly Jews which were disposed of when they couldn't perform labor.

Treblinka (Poland): This camp was only meant for extermination. about 870,000 Jews were killed in gas chambers but only a few survived.

Sobibor (Poland): Extermination camp which killed 250,000 Jews as well as Belzec which killed 434,000 Jews.

Majdanek (Poland): This camp was both a labor and extermination camp which killed over 78,000 people.

Chelmno (Poland): This camp used mobile gas vans which killed about 150,000 Jews from the Lodz Ghetto.

Buchenwald (Germany): This camp was mainly a labor camp in which thousands died from starvation, disease, or execution.

Dachau (Germany): This was the first concentration camp which used as a model for other. This camp held Jews, Political prisoners and clergy.

Bergen-Belsen (Germany): This wasn't a concentration camp but thousands died from disease and starvation.

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Research Note: Survivors of the Holocaust 

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Research Note: Survivors of the Holocaust 

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There were many survivors of the Holocaust, some died shortly of diseases, while some faced major trauma. The ones who were brave enough shared their stories on podcasts, YouTube and some even wrote books on their experiences.

Elie Wiesel was a survivor of the holocaust who shared his story by writing a book by the name of "Night". In the book he talks about how his family was forcefully put into the ghettos and then transported to concentration camps. In the end he was the only person to survive from his family. After he published "Night" he sold out 10 million copies and he was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

Some other well known people that survived the Holocaust are Fanny Aizenberg, Katie Altenberg, and Ania Drimer.

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Armed Resistance

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943):

This was the most famous act of the Jewish resistance that was an effort to oppose Nazi Germany final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the gas chambers of the Majdanek and Treblinka camps.

Partisan Fighters were Jews that escaped to the forests and joined resistance groups. They sabotaged Nazi supply lines and attacked German soldiers.

Jews that were put into the concentration camps resisted by maintaining their Jewish identities which was seen as a form of defiance against Nazi's.

Jewish Rescue Efforts

Underground networks forged false papers and helped smuggle children to safety. Jews helped others escape the ghettos or hide somewhere safe.

some non Jewish rescuers that save the people in the camps were Oskar Schindler that Saved over 1,000 Jews by employing them in his factory. Irena Sendler which helped smuggle 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto.

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Research Note: Hitlers Demise and the end of WWII

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Research Note: Hitlers Demise and the end of WWII

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When Hitler knew he lost the war he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin. He knew that he was not going to win the battle of berlin so he retrited to a bunker. He shot himself and his wife took cyanide to avoid being captured by the soviets.

People have speculated that he fled to South America, Argentina but the theory has been debunked as his dental records matched the bodies teeth in the bunker in berlin.

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As Hitler's death was announced, Nazi Germany had to surrender themselves or flee while they still could. This gave Jewish people the chance to escape or wait until the allied forces came to there rescue. Once they were rescued they were treated with medical attention and were given food as there they were given limited amount of food to eat and little to no medical attention.

Once the people were treated, some returned to their former home and others emigrated to other countries. Regardless of where their journey took them, it was clear that they would be faced with antisemitism and hostility.

Citizens of Germany had major rebuilding to do when it came to physical landscape and mental well-being. Survivors of the camps faced major trauma and survivors syndrome which meant that they faced long-term physical and mental scars from their experiences in the death camps.

Immigrants were welcomed in some countries but denied in other. The United States of America, Canada, Australia welcomed immigrants while Great Britain rejected Jewish immigrants.

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WWII was known as the deadliest war in the history of mankind as millions of Jewish people lost their lives in the Holocaust and the deaths of millions of soldiers in the war itself. It was clear that people would make a mockery out of the Jewish people wherever they went and it still happens today. The rise of antisemitism today is accounted by hate crimes and online hate speech. A famous music artist which we could all guess, went on a rampage posting tweets that dealt with antisemitism and making merchandise which had a swastika symbol on the T-shirts.

Almost all of the schools in the world have incorporated WWII and the Holocaust in their history curriculum to learn lessons on the dangers of authoritarianism, silence and hate. There are also exhibits of the Holocaust and WWII around the world and many universities have made their very own exhibits in their libraries.

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When Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933 his main focus was to make Germany great again and in order to do that he must make great changes. Some of these changes included undoing the Treaty of Versailles which humiliated Germany by blaming the reparations of WWI.

He also believed in racial superiority by creating an "Aryan" race which is defined as a white person with German descendants. He blamed the Jewish community and his goal was to "cleanse" the society.

Hitler also wanted to expand the German territory on the Eastern side of Europe. He wanted to claim Poland, and the Soviet union so that Germans could have more space to live.

He wanted to establish a Totalitarian Dictatorship which meant that he wanted to have all the power to himself only. When he became the Chancellor of Germany, he got rid of all the democratic institutions and banned other parties.

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*Parallel between my topic and The Crucible and The scarlet letter*

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*Parallel between my topic and The Crucible and The scarlet letter*

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One parallel that can be easily seen is scapegoating & blaming others for crimes that they haven't committed. In Nazism, Jews and other minorities were scapegoated for Germany's problems such as the economic crisis in Germany and the repressions of WWI. In the Crucible, the innocent people of the town were accused of witchcraft. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is blamed for breaking a moral code even though others share the guilt.

Another parallel that can be made is using fear to control others. In Nazism the fear of being arrested or death had kept many people silent and they were forced to be obedient to Hitler and his regime. In the Crucible, the fear of being accused of being a witch or worshiping the devil led to mass hysteria and obedience to the court/the ministers.

The third parallel that can be seen in both Nazism and The Scarlet Letter is public shaming. In Nazism, the Jews were forced to were a yellow star around their arm which would publicly humiliate them in from of the Nazi German citizens. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester is forced to wear the red "A" and stand of a scaffold as punishment.

The fourth parallel seen between all 3 of the topics is losing human rights. In Nazism, the Jews had no rights under the Nuremberg Laws and if they ever tried to retaliate, they would be shot on the spot by the SS officers. In The Crucible, people of the town could not speak freely and there were no fair trials being held. If the head minister says that the person was guilty then others would all agree. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester was denied the rights to privacy and autonomy.