Jews and Their Mistreatment
"Jews always remain the same: You must either stigmatize them with a yellow star, or put them in concentration camps or shoot them or else let them saturate all public life with corruption, especially during a war. There is no halfway measure"
- Joseph Goebbels's diary, March 6, 1942
- Joseph Goebbels's diary, March 6, 1942
[Prisoners at Poland, 1945]
Even before Goebbels started directing Jews into camps, Jewish people were treated unfair as if they were inferior beings.
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"In many a town the Jew found it difficult if not impossible to purchase food. Over the doors of the grocery and butcher shops, the bakeries and the dairies, were signs, "Jews Not Admitted."
-William L. Shirer |
"Throw out the Jews, who refuse to become real Germans. Give them a good beating too."
- Joseph Goebbels's diary, 4 July 1924
- Joseph Goebbels's diary, 4 July 1924
Many Jewish people tried to escape from theses camps and ghettos that Germans cruelly established. Although these would eventually be shut down, the Germans hatred didn't cease until many years later.
"The Jews are Europe's misfortune. They must somehow be eliminated, otherwise we are in danger of being eliminated by them."
- Joseph Goebbels's diary, 6 March 1942 |
"The Jews must be got out of Europe, if necessary by applying the most brutal methods"
- Joseph Goebbels's diary, 16 March 1942 |
"The fights in the Warsaw ghetto have largely petered out. I received a secret report on the mysterious question as to how the Jews got hold of the large supplies of arms with which they defended themselves. For the most part they bought them from our brave allies as they were feeling homewards and in Warsaw got rid of their weapons for good money. There are soldiers for you!"
- Josephs Goebbels's diary, 10 May 1943
- Josephs Goebbels's diary, 10 May 1943
[Ghetto Sign in Latvia, 1941-1943]
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Despite this clear hatred upon the Jewish people and their culture, Goebbels was originally neutral upon anti-Semitism. Although it is not certain, it is believed that Hitler contributed greatly to the transfer in his beliefs.
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"There is no hope of leading the Jews back into the fold of civilized humanity by exceptional punishments. They will forever remain Jews, just as we are forever members of the Aryan race."
- Joseph Goebbels's diary, May 13, 1943 |
After the 1936 Olympics had concluded in Berlin, the anti-Semitism resumed, although Goebbels lied to the public when rumors spread throughout Germany about the mistreatment of Jews.