Whether Jews have been oppressed for the past 500 years

Since my opponent forfeited, I will continue with my arguments... Then came the holocaust-a systematic killing of 6 million Jews, over 1 million of them innocent children. Why were the Jews killed along with the other groups of people Hitler and his Nazi regime hated? Because they were not Aryan? Because Hitler was influenced by Martin Luther? We will never know for sure. The point is, from 1932 (the beginning of the Reich) To 1945 (the fall of the Reich) the Jews were severely oppressed and then systematically killed. I. Hitler comes to power (1932-1935) During this time, the Nazi regime introduced a series of laws targeted at Jews specifically. The NUREMBERG laws, and such made it hard for Jews to get jobs, did not allow Jews to marry non-Jews, and other extremely unjust control (oppression). The Nuremburg laws did exactly this. "The laws issued on September 15, 1935, approved by Hitler personally, deprived Jews of German citizenship, prohibited Jewish households from having German maids under the age of 45, prohibited any non-Jewish German from marrying a Jew and outlawed sexual relations between Jews and Germans." This was a law targeted at making the Jews lives miserable. "There can be no complete record of the innumerable acts of violence perpetrated against the Jews under the Dictatorship. The body of unrefuted evidence available is enormous--even if it represented all that had happened the persecution would be one of the most frightful of modern times. But it represents only a small fraction of the whole. We have not, and probably never shall have, more than a fragmentary knowledge of the beatings, the murders, the torture, the robbing, the blackmailing, the arrests and imprisonments, not to speak of the humiliations (both public and private) that have been perpetrated by Nazis on the Jews...." And then it Got Worse... II. Elimination After this-many Jews were marched of to concentration camps. Auschwitz, Dachau, and Treblinka to name a few. As the war went on, some concentration camps were then turned into death camps. Auschwitz was most likely the worst of them. Sinister Characters such as Joseph Mengele http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org..., Horrible soldiers/guards, combined with foul living conditions spelled death to many of the Jews there. Mengele was responsible for Inhumane Experiments On Jews. You can find more at the website about Mengele. He was a horrible character, injecting serums into Jews to see which one killed them the fastest. Making them stand outside barely clothed (or not at all) in below freezing weather. He did many other unspeakable things that would be inappropriate to talk about on this site. But this was horrible. Today Auschwitz stands as a museum to remember these unspeakable things. Thousands died at Auschwitz. Millions in all the camps. And why? because of Jewish heritage. More info can be found at http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org... III. Aftermath 6 million Jews. All dead. Gone. Because they were Jewish. This time was really a down point for humanity. But it wasn't over yet. The Soviet Union still had an anti-Semitic policy and would oppress Jews inside their territory's even after the creation of the state of Israel. IV. Refutations. Some may say that there was a period of non-Jew oppression from 1895-1929. This is a false statement. The Russian Pogroms still continued past 1932, until Stalin's death. And in 1903, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were published in Russia, a false document (later proven false in several courts, including Russian courts), and it was published to cause hatred and suspicion toward the Jews. It also "justified" the horrible Russian Pogroms and allowed the Russian government to pass restrictions on the Jews. During this time the Jews were still oppressed, as they have been for the past 500 years and even longer than that.