What was the impact of the Nazi Racial Policy in the period 1933-1939?

Throughout Europe there had always been an Anti-Semitism climate for hundreds of years, however Germany from 1933 to 1939 saw the biggest action taken against this minority. In this period, racial based exclusion and removal of civil rights flourished.The main driving point of the Nazi Racial Policy was the aim to create and promote the Aryan Master Race. Laws, such as the Nuremberg laws of 1935, allowed the discrimination and eventually the removal of Jews were implemented upon Hitlers rise to power in 1933. Hitlers Mein Kampf (1924) often talked about the Jewish race as the eternal enemy of the Aryan race. The state policy was centralized on the lines of Hitlers personal hate of the Jews, and the Nazis central idea was built upon anti-Semitism. The impact of the Nazi Racial Policy ultimately led to the Holocaust and the torture, prosecution and murder of 6 million Jews. Upon Hitlers induction to Chancellor, anti-Semitic behavior began to be seen more prominently. Two weeks after his election, on April 1st, a boycott of Jewish businesses occurred, This was initiated by the party radicals, SA. Posters and advertisements were set up in front of Jewish owned businesses saying, Germans defend yourselves! Do not buy from the Jews!, the boycott was however unsuccessful with many Germans still shopping at Jewish owned stores. 6 days later began the exclusion of Jews from government jobs and other high end professions such as lawyers, doctors and bankers. At this stage, the Nazi Racial Policy mainly saw the attempt to exclude and reduce the civil rights of which the Jews currently had. The impact of these actions of ostracism was not major at this stage, it made the life of some Jews mildly uncomfortable Stemming from these actions of ostracism, was the first major legal action against the Jewish. The Nuremberg Laws, passed on the 15th of September 1935 saw the legal basis for the racist anti-Jewish policy in Germany. Firstly, it stripped Jewish and other non-Aryan minorities of their German citizenship, and reduced them from Reichsburger (citizens of the state) to Staatsangehorige (state objects). The Nuremberg laws also took away civil freedom of who they were allowed to marry and be intimate with under the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor. These laws were provided after wide spread AntiSemitic rioting broke out and the demanding of clarification of who was deemed Jewish. They provided a legitimate legal mechanism for excluding the Jews from mainstream German culture as well as a rationalization for the anti-Semitic riots and arrests. Fearing what would be next, the impact of these events saw an increased amount of Jewish emigration, fleeing Germany to what they believed would be safer lands such as Poland. On the 16th of July 1937, the first Jewish concentration camp, Buchenwald, opened. This opening was symbolic of the heightening of anti-Semitic behavior and the implementation of Hitlers Racial policy. Cancellation of qualifications of Jewish doctors occurred in September 1938, and soon after in October, Polish Jews were expelled from Germany. Force was now being implemented against any non-Aryan race. An organized massacre by Goebbels on the 9th of November 1938 saw thousands of Jewish homes, businesses and Synagogues were destroyed, named as the Crystal Night from the glass littered the streets from broken windows. By this stage it was evident that the Nazi Racial Policy was willing to use force to build and maintain their belief of the Aryan Superior Race. Impact from these events saw the mass fleeing of Germany for all non-Aryans.

The Nazi Racial Policy was and is still the harshest policy against another race in the world. It eventually saw and led to the murder of over 6 million Jewish and other minority people. The impact was devastating to the culture and nation of Germany and all its victims.