Since World War II the word Holocaust describes the murder and captivity in ghettos, concentration camps and death camps of more than six million Jews by Nazi Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. The Holocaust was the systematic mass murder of European Jews in
Nazi concentration camps during World War II.i
The Holocaust destroyed society by killing more than 6 million Jews, leaving thousands with physical and mental pain behind and by affecting our society today in a negative way.
The German depression after World War I was the opportunity Adolf Hitler had been waiting for. He and the National Socialist German Workers Party had a good chance to come to power. With a lot of propaganda and Hitler’s ability as an orator, he won the Election of nineteen thirty-three and became Chancellor of Germany. He used the power to remove step by step all the oppositions to himself and the Nazi Party. That was the beginning of Nazi Germany.
After Hitler’s election he and his Nazi Party instituted the examination of all people they thought were inferior, such as gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and handicapped.
Hitler wanted to create a “pure” race. He called them the Aryan’s. He had an exact idea how
Aryan’s were supposed to look. Things like skin tone, hair color (blonde), eye color (blue), and even the skull shape lead to the “perfect German”.ii
Hitler particularly hated Jews. During the Election of nineteen thirty-three he blamed them for Germany’s bad economy. He said they were spoiling Germany’s racial purity. After
Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany, the life for the German Jews changed a lot. They were publicly discriminated. A lot of Jews lost their Job. Since April nineteen thirty-three they ...
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...pposed to be burned. Earlier buried bodies were dug up and burned. The ash was then buried and grass was planted on top of the graves, to hide them. In some camps, the prisoners were forced to march to the Baltic Sea, were they were drowned. The Nazis were not able to hide the crime they committed over the years. In 1944 the
Allied forces entered the first camps. They brought food and water for the prisoners, but even after the camps were found, thousand more died because of the impact of years in concentration and death camps.xvii Two-hundred-and-fifty thousand of the survivors of the Holocaust were classified as Displaced Persons (DPs). Most of them had no home to return to, so they stayed in special camps set up by Allied Troops. The special camps were not a permanent solution. The survivors of the Holocaust were tried to resettle in different countries.
Thousands upon thousands of innocent Jews, men, women, and children tortured; over one million people brutally murdered; families ripped apart from the seams, all within Auschwitz, a 40 square kilometer sized concentration camp run by Nazi Germany. Auschwitz is one of the most notorious concentration camps during WWII, where Jews were tortured and killed. Auschwitz was the most extreme concentration camp during World War Two because innumerable amounts of inhumane acts were performed there, over one million people were inexorably massacred, and it was the largest concentration camp of over two thousand across Europe.
In Germany during the 1930's, Adolf Hitler rose through the ranks of the Nazi Party, eventually becoming the “fuhrer”, or leader of Germany. As of then, the German people were still embittered by the loss of their national pride from the First World War. The result of the First World War was that Germany
Hitler and the Nazi party used fear, terror, and propaganda to keep their power over Germany. But even before that, when he sought to w...
Three and a half million men women and children died in concentration camps, after they had been worked half to death in the use of slave labour.
“Concentration camps (Konzentrationslager; abbreviated as KL or KZ) were an integral feature of the regime in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).
In the aftermath of the war, foreign troops invaded concentration camps in Europe to set
The Nazi Party, controlled by Adolf Hitler, ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. In 1933, Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi government began to take over. Hitler became a very influential speaker and attracted new members to his party by blaming Jews for Germany’s problems and developed a concept of a “master race.” The Nazis believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that the Jewish people were a threat to the German racial community and also targeted other groups because of their “perceived racial inferiority” such as Gypsies, disabled persons, Polish people and Russians as well as many others. In 1938, Jewish people were banned from public places in Germany and many were sent to concentration camps where they were either murdered or forced to work.
Another reason why Hitler was able to rise to power was due to the failure of the Munich Putsch of November 1923. At his trial, Hitler gained enormous publicity, which made him well known. He spent only nin... ... middle of paper ... ... office before he would do whatever he said.
Soon after Germany separated from Austria in March 1938, the Nazi soldiers arrested and imprisoned Jews in concentration camps all over Germany. Only eight months after annexation, the violent anti-jew Kristallnacht , also known as Night of the Broken Glass, pogroms took place. The Nazi soldiers arrested masses of male adult Jews and held them captive in camps for short periods of time. A death camp is a concentration camp designed with the intention of mass murder, using strategies such as gas chambers. Six death concentration camps exis...
The holocaust was a horrific period of time where unbelievable criminal acts were carried out against the Jews, Gypsies, and other racial gatherings. These defenseless individuals were sent from unsanitary ghettos to death camps, one being Auschwitz. The Auschwitz death camp comprised of three camps, all in which are placed in Poland. Numerous forms of extermination came about overtime to speed up the killing process. Life at the death camps was cut short for those who weren’t fit to work; such as the elderly, women, the mentally disabled, and young children. The others were put work while being starved to death. Experiments were held on dwarfs, twins, and other misfits were carried out by Josef Mengele. These inhuman acts against the Jews were all held in secret from society by the Nazis until liberation day.
Adolf Hitler came to power on February 28, 1933 (Rossel). He rose to power using inflammatory speeches and inspiring hope for the defeated Germans. He constructed a system to empower the German people and allow them to thrive in the period after the Great Depression (Noakes). Using keen acumen and decisive moves, he was able to turn Germany into a war machine bent on the creation of an Aryan utopian society, at the cost of all inferior races, especially the Jews ("The Period between 1933 and 1939"). At this time Germany was a defeated country. They had recently had numerous humiliating defeats in WWI, and the Germans no longer had the pride they once had celebrated (Laurita). Augmented by the fact that the Great Depression had ravaged the country and left many in a state of penury and impoverished, the Germans were desperate. As well, Germany was currently a country without any source of stability without a generally supported constitution. When Hitler promised a utopian society filled with hope and where the Germans would be exalted as the superior race, the Germans listened and obeyed his every word (Noakes). Hitler fed on the desperation and hopelessness of these German people to make a society driven by fear; this state of pity allowed Hitler to convince the Germans that he could provide a better future.
The Holocaust, the mass killing of the Jewish people in Europe, is the largest genocide in history to date. Over the course of the Holocaust, nearly six million Jewish people were killed by the Nazi Party and Germany, led by Adolf Hitler. There are multiple contributing factors to the Holocaust that made it so large in scope. Historians argue which of these factors were most significant. The most significant contributing factor is the source of the Holocaust, the reason it occurred.
Adolf Hitler was a Nazi German leader who attempted genocide and was part of one of the worst wars in history, WWII. Hitler took up the role of initiating the holocaust
During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Germany was experiencing great economic and social hardship. Germany was defeated in World War I and the Treaty of Versailles forced giant reparations upon the country. As a result of these reparations, Germany suffered terrible inflation and mass unemployment. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party who blamed Jews for Germany’s problems. His incredible public speaking skills, widespread propaganda, and the need to blame someone for Germany’s loss led to Hitler’s great popularity among the German people and the spread of anti-Semitism like wildfire. Hitler initially had a plan to force the Jews out of Germany, but this attempt quickly turned into the biggest genocide in history. The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933.“...the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.” –Adolf Hitler
After "The Final Solution" went into effect, Jewish people began to attempt to go into hiding. Unfortunately, most did not manage to get out of the German Empire, and were killed by the Nazis or the Gestapo. In the end, more than eleven million people died. Hundreds of thousands more survived, but either died later of malnourishment or illness, and those that managed to make it through that often had PTSD or other paranoia issues.