The Holocaust was a very dark time in the world’s history. It was full of discrimination and evil. While this isn’t a joyful topic, there is much to learn from it. The general public of Germany didn’t necessarily completely agree with the Nazi ideals. If you were to be sent to a concentration camp, you didn’t really get to stick with your family either. The topic that I decided to research was the Einsatzgruppen, and they murdered over 1.5 million Jewish people. We can learn a lot about the Holocaust from the studies of the novels Night, The Book Thief, and the Einsatzgruppen.
The first thing that I learned from The Book Thief was about the general public not being especially involved or even supportive of the Nazi Party. Before reading the
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They are known to have been one of the first steps taken in the “Final Solution.” The victims that the Einsatzgruppen were after included Jews, Roma (Gypsies), and officials of the Soviet state and the Soviet Communist party (USHMM). The Einsatzgruppen murdered at least 1.5 million Jews by themselves, including at least 34,000 in two days during the large event of Babi Yar. The Einsatzgruppen also murdered thousands of residents of institutions for the mentally and physically disabled (USHMM). A quote from Adolf Hitler concerning the mentally disabled troubled me. “Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized. (Adolf Hitler). It’s difficult to imagine a time where people couldn’t fathom someone being different than themselves. The Einsatzgruppen commanders were carefully selected by Heydrich from the best educated and most fanatical Nazis (Holocaust Research Project). Heydrich being a high standing official in the Nazi party. The Einsatzgruppen was split into four different units, each containing somewhere from 600 to 1,000 men. All together, the teams had the manpower of just under 4,000 people. The number of severely brainwashed men is insane to me. The amount of power Hitler had over a lot of the German population is crazy. The Einsatzgruppen is a sad and horrific topic to think about. Towards the beginning of the Holocaust, they killed mostly just men. Starting during the late summer of 1941 they changed their tactics. They started killing everyone, no matter age, male, or female. The ways that they murdered people also varied. Mostly they would just use guns, but they also used mobile gas vans. They’d either have the people dig their own graves, bury mass amounts of people in a trench, or various other inhumane ways. In the novel Night, Elie Wiesel writes, “And even when we were no longer hungry, not
Not even the most powerful Germans could keep up with the deaths of so many people, and to this day there is no single wartime document that contains the numbers of all the deaths during the Holocaust. Although people always look at the numbers of people that were directly killed throughout the Holocaust, there were so many more that were affected because of lost family. Assuming that 11 million people died in the Holocaust, and half of those people had a family of 3, 16.5 million people were affected by the Holocaust. Throughout the books and documentaries that we have watched, these key factors of hate and intolerance are overcome. The cause of the Holocaust was hate and intolerance, and many people fighting against it overcame this hate
The Holocaust will forever be known as one of the largest genocides ever recorded in history. 11 million perished, and 6 million of the departed were Jewish. The concentration camps where the prisoners were held were considered to be the closest one could get to a living hell. There is no surprise that the men, women, and children there were afraid. One is considered blessed to have a family member alongside oneself.
Studing the Holocaust is very importnant, there are many different categories in this topic that you can break it down into. Hitler's rise to power, the Holocaust itself, World War II, Anne Frank, and why it is important to learn about the Holocaust. These are vey large topics in this subject, they are important things to hit on. The holocaust caused a lot of confusion durnig this time period.
The Holocaust started in 1939. In that time period the Germans and the Allied Forces were in war. When they were in war the Germans took all Jews (except the ones in hiding) to multiple concentration camps and death camps. When they were sent to concentration camps they were ordered to take off all their jewelry, gold teeth and clothes. They were provided with stripped pajamas with numbers on them so they can be recognized by their number and not by their names. They were also tattooed on their left forearm with the same number that was on their stripped pajamas. Everybody’s head had to get shaved BALD. After everybody got to get concentration camps they were forced to go into the hard labor imme...
Evens, Richard; Gotfried, Ted; Lipsadt, Deborah; Zimmerman ,John; Sherman, Michael; Globman, Alex. “Holocaust Encyclopedia.” http://www.ushmm.org United States Holocaust
To begin with the holocaust had a great impact in history even though it was a time of disaster, murder, and discrimination. It was a time in which Adolf Hitler,German politician and Nazi party leader, wanted all Jews suffering or dead. Adolf Hitler turned everyone against the Jews because he believed that they were to wealthy and too powerful so he wanted to eliminate all of them. The Jews went through a lot of suffering and pain. The German soldiers which took commands from their leader, Adolf Hitler, put some Jews to work and killed others. Many Jews didn't get to work they were killed instantly. All women were separated from the man and woman were mostly killed instantly only some got the opportunity to work. The some ways that the jews were killed is that they were put into gas chambers by tons or shot by soldiers. Jews were also dying by starvation dehydration soldiers would not give them enough food or water. They would only want those with blue eyes and blonde hair they discriminated all the others. Soldiers would not only kill the Jews but torture them for anything they did. The Jews would be transported from camp to camp walking even in the worst weather conditions which also many died from it.
The Holocaust was an extremely horrific period of history. Millions were killed and lost everything, including money, family, and dignity. However, it has taught many lessons. We can study it today to make sure nothing like it ever happens again.
The Night/Holocaust Webquest was assigned to us in order for us to get a glimpse of the events that took place and the people involved during this time. For this assignment, we explored different articles on a website, then answered comprehension questions, and defined key terms in order to summarize our findings. From this assignment I learned that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis had no empathy toward the Jews. Based on the number of deaths, the German soldiers dehumanized and murdered millions of innocent
The Holocaust was a horrible time for everyone involved, but for the Jews it was the worst. The Jews no longer had names they became numbers. Also they would fight and the S.S. would watch and enjoy. They lost all personal items, then forced to look and dress the same. This was an extremely painful and agonizing process to dehumanize the Jews. Which made it easier to take control of the Jews and get rid of them.
During the Holocaust the Jewish people and other prisoners in the camps had to face many issues. The Holocaust started in 1933 and finally ended in 1945. During these 12 years all kinds of people in Europe and many other places had so many different problems to suffer through. These people were starved, attacked, and transported like they were animals.
Among 1.5 million Jews were shot to death in the most brutal way by different Nazi units. The so-called Einsatzgruppen, which operated behind the front against the Soviet Union, were
The Nazi’s perpetrated many horrors during the Holocaust. They enacted many cruel laws. They brainwashed millions into foolishly following them and believing their every word using deceitful propaganda tactics. They forced many to suffer doing embarrassing jobs and to live in crowded ghettos. They created mobile killing squads to exterminate their enemies. Finally, as part of “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question”, they made concentration and killing camps. Another thing the Nazi’s did was to use eugenics as another mean to micromanage the population. What is eugenics, you might ask? It’s the field of scientific study or the belief in genetically improving qualities, attributes and traits in the human race and/or improving the species as a whole—usually done by controlled/selective breeding. Those with positive, desirable, and superior traits are encouraged to reproduce and may be given monetary incentives by the government to have large families. Those with negative, undesirable, or inferior traits may be discouraged from having offspring. They may be sterilized, or undergo dangerous medical procedures or operations with high mortality rates. I chose this topic because it appealed to me and seemed interesting. In the following paragraphs, the tactics, methods, and propaganda the Nazi’s used will be exposed.
The time, 1941, the place, the then Soviet Union, the Red Army is in retreat from the German forces, following closely behind the German frontline is an unspeakable force coming over the conquered lands like a deadly plague. The Einsatzgruppen were considered as mobile death dealers by their victims. The major occupation of the Einsatzgruppen was the humiliation, extermination, and complete of annihilation of Jews, Romany or gypsies, members of the communist party, and intellectsia or major thinkers. They were organized to be the most efficient at occupying and murdering the undesirables. The leaders of these hounds of war were hand selected by Heydrich Himmler from the brightest, bravest, and most loyal of the Nazi members.
During the rule of Adolf Hitler, many children who were Jewish lived a very frightening and difficult life. They never were given the love and compassion that every child needs and deserves growing up. The Holocaust is a story that will continue to be shared till the end of time.
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic and trying times for the Jewish people. Hundreds of thousands of Jews and other minorities that the Nazis considered undesirable were detained in concentration camps, death camps, or labor camps. There, they were forced to work and live in the harshest of conditions, starved, and brutally murdered. Horrific things went on in Auschwitz and Majdenek during the Holocaust that wiped out approximately 1,378,000 people combined. “There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.” –Fidel Castro