The Final Solution to the Jewish Question

It all started almost 80 years ago and the history of it will never be forgotten. The Holocaust was the mass murder of approximately six million Jews that took place during World War II. There were nine million Jews who lived in Europe before the Holocaust, that means approximately two-thirds of them were killed. There were over one million Jewish children that were killed in the Holocaust, and there were almost two million Jewish women and three million Jewish men were also killed in the Holocaust. The Holocaust was controlled by a man named Adolf Hitler and his army of men who helped him. They were called the National Socialist German Workers, also known as “The Nazi Party” for short.

The Nazis used a phrase called “The Final Solution” to the Jewish Question. This phrase was used as a term for the killings of the Jews. They would often use the German term “lebensunwertes Leben" in reference to the Jews and other victims they killed. The term they used meant “Life unworthy of life” meaning they didn’t feel like their victims were worthy enough of living and this is how they justified themselves of killing so many people. They would take all their victims and put them in Extermination camps (also known as death camps).

The purposes of the camps were to kill millions of people by execution (mostly by gassing) and for people to work long and hard hours under starvation conditions. The Nazi were literally trying to wipe out the entire Jewish race. They didn’t even expect most of prisoners taken to the Belzec, Sobibor or Treblinka extermination camps to survive more than a few hours beyond arrival. They would use gas vans and the gas chambers to produce poison and carbon monoxide exhaust fumes. They were made use at th...

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...took place in world history. It really left a black mark on 20th century that many people want to forget. The Holocaust lasted for 12 years, all the way up until 1945. Starting as early as 1944, the Allies were coming up with plans on how to wipe out the German attacks and they began to take over the concentration camps. In July 1944, the people who were trapped at a camp in Poland called Maidanek were freed by the Soviets. After that, many more people were freed and there were many more liberations and takeovers and Hitler began to lose power. In January of 1945, the concentration camp Auschwitz was liberated. This was major because this was actually the biggest camp in the Nazi territory and it was also the one where most of the deaths occurred. The breakdown of this camp played a huge part with in the end of the Holocaust.

Works Cited

Wikipedia , holocaust.com