The Holocaust of World War II

During World War II, one of the greatest horrors of war was happening. The mass genocide of not only the Jewish people but also Russian prisoners of war, Gypsies, Polish and Ukrainian people (Wistrich, 2003, Pg. 3-4, a). The horror also included the German people themselves. Ones that were handicapped, mentally ill, homosexuals, some religious people, members of labor unions, and political rivals where all part of the Holocaust (Berenbaum, 2011, a). On March twentieth nineteen hundred and thirty-three Hitler opened up the first concentration camp near Dachau Germany (Landau, 1998, Pg. 136, a). From there the German government began sending people to concentration camps to work and to die. Whom they sent, why they sent them, and what happened there is what will be looked at so we know what the Holocaust was about. The answer we are looking for is what the people of Germany knew about what was going on during the Holocaust and more was not done to stop it.

First, we will look at the German government that was behind the Holocaust. On the thirtieth of January nineteen hundred and thirty-three Adolf Hitler was named the German Chancellor (Henig, 1985, Pg. 3, a). Hitler controlled the government and the people in the government did as he wished. Hitler believed in the purity of the Aryan race and though of other as inferior especially the Jewish people (Henig, 1985, Pg. 12, b). Hitler wanted to protect his people from all that he considers impure, he forbid marriage and sexual relationships with Jewish people, he also said the only those of Aryan blood could be a German citizens with full rights (Henig, 1985, Pg. 14, c). Even before Hitler became the leader of Germany, he was spouting his hatred for the Jewish people ...

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