Holocaust Denial “The Holocaust (also called the Ha-Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the period from January 30,1933- when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany- to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe officially ended. During this time, Jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsher persecution that ultimately led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews (1.5 million of them being children) and the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities. These deaths represented two-thirds of European Jewry and one-third of all world Jewry” (“The Holocaust: An Introductory History”). Even though it is both common knowledge and historical fact that the Holocaust did happen, there are several people who still deny it. Holocaust deniers became vocal during …show more content…
The Nazi Party had taken advantage of the political unrest in Germany to gain an electoral foothold. The Nazis incited clashes with the communists and conducted a vicious propaganda campaign against its political opponents - the weak Weimar government and the Jews whom the Nazis blamed for Germany 's ills” (“The Holocaust: An Introductory History”). During Hitler’s regime he led the mass murder of over 6,000,000 Jews while also killing Roma Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Courageous Resisters, homosexuals, priests and pastors, the disabled, and black children. The total number of deaths is …show more content…
Hitler called the Jews a parasitic vermin, and said that they would be finally exterminated. Hitler had several work camps/ factories for the Jews to work in. “It is not cruel to shoot them if they would not or could not work,” he said(skeptic 's dictionary). Hitler compared the Jews to infected animals who had to be killed so that they could not damage others. “Why should the beasts who wanted to bring Bolshevism (they do not have the same political views of him) be spared more than the innocent infected animals”(Sceptics dictionary). Hitler’s intentions were to kill and as he said, “I made it plain that they, this parasitic vermin in Europe, will be finally exterminated” (Sceptics Dictionary).
Gas chambers were used to exterminate mass numbers of humans. The Nazis told people that they were going in the chambers to be disinfected by hot showers. When the Jews and other “vermin” would enter, they would look for shower spouts but all they would see were holes in the ceiling. When the holes opened, the Nazi’s dropped in Zyklon B (a very deadly gas). The Zyklon B killed hundreds in just a matter of
As common knowledge, people normally recognize the term “concentration camp” and immediately refer to the prison camps the Jews were sent to during the Holocaust. In Corrie Tenboom’s famous collective story of her imprisonment, The Hiding Place, she writes in visual description of exactly how the Jews were treated in these camps. Women were forced to stand naked in front of Nazi guards for not much reason at all and made them feel less than human and animalistic. The people were beaten and killed on a regular day basis. One of the worst parts of these camps were the barbaric gas chambers. Men, women, and children would be fooled and dragged into chambers in groups to stand and be slaughtered by the dozen. Concentration camps are what can be known as the cruelest and most barbaric part of World War II history.
The Holocaust or the Ha-Shoah in Hebrew meaning ‘the day of the Holocaust and heroism’ refers to the period of time from approximately January 30,1933, when Adolf Hitler became the legal official of Germany, to May 8,1945. After the war was over in Europe, the Jews in Europe were being forced to endure the horrifying persecution that ultimately led to the slaughter of over 6 million Jews with about 1.5 million of them being children as well as the demolition of 5,000 Jewish communities.
Hitler used propaganda and manufacturing enemies such as Jews and five million other people, to prepare the country for war. This shows Hitler’s attempt of genocide toward the Jewish race and other races.
Alot of people ask today “What exactly was Hitler’s obsession with the whole “Superior Race”?” Hitler did not invent the hatred towards Jews. Hitler grew up in Vienna where the Mayor was extremely anti-Semitic and where hatred of Jews was widespread. One of the most important reasons for Hitler’s deep seated obsession for the Jews was that he thought of them as an inferior. In his speeches and conversations, Hitler passionately stated his belief that the Germans were the descendants of the mighty Aryan race. He firmly believed that it was the destiny of his race to rule the world. Other races like the Jews were to be their servants. As time went on this hatred eventually became his belief that the Jews should be killed and their entire race ought to be wiped out.
The word Holocaust comes from the Greek language, and is a word that was used to identify a terrifying event that took place in our history, A time we will never forget. During this time period people were burnt and cast into fire. This word is almost a synonym to “death”. A very shocking moment in people’s lives is when they were children and they live during the Holocaust. Children in the holocaust were beaten, tortured and killed in either a concentration camp or death camp. If they did survive they would have died of hard labor, starvation or diseases that were spread in camps. Even though the time of the Holocaust happened in the past, however everything is not as simple as it seems from the first sight.
Holocaust Facts The Holocaust has many reasons for it. Some peoples’ questions are never answered about the Holocaust, and some answers are. The Holocaust killed over 6 million Jews (Byers.p.10.) Over 1.5 million children (Byers, p. 10). They were all sent to concentration camps to do hard labor work.
The Holocaust ended 70 years ago, it involved over 11 million deaths. Hitler blamed all Jews for everything wrong with Germany. The Holocaust was the mass murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazis. They were taken to concentration camps where they were treated like animals. Before the concentration camps, their human rights were taken, and also making them wear gold stars to identify the Jews better and faster. The Jews were taken from camp to camp until they finally arrived to the deadliest camp of them all, Auschwitz. The Holocaust also lasted 12 years from January of 1933 to May 8 of 1945. It all started when Adolf Hitler came into power. The Holocaust should never be forgotten because first of all, there were too many deaths. Second, because they were innocent people who
A holocaust is defined as a disaster that results with the tremendous loss of human life. History, however, generally identifies the Holocaust to be the series of events that occurred in the years before and during World War II. The Holocaust started in 1933 with the persecuting and terrorizing of Jews by the Nazi Party, and ended in 1945 with the murder of millions of helpless Jews by the Nazi war-machine. "The Holocaust has become a symbol of brutality and of one people's inhumanity to another." (Resnick p. 11)
As early as age thirteen, we start learning about the Holocaust in classrooms and in textbooks. We learn that in the 1940s, the German Nazi party (led by Adolph Hitler) intentionally performed a mass genocide in order to try to breed a perfect population of human beings. Jews were the first peoples to be put into ghettos and eventually sent by train to concentration camps like Auschwitz and Buchenwald. At these places, each person was separated from their families and given a number. In essence, these people were no longer people at all; they were machines. An estimation of six million deaths resulting from the Holocaust has been recorded and is mourned by descendants of these people every day. There are, however, some individuals who claim that this horrific event never took place.
For many years, people time and time again denied the happenings of the Holocaust or partially understood what was happening. Even in today’s world, when one hears the word ‘Holocaust’, they immediately picture the Nazi’s persecution upon millions of innocent Jews, but this is not entirely correct. This is because Jews
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 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
The Holocaust is a subject familiar to most people around the world. They either learned about it in school or on TV. The word “Holocaust” comes from the Greek words “holos” and “kaustos. “Holos” which means whole and the word “kaustos” meaning burned. Originally it is historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Throughout history the word has taken a whole different meaning. The modern definition of the word means the mass murder of some 6 million European Jews and other groups by the German Nazi “regime” during World War ll (History, 2016). The Holocaust was one of the darkest times for both Germany and the Jews who were targeted because Hitler believed that they didn’t meet his standards that would compromise
Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, used Jews as a scapegoat to Germany’s problems. His goal was to gain worldly power and to eliminate every Jewish person, enemy, or threat to his reign. He would send every Jew in the country of Germany to concentration camps. He orchestrated a breeding program of which if the child was not Aryan he would be exterminated.
The Holocaust was a devastating event that killed many. The Holocaust is part of history that happened and had cut the Jewish population by about six million people. Not only does the population drop prove the Holocaust happened, there are also eyewitness testimonies from survivors as well as perpetrators stating the condition and events of the Holocaust. The most interesting piece of evidence is the Nazi post war records. These resources have given the evidence needed to enlighten people on the events and reality of the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a real event that had killed millions of Jews.