Understanding the Holocaust: A Deep Dive into History

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“The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.” What are your views on this sentence? Does something inside of you tremble from the thought of six million innocent Jews dying from irrational and manipulated people? How does someone have it in them to do this? What have you learned from this experience? I have all the answers you’re looking for, and hopefully you learn something from what I have to say. Today, we are going to get in depth of The Holocaust, and what it all comes down to. Society isn’t always accepting to those of color, religion, race, and individuality. These people are commonly described as being “different”, “weird”, “nobody’s”, due to how they express themselves through the way they dress, the way they do their hair, they way they do their makeup, and what kind of music they listen to. No …show more content…

These human beings were treated like prisoners over the mind of a negative and unhappy person. Instead of Hitler owning up to his problems, he would blame the Jews for everything as if they really did depend their lives on ruining everyone else's. That just wasn’t the case, because the Jews were far from that. They expressed their race and religion in different ways, and for some strange reason no one likes different. There isn’t a reason for it, and it's completely unacceptable. Everyone was put on earth for a reason. Not everyone is suppose to look alike, and act alike because not everyone is the same person. Unless you choose to be. Imagine being in the Jews shoes. Do you think you would be able to last throughout the whole Holocaust? More than likely not, because deep down you know that this behavior that the German’s expressed to them was unfair. There's not a legitimate reasoning for why the Germans did what they

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