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The holocaust was a war when Adolf Hitler captured and tortured the Jews. The Jews were held in concentration camps. Concentration camps were camps where they tortured and starved the Jews. This was a horrible and long war, it was called World War 2. This was a very large war where 8.7 million soviet soldiers died and over 60 million people died. This was the deadliest military conflict in history. World War 2 started September 1, 1939 and ended September 2, 1945. Later on i around the end of the war all the Jews were killed by being gassed. The Jews thought they would taking showers when this happened.six million were Polish citizens. There were other religions that were killed in the holocaust. Three million were Polish Jews and another three million were Polish Christians. Most of the remaining victims were from other countries including Hungary,Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Holland, France and even Germany. Hitler committed suicide before being captured he shot himself in the head. Hitler hated jews because he was not accepted to an art school. It was a Jewish person that didnt accept him so since then he hated Jews. Ever since then Adolf Hitler was planning on his war with the Jews.

Concentration Camps
Concentration camps were camps that the Nazis held Jews in. They worked and torchered the Jews to death. “The term concentration camps was borrowed from the British concentration camps of the Second Anglo-Boer War.” The first concentration camps were erected in Germany in February 1933. The camps held around 45,000 prisoners by 1933. They had certain types of camps such as Hostage Camps, these camps were where hostages were held and killed. Labor Camps, these were camps where interned inmates had to do hard physical labo...

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...camps, they liberated the people still alive inside. The Nazi’s had known that the allies were coming, and tried to destroy the camps and all the people inside of them. The Nazi’s took prisoners on death walks forcing them to walk in through snow and subzero temperatures without stopping, and with no food or water. Many Nazi’s escaped from Europe. One of the most famous Nazi’s, Josef Mengele had escaped to South America. A lot of the Nazi’s and war criminals found sanction in South America. The only conclusion I reach is that people were murdered for no reason at all. The people that were killed to this day still have not received justice for what they endured and probably never will. What Adolf Hitler did to the Jews was totally uncalled for and shouldn't of happened, but it did and I respect the Jews for what they had to go through and will always protect them.

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