Genocide

The word “Holocaust”, was originated from the words “Holos” meaning whole, and “kaustos” meaning burned. To Adolf Hitler, Jews were an “inferior” race. After years of Nazi rule, Hitler’s “final solution” came under the cover of world war, with mass killing centers constructed in the concentration camps. Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma Gypsies, Priests and Pastors, homosexuals, and black children were all victims of the holocaust. Most of the victims left were from other countries.

The Holocast is the name of the Geonocide, or mass murder of Jews, Romas(gypsies), Slavics, communists, socialists, Jehovas Witnesses, homosexuals, and people with medical handicaps. This geonocide, led by Adolf Hitler, who was the chancellor and future dictator of Germany, resulted in the death of six million Jews and thousands of other innocents. The Holocaust is arguably the worst thing that has happened in our history. In our modern world we still have racist and religious problems accross the world particularly in the Middle East and Africa. By studying the Holocaust we can learn many things and gain a perspective on our lives.

Hitler blamed a lot of the problems on the Jewish people, being a great orator Hitler got the support from Germany, killing off millions of Jews and other people, the German people thought it was the right thing to do. “To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community” (History.com Staff). “The earth ... ... middle of paper ... ...00s of years apart, and the Crucible wasn’t as harsh and bloody as the Holocaust. Both witch hunts killed off certain people that were discriminated against because of the word of one person. The modern day witch hunt, the Holocaust, was terrifying for the Jews, as well as other people, gypsies, homosexuals, and disabled people.

There was approximately six million Jews were sent to death camps and killed during World War II (1939-1945). So what do you think that led up to this? Why Adolf Hitler hatred towards Jews is so strong that made him did the inhuman cruel murder? Well the resolution lies in the ethnic undercurrents that ran beneath the peripheral of Germany and the world. The Holocaust was the execution of the Jews and other people whom Hitler considered mediocre.

Hitler hated the Jews for all the reasons in the world. Some of them are for no reason at all. But it was mostly because the Germans lost World War 1 to the Jews. Hitler’s hatred on the Jews was called “anti-Semitism”. Hitler’s Jewish hatred led to reasons why the holocaust was started and how the holocaust claimed 6 million lives.

Conventional and Nazi antisemitism were different mainly because the Nazis brutally murdered Jews to exterminate an entire population, and conventional antisemitism was mostly an idea of hatred and a desire for Jews to immigrate. Russia is a common ground between the two. Russia had the idea of antisemitism hatred and wanting Jews to immigrate, but also with violence. It was not on the same level as Nazi antisemitism but many Jews were killed. The rise of conventional antisemitism occurred in places like Germany, France, and Austria between 1817 and 1914.

Social Justice 12: Genocide Table: The Holocaust: The holocaust was an extremely horrifying event in world history. Countless innocent citizens were killed and an entire race was influenced forever due to the antisemitism of the German nazis and government during world war two. The holocaust was a result of the “need” to rid Germany of the jews. As part of the final solution, almost two out of every three jews were killed . The country was not portraying a strong economy as they had before and were in a type of distress that was causing unrest in the Nation.

Some of the young Jews survived the camps the Germans built to either make the Jews work hard with little food and necessities or be killed. They told us their story and people around the world felt the impact of the Holocaust, which is a vehement one. Germany took the brunt of the reparations that had to be made for WWI. As a result Germany fell into a deep depression. The German dictator Adolf Hitler blamed the Jewish population for the depression Germany was in at the time and he wanted them out of the country.

Many were killed while others were sent to concentration camps. This order given out by Hitler is known a Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) due to the broken Glass left behind from the destruction that the Germans had caused and to no surprise, Jews were ordered and forced to pay for all the damages. These are only some of the many ordeals that the Jews had experienced during this time. Hitler had created a system of hate and that hatred spread like wildfire. Kaplan is providing somewhat an imagery of what the Jews endured.

While the Germans and the rest of the world were focusing on World War I, many innocent people experiencing a different type of nature. They were subjected to being publicly humiliated, shaved and branded, and placed in tormenting concentration camps. Persecution and Emigration, Origins of the Holocaust, Fighting Back and Anne Frank are all big roles during this time period. No one will ever know the exact feeling of the trauma people were facing and how many people were actually killed. During the time of the Holocaust, Jews were not the only victims of murder.