Genocide of the Jewish Race: An Unthinkable Act
Genocide. What is it defined as? According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, genocide is defined as any crime committed with intent to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnical, or religious group. The Holocaust, during WWII, is one of the largest acts of genocide in human history resulting in an unfathomable amount of deaths of the Jewish race(Holocaust Encyclopedia). According to the Holocaust Museum Houston, over 5,800,000 Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Communists, trade unionists, socialists, and gypsies are just some of the many groups also affected by this horrific event(Holocaust Museum Houston). Many unanswered questions still remain today about the Holocaust. Perhaps the biggest question is why did this happen? Why was Hitler so evil? Why did the Nazis and Hitler single out the Jewish race for genocide?
According to History Learning Site, Adolf Hitler was born in a small Austrian town near the border of Germany on April 20th, 1889. He left school at the age of 15 to pursue a career in painting. His life in Vienna was “five years of misery” (History Learning Site). It was during this time that he began his hatred towards the Jews. He blamed them for his mother’s death and his failure to get in to the Vienna Academy of Art. As a young man, he joined the German army to fight in WWI as he was unfit to join the Austrian army. At the end of WWI, Hitler was convinced that the Jews were responsible for Germany’s defeat. Hitler started as a president/chancellor of Germany and later became the dictator of Germany.
According to the History Learning Site and a teacher’s guide, there is evidence that as early as 1919 was the beginning of Hitler’s hatred of the ...
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... As George Santayana once said’; “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. (The Santayana Edition)
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Hitler was born April 20, 1989, in Braunau Austria to a Jewish family.He was the fourth of six children of Alois Hitler and Klara puzzle.his father Alois was emotionally harsh to Hitler.This and his brother Edmund dying when Adolf was only 11 years of age, helped make Hitler feel detached and introverted from everyone else.From when he was young he seemed to reject the authority of Austria-Hungary, and he had an
Adolf Hitler was born in Austria but later on became a German solider. He went to Germany after both his parents died, and after he was rejected from an art college. During WWI Hitler was injured twice. While he was in the hospital recovering, he found out that Germany lost the war, and he became furious. Once he got out, he joined the Nazi party and tried to overthrow the government. In the end, he was only arrested, but while he was in jail, he wrote his book, Mein Kamphf. Once he got out of jail he decided to politicaly take over. He did rallies and once everyone started to like him, he was elected Chancellor. He changed laws to make all of his future plans legal, and once the Headmaster of Germany died, Hitler became the most power. Everything he did was legal there. He made this plan called the Final Solution, that if any allied troops got into his strongholds, he would back out and take everyone down with him. This included the mass killing of almost all remaining jews. He only did this so he couldnt get charged with any crime, so there would be no witnisses, but that plan failed big time.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria. Although he was not born in Germany, he was the Führer leader of the Nazi Party and the Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Hitler started WWII in Europe by attacking Poland. Hitler once said, "If I am ever really in power, the destruction of the Jews will be my first and most important job.” He said this because he didn't like Jews and that if he was the ruler his first job would be to kill all Jews. According to the book Why Did Hitler Hate Jews, Hitler “caused the deaths of at least 11 million people, including the mass murder of an estimated six million Jews.” Why did Hitler hate Jews? People believed that Hitler hated Jews for three different reasons. Those reasons are a history of hate, of Jewish people in Germany, blaming Jewish people for the loss of WWI and Hitler’s belief in a superior race.
Adolf Hitler was born at 6:30 p.m. on the evening of April 20, 1889, in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border of German Bavaria. As a young boy, Hitler found school easy and got good grades. He had even idolized the monks where he attended school at a Catholic Benedictine monastery at age seven. Hitler’s family moved to the village of Leonding in 1898. There a history teacher named Dr. Leopold Potsch touched Hitler’s imagination with exciting tales of Bismark and Frederick the Great. For young Hitler German nationalism quickly became an obsession.
Adolf Hitler, was born on April 20th, 1889 in Bronau am Inn, Austria Hungary (a town that borders Bavaria). Hitler was the fourth child out of six to parents Klara Plötzl and Albis Hitler, who both spoke with a distinct Bavarian accent, the one Hitler was so famously accredited for. The loss of Hitlers younger brother Edmund on the 2nd of February 1900 from the measles changed Hitler in a way never imagined. His teachers told stories about the change of a strong willed and confident young boy who changed into a detached, unfazed, and melodramatic man. Shortly after hitlers dismissal from Volksshule (government run school) Hitlers paren...
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria as son of Alois Schickelgruber Hitler, an Austrian custom office and his third wife Klara Polzi. Hitler was born in a middle class family. As a child Adolf had strong leadership qualities. Even as a child he showed racial discrimination towards Non-Aryan races. He was a top excellent student in the elementary school, but he didn’t do well in his High School. So, his father told him to become a Civil Servant. But, Adolf dream was to become an artist. Later, he wrote: “I yawned and grew sick to my stomach at the thought of sitting in an office, deprived of my liberty; ceasing to be the master of my own time and being compelled to force the content of a whole life into blanks that had to be filled out” (Haugen, 20). At the age of 16, Hitler dropped out of high school. After his father’s death he moved to Vienna in hope of becomin...
By definition, genocide is the mass extermination of a whole group of people, or an attempt to destroy an entire group of people, either in whole or in part. Whether it’s based on race, ethnicity, culture, or religion, the systematic destruction of a certain group of people constitutes as genocide. Forced transfer of the children of a group to another in an attempt to destroy a certain group also counts as genocide. Genocide covers a broad spectrum of points, and it’s surprising that so many of these points actually occur in our civilized society, but it does occur.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria-Hungary, he was the fourth of six children. After his father retired the family was moved to Linz, Austria. Adolf was good in school up until he reached high school. His father Alois was not pleased with the way Adolf preformed in school and always had wanted Adolf to become a civil servant and pressured him to do so. However, he had always had a passion for art and when his father died in 1903, he dropped out of high school and spent his days drawing, reading, and daydreaming. At the age of 20, Hitler decided to move to Vienna in hopes of pursuing his dream of becoming an artist. He applied to two different art schools, and unfortunately was denied from both. Shortly after being denied his mother passed away from cancer. This had huge impacts on his life. He later wrote, “The death of my mother put a sudden end to all my high-flown plans. It was a dreadful blow, particularly for me. I had honored my father, but my mother I had loved. “
A Holocaust is a disaster that results in the large-scale destruction of life. Although this name has been used to describe many catastrophes over centuries, today it has a more specific meaning. The Holocaust refers to the annihilation of 6 million Jews, men, women, and children, in addition to other groups of people by Hitler and the Nazi party during World War II. Such a destruction of a particular group or race is called genocide. (Resnick 9)
Adolf Hitler was born in a small Austrian town in 1889 and died in 1945. The name of his birth town was called Braunau am Inn. His father, Alois Hitler was very abusive to young Hitler. His mother died of breast cancer when Hitler was eighteen. His grades in high school were very, very bad in French, and amazingly well in gymnastics. He was a catholic person who did not want any impure race. So he started building concentration camps after he became the leader of Nazi Germany at the age of 32. After that, he became the world’s biggest killer. He succeeded at building the worst killing strategies in the world.
What is genocide? “Genocide is a deliberate, systematic destruction of racial cultural or political groups.”(Feldman 29) What is the Holocaust? “Holocaust, the period between 1933-1945 when Nazi Germany systematically persecuted and murdered millions of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and many other people.”(Feldman 29) These two things tie into each other.The Holocaust was a genocide. Many innocent people were torn apart from their families, for many never to see them again. This murder of the “Jewish people of Europe began in spring 1941.”( Feldman 213) The Holocaust was one of the most harshest things done to mankind.
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria. Actually, his real name is Adolphus Heidler. While in his childhood it was very noticeable that he was a leader. He was also very pampered by his mother Klara. He loved her dearly and was very devastated about her lose to breast cancer in 1903. His father on the other hand was disliked and respected by his son. When his death occurred in 1907, Hitler wasn't nearly as disappointed in his death than as his mothers. Adolf had a total of 7 brothers and sisters. Hitler's religion was German Catholic but later in his life he would become anti-Jew.
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“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it” is a famous quote by George Santayana. Although the r...