German Holocaust

Abraham, a Jewish Prophet, can be accredited as the founding father of Judaism. Now, over 4000 years later, Judaism has expanded across multiple continents, to the point where in 1933 there were over 9 million Jews in Europe alone. However between 1933 and 1945 two out of every three European Jews were targeted and killed in an intentional and well-planned mass killing by Hitler and the Nazi’s, later defined in Raphael Lemkin book "Axis Rule in Occupied Europe” as genocide. This genocide, now known as the Holocaust, was one of the most cruel and heinous events in documented history. For Hitler and the Nazi’s to successfully manipulating the whole German population into murdering their innocent Jewish neighbors solely because of their religion seems unfathomable. However, I believe the German Holocaust was was an unavoidable event in World History, due to the long history of anti-Semitism, the fictitious widespread propaganda the Nazi’s created, and Hitler’s limitless authority and power over the German Society.

After World War One, David Lloyd George of Britain, Clemenceau of France, and Woodrow Wilson of America, known as the “Big Three”, created a safeguard to ensure a repeat of WW1 didn’t happen again by forcing Germany to sign the Treaty of Versailles on June 28th, 1919. This treaty resulted in Germany losing valuable land and colonies, as well as a reduced army of 100,000 men with no submarines or air force. After Germany signed this treaty, a negative chain reaction followed, with the hyperinflation of products in 1923, and the Great Depression at the end of the 1920’s. This led to high unemployment rates and rise in percent of Germans living in poverty. Adolf Hitler, an Austrian born politician, blamed German’s loss of W...

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... one religious group has been criticized or hated the most, it has been the Jewish faith. This hatred has been deeply rooted into society. Hitler, therefore, conveniently used Jews as scapegoats to explain German downfall. Germany’s demise caused citizens to want to believe Hitler. They were looking for a quick fix to Germany’s problems, which was why many were willing to eliminate Jews if that meant liberation for Germany. Most Germans allowed themselves to believed in the cruel propaganda and racial and evolutionary theories Hitler used as justification, in order to live with their actions and the reality that Hitler had created for Germany. Since most Non-Jews weren’t willing to risk their life to protect Jews against a force they perceived as unstoppable, no one intervened. This all led to the Holocaust, or the systematic mass murder of 6 million innocent Jews.