Holocaust Consequences

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Intro:
In 1942 right after the agreement of ‘the final solution’ by the Nazi officials, the Holocaust began. The Holocaust had many causes and consequences, but for this essay I will be writing about the two most important causes and the two most important consequences. The two most important causes were eugenics and social darwinism and Hitler coming to power in 1933. The two most important consequences were the displacement of Jews and the creation of Israel. The positive consequence would be the creation of Israel and the negative consequence is the displacement of Jews.

Cause 1: Eugenics and Social Darwinism
The first cause of the Holocaust was the eugenics and Social Darwinism. The idea of eugenics influenced Nazi Social Darwinism. It …show more content…

These laws were the first step in Hitler’s attempt at exterminating the Jews. It did this as the laws of the Nuremberg laws stated that the ‘Aryan’ and the non-’Aryans’ should be separated. They also did not allow Jews to have any contact with ‘Aryans’ including not being able to be married or have any children. This is important because this started the segregation of the ‘Aryans’ and the Jews. Right after this law passed, the Nazis believed that the Jews were not needed , this is what lead Hitler to introduce ‘the final solution’. The ‘Final Solution’ was the start of the Holocaust. The Nazis believed that getting rid of the Jews would be their ‘Final Solution’, as it would create what they thought was the ‘master race’ in Germany, and getting rid of the Jews which could help their regime. I think that Hitler coming to power is the most significant and the most important cause of the Holocaust because if it wasn’t for Hitler, the idea of the Nuremberg Laws wouldn’t have been brought up, same with ‘the Final Solution’. It also would’ve prevented the hatred of …show more content…

Although this is a positive consequence because the Jews survived by they also help establish the creation of Israel. In the late of 1944, a Palestinian Jewish unit of the British army or known as the Jewish Brigade group was formed with ex Partisan fighters displaced in central Europe. Their focus of the Jewish Brigade was to help facilitate a huge amount of Jewish refugees from Europe to Palestine. This is an important consequence of the Holocaust because the amount of refugees being displaced to Palestine was an exodus amount of refugees. About 170,000 Jews were displaced to Palestine in only 5 years from about 1948 to 1953. Although, I think that this was a positive consequence because NOT only Jews survived, they helped establish Palestine or Israel. By 1948, the first census in Israel indicated that there were 712,000 Jewish residents and only 69,000 Arab residents in

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