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The Holocaust
Do you ever think about the horrible casualties of the Holocaust? What if the allies had intervened sooner? What if it all could have been stopped in time? Well I do, and it makes me feel terrible what all those people went through. There were about 12 million deaths and half of them Jews. According to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum the targeted groups during the holocaust were the Jews, mentally and physically disabled, gypsies, Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). “Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals.”(“Introduction to the Holocaust”) There were a number of reasons why the Holocaust wasn’t stopped: first of all nobody actually knew with certainty what was going on; in addition uprisings were almost impossible; the Nazis left almost no track of the multitude of deaths; finally why were these groups targeted?
To begin with these groups were targeted because they were seen as racially inferior to Germany’s superior race therefore seen as a threat to their racial community. According to The Holocaust Center Jews have always been hated and mistreated by different cultures. Abraham worshipped only one god, at this time most religions were polytheistic and any that wasn’t was seen as crazy, so in these times the Jews were pushed aside for their belief one god. The first recorded massacre of the Jews was held in Alexandria, Egypt in year 38. The Romans isolated, tortured and murdered the Jews. Christians held them accountable for the execution of Jesus Christ. Christians also blamed them for the bubonic plague epidemic which we all know was caused my flea infected rats. The Spanish Inqui...
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... a monstrous death. Hitler was malicious and outrageous. He called it “The Final Solution” “Racal Purification” well I call it evil pure evil.
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"Unit Four: Jewish Resistance." The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida. 2013. Web. 10 May 2014.
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