Rudolph Höss: The Extermination Of The Jews

Impunity is when a person is exempt from harm or punishment when they have done something wrong.

The main reason that started the extermination of the Jews in Germany was Hitler’s hatred for them. The Jews were thought to be a deformity on the body politic. They were also perceived as a specific problem to society, a problem that needed to be solved if the nation was to survive. Hitler and the Nazis then saw that the only solution to this problem was to segregate the Jews from the rest of the population. Thus began the extermination of the Jews.

Rudolph Höss was the first commandant of a concentration camp called Auschwitz in April 1940. Auschwitz was established near the Polish city of Oswiecim. This complex was the largest of all the Nazi death camps across Europe and could hold up to one hundred fifty thousand inmates at any given time. This concentration camp had mainly killed 2.1 million to 4 million Jews. The majority of prisoners held at Auschwitz were killed in the various gas chambers, while others died from starvation, forced labor, disease, shooting squads, or heinous medical experiments.

Auschwitz was first constructed initially to

Anne was inspired to edit her diary for posterity after hearing a March 1944 radio broadcast from an exiled Dutch government official, who encouraged the Dutch people to keep journals and letters that would help provide a record of what life was like under the Nazis. After his daughter’s writings were returned to him, Otto Frank helped gather them into a manuscript that was then published in the Netherlands in 1947 called, “Het Acheterhuis” which means, “Rear Annex.” Initially the U.S. publishers rejected the work as too depressing and dull, but it was eventually published in America in 1952 as, “The Diary of a Young Girl.” This book is now required to be read in schools