Teacher's Guide To The Holocaust Analysis

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The end of WWI left Germany beaten and bruised. They got blamed for the war, military weakened, and navy downsized. In the Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, it stated that a new government came into place, the Weimar Republic. This republic tried to establish a democratic course, political parties struggled violently for control. Neither parties nor the new regime could handle the depressed economy. They also couldn’t handle the rampancy lawlessness and disorder. This is when the Nazi party came into power. Hitler quickly climbed and crawled his way to power, and soon after mass genocide took place of the Jews. However, the Jews weren’t the only group of people slain by the Nazi party. Jehovah’s witnesses, Roma Gypsies, the disabled, resistors, …show more content…

According to the The Holocaust: Non-Jewish Victims Hitler was Chancellor of Germany during the Holocaust, came into power in 1933 when Germany was experiencing severe economic hardship and promised Germans prosperity. Hitler had a vision of a Master Race of Aryans that would control Europe. He used very powerful propaganda techniques to convince not only the German people, but countless others, that if they eliminated the people who stood in their way and the degenerates and racially inferior, they - the great Germans would prosper. Hitler, in all ways was a racist. He believed in his own idiotic ways that only a certain race of people was the right race. He wanted these good people to breed, even set up camps for kids so they would have sex and reproduce more “ideal” Nazis. These other non-ideal peoples got killed, and it was all okay in the eyes of Nazis. The first groups of people killed by the Nazi party were the communists. Communists were hauled off to a concentration camp and eventually murdered. Anyone who wasn’t an ideal Nazi, hauled off to concentration …show more content…

It is essential that the great German people should consider it as its major task to destroy all Poles.” Heinrich Himmler. In The Holocaust: Non-Jewish Victims it says that Hitler’s first target was Germany’s closest neighbor to the east, Poland, an agricultural country with little military power. Hitler attacked Poland from three directions on September 1, 1939 and in just over one month, Poland surrendered unable to defend itself against the powerful Germans. In Poland, Hitler saw an agricultural land in close proximity to Germany, populated by modest but strong and healthy farmers. Hitler quickly took control of Poland by specifically wiping out the Polish leading class, the Intelligentsia. During the next few years, millions of other Polish citizens were rounded up and either placed in slave labor for German farmers and factories or taken to concentration camps where many were either starved and worked to death or used for scientific experiments. More non-Jewish people who died during the holocaust. The Jews in Poland were forced inside ghettos, but the non-Jews were made prisoners inside their own country. No one was allowed out. The Germans took over the ranches, farms and Polish factories. Most healthy citizens were forced into slave labor. Young Polish men were drafted into the German army. Blond haired children were “Germanized” and trained from an early age to be Nazi

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