The Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Most Important Events In History

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What is the most important event in history? That is a question that no matter what the answer is, it is debatable. What's not debatable is the devastation caused by Hitler's rein. No matter if it is the most important event in history or not, the holocaust is something that had a very large impact on the world. Hitler is responsible several subjects taught in history classes from elementary school, up into college. The horrible events he set into action caused widespread devastation across nations. There are many components to the Holocaust that changed history: Hitler's rise, his extermination of millions of people, and the aftermath.
A website titled "A People's History of The Holocaust & Genocide" has a section on Adolf Hitler's life. …show more content…

One page on the website in particular is titled "Final Solution." This explains the steps the Nazi authorities took in order to complete their plan to completely eliminate the Jewish "anti-race." It explains how it all started with segregation and sending Jews to live in Nazi controlled ghettos. The German authorities invaded the Soviet Union and began carrying out mobile kill missions. These were units formed to murder as many Jews as possible before sending them off to camps. After the ghettos did their job, the remaining Jewish population were hauled off to either killing centers or death camps. The Nazis needed slaves to do certain jobs for them so they would choose a certain few who were "lucky" enough to live awhile longer; they were sent to work in labor camps, more famously known as concentration camps. World War II ultimately put an end to Hitler's rein and ended the Holocaust. Hitler managed to murder two thirds of Europe's Jewish population before he was stopped. World War II put an end to the madness before it was completely too late, but not before these events changed history …show more content…

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website has two extremely helpful articles about how much long term devastation the Holocaust actually caused. The article titled "Documenting Numbers of Victims of The Holocaust and Nazi Persecution" gives a very educated guess on how many lives were lost during this time. Due to the lack of official wartime documents, there is no possible way to calculate an exact number of deaths. However, there is an endless goal to discover as much information about the historic genocide as possible. The numbers in this article are not solid due to the lack of a single document stating the number of fatalities. The numbers recorded have been estimated from calculations given by a variety of records

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