The Holocaust: The Consequences Of The Holocaust

Introduction: The Holocaust was an event that took place in Germany which means ‘sacrifice by fire’ in Greek; many murdered Jews were the consequences of this terrible action caused by Adolf Hitler. According to the website United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) it states that “The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.” This terrific slaughter was a racial and discriminatory oppression for the Nazis to the minorities. The Holocaust is an important and historical event taught in schools and known by many people. The word ‘holocaust’ is associated with massive deaths based on the background of Hitler’s actions during 1939-1945.
The Holocaust did take place and survivors, documents and photographs are proofs of its existence. During the Holocaust not only Jews were killed, according to the book “The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry” 135,567 people were murdered besides Jews (Yahil, 256). The Holocaust deniers would not believe that it took place, however there are many proofs that show it did take place. “The holocaust came to be seen as a Jewish defeat. Its victims were censured for having let the Nazis murder them without fighting for their lives or at least for the right to ‘die with honor’” (Segev, 109). By being censured, they could not speak up during the Holocaust, but they did spoke to let the society know what was happening in those concentrations during the Holocaust. In conclusion, my position about the Holocaust has being re-forced and still the same. I do believe that the Holocaust did exist and it was a terrific slaughter that turned into a historical event that nobody will forget because it made an impact in our society. There are good reasons to denied the Holocaust however, I think there are more reasons to believe in its