The Holocaust and The Final Solution

The Holocaust was not just bad; it was horrific in every way. The Final Solution was meant to control people and scare people. Over eleven million people died in Europe. The United States came in later than they should have, but they stopped the Axis Powers from gaining too much control. However, my people, the Jewish people, would never forget the tragedy that doomed millions of lives.

It was all started by a man named Adolf Hitler. Native to Austria, he fought for Germany in World War One. After germany surrendered, Hitler was furious. He wanted Germany to rise to what his vision of greatness was. After a failed attempt to overthrow the government, he got into politics. A few years later, he became chancellor of Germany. Hitler then made a law saying that once the president of Germany died, the chancellor would be in charge Just days later, the president died, leaving hitler as the leader of Germany. The nuermberg Laws followed soon after. Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other Slavs, communists, socialists, people with physical and mental disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals are only a few groups that were bullied by these laws. However, the main victims were Jews. Nothing would prepare them for the night called "The Night of Broken Glass". Business owned by anyone on the Undesirables List were ruined. Glass windows were smashed, doors were hanging off of their hinges, and bodies were scattered everywhere. Later on, those same people wouldn't be able to own a business. For some, that was all they had left.

Anyone on the Undesirables List was sent away to concentration camps, work camps, and death camps. Each were worse than the next. The elderly and children were sent directly to the gas chambers, as they were deemed un...

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Although the class was very interesting, I didn't learn anything new. Honestly, it was all a review. Being a Jew myself, I hear stories all the time about my grandfather leaving Germany to start a new life with his younger brother and parents. His grandmother, aunt, uncle, and three cousins that they left behind were sent to concentration camps. They were never seen again. Nothing was left of them except for a picture of my grandfather's cousins. Years later, he went to teach a class about the Holocaust in Germany. A student asked him, "Should we be proud to be German?". He said, "That was a different generation. That wasn't your fault." I appreciate your efforts in teaching us about the Holocaust, but I have been taught this for years. The Holocaust will haunt my family for generations to come.