Before Hungary fell under the influence of the Nazi Party there was a population of 825,000 Jews. That number would soon change because of the hatred Adolf Hitler had towards the Jews. In 1930 the Nazi Party gained control leading to Hungary fall under their influence. There was a population of 825,000 Jews in Hungary at the time but that number would be soon to change. Like Germany they began to put anti-Jewish laws and decrees into place. As it was becoming clear that the Axis powers would lose the war Hungary tried to negotiate peace with the Allies. In order to prevent this, German forces occupied Hungary in 1944. In May of 1944 the Germans rounded up the Hungarian Jews, put them on trains, and deported them to concentration camps. Most were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau this concentration camp was the largest site for the murder of Jews brought to the camp under the Nazi plan for their extermination. More than 1.1 million men, women, and children lost their lives here. By the time the Nazi’s had carried out their plan for execution of the Jews there were only 255,000 Jews left in Hungary.
For the Nazi’s to carry out the extermination of millions of Jews they had to prepare for them first. The first thing they did was hire “Experts” Otto Moll, Karl Hocker, Richard Bar, Rudolf Hoss, and Adolf Eichman. These “Experts” came to Auschwitz and prepared it for the murder of millions of Jews. They revamped and expanded extermination machinery so that it could operate efficiently and continuously. The crematoria’s were renovated: the furnaces were relined, the chimneys were strengthened, and the loading and unloading ramps were completed with a three-track railway system that provided a direct link to the death factories. These made t...
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...an think of is all of the lives that were lost because of one man’s discrimination towards another. I will now stand up for anyone who is being miss treated because they are different from everybody else.
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