Mein Kaumf by Adolf Hitler

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The Holocaust was a very sad time for millions of people in Europe and U.S. The leader of the Holocaust was Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was in prison for trying to take over German Government and while he was in there he wrote a book. The book was called "Mein Kaumf", which described his struggle and how he felt the German Government should be ran. After Hitler got out from his short sentance in prison, many people had already read his book which created his power. Hitler felt that Jews were the main problem for all of Germanys struggles and down fall. In 1935 the Nuremberg laws were created. The Nuremberg laws pretty much stripped the Jews of there citizenship. In 1936 the Nuremberg laws slowed down because of the Olympic Games which were being held in Berlin. The reason for them slowing down was becuase with all of the poeple there to watch the games, Germany wanted to look strong and he also wanted to give the Jews false hope.

Once the Holocaust stared to get even worse, the Nazis would go around arrest any Jews or anyone else on the "Undesirable List". The list consisted of Jews, communists, Gypsies, homosexuals, blacks, and acouple others. The Nazis could tell you were Jewish by your last name. They could also look at your birth cirtificate. When a Jewish person or anyone else on the "Undesirable List" were caught they would have taken you to a prison camp or even shot you right on the spot. When you were at a camp, depending on how old you were and your health determined what happened to you. In some of the camps they made the prisoners work on plantations just like slavery in the U.S south durin ghte Civil War. Also, in some of the camps as soon as people arrived there they would just take them right to the gas chamber and ...

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All of this is information about the horror of the Holocaust which was all caused by mainly one person. When we learn about the Holocaust, it teaches us about tolerance. The world that we live in today is very diverse, and no one is the same. You can't judge people by what they believe or what color there skin is and that is why toleracne needs to be taught. Another reason we learn about the Holocaust is becuase it will teach us not to act like what the Nazis acted like and teach us not to believe in what the Nazis believed in. In the end of the Holocuast there were over 15,000 camps the Nazis used and over eleven million Jews and people on the undesirable list were killed. In conclusion if we were to not learn about the Holocaust wwe might just forget about the innocent lives lost and there possibly, something just like the Holocaust could happen again.

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