The Holocaust Memories

Adolf Hitler’s rise to power grew out of issues left unresolved by the earlier conflict during World War I. Resentment and harsh terms imposed by the Versailles Treaty only fueled Hitler’s revenge, which would result in the largest blood bath the world has ever come to see. World War II would be considered the deadliest war in history, murdering millions of civilians. In 1939, Adolf Hitler invaded Poland resulting in a deadly six-year battle until the final allied defeat of both Nazi Germany and Japan in 1945.

In August 1939, Hitler and Joseph Stalin signed the Germany Soviet Nonaggression Pact. The Nonaggression pact meant that Hitler would get assistance from the soviets if he invaded Poland. If Hitler was to invade Poland, Great Britain and France guaranteed military support if Germany was ever attacked. On Sept 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, two days later France and Britain declared war on Germany, beginning World War II.

Hitler’s pursuit for world domination would continue until his goals for racial purity and spatial expansion would one day be his driving force behind his foreign and domestic policy. In March 1933, the first official concentration camp opened at Dachau. In 1933, Jews in Germany numbered around 525,000. Under the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, to be considered a Jew, you would have to have three or four Jewish grandparents and those people with two Jewish grandparents were considered half-breeds. This law made Jews open targets for stigmatization and persecution.

When the German army took over the western half of Poland, German police forced tens of thousands of Polish Jews from their homes and into the ghettoes. Poverty, hunger, overpopulation and diseases caused the Germans to gas the Jews in the so-called ...

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...eir lives. The German government took full responsibility for the crimes that were committed.

Today, the Holocaust is still one the worlds most horrific, tragic and memorable events that occurred in history. The largest mass murdering of innocent Jewish people and their families due to one mans hatred and discrimination. Though many people may have moved on since, including the victims themselves, no one will ever forget the tragic crimes that took so many lives. Hitler will always remain one of the world’s most hated men. The amount of people he killed to rid the Jewish race but in the end was unsuccessful and took his own life. Unfortunately, this man will never be forgotten.

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Article Details: The Holocaust, History.com Staff, 
History.com, 2009, The Holocaust, 
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust, 
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