The Nazi Observatory

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From the second Adolf Hitler become chancellor Germany become a darker place. Germany was humiliated after WWI and Hitler wanted the world to see that Germany isn’t weak and they weren’t to blame for their troubles. Hitler blamed the Jews and those who didn’t fit his “elite race”. He started a genocide and when the world reacted all they could do was save as many lives as they could for so many had already been lost. The nations of the world could have done so much more to prevent the genocide and if they couldn’t prevent it they could have stopped it sooner. But for several years the world remained a bystander. “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” –Albert Einstein
According to the Jewish Virtual Library in American, the press printed articles that described the mistreatment of those in Germany who didn’t fit in Adolf Hitler’s “elite race” but the press buried it in the papers. For the government, they denied it because they didn’t have substantial proof of the mistreatment so they let it unconfirmed (“Holocaust”). When the U.S. government got confirmed information of the concentration camps, gad chambers, death rows, and hash treatments the government kept it classified. When the British Prim Minister Winston Churchill decided to make a stand by having the death camp at Auschwitz to be bombed he was ignored. If he wasn’t ignored and the railroads leading to the camp were bombed it would have saved thousands of lives (“Holocaust”).
Under pressure, President Roosevelt issued a statement denouncing the Nazi German government for its genocidal policy against the innocent people of Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Greece, ...

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