Holocaust
Introduction
What, when, where, and why was the Holocaust? The Holocaust was first called a
religious rite in which an offer that gave to some one was burned in a fire. The current definition
of holocaust is any widespread human massacre. When it is written Holocaust, it means when
Nazi Germany completely destroyed the Jewish. The Holocaust was during the period of
January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945. Hitler became Germany’s chancellor when it first started and
the war ended on the last day of the Holocaust, or known as V-E Day. During that time frame,
Jews in Europe were killed in the worst way possibly and led to the death of 6,000,000 Jews and
5,000 communities destroyed. 1.5 million of those Jews killed were children.
After Germany’s lost in World War I, they were embarrassed by the Versailles Treaty,
which lowered its prewar territory and armed forces. The German Empire demolished, a new
government of parliament called the Weimar Republic was born. The republic suffered from
economic instability, which grew worse when the great depression was happening. The great
depression was when the stock market crashed in New York in 1929.
Adolf Hitler became leader of the Nazi(National Socialist German Workers Party)
on January 30, 1933. He was named chancellor by president Paul von Hidenburg after the Nazi
won a election by the majority of the votes in 1932.
Propaganda: “The Jews Are Our Misfortune”
The Nazi newspaper, Der Sturmer (The Attacker), was a major tool in the Nazi’s
propaganda assault. The paper said, “The Jews are our misfortune”, in bold print, on the bottom
of the front page of each issue. In the Der Sturmer, the Jews were regularly drawn as
hooked-nosed and ape-like cartoons. By 1938, about a half a million copies were sold weekly
because the influence of the paper was far reaching.
A little after Hitler became chancellor, he called for a new election for a effort to gain
complete control of the Reicstag. Reicstag was a German parliament for the Nazi. The Nazi
used the government to mess with the other parties. They banned their political meetings and
arrested their leaders. The Reichstag building burned down February 27, 1933 during the middle
of the election campaign. Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutchman, was arrested for burning the
building and he swore he di...
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nearly 7,200 Jews and transported them to safety in neutral Sweden. A young Swedish diplomat
named Raoul Wallenberg, saved 1000,000 Hungarian Jews by issuing them passports so they
would not be deported. A German factory owner, Oscar Schindler, saved his Jewish slave
laborers by getting them from transports to the concentration camps. He kept them and fed them
until the war was over. Some of the righteous gentiles saved the Jewish children by taking and
raising them as their own.
Liberation and the End of the War
Gradually the camps were liberated, as the Allies advanced on the German Army. As the
war ended, between 50,000 and 100,00 Jewish survivors were living in three areas of occupation:
British, American, and Soviet. That figure grew to 200,000 within a year. The American
occupation had more than 90 percent of the Jewish displaced persons. The Jewish displaced
persons could not return to their homes, this brought back horrible memories and fear of danger
from anti-Semitic neighbors. Until emigration could be arranged to Palestine, and later Israel,
United States, South America, and other countries the displaced Jews remained in camps.
Adolf Hitler, head of the NSDAP, became Chancellor of Germany on the 30th January 1933. Following the 'legal revolution' of the following months and President Hindenburg's death on the 2nd August 1934, Hitler made himself Führer and Reichskanzler. The Nazi revolution was complete and Germany was subject to a dictatorship of the extreme political right.
In March 11, 1900 in a German town called Konitz the severed body parts of a human were discovered. Almost immediately, the blame fell on the Jewish. As Smith points out, anti-Semitism had been on a steady decline, and the anti-Semitics were looking for ways to revitalize the movement. The murder was an opportunity for anti-Semitics revive their movement. After the identity of the body was discovered to be Ernst Winter, the Staatsburgerzeitung, an anti-Semitic newspaper, printed several articles focusing on Konitz. Using unverified accounts from people in the town, it claimed that the murder was a ritual murder that had been carried out by the Jewish. The use of fear mongering was affective because the paper was a Berlin based paper so distribution was wide, and news of the murder traveled far. A crucial facet of the rise of anti-Semitism was due to anti-Semitic newspapers taking stories such as the Ernst Winter murder and using them to promote their cause. One of Smith’s sources, the Preuβische Jahrbṻcher, had a printed article written by Heinrich von Treitschke who was an historian; in which one of his quotes was “The Jews are our misfortune.” His article was what later spurred the German population’s turn from liberalism a...
Hitler became leader of the Nazi party and chancellor of Germany. For example,’ ‘ Hitler was never elected, he came second, until President Hindenburg was forced to appoint Hitler as chancellor in 1933.’’ (www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/adolf-hitler)
...they managed to save almost all of their Jews. This is a stark contrast to the Netherlands who only managed to save a quarter of its Jewish population, although both had a very strong resistance. I mention this comparison throughout the paper in multiple footnotes.
4 "The Jewish Peril," "Not a Single Jew," and "Law for the Protection of German Blood
or found to be helping Jews out had to suffer. By the time that the
Liberation took place in 1945 ( Rice 9). The surviving few weren't done with their obstacles, Jews who were starved and beaten died within the first week (Byers 102). Elie Wiesel survived the Holocaust, among a few others. “Never shall I forget that night the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.”- Elie Wiesel's memoir night (Allen 65).
The Holocaust was a deplorable event in history. Millions of people were annihilated. This was a eventuality of antisemitism. Germans were considered to be "superior" from the Jewish people. However, the racial separation was not only aimed toward Jews, but to Gypsies, Slavic, disabled people, and others.
...s dwarfs, those with two different eye colors, those with birth defects and he also took an interest in pregnant women where he would perform vivisections prior to sending them to the gas chambers.
For the Jewish population the hardest time came with the introduction of the concentration camps. Jewish people were
A survivor of the Holocaust, named Mr. Greenbaum, tells his experience to visitors of the Holocaust Museum. “Germans herded his family and other local Jews in 1940 to the Starachowice ghetto in his hometown of Poland when he was only 12. Next he was transported to a slave labor camp where he and his sister were moved while the rest of the family was sent to die at Treblinka. By the age of 17 he had been enslaved in five camps in five years, and was on his way to a sixth, when American soldiers freed him in 1945”. Researchers have recorded about 42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe. “We knew before how horrible life in the campus and ghettos was” said Hartmut Bergoff, director of the German Historical Institute, “but the numbers are unbelievable.
To execute this task, the Nazi’s used new forms of publicity to receive the recognition that they thought would be beneficial. The Nazi’s held Mass meetings usually associated with brainwashing the Germans of anti-Semitic views. They distributed various visual aids such as flyers, posters, and eventually the use of radio and cinema would be used as wel...
The Holocaust was the destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis through an officially sanctioned, government-ordered, systematic plan of mass annihilation. As many as six million Jews died, almost two-thirds of the Jews of Europe. Although the Holocaust took place during World War II, the war was not the cause of the Holocaust. The war played a role in covering up the genocide of the Jewish people. How could this have happened? The answers can be found by understanding how violence of this magnitude can evolve out of prejudice based on ignorance, fear, and misunderstanding about minority groups and other
It was in December 1948, when it was approved unanimous the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide at France which became the 260th resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations. What made the leaders of the 41 States create and sign this document in which the term Genocide was legally defined? This document serves as a permanent reminder of the actions made by the Nazis and their leader Adolf Hitler during the Holocaust where more than five million of European Jews were killed. In summary I will explain what were the events that leaded the ordinary Germans kill more than six million Jews in less than five years. To achieve this goal, I will base my arguments on the Double Spiral Degeneration Model provided by Doctor Olson during the spring semester of the Comparative Genocide class.
As fragile relations between Konitz-residing Christians and Jews increasingly began to deteriorate, rumors and speculation that Winter had fallen victim to ritual murder by local Jews, set the ball in motion for a virulent anti-Semitic nature characteristic of Imperial Germany. This anti-Jew sentiment would further be sensationalized by rumors, political movements, and the biased, fabricated newspaper reports of the