...To most Americans, the holocaust has become known as Jewish history, but this understanding is incorrect for there was over five million victims that were not Jewish. The Holocaust was more than just a Jewish event. The Germans kept records that prove they exterminated millions of Gypsies, homosexuals, Russians, Jehovah's Witnesses, physically and mentally handicapped, Poles, resistance fighters, and many more. (Overlooked millions) If people were captured, and not immediately exterminated, they were usually sent to a concentration camp or labor camp. These prisoners were then given patches on their clothing for identification. Political prisoners wore red, prostitutes and other of that nature wore black, criminals were given green, and Jews were given yellow. (Overlooked millions)...
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...Name: Bartoia Dean Grade: 11 Date: March 18th, 2013 Topic: The Holocaust The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority"Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. WHAT WAS THE HOLOCAUST? In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Although Jews, whom the Nazis deemed a priority danger to Germany, were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included some 200,000 Roma (Gypsies). At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, mainly Germans, living...
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...have sought out revenge on others. The Salem Witch Trials and the Holocaust are both events in which people sought revenge on other people, mostly for no reason. Some wanted eradication of witchcraft, while others another human race. The trials began during the spring of 1692, after the group of girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local woman of witchcraft.(Salem Witch Trials) The first convicted was Bridget Bishop, who was hung that June. (Salem Witch Trials)Eighteen others followed Bishop to Salem’s Gallows Hill,while some 150 men, women, and children were accused over the next several months.(salem witch trials) By September 1692,...
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...INTRODUCTION TO THE HOLOCAUST * Related Articles * Related Links * Comments * How to cite this article Two German Jewish families at a gathering before the war. Only two people in this group survived the Holocaust. Germany, 1928. — US Holocaust Memorial Museum * VIEW PHOTOGRAPHS * VIEW PERSONAL HISTORIES * VIEW ARTIFACTS * VIEW MAPS * VIEW HISTORICAL FILM FOOTAGE The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. WHAT WAS THE HOLOCAUST? In 1933, the Jewish population of Europestood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and theircollaborators killed nearly two out of every...
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...victims of the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, factions of people, including Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled were hunted down and forced to enter concentration camps. They suffered extreme amounts of mistreatment and were identified by a characterized arm band. The Holocaust and the Salem witch hunts are comparable because a single leader initiated the hunts, terror triggered the movements, and people fell victim by what others perceived them as. The Holocaust transpired during World War II, 1939-1945, when one man came into power, Adolf Hitler. After World War...
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...Outline Introduction/Thesis: I. Holocaust at Auschwitz A. Concentration Camp 1. Life in camp 2. Countless murders 3. Rescue Conclusion/Closing: The Holocaust at Auschwitz By Writing 1 Introduction The story of the Holocaust at Auschwitz is a hard and very heart breaking story to tell. Millions Jews were murdered by the hands of the Nazis. The train arrived in the middle of the night, so we were greeted by very bright lights shining down on us. We were greeted by soldiers, SS men, as well as women. We were greeted by dogs and whips, by shouting and screaming, orders to try to empty the train, by confusion... There is no way to describe your first coming to Auschwitz. Hitler established the first concentration camp soon after he came to power in 1933. The system grew to include about 100 camps divided into two types concentration camps for slave labor in nearby factories and death camps for the systematic extermination of undesirables including Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally retarded and others. No words can really describe the scenes that took place at Auschwitz once a Jew entered the gates of a camp. The SS would beat the Jews with wipes, rebar, butts of their weapons anything the SS could get their hands on to beat them to death. Do to overcrowding these beatings...
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...The Holocaust 1933 What is a Holocaust? Holocaust is a Greek word that means to “sacrifice by fire.” In 1933 the ruler Adolf Hitler came in power of Germany, and formed a Nazi Party and the Holocaust began. Adolf Hitler had brainwashed many of his German followers into believing that they were superior and the Jews people and others were inferior race of people. During the course of time the Nazi’s hunted out with prosecution and killed over six millions of people not only the Jews, but also the Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and other Germans that were physically and mentally disabled. Over a period of time the Nazi Party spread amongst the rest of Europe and other countries. Many prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment. Later, the Nazi regime established concentrated camps and ghettos for the prisoners. The reasons for the concentrated camps and the ghettos were to monitor and control the Jewish population. Many were exploiting into forced labor camps. During the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Order Police officials moved behind Germany lines to carry out and mass killing against Jews, Roma, and Soviet state authorities were carried out. The mass killing killed over a million Jewish men, women, and children. In conclusion, the outcome of the Holocaust left many people died and unaccounted. Many of the displaced survivors 700,000 were relocated in Israel, 136,000 Jewish were moved to Europe...
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...The Holocaust was a state sponsored systematic genocide in world history that happened during World War II. About 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust, 6 million being the main target: Jews. Also, pretty much anyone who wasn't 100% German blood was also killed because they were perceived as "racial inferiority" so Polish people, Soviet prisoners of war, Blacks, Jehovah witness, the handicapped, homosexuals, etc. In 1933, there was about 9 million Jews, and 2 out of every 3 Jews were killed. Killing them was part of the "Final Solution", the plan to annihilate all Jewish people. In the 1930's Germany's conditions were not the best. The economic depression hit the country very hard, and lots of people became unemployed...
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...The Holocaust The Holocaust The Holocaust 2 At the beginning of the 1930s, Germany was under stress of recuperating after the First World War. Germany was in need of a leader to lead them through the hard times of recovering after a war, with no help from other countries. A man by the name of Adolf Hitler stepped up to the challenge. His goal was to lead Germany out of their troubles and make them a world power. Through this plan, many different courses of action were beginning to take place. As part of becoming a world power, Hitler, wanted to make Germany larger and fill it with what he considered a “perfect people”. These perfect people were those of blonde hair and blue eyes, which ironically enough, Hitler lacked. This course of action is now commonly known as The Holocaust. These perfect people also had to be pure, that means that no homosexuals, gypsies, nor Jews would be living in the land controlled by Germany. To achieve this goal, Hitler and the rest of Nazi Germany, created concentration and extermination camps to put the people that did not meet the requirement of being a perfect people. Two of these camps were named Auschwitz, which is in present day Poland, and Dachau, near Munich. The Holocaust 3 As referred to earlier, there were two different types of camps created by the Nazis. The first one is a concentration or work camp. The first camp, Dachau...
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...Holocaust The Devil’s Arithmetic is a captivating story about a 13-year-old girl named Hannah who lives in present day America. Hannah is very neglectful of her Jewish heritage and its customs. During Seder feast she is asked to “open the door” for the prophet Elijah. She finds herself transported back in time to 1942. After being shanghaied and taken to the Nazi concentration camp, she has to use what she knows about the future to survive the horror, which is the Holocaust. I find that The Devil’s Arithmetic and the novel Night both illustrate the struggles and hard reality that occurred inside the camps. Holocaust means “burnt whole”. In this word, it symbolizes that Hitler had the idea to wipe out a whole race and by doing so he had to make the concentration camps and the crematories. Concentration camps were a place where Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and others persecuted in the Holocaust were sent to work or to be murdered by the hundreds. In concentration camps prisoners were humiliated, starved, beaten, forced to work and murdered in ways practically unimaginable. Some ways prisoners were killed were gas chambers, crematories, mass shootings, hung or starved to death. In the novel Night, the author Elie Wiesel witnesses a hanging of prisoners who tried to escape. In the Devil’s Arithmetic the same thing occurred and I noticed how both characters talked about the horror and fear on other’s faces. In the novel Night the French girl who helps out Elie is said to have dreamy...
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...“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.” This is a quote from Josef Mengele, a doctor who performed medical experiments during the Holocaust. When the true extent of the Holocaust was found out many people didn't want to believe that it was true, especially the medical experiments. Even today, citizens don’t truly know what these “medical procedures” entailed. The Nazi medical experiments were one of the worst monstrosities that took place during the Holocaust. The National Socialist German Workers' Party medical experiments were classified in three different groups; each one to help the Nazis win World War II. The first category was “War Efforts”. Many German soldiers would die from hypothermia, altitude sickness,...
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...judgments of legislation dating back to the early eighteen hundreds established to justify a war or hold individuals accountable for cruel and inhumane treatment during a time of war, but not always adhered to by countries. The United Nations established international laws such as the Nuremberg Principles and the Genocide Convention to hold individual responsible for crimes against humanity. Countries have engaged in war crimes for thousands of years in violation of the established laws and customs of war. Torture, rape, massacres, genocide, and atrocities documented over centuries continue today. This paper will discuss some of the heinous crimes committed during War World II Holocaust and the Hutu massacre of the Tutsis. War Crimes the Executioners and the Victims of Genocide Military powers around the world inflict some of the most atrocious crimes against humanity, and in each case, there are executioners and victims of these crimes that never get fair justice. “ The German concentration camps of World War II, the horrors of the Vietnam War, the prolific rape and brutality during the break- up of the former Yugoslavia and the Hutu massacres of the Tutsis in Rwanda,” ("20th Century," n.d., p. 5) are just a few named conflicts that displayed devastating atrocities. The executioners in the World War II Holocaust and the Hutu Massacres in Rwanda caused terrible massacre to the human race more than any other conflict in history. These crimes all have a negative impact...
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...A lot of unfortunate things happen to people everyday throughout their lives. Sometimes people leave their umbrella at home and some forget to charge their phone before they leave. Conversely the people who were in the Holocaust served over 10 life times of misfortune throughout their time in concentration camps. Their misfortune ranged from being evicted from their homes to having to see family members die in front of their eyes, and all of this happened because the Nazis feared that their religion would harm their racial superiority. The Nazi Holocaust impacted the world in a horrible way and if America didn't help what would’ve happened? This is what this essay will be finding out. Before we can examine America’s impact on the Holocaust we should go over it’s history. The holocaust was a persecution and murder of over six million jews in the world. The Holocaust was ran by the Nazi’s and their collaberating partners. The holocaust started in 1933 because the Germans or Nazis believed that they were racially superior and that the jews were inferior to them and they posed a threat towards the Nazis. Because of this the Nazis basically enslaved them and put them in concentration camps to work or be killed. The nazis forced the jews out of their homes...
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...Jared Livingston Grade 12 Period 3-4 February 11, 2014 American History The Holocaust The Holocaust was one of the twentieth century's greatest tragedy that left a mark of tragic and horror to all Jews. The tragedy began at January 30th, 1933 and ended at May 8th, 1945, when the war in Europe ended. Millions of people died during the Holocaust, some were killed by machine guns, gas chambers, getting burned, while others died due to starvation, abuse and diseases. Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, was a heartless and uncaring man. He was born on April 20, 1889 in a small Austrian town of Braunau near Germany’s border. Hitler’s father Alios Hitler was a short-tempered, strict and brutal father. It is known that Alios would always beat Hitler when he was young. Hitler’s mother, Klara Hitler, was the opposite of Alios Hitler. She was very caring and loving to her son. When Hitler’s father died, Hitler dropped out of school at an early age because he lost his strong influence into keeping him at school. His mother supported him with this idea. Hitler loved and showed so much companionship to his mother more than his father. When she died at 1907, her death affected him far more deeply than the death of his father. He carried her picture wherever he went and, it is claimed that he had the photo in his hand when he died in 1945. Hitler and the Nazis were the masterminds of the Holocaust. Hitler had so much arrogance in him. He hated and envied the Jews. The Jews at...
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...tracking down individuals, early estimates put the toll at more than 6,000” (Greenberg). There is a saying that all American say whenever we commemorate this horrible day, "We will never forget." And of course it is near to impossible to forget about the death of a loved one or death in such a large amount.. "We will NEVER forget." This quote shows how ignorant and neglectful people are. World War II, the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler wanted to perfect the human race, and he was willing to annihilate everyone who got in his way of doing so. Over 11 Million people were brutally murdered by Hitler and his Nazis. When people commemorate this tragic event in the world's history, they never forget the Jews that were killed. But in reality the number of Jews killed was 6 million. People always overlook the 5 million others who were also targeted by Hitler. The other 5 Million victims were people who came from different backgrounds, cultures, and had different beliefs. Hitler went after Homosexuals, Black and Mulatto people, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christians and Christian Officials, Gypsies, Poles, physically and mentally disabled people, and many more. When Hitler became the chancellor of Germany, his main goal was to preserve the pure Aryan race, people of blonde hair and blue eyes. Aryans were believed to be tall, handsome or beautiful, and have the perfect skin colon. Hitler believed...
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