...The Holocaust is about a series of events that took place during 1933. The Holocaust was were Gypsies, Jews, and homosexuals were torchered and put in Labor camps, Death camps, and Transit camps. Most of the Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals were killed in all three of those camps. During the Holocaust the Nazi soldiers went after the Jews but went after Gypsies, and homosexuals also. The Nazis religion teaches them to hate the Jews, Gypsies, and the homosexuals. Nazis targeted them because they thought they were a threat to the country, so the Nazis tried to eliminate all of the Gypsies, Jews, and homosexuals from all the countries near Germany. So the Nazis went on kind of a scavenger hunt for the Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals. The German...
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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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...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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...people 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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...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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...Jews who were children were still thrown into the gas chambers even when they refused to do the work.“ At Auschwitz alone, more than 2 million people were murdered in a process resembling a large-scale industrial operation. A large population of Jewish and non-Jewish inmates worked in the labor camp there; though only Jews were gassed, thousands of others died of starvation or disease.” Some of them were Gypsies,gays,and ect… "As a Jew who has lost so many relatives in the Holocaust, they looked like the showers that the Jews were forced to take before entering the gas chambers," Between 1933 and 1945, more than 11 million men, women, and children were murdered in the Holocaust. Approximately six million of these were Jews. Over 1.1 million children died during the Holocaust. Young children were particularly targeted by the Nazis to be murdered during the Holocaust. They posed a unique threat because if they lived, they would grow up to parent a new generation of Jews. Many children suffocated in the crowded cattle cars on the way to the camps. Those who survived were immediately taken to the gas...
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...Sanjida Afrin Morality of Massacres and Genocide Prof. Harman Salton 2nd March, 2016 Nazi Memorandum The Holocaust was an extreme incident of genocide as defined by the UN Genocide Convention that took place in the 20th century in Germany as a religious, political and economical manifesto targeting an ethnic, national or racial group such as the Jews. The plot of this heinous genocide however started back in the 1930 before the WWII when Hitler and the Nazis started spreading propagandas to wipe out Jews from Germany. This memo will give a critical overview on the purposes behind the holocaust, how propaganda were used to conduct such extreme genocide and the role played by the Nazis and the Germans, followed by a brief comparison between the genocide in different countries and the Holocaust. When we start talking about Holocaust, one of the basic terms to use is “Anti-Semitism” which refers to hatred against the Jews. Even though factual evidences hold Hitler’s strong hatred towards the Jewish population as a major reason behind the holocaust, it is still a debatable issue. One of the most interesting facts that come to attention is the wide support of many of the educated German elites in the Nazi propaganda. This might be result of the flourishing economic conditions of the Jews in the then Germany. The Jews were open to modern education, they flourished in business and basically not as much affected as the Germans after the WWI. This might have led to economic and political...
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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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...It never feels good to be treated as less than a human. However, imagine how it would feel to be treated like this everyday for years. In Elie Wiesel’s book Night, Elie talks about how he and other people were treated. During the Holocaust, Jewish prisoners were dehumanized by being stripped of their identity, being treated cruelly, and having their homes, family, and friends taken away from them. First, Jews were dehumanized during the Holocaust by being stripped of their identity. Before leaving the ghetto, the Jews were told that they could bring a small bag with their personal belongings. However, once they got off the wagon at the concentration camp, they were forced to leave all their belongings on the wagon. Then, they were forced to strip down to complete nakedness and had to all wear the same clothing. They also had to get call the hair on their bodies shaved off. They even all lost their names, and their identity was known as numbers. A-7713 was Elie Wiesel’s number. They were also put on a strict schedule. They woke up at dawn, and there was some nights where they could have been shot for not being in their block at the right time. Also, when leaving for the last concentration camp, they had to run for hours, and those who stopped were shot there on the spot. While running, they were called names by...
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...When the Holocaust started, no one believed it would be as horrid as it was. No one believed the rumors they were hearing until it was happening to them. Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, and elderly people went through traumatic experiences and many were murdered in huge masses. The children of the Holocaust and the children of Holocaust survivors, however, suffered more physically and emotionally because they were given away, tortured, left alone, and put through many hardships. When the Nazis came into power in 1933, Jews were targeted from the very beginning. Laws were implemented and they had a severe impact on the lives of children. The laws restricted the number of Jewish children that could attend school, it banned children from many public...
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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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