...The Holocaust, also known as Hitler’s final solution, started on January 30th, 1933. The Holocaust was the systematic genocide of six million Jews. Hitler forced the people of Germany to believe that anyone who was not only a Jew, but gypsies, the disabled, and homosexuals should be persecuted. Nazi soldiers collected these people and sent them to concentration camps in various locations, such as Auschwitz in Poland. Death was a common occurrence in these concentration camps. The Holocaust was a horrible time for the Jewish people who were forcefully segregated from the rest and heavily persecuted, and having knowledge of this period of time will help today’s world recognize signs of this happening again. The end of World War I was a big reason...
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...Although the Uprising of Jews isn't a part of the Holocaust we commonly know, there was a time where the Jews fought back against Hitler. In the Warsaw, Poland the largest ghetto for confining Jews was located. The ghetto was made for keeping the Jews captive until execution later on at a concentration camp. The Jews in the ghetto began hiding weapons and learning how to fight without the knowledge of the Nazis then retaliated. After four long weeks, the Jews were defeated by the Nazis. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising showed a new perspective on how people look at the Holocaust because it uncovered the loss of control Hitler had against the Polish Jews. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising showed a new perspective on how people look at the Holocaust because it uncovered the loss of control Hitler had against the Polish Jews.“The Germans would also have to take into account the possibility that the outbreak of fighting in the ghetto might lead to the rebellion spreading to the Polish population and might create a state of insecurity in all of occupied Poland” (Bard 1). Hitler’s “final solution” was being interfered during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by the Polish Jews. Therefore, Hitler was losing his control of, although just a small group, of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. Also, as said in the quote provided this act of retaliation...
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...the invasion of the Soviet Union, the Einsatzgruppen’s mission evolved to include the “liquidation” of certain undesirables, to include Jews, Romani, and communists. Historical estimates credit the Einsatzgruppen with having killed over one million people throughout the war. Many scholars believe that the systematic killing of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union by Einsatzgruppen and Order Police (Ordnungspolizei) battalions was the first step of the "Final Solution," the Nazi program to murder all European Jews. The Final Solution evolved from Hitler’s policies toward Jews. Upon initially taking power, the Nazis adopted a series of legislations that were designed to isolate Jews from German society and urge them to leave Germany. After the invasion of Poland, the policies shifted. Now, Jews were rounded up and forced to live in Ghettos. By moving Jews into centralized locations, Hitler could better control them, which then led to the Final Solution, or the systematic extermination of all Jews in Europe. Upon Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union, Heinrich Himmler authorized German General Odilo Globocnik with the implementation of a plan to systematically murder the Jews. This led to the creation of the Nazi Death Camps. Chelmno was the first death camp set up. In 1942, Nazi leaders established three additional killing centers in Poland, Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, with...
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...The Holocaust: Suggested Reading There is a wealth of information about the Holocaust. So much has been written, in fact, that it can be difficult to determine where to start. This reading list is collected from recommendations from other members of The Holocaust History Project. It is not a complete bibliography but represents our opinion as to what are the most useful starting places for research. Since this list concentrates on works that are easily available and useful to a person unacquainted with the history of the Holocaust, many excellent books which are rare or out of print are not listed. Another class of books that are not included is works that are controversial because of their contents or the unusual theories they propose. Some of these are excellent works, others are not. But we feel that the reader for whom this list was compiled would not have the knowledge needed to evaluate these discussions of the legitimate controversies about the Holocaust. Just as a medical student must learn anatomy before he or she is taught surgery, someone studying the Holocaust must know the factual background before some of the more technical studies can be understood. As well as general works we have included books of specialized interest concerning the matters about which we at The Holocaust History Project are most frequently asked. Many of these books deal with more than one subject, but in the interest of brevity we have not cited a book more than once. General history of the...
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...The Holocaust was a mass extermination of Jews fueled by Hitler’s anti-Semitist policy, as he thought Jews were to blame for the war. He had taken it out on Jews before, but this was what he called the “final solution”: getting rid of all jews as revenge for the war and making the perfect Aryan race. The Holocaust was a hate-powered rampage that is still remembered today for all of the destruction it caused. Anti-semitism started when Hitler came to power after World War I. Hitler had made it that Jews were in essence, nonpersons. They were forced to wear a yellow star of David that identified them as such. Anti-semitism was promoted when Hitler came to power because he thought Jews were to blame for the war. The jews were looked down upon by other Germans because of their leader igniting anti-Semitism and sometimes attacked them, like Kristallnacht. However, the Jews continued to resist....
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...and your own knowledge assess the view that the holocaust was mainly the result of a long term plan by Hitler to eliminate the Jews Source A and B believe more that the holocaust was a short term plan that slowly developed due to the outbreak of the war and the general belief of cleansing of the population. Whereas source C and D believe that the holocaust was a long term plan by Hitler and that his mood or any other factor did not play a part in the mass genocide of the Jewish population in Germany and Europe and his main aim throughout the war was to look for a ‘final solution’. Source A talks about how late any action against the Jews, the source is implying that if this was a long term plan they why had Hitler waited so long to prosecute the Jews. The source believes that the outbreak of the war is one of the main factors that brought upon the prosecution of the Jews, originally Germany only had a small population of a few hundred thousand Jews but after Germany invaded Poland this figure drastically increased due to the Jewish population in Poland. It had added ‘several million Jews who were unable to leave the Reich’ this made it hard for any resettlement plans due to the large numbers; this meant physical annihilation looked much more desirable. Source A also gives the impression that Hitler never originally wanted to kill the Jews rather to resettle them this would lead to the conclusion that the holocaust could have been a short term plan. This would make...
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...The Ordinary Men in “Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland” Name of Student Name of Instructor Name of Institution Date Submitted The Ordinary Men in “Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland” Introduction The book “Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland” was published in 1992. The book is written by Christopher Browning. It talks about the Holocaust, which involved the killing of the Jewish people by the Nazis. The event took place between 1942 and 1943. The book is mainly based on the findings of a study conducted on the causative factors made evident in the testimonies of people serving in German Reserve Unit 101. The study was carried out in the 1960s. The Police Battalion 101 was ordered to massacre and deport Jews living in Poland. At the time, the country was occupied by the Germans. The German legal investigations involved 210 of the men 20 years later. The investigations looked into war crimes in order to press charges against certain members of the government. The men who carried out these atrocities were middle-aged. Their average age was 39 years (Browning 48). Surprisingly, they seemed to have voluntarily taken part in the exercise. The reason is that none of them was coerced to participate in the killings. The men would end up following the orders given in spite of the fact that they were contrary to what they deemed right. In this paper, the author...
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...“Nationalsozialismus”) (Shirer Foreword). He improved Germany to a powerful country rapidly after the World War I. Also he is one of the main sponsors of the World War II. He used to lead the Germans to the peak of the power and conquest. His Nazi spirit leaded people to the top of the anti-semitism. With his Nazi Party, Hitler killed at least five million Jews, eight million Bohemians, more than two million Polacks and six million Soviet soldiers and citizens. He started the World War II and it made the death of about twenty million soldiers and twenty million women, children and seniors (Shirer Foreword). In recent study of Hitler and his holocaust against the Jews, he rose to power and spread his anti-semitism throughout Germany and Europe, with the establishment of the concentration camps and his doctrine of hate called “The Final Solution”. I found that the disaster for human beings was not only caused by Adolf Hitler, but was also caused by the everyday people in Germany. In some ways, his “success” represented the common aspiration of the German people at that time. The Treaty of Versailles attacked the finance of Germany and it made the Mark (the German currency at that time) become pieces of useless paper. The army and some large companies got a lot of benefits from that crisis, but the common people in Germany lived in pain and despair. Finally, they gave up their own country. Hitler started his political adventure and rose to power just at that background. This Austrian...
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...The Holocaust Deanna Gimmi World Civilizations II Eric Fox March 18, 2012 The Holocaust With Germany in turmoil politically and economically after WWI, the German people were ripe for a charismatic leader. They found that in Adolf Hitler. Hitler joined the German Work Party in 1919. The party embraced right-wing ideology which suited Hitler’s views. Adolf Hitler was a captivating speaker and he encouraged national pride, militarism and commitment to the Volk (people) and a racially “pure” Germany. Hitler changed the name of the party to the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, shortened to the Nazi Party. He hated the Jews and promoted anti-Semitism. There are many stories as to why Hitler hated the Jews, but it is commonly thought that it was because many Jews were merchants and financially successful, when many workers struggled during the depressed economic state of Germany. He had actually developed his dislike for Jews long before he became a soldier. Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933 and since he had the support of approximately 400,000 Nazis, he was able to overthrow the democratic government and on March 23, 1933 became the dictator of Germany. As dictator, he could then turn his attention to the driving force which had propelled him into politics in the first place, his hatred of the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and his idea of a racially “pure” Germany. This paper will examine Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and how the greatest persecution...
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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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...The Holocaust The rise of the Nazi Party began in 1930 when Adolf Hitler’s National Social party gained 107 seats in the New German Reichstag (Rogasky 20). Over a period of a few years the Nazi Party received enough votes so the government had to take it seriously and offer it power. Many believed Hitler and the Nazi Party was like any other political party, so on January 30, 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany (Nelson, English.illinois.edu). Shortly after Hitler assumed the role as chancellor, the wheels began churning to begin a terrible tragedy. This tragedy, known as “The Holocaust”, targeted a variety of people. The Nazis persecuted anyone who dared to oppose them as well as the disabled, African Americans, Gypsies, homosexuals and Jehovah’s Witnesses; they reserved their strong hatred for the Jews. Many people cannot grasp how such a tragic phenomenon, like “The Holocaust”, could occur. In order for one to truly understand the Holocaust, one must understand how Hitler rose to power and killed so many people in such little time. Within a year and a half, Hitler and the Nazis Party had taken absolute power of Germany. It became possible to arrest opponents of the regime and lock them up with no charge filed, no warrant and no real evidence. The first concentration camp Dachau was opened in March 1933 to hold all the prisoners (Wood 42). In August 1933 Hitler declared himself both president and chancellor of the Third Reich and commander-in-chief of the military...
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...World War II: Hitler’s Jewish Genocide It is regarded as the most widespread and deadliest conflict in human history, killing more than 50 million people. World War II was the largest armed conflict in history, spanning the entire world, and involving more countries than any other war. The war has been generally believed to start on September 1, 1939 and lasting until September 2, 1945. Historians are still arguing about the exact cause of World War II, however the common belief of fault resides on the implementation of Adolf Hitler. Hitler was possessed by a passionate set of ideals to expand Germany, and with his election as German chancellor in January 1933, marked the start of an accelerating progression towards world war. Under the dominion of Hitlers ambitions, Germany invaded western Poland as a result of the intransigence between both countries. World War II ravaged civilians more severely than any previous conflict, and served as the justification for genocidal killings by Nazi Germany, under the order of Hitler. To fully understand how Hitler attained the support of a nation to agree with his ideology, one must know the conditions before the wake of World War II, and how Hitler instilled influential ideas of national pride. In this essay, I intend on showing why it is important to understand a certain aspect of World War II. I will first focus on establishing the importance of knowing what events led Germany into the circumstances it was in prior to...
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...imagine that I will read it again one day. In class we did not go into great detail about the Nazi’s “Final Solution” and what it really meant to the people who it was pertaining to. Our book only briefly touches on this subject as well, almost as if it is avoided in our textbook. The opening setting of Night is in the small town of Siglet in northern Transylvania which was annexed by Hungary in 1940 with Eliezer a 15 year old Jewish boy who narrators the story. Eliezer lives with his Mother, Father, and three sisters. His father was a prominent Jewish member of the community often being called upon by others for council. They all knew about Hitler and had heard about his intentions for the Jews, yet they did not believe that the world would allow such hatred and blatant disregard to humanity. Essential they had hinged their livelihood on hope and the goodness of mankind. By autumn of 1941 Hitler was the master of the continent of Europe and he used that power to carry out his hellish idea of a “New Order.” Hitler’s intent was to create a superior Aryan race. Germany directed commanders in occupied area and the governments of the client states to deport “undesirables” to Germany for slave labor; this directive explains why the Hungarian police treated the Jews in Sighet as they did. This was the first step that would eventually lead Germany to “The Final Solution”...
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...a black flame” (Wisel). The Holocaust was a very traumatic and scary event for many people. Hitler and his idea of the Aryan race drove his acts of violence throughout the Holocaust. It was mass killing motivated through racism towards mostly Jews. Not only were Jews targeted, over 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. The Holocaust left an impact on many people around the world. Besides Adolf Hitler, German citizens and SS officers were the most responsible for the Holocaust because the German citizens watched their neighbors get killed and did not do anything. The SS officers should be held responsible for their violence and coming up...
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...death toll. WWII, unlike any war previously, was a total war and involved the deliberate targeting of civilians. Soldiers, members of both the Allied and Axis Powers suffered immensely throughout the war. The Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of over 6 million Jews and non-Semitics , arose as a result of Hitler’s fascist ideals and saw widespread suffering. As a result of the new technological advances throughout the war, bombing became a major tactic and many major cities were destroyed, which resulted in the death and evacuation of many civilians and widespread suffering. Rations were introduced because of a restricted food supply. This shortage resulted in the death of many civilians and soldiers. Resistance fighters, if captured, would face certain death at...
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