...because of how you look and what you believe in. What would you do? Would you be able to survive? Ever since losing World War I, Germany has had economical problems.The Germans had to pay back seventy billion to the countries they vandalized. Therefore, to blame someone for their own mistake, the Germans blamed the Jewish people. Subsequently, on January 30th, 1933, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi parties, made a critical turning part in his plan to kill all Jews, and had started what is now known as the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, more than six million innocent people, including children, were murdered. They faced hardships...
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...days after his birthday) ASSASSINATION: Himself THE REASON WHY HE KILLED HIMSELF? Hitler knew he was losing control and didn’t want to have unspeaking slow agonizing, humiliating death by a mob. So he shot himself in the head with his own pistol because Soviet forces had surrounded Berlin and were closing in on his bunter. SLAVE LABOR CAMPS Millions of Jews, foreigners, & prisoners-of-war were forced to labor camps in German during World War II. Forced labor camps job with no legal rights horrible living conditions. Between 1933 & 1945 Nazi Germany established about 20,000 camps to imprison to millions of victims. GAS CHAMBERS In 1942 there was seven gas chambers established. Each chamber 2,500 people were put in them but only 200 to 1,500 people. SWASTIKA Swastika is an ancient symbol that been used over 3,000 years used by many cultures (Hitler took it from Indian and turned it into something bad). The swastika used to represented life, sun, power, strength, & good luck. But now it means death & hate. DR. MENGELE BORN: March 16th 1911 DIED: February 7th 1979 Dr. Mengele was called the “Angel of Death”. He determined who would be killed or who would be forced laborer (including children). He was in World War II HOLOCAUST STARTED: January 30th 1933 ENDED: May 8th 1945. Jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsh persecution that ultimately led…5 million Jews murdered to the death camps,6,000,000 Jewish people (1.5 million...
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...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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...during World War 2 Anti-Semitism – the hatred of Jews has traumatized Jews around the world for a long time. Most of this occurred during the holocaust, which started in around 1939, will be remembered throughout the world, not just among Jews but all people that inhabit the earth. The holocaust was severe tragedy that caused distress among all the people involved on the wrong side of it. It is known as the as the mass genocide of around six million Jews during World War 2. There was extermination by the German Nazi’s who followed their leader Adolf Hitler. On September 1, 1939 was the turning point the people because the most horrifying event was yet to happen. On this day Hitler began his reign and terror with his Autocratic leadership over the people of Germany. Adolf Hitler was on a mission to make the Nazi party the strongest power and have all people follow his reign. Hitler thought the Aryan race was the most intelligent and perfect race and sought out to exterminate all who were not. Hitler believed that the superiority of the Aryan race was being in danger of the Jewish race. Hitler also thought that the Jewish race, who was a small part of the population, were slowly taking over the country. While Germany was starting to take a turn for the worst Jewish owned companies started to take big hits as they were collapsing under financial pressure and declining profits. As part of Germany’s Reign Jewish owners were forced to sell out there companies to the Nazi-German government...
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...two phases: The wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and forced labor, and the deportation of women, children, the elderly and infirm on death marches to the Syrian Desert. The total number of people killed as a result has been estimated at between 1 million to 1.5 million. But people may ask why? Armenia had come largely under Ottoman rule during the 15th and 16th centuries. The majority of Armenians were grouped together under the name Armenian Millet (community) and they were led by their spiritual head, the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople. This community was made up of three religious denominations: The Armenian Apostolic, The Armenian Catholic and The Armenian Protestant, meanwhile the Turkish were Muslim. Basically the Armenian community were persecuted and killed by the Turkish because a religion matter. The Armenian Genocide it is acknowledged to have been one of the first modern genocides. It have been pointed as an organized manner in which the killings were carried out to eliminate the Armenians, and it is the second most studied case of genocide after the Jew Holocaust. The starting date of this genocide is held to be April 24, 1915, that day the Ottoman authorities arrested around 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul (Constantinople). Shortly after that the military uprooted Armenians from their homes and forced them to march...
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...Unlike Hitler, who openly murdered the Jews, Stalin’s involvement in the murder of millions are the results of political decisions, terror, and oppression. Stalin’s notions of “collectivizing” Russia would “destroy” the “autonomy” Russia’s peasant had established since the Russian revolution (Keefe, pg.1). A push to make Russia industrialized and the decisions that were made by Stalin would have devastating effects on the people of Russia. The main reason why Russian leaders had serious incentives to make their economy stronger was to rival Western economies, but unlike the West, Russia had forced its citizens to do what their told to make this a reality (Keefe, pg.1). At the time Stalin was in office he had proposed two five-year plans to transition Russia into a modern industrial economy, however, it came the expense of brutal oppression, forced labor, and millions of deaths to all which initially were spread through propaganda messages that incited national pride among many and was in a sense “successful” in achieving “increased production” but would come at the cost of devastating the Russian peoples’ living conditions (Keefe, pg.1). The process of collectivization from the 1927 to...
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...The holocaust happened between 1933 to 1945, this event was lead by Hitler and killed many jews. Many of the ‘opposite’ side to the Nazi government were taken to concentration camps, these were spread around Germany, they had horrible conditions and caused much trauma to the families and people who were in it, these were caused by the types of activities that were happening over there. In this essay, I will be talking about Why, when, where, who and what are concentration camps, the types of activities were held and the long term impacts of the holocaust on the jewish people. Concentration camps greatly impact the jewish people, concentration camps were camps in which people were detained, usually under extremely harsh conditions, where no...
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...What would you do if you and your family were getting taken out of your house and getting forced to death or never-ending labor? Would you try to escape with your family or would you just take the torture? About ⅓ of the Jewish population were killed in the Holocaust. This book is important because it is a meaningful part of history and it was a very scary and tragic event. It is meaningful because so many people were killed just because they were Jews and that is not right. One good example is when Wiesel writes of everyone in the city getting taken out of their houses and brought to the camp because they were Jewish. They didn’t even know that they were on their way to be tortured and killed. (Weisel 11). I could not imagine ever being in...
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...thought of the Holocaust sounds like it occurred a lifetime ago. However, the atrocities which the Jews faced transpired less than seventy-five years ago. The Holocaust is not another shrapnel of ancient antiquity to be disserted – it is a chapter of modern history which must be deliberated and reflected upon. For this time, history cannot repeat itself. The nefarious concentration camps had their own social climate, as Jews braced themselves every day for the same endless battle of survival and did anything they had to do in order to outlive their relentless enemy – death. The story of how countless people were ripped from their homes and thrown into death camps is told firsthand, by the autobiographical novel, Night, written by Holocaust survivor Eliezer Wiesel. According to Wiesel’s recollection, it all commenced when German officers began to enter Jewish towns and occupy them. There was talk of German tensions, but almost everyone was indifferent. Before they knew it, Jews were being placed into ghettos, curfews were being imposed on them, and they were having more rights taken away from them. Anti-Semitism became...
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...experienced visions ordering him to gain his and other freedoms by force. Then his accomplices killed his master’s family, then a small band of about 50 slaves with clubs and knives, going house to house, eventually killing 50 whites. The Zanj rebellion was long before African American slaves were brought to America. When the people in the Zanj rebellion started the revolt, it soon turned into a full scale rebellion that lasted 15...
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...this, and why did anyone support them?” By the time the holocaust took place, a precedent to anti-Semitism was already historically present. In the late 19th century and early 20th century there was a strong presence of social Darwinism and a eugenicist world view, which declared certain types of people to be biologically better than other inferior groups. After the great depression hit Germany, it led to the idea of euthanizing the mentally ill, or physically disabled to save costs across the country. This opened the idea of euthanasia as a way to solve any problems with unwanted or undesirable people. By the time the Nazi party came to power the idea to preserve the valuable people, and rid the world of undesirable people was already common among society. Hitler was very open about his hatred for the Jewish people, but was careful to proceed slowly while introducing the hatred to fellow members of the Third Reich and other German citizens. It started with limits for the Jewish people, such as careers they could have, places they could go, assets they could have or obtain etc… Then the introduction of the Jewish Ghetto’s took place, to separate the unwanted people from the non-Jewish Germans. Several families would be forced to share a small space to live in. From there it escalated to Jews being sent from Ghetto’s to labor camps where they would do hard labor for the Third Reich, so that they would not have to sacrifice the work of the “real” German people. Labor camps turned...
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...concentration camps. They were free to arrest anyone they pleased without any consequences. During the Holocaust, the main job of the gestapo was to arrest Jews and others who opposed them. Before the gestapo was formed they were the secret police of Prussia. They were part of the political department in Berlin and part of the Weimer Republic. They were like the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
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...During the Holocaust, millions of Jews, gypsies, and members of other groups were persecuted and murdered by Nazi occupied Europe. However, many forget to acknowledge that among these were children. It may never be known exactly how many children were murdered but it is said that as many as some 1.5 million children may have fell victim to the Nazi party. Although children were not a main target of the Nazi's violence, they did fall subject to persecution along with their parents. Jewish children were first exposed to persecution in school. Many of their friends who were not Jewish began not socializing with them and even began to treat them in prejudice ways. This was soon followed with the announcement that, "German Jewish children were prohibited from attending German schools (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). The life of children had quickly become as torn apart as their parents. However, there were more efforts to help the children escape the grips of the Nazi rule. Before 1939, several thousand children were able to escape in "Kindertransports to the Netherlands, Great Britain, Palestine, and the United States (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). Those who were not able to escape were placed in ghettos and transit camps. These ghettos and transit camps served as the foreground to the death and slave labor camps that would soon follow. It was written in a Jewish diary, A Jewish ghetto in the traditional sense is impossible; certainly a closed ghetto is...
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...Final Paper Genocide Wade Harris HIS306: Twentieth-Century Europe Instructor: Fara Driver November 2nd, 2015 If anything could be described as a scar on the face of the twentieth century genocide would be that scar. Genocide is not the invention of those in the twentieth century, but rather the epitome, the refinement of a horrific act that the twentieth century has perfected. An act that has popular support and the backing of governments, so how can people who live side by side peacefully with others for so long suddenly flip and be able to kill their neighbors? Genocide is a series of choices, choices made by leaders to begin the killings, choices made by people to participate, and the choice to see something wrong and having the power to stop it, but choose not to. Many have written that it is deep seeded hatred passed on from generation to generation that always sits in the back of the minds of those committing genocide, things that may or may not have happened. Other scholars write that it is cultural differences that are ignored until a leader or group uses them for their own gain. (Churchill, R. P. 2014) Whatever the reasons, it is always the minority on the losing end, the bully mentality of a few whirling up hatred for someone else until everyone is in a frenzy and the rhetoric seems real, the threat conjured up is real, and the only action to keep things safe and secure is to remove the problem by any means. This is how genocide starts...
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...their abilities (Goodman). Kindertransport, an organization created to save Jewish children from Nazi Germany, preserved the lives of 10,000 kids. Before Kindertransport was created, the oppression of Jews began. Many laws made by Nazis had one purpose: to limit the rights and freedoms of Jewish people (Holtman). This harmed the psychological health of Jewish children because they were forced to witness...
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