During World War Two more than seventy-two million people died including six million Jews were killed by the German armies in possibly the most inhumane act ever experienced by our world – the Holocaust. The world then realised that to prevent another disaster like this countries needed to realise how important humanity, quality of life and our rights are, and thus, the United Nations was born which led to the Universal Declaration of Rights. I aim to now outline the horrors and genocide that the Jews and many others (such as homosexuals and gypsies) faced during the Holocaust, which then made the link to the U.N, I also plan on touching on human rights nowadays and whether the countries that agreed on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have successfully enforced this.
Adolf Hitler was made the leader of Germany in 1933 after the NAZI party was elected and after the First World War the German economy collapsed, and with many grieving and struggling to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads the German people needed something or someone to blame for this, for Hitler this was just what he and the Nazi’s needed, they simply made the Jews a scapegoat for all of their problems and by the time World War Two broke out in 1939 most Jews had already been forced into ghettos where they lived in cramped conditions. As the war began Hitler sent ‘Death squads’ out to shoot Jews, however many of the German soldiers were getting worn down and couldn’t cope with killing all of the innocent Jews and so in 1942 the Nazi’s began moving Jews into Death camps in Austria where the fit Jews were made to work long days on minimal food, and the elderly, young or sick were put into large ‘sheds’ where they were told they would get showers, Zyklon B (a poisonous gas) was then used to kill the Jews and their bodies were incinerated. On the 30th April 1945 Adolf Hitler and his