where over six million men, women and children were murdered. Any political opponents or religious dissidents that did not support the Nazi regime ideology were incarcerated, maltreated which most commonly led to their deaths. This systematic and state-sponsored mass murder came to
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Name: Global II Date: The Holocaust Historical Information: According to the Holocaust Museum, the Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945 (www.ushmm.org). The Task: View the United States Holocaust Museum web site to familiarize yourself with this horrific time period. As you browse, please click on and view the pictures, maps and graphics that accompany
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Being forced into doing something could be harmful or even dangerous to yourself or others. The holocaust was made up of a bunch of bullies. This is because Hitler and the Nazi’s didn’t see the jews as a race. They made people feel like they needed to hide in order to be safe. This is what bullies do to make people scared of them even though the bullies are the ones actually threatened. The Holocaust is like bullying because the Nazi’s felt threatened by the Jews. Hitler felt eliminating Jews was
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The Holocaust was an act of genocide that claimed the lives of many innocent people in many cruel ways. The victims’ fates were chosen by Nazi doctors through a process called selection. The Schutzstaffel (SS men) would take victims from their homes and families and put them into concentration camps where they would find out if they were to live or die. There were two main options in the concentration camps: labor or gas chamber. If the fate of the prisoner wasn’t labor or the gas chamber then
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In the 1940’s, the Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, murdered thousands of men, women, and children of the Jewish religion or Gypsy lifestyle. During the Holocaust, the Germans murdered any individual that did not fit into Hitler’s purified race. This “cleansing” of the German race began with the sterilization program. After Hitler reaped the successes of the sterilization program, he advanced to his euthanasia program. Hitler did not only euthanize Jews and Gypsies, he also executed people with disabilities
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the Jews of Europe. Most Nazis, targeted the European Jews, the homosexuals, gypsies, Polish citizens, Christians, and people with disabilities. Hitler’s men have used a variety of ways to torture and wipe out the European Jews during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a mass execution of 11 million Jews. The picture below, taken in 1944 during WW2 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, shows how many oppressed citizens were murdered on a daily basis in the “Final solution” by the German Nazis. Many people
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can have various different outcomes. It impacts everyone in a different way, but these effects can be characterized as positive, negative, and neutral. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, the reader witnesses the events that took place during the holocaust through the eyes of the author. Wiesel explains all of his experiences in great detail, painting a very vivid picture of the occurrences around him. Through reading this novel and reading the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech at the end, a main
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global issues and situations, left the Holocaust, the genocide of over six million Jews, Gypsies and handicapped across Germany and Poland, in the shadows of the concurrent war. Beginning in 1939, European countries engaged in a war that America clearly seemed unprepared to participate in. When America finally entered the war, the domestic concerns it faced at the time held precedence, even though it received news of the atrocities in Europe. The Holocaust, initially neglected as front-cover news
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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
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known as the National Socialist German Worker's Party, planned to murder the Jewish people. They called this plot, “the final solution.” The Holocaust was a devastating time during World War Two,that changed the lives of many people all over the world. The name holocaust comes from the Greek word “holokauston”, meaning sacrifice from fire. The holocaust killed many groups of people such as the Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the disabled for persecution, but mostly the Jews.
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