Apartheid And Holocaust Comparison

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The Holocaust and the Apartheid The Holocaust was when the Nazis, led by Hitler, killed six million Jewish people, Gypsies or ‘undesirables’. Adolf Hitler blamed Germany loosing the war on the Jewish people and decided they should pay for it. There were ghettos, which Jewish families were crammed into with little rations and not much space. Jews were put in concentration camps and labour camps, people were killed and many fell ill. People fell ill and many died at the concentration and labour camps, then many were taken to camps where they were led into chambers and gassed. The Apartheid was when white people came to Africa and took over; they took the land from the black people and kept it themselves. Many black people were killed while partitioning and others were left without even the simplest of human rights. The black people (80% of the population) had to live on 20% of the land. There were ‘white only’ areas, which the black people weren’t aloud into and many black people lost their education, leaving them no hope for the future.…show more content…
At both times many people died and many, many people were mistreated. Basic human rights were taken away from people and they had little hope of fighting
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