The campaign began with German Jews having their rights taken away, and ended with the death of six million Jews. This attempt to annihilate the Jewish population from Europe is seen as the biggest act of genocide in the world. In January 1945 before the Soviets arrived at Auschwitz, the SS marched 60,000 prisoners 36 miles away. This last march being Germany’s last attempt to exterminate the Jewish
2,700,000 polish jews died being the most affected during the holocaust. 1,250,000 soviet jews died. And 1,390,000 other jews died. Because of the holocaust the jews are offended by the word hitler, and jew. This is an outrage to all of people in the world.
Nicolas Miedema 05/04/12 Mr. Carunchia U.S. History Auschwitz WWII has probably been the greatest event one the world. It was a war between the axis power and the allied power. The greatest protagonist in this war was Germany, the one who started the war and in charge of the death of approximately 6 million Jews (mtsu.edu). This massacre is worldwide known as the HOLOCAUST. They send the Jews to concentration camps to torture or kill them.
In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted
Jews, Hitler, the Nazi party and other German’s were involved in the holocaust. The Nazi’s decided that the Jewish race needed to be exterminated for no other reason than their ancestry and chosen religion. It first started of with discrimination; then the Jews were separated from their communities and persecuted. During the Second World War the Nazi’s were planning on killing the entire Jewish population. Of the nine million Jews who had lived in Europe at the time before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds were perished.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Preceding World War II, the Nazi party in Germany rose to power and, under Adolf Hitler, committed the largest genocide the world has ever seen: the Holocaust. The ideology of the Nazi party led to the discrimination and extremely harsh persecution of the Jewish people, as well as many others who did not seem fit for the perfect German race. Jews, as well as the handicapped, homosexual, disabled, and so on, were sent to concentration camps where they were forced to perform manual labor and then killed. However, before the Nazis sent the Jews to concentration camps, they set up ghettos throughout German-controlled territory in Europe. The largest of these ghettos was the Warsaw Ghetto, located in Poland.
Jewish Life and the Holocaust The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews including 1.5 million Jewish children in Europe by the Nazi regime and its collaborators that took place between 1933-1945. Many of the Jews of eastern Europe lived in predominantly Jewish towns or villages, called shtetls. Eastern European Jews lived a separate life as a minority within the culture of the majority. They spoke their own language, Yiddish, which combines elements of German and Hebrew. They read Yiddish books, and attended Yiddish theater and movies.
The Holocaust “By warding off the Jews, I am fighting for the Lords work” (Harran 50). This quote is the exact words of the worlds most accomplished mass murderer in history, Adolf Hitler. His goal was to exterminate the complete Jewish race, to make room for the “Aryan” race. “Jews have been discriminated against, hated, and killed because prejudiced non-Jews believed they belonged to the wrong religion, lacked citizenship qualifications, practiced business improperly, behaved inappropriately, or possessed inferior racial characteristics” (Harran 41). Due to the hatred that was formed against the Jewish people, over the years of 1933 to 1945, about six million innocent people lost their lives.
Racism and prejudice have been going on for years, but what will never be forgotten is the time when the entire Jewish population went under an almost complete genocide. After the war the Germans sought for a way out of bankruptcy and starvation until one day they found it. Adolf Hitler turned the Germans against the Jewish and used them as a scapegoat out of their problem. The Germans believed that they were the superior race so they used many methods to kill the Jews such as shooting, starving, overworking and even gassing. Even though people remember the Holocaust, racism and prejudice are in a fight to be stopped.
* In 1939 and 1940 he was responsible for massive executions in Poland * The executions of Jewish civilians was ordered by Hitler in 1941 * Jews, homosexuals, communists, and gypsies were sent to the concentration camps which were solely made for the purpose of killing * 6 million deaths were reported * The corpses from the gas chambers in Auschwitz were collected they were either cremated in open fire pits or buried Argument 2: * A ruler of the Soviet Union and head of the Communist party was the other leader of a genocide: Joseph Stalin * It all started as a change of the Soviet agriculture and industry in the support of industrialization and ended with 23 million deaths * The regime of 1929 to 1953 was associated with terror, corruption and poverty * The repression under Stalin’s rule lasted from 1936 to 1939 * After Stalin’s death and many more deaths in concentration camps and not only people still were loyal to him, and was even remembered as a time of energy and idealism Argument 3: * The amount of people that died are more than a million under both Stalin’s and Hitler’s rule * Hitler knowing his goal was unmerciful and knew that he would accomplish