“The crimes committed during the Holocaust devastated most European Jewish communities and eliminated hundreds of Jewish communities in occupied eastern Europe entirely.” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) There have been several attempts to measure the effects of the Holocaust. The most researched and measured effects are the psychological effects the Holocaust had on its survivors. “Clinicians made pessimistic predictions when they first began seeing Holocaust survivors as patients” (Baron and Scuello 513). After liberation survivors were left with nothing. Most of their families had been killed, and their property taken from them.
The Holocaust (1933-1945) The Holocaust was a big part of world history. According to “freedictionary.com”, the definition of Holocaust is “The genocide of European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II”. It is derived from the Greek word holocaust, holos meaning whole and kaustos meaning burned. Aldolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany on January 30,1933 which was the beginning of the holocaust. Hitler had a plan to eliminate the Jewish population; it was a plan that he called “ Final Solution” which killed off about six million Jews, one million five hundred thousand of those Jews were children.
Many of the men were representing the intellectual elite of the Nazi party. Of the 25 Einsatzgruppen and Einsatzkommando leaders, 15 of them were doctors of jurisprudence or philosophy or had a PhD. The job that the Einsatzgruppen had was to eliminate Polish political opponents and Jews. Initially, they were able to not only use force against armed resistance, strikes and sabotage, but also accuse irregulars and spies before a court and sentence them to death. This was still not satisfactory for Reinhardt Heydrich and although 200 people were being executed a day he thought that they must be shot and hanged without trial.
Adolph Hitler is one of the most evil men in history. Hitler, who was the leader of Nazi Germany was responsible for the segregation and genocide of Jewish people for over a decade. Hitlers mission for the mass murder started at the beginning of the world war and continued till the end with him committing suicide. This has raised many questions on his nature as a human being. His act of evil resulting in the deaths of over twelve million Jewish people, which was more than half the Jewish population at the time is unforgettable and horrifying till today.
Jews from all over the world were worked to death and/or starved to death; as a result, nearly six million Jewish people passed away, being thrown in ovens to burn the bodies or buried. Tortuous enough, they sent all the “worthless” people; the disabled, children, babies, or elderly, to gas chambers where they would suffer for nearly 20 minutes then die. The most horrific part was none of these Jews
Prisoners were forced to participate in hard labor and were given small rations. The living conditions were extreme, and the use of torture was prominent. Within a number of camps, Nazi doctors used prisoners to administer medical experiments, often times resulting in death or extreme illness. Concentration camps were initially created to work, starve, and torture prisoners to death, but it wasn’t long before extermination camps were created for the sole purpose of killing prisoners quickly, efficiently, and in large numbers. While in control, the Nazis built six extermination camps: Treblinka, Aushwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, and Majdanek.
Extermination Camps Death Camps or also known as Extermination Camps were run and ruled by the Nazi’s in World War II. Theses camps were built and designed by hitler him self, in Germany during 1939 to 1945 to kill millions of innocent people (wikipedia,13 March 2015). The Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews during the Nazi genocide - in 1933 nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that would be occupied by Nazi Germany during World War 2. By 1945 two out of every three European Jews had been killed. Nazi party were trying to kill off all the jews and people that was not up to hitlers standards of a perfect human and this is also known as genocide.Genocide is the systematic killing of all racial,
According to historical accounts, the majority of the Serbians murdered during World War II were executed at Sajmiste Concentration Camp, under Nazi rule. From March to May of 1942, the Nazi’s executed, by means of a gas van, approximately 14, 500 of the original 16,000 Serbian Jews. The gas van used internal combustion engines to excrete carbon monoxide-
The people were sent from a forced labor camp to a death camp when they became old or when they were weak to be killed. Some were also tested for experiments that tested medical things, such as diseases and cures. About 1 million people were killed at Auschwitz during World War II. There were total of 20,000 concentration camps were they had only one goal and that was to kill Jews and any other race they didn’t like. Nazis killed total of eleven million people and six million were Jews.
Various legislation to remove the Jews from civil society, predominantly the Nuremberg Laws, was enacted in Nazi Germany years before the outbreak of World War II. Concentration camps were established in which inmates were used as slave labor until they died of exhaustion or disease. Where the Third Reich conquered new territory in eastern Europe, specialized units called Einsatzgruppen murdered Jews and political opponents in mass shootings. The Third Reich required Jews and Romani to be confined in overcrowded ghettos before being transported by freight train to extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, the majority of them were systematically killed in gas chambers. Every arm of Nazi Germany's bureaucracy was involved in the logistics that led to the genocides, turning the Third Reich into what one Holocaust scholar has called "a genocidal state".