Holocaust is a Greek word, meaning “sacrifice by fire”. The Holocaust came as a result of Hitler’s Nazi party and their racial intolerance, and quest for a pure blood line in Germany. It was part of Hitler’s final solution and involved the collection of Jews and other racial inferiors by German soldiers. The racial inferiors were sent to concentration camps after their collection; where they were forced to labour and in most cases eventually murdered (Berenbaum, 1998). In some cases, these camps were known as “extermination” or “death” camps and the Jews were killed in purpose built gas chambers and their bodies burnt in large ovens.
“Holocaust” is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire”. The Nazis who came to power in Germany in January 1933 believed that Germans were “racially superior” and the Jews, deemed “inferior”, were an alien threat to the so called German racial community. (Holocaust) Writing the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived “racial inferiority” groups such as Gypsies, disabled and also the
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How The Holocaust Was Made Possible The holocaust, or Shoah was a systematic, planned program of genocide to exterminate all Jews (Bauer 1982). Hitler - and his allies in the Nazi army carried out this government-based program during World War II (Bauer 1982). Approximately six million Jews were killed, and if the murder of the Romani, Soviet civilians and prisoners, the disabled, homosexuals, and others who opposed to Hitler’s religious, political and social views were counted, this number would be more like eleven to seventeen million (Dawidowicz 1975). The Holocaust was one of the twentieth century's greatest tragedies that was made possible by widespread anti-Semitism, corrupt politics and an outright fear of mass extermination. On November
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"Identification Bracelet No 103304" "Identification Bracelet No 103304," was donated by Ruth Eisenberg in 2002; it identified Henryk Eisenberg, a Mauthausen concentration camp (situated in Austria) prisoner from August to December 1944. "Stripped of their first and last names, of their identities, camp prisoners were each identified solely by a number1. However, other forms of identification existed prior to the bracelets in Nazi Germany. Badges and tattoos are the most well-known forms of identification. For many, the serial number (located on the forearm) is the most unforgettable image of the Holocaust.
Warsaw Ghetto and Uprising Warsaw is the capital of Poland. In 1935 the city was fifty-four square miles in area with one million and three hundred thousand people living in it(Gutman). The Germans reached Warsaw in early September after their initial invasion of Poland on the thirty-first of august(Gutman). From October of Nineteen thirty-nine through December many decrees were published to restrict Jews from being able to sell from their shops. They also had to deposit all of their money into a blocked bank account which would give the holder of the account no more than two hundred and fifty zlotys a week(Gutman).
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Nazi Genocide I chose to research and write about the Nazi Genocide. I have a lot of German in my background so I thought it would be interesting to learn a little about the history of some of my ancestors. I found out a lot of information, including that of World War II and the allies of Germany and the allies of the United States. World War II began on September 1, 1939, but the genocide actually began on April 12, 1939 when Adolf Hitler told the Czech foreign minister Chvalkovsky that they were going to destroy the Jews. Hitler avoided giving any clear written data when it came to his order the extermination of the Jews as well as the Jewish civilians.