Felicia ortiz Period 3 May 5, 2012 Felishaortiz61@yahoo.com The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state sponsored persecution and murder of approximetely six million jews by the nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning sacrifice by fire. The nazis, who came to power in germany in January 1933 belived that germans were racially superior and that the jews , deemed inferior were an alien threat to the so called german racial community. During the era of the holocaust , german authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived racial inferiority. 1933 the jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million.
This shows how history was changed because of the way people died, in the 1940's due to the way Germans wanted to execute non-Arians. Another example, when the Jews were getting separated, "I didn't know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipara forever" (Wisel, 29). During the Holocaust they didn't care about families being together. For instance, the way that Elie's family was separated, the men of the family went one way and the women went the other. This demonstrates how the Holocaust destroyed families being together, and how it affected how history developed through the years.
These experiments were mainly used on infants, twins, and children (Auschwitz). Auschwitz II was mainly used as a prisoner holding center (Auschwitz). Auschwitz II had the largest prisoner count of any of the Auschwitz camps and the largest land mass (Auschwitz). The third camp was built inside a factory and many of the able men were taken there to do manual labor (Auschwitz). The liberation of concentration camps was the last step of the Holocaust.
It is believed that Adolf Hitler had put a tremendous amount of blame on the Jewish population for the losses of World War I and embarrassment that wouled ensue Germany afterwards. Becoming the juggernaut nation in it’s way up, the United States had the ability to protect the Jewish population of America in 1938, but Franklin D. Roosevelt felt that World War I was still too close in history that he felt it was best to not be involved quite yet. Policy in The United States prohibited many Jewish citizens from becoming a U.S citizen. Franklin D. Rooseevelt’s regulations also affected the U.S citizens and the immigration dilemma that was about toi happen before Hitler’s actions came into play. The United States was not at a stable point in time having just started to come out of the Great Depression of
Normally Jews were killed in the chambers by carbon monoxide, but that was not enough for Hoess, he needed to go above and beyond with the way he exterminated an entire race. In 1941 he was given orders from Adolf Eichman of the “Final Solution” to the Jewish question. Rudolf Hoess was a Perpetrator for he conducted many acts that were morally wrong or criminal. Hoess’s original decision to join Hitler’s
In this essay I will discuss and evaluate the different responses of Richard Rubenstein and Abraham Joshua Heschel. I believe that it is possible to believe in an all-powerful and loving God even after the occurrence of the Holocaust. Hitler was elected as president after WWI and he didn’t like Jews and blamed them for all of Germany’s problems (e.g. financial crisis). He started an organised persecution of Jews in Germany which would eventually spread across Europe.
He single handedly sparked what we know as World War Two or as in Germany the Holocaust. What led to this devastation was the child-hood to the adult-hood, which drove his anger and hatred against the Jews; every event from adolescence to his young adult-hood corrupted his mind. Hitler’s child-hood was a confusing, and different one from the average child back then. Born in the Branau Amm Inn, April 20th- 1889. He grew up at his youngest a normal average young healthy boy, him and his father had a good connection father son wise, but one tragic event led to possibly a beginning of Hitler’s growing rage and anger.
In this essay, I will be including and explaining the real facts and figures of what happened in the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a time of devastation and corruption. It was a time of cruelty and it was terribly inhumane. The Holocaust and its supporters tried vainly to make the world perfect, but only succeeded in killing millions. The Nazi’s and Adolph Hitler spoke against Jews even before the start of World War II, they blamed them for
This was a huge event and impacted many people, and still impacts people today. Germans had a new found hate for Jews. Encouraged by the new dictators of the time. Adolf Hitler, being in charge at the time had personal issues with Jews. He believed that because they did not practice the Christian religion, they were evil.
The Jews were not the perfect image to Hitler, but it wasn’t just him. The “Jewish problem was prevalent before Hitler,” where extermination was a frequent suggestion. Nazi’s had targeted them since early 1920’s. So why was He targeted and not the Nazi party? It was simply because Hitler was in charge of the Nazi