He was leader of the Nazis till he got caught at his military base than sentenced to a short term of imprisonment. (www.worldhistory.abc-clio.com ) . The holocaust started because of Hitler. Hitler caused this because he wanted to annihilate the Jewish race. Adolf had a fear of being overrun by a different race and wanted to be the leader of the world.
Hitler deliberately expressed his hate toward Jews and gave ample warnings, as it was all written down in his autobiography “Mein Kampf”. In 1935, the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship and civil rights. Jewish rights were steadily restricted, as in many cases Jewish political and intellectual leaders were the first to be sent to concentration camps. The Night of Broken Glass, on November 9, 1938 lead to the death of approximately 100 Jews, while other 30,000 were sent to concentration camps. Jewish businesses along with almost every synagogue in Germany were damaged or completely destroyed.
On April 15, 1945, British troops entered Bergen Belsen. They liberated some 60,000 prisoners, many of whom were close to death. During the first weeks after liberation, close to 500 people in Bergen Belsen died every day by starvation and Typhus. From liberation day until June 20, an estimated 14,000 people died from the terrible conditions that had been inflicted on them by the Nazis during the war. Between April 18 and April 28, the dead were buried.
There they saw crematories and people being beaten. At one point in the story Eli and his father were beaten also. They lived in these concentration camps on little food and water. One day Auschwitz was attacked so, the German soldiers gathered the Jews and made them run 100 miles to another camp in a snowstorm. Many lives were lost during this journey.
They needed the Americans, and they used an ingenious tactic to cause the Americans to join the war: the death of its own civilians. The civilians on the ship, warned by the Germans, refused to listen to a warning, causing their death on the Lusitania. The total number of Americans who died represented a very small portion of the United States’ total population. The American public over-exaggerated the sinking of the Lusitania and overreacted to the death of very few people compared to America as a whole. The British blockade kept all trades away from the Germans, including food (Ghost Liners 124).Yet, when the Germans retaliate, the Americans hate them for it.
In minutes a fire was blazing in the main lobby and the chamber. That year they rounded up the Communists for the fire they started. On April 01,1933 they put up a boycott for Jewish building. On April 07,1933 they put out a decree removing all Jews from civil service posts in Germany. Weeks later they made the law “Law Against the Overcrowding of German Schools.” This reduced the amount of Jews in universities and colleges.
In the cars he recalled being shoved in with 80 other people when the train cars were to fit only 20 people. Paul was taken to the Ludwigslust concentration camp and the train ride there took 16 nights. Paul also recalled the horrid conditions there, many dead bodies and also prisoners cooking other dead prisoner’s flesh for dinner. Paul was liberated in 1945 by the Americans, he fled to England. He moved to the US in 1952 and joined his family in NY.
World War II was known as one of the worst wars of all mankind. There were many concentration camps, and many Jewish people were prisoners there. Adolf Hitler and his armies set up multiple concentration camps throughout Germany, rounding up the Jews. One important camp was called Ravensbruck. Ravensbruck was a women’s concentration camp in northern Germany near Furstenberg.
Night by Elie Wiesel is a story based on his personal experiences during the holocaust controlled by the Nazi army in the concentration camps. Towards the end of 1941 all the Jewish people were taken away from their homes by the Nazi army. When they arrived in Auschwitz they Nazi army separated families by their strength, weakness, and gender. All the men and the women were separated. Then the weak and old ones were separated from the young and strong.
Once the war started, and the Final Solution was implemented, every guard who now had to deal with killing Jews was not available for duty on the Front. Every able-bodied Jew--Jews who would have fought for Germany as they had during WW1--who was killed in the gas chambers was not available for duty on the Front. All the materials utilized to build concentration camps and gas chambers were not available to build defenses such as tank traps on the Front. 2. In the wars final stages, as the Red Army was approaching from the East and Patton and Bradley were approaching from the West, Hitler gave first priority to transporting Jews to Death Camps instead of soldiers to the Front, his hatred of them was that great.