Hitler was determined to continue his extermination of the Jews while at the same time covering up evidence of the atrocities. Meanwhile, special units of Jewish prisoners were forced to burn the remains of the millions of jews buried in massive shallow graves throughout eastern Europe. From late 1944 to 1945, camp by camp was liberated by allied forces. People were in complete shock and disbelief about the first reports of the Holocaust. As the end neared, the entire world saw with their own eyes the half starved skeletons and piles of dead bodies left by th Nazi regime.
In the beginning of the Holocaust, many people were sent to labor camps but died of infections or from working so much. There were about six large concentration camps that were used to kill the Jews upon entry into the camp. The Jews that weren’t immediately sent to concentration camps lived in Ghettos until they were sent to the extermination camps. Living in ghettos was terrible, considering the size of the area was condensed and many families had to live in one house together. Gas chambers were invented as a way to kill Jews and others quickly.
Kristallnatch the prelude to the Holocaust, kristallnatch was an open attack on the Jewish community in Germany, named for the broken glass of the windows of Jewish businesses destroyed in that night. In this essay we will study the antecedents of kristallnatch, what happened in that night and what were the consequences of that act. Kristallnatch's Antecedents, with the night of broken glass began an open and systematic persecution of Jews on the 3rd reich. The 3rd Reich had been persecuting Jews but not openly, in 1938 20000 German Jews from polish origin were kidnapped and deported to Poland. On 7 November 1938, Grynszpan a Jew who had escaped to France shot Von Rath a secretary of the German Embassy in France for denying help to Grynszpan's parents who were deported to Poland.
The Holocaust will forever be remembered as one of the worst tragedies mankind has ever come to witness. The Nazi regime implemented a general policy of extermination of “genetically unfit’ groups of people which included the handicapped, gypsies, and homosexuals. Out of all these groups however, none was as heavily targeted as the Jews. During the Nazi reign of power, approximately 5.8 million Jews died at the hands of German or German-allied hands. Most of these victims were almost all unarmed and had no organized act of aggression against the German state or society, but were simply targeted because of their Jewish heritage.
Research Paper Ethan Do The Nazis disposed of the Jewish people in many atrocious manners as displayed in the personal reflection of Elie Wisel in his book Night. The ways that the Jews were horrifically murdered was the gassing and shooting. However, those were not the only methods of how the Jews died. They died from a lack of malnutrition and other diseases that were caused by the abhorrent surroundings. There were so many crematoriums during World War II that the Nazis had developed.
Third, wherever Germany in Eastern Europe, specialized units called Einsatzgruppen were created to murder Jews and political opponents in mass shootings. Finally, Jews and Romani were ordered to be live in overcrowded ghettos, there they were then transported by freight train to extermination camps. Extermination camps were camps that were built by Nazi Germany, during the World War II, that were designed to kill millions of people by gassing and extreme work under terrible living conditions. The Nazis were not alone in this effort. Parish churches and the Interior Ministry supported the genocide by presenting birth records showing who was Jewish; the Post Office delivered the deportation and denaturalization orders; the Finance Ministry took away Jewish property; German businesses fired Jewish workers and took away stock that belonged to the Jews.
The Jews were forced out of their homes, separated from their families, and put in concentration camps working in intolerant conditions for the Nazis. As a result of his envy, Adolf Hitler saw the Jews as a threat to his political party (the Nazis) and his country (Germany). Six million of Jews were killed during the Holocaust, and those who survived experienced a life
At the center of his vision was the brutal elimination of the Jewish people from the face of the earth. To get rid of his "enemies," he set up dozens of prison camps -- called concentration camps -- across Europe. Jewish women, men and children from almost every country on the continent were deported; they were torn from their homes and sent to the camps, where they endured terrible suffering. Many people died of hunger and disease. Most were murdered.
He tortured and killed millions of people, but he targeted the Jewish people because he thought of them worthless. He created concentration camps for the Jews; he made them
The Holocaust was one of the worst events to ever happen to mankind. It was started by the Fuhrer of Germany, Adolf Hitler, who thought that the Aryan race was superior to every other race. He had a massive hatred for the Jewish race and decided to try and exterminate every living Jewish person. He killed around two-thirds of all the European Jews (Byers 10). World War II was going on at the same time as the Holocaust.