The campaign began with German Jews having their rights taken away, and ended with the death of six million Jews. This attempt to annihilate the Jewish population from Europe is seen as the biggest act of genocide in the world. In January 1945 before the Soviets arrived at Auschwitz, the SS marched 60,000 prisoners 36 miles away. This last march being Germany’s last attempt to exterminate the Jewish
I believe that what happened in the 1830s was evil. The Cherokee lived in those lands all their lives, parents, grandparents, children, and infants all were treated with the same amount of cruelty. None of the Americans seemed to care that they were killing thousands of people. Many of the elderly died from illness or hypothermia. I searched
His army also consisted of millions of poor, starving peasants with bad equipment, poor supplies of rifles and ammunition. In 1916, two million soldiers were killed or seriously wounded, and one third of a million taken prisoners. The Russian population was horrified. They considered the Tsar irresponsible for taking over the army and held him responsible for everything; as a result instability was growing at an alarming rate for the Tsar who had once held himself so assuredly in power. Nicholas II took this course of action to assure himself he still had complete control of Russia.
In 1917, Russia was crumbling into pieces. World War I was draining all of Russia’s resources. Through out the country there were massive food shortages, which left people starving. At the battlefront, millions of Russian soldiers were dying, because they did not possess many of the powerful weapons that their opponents had, like machine guns or the modern tanks, and Czar Nicholas the second’s government was disintegrating. In 1917, Lenin and his communist followers known as the Bolsheviks, overthrew Czar Nicholas II and set a communist government in Russia.
2,700,000 polish jews died being the most affected during the holocaust. 1,250,000 soviet jews died. And 1,390,000 other jews died. Because of the holocaust the jews are offended by the word hitler, and jew. This is an outrage to all of people in the world.
And finally, the remaining Armenians were called from their home, thinking that they were going to be relocated, and marched to concentration camps in the middle of the dessert, where they would die from lack of food and water. In the end, western scholars predict that over 500,000 Armenians were killed in this massacre between the years
Instead people remained in silence, and inhumanity took over. It is important that we shall not forget this tragedy that occurred. It is far more important we should study the holocaust as well, due to the fact that hundreds and hundreds of innocent human beings lost their lives and we can't let this happen again later on in Life.` When the Jews were sent to the concentration camps, all families were separated. The Germans were not considerate at all. Because of cruel people like them
DOC K: The Christians on the other hand did the exact opposite. They abandoned their families and their religion and only cared about themselves and did everything they could do to survive. DOC G: They threw the dead in a ditch to be picked up and thrown in a large burial site where hundreds of bodies lay until it filled to the top and they began to dig another one. No respect was shown to the sick or the deceased. Only taking three years, the Black Death killed just under half the world’s population.
Stalin forced all peasants to leave their farms in order for them to be collectivized, and their suffering was horrendous. It is estimated that ten million peasants were dispossessed between 1929 and 1932, of whom around two or three million lost their lives. With the lost of a huge proportion of animal population, seven million people died of famine. Somewhere between 5-10 million kulaks were sent to the Gulags prison camps, where they would be tortured and some even killed. Evidently, an innumerous amount of people suffered from the collectivization, therefore Stalin failed in the social policy of collectivization.
The World War I was draining all of Russia’s resources. There was shortage of food throughout the country, which left people starving. At the battlefront, millions of Russian soldiers were dying, they did not possess many of the powerful weapons that their opponents had. The government under Czar Nicholas II was disintegrating, and a provisional government had been set up. In November of 1917, Lenin and his communist followers known as the Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government and set a communist government in Russia.