Why this happened? Hitler had many reasons. The main reason was for their religious beliefs. “Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.”(Hitler, 1) He believed they were not humans and needed no part in society.
Intentionalists believe that the eradication of the Jews and ultimately the holocaust was all part of Adolf Hitler’s grand design, and that he would stop at nothing until his design was completed. The extremities of intentionalist beliefs tend to vary, with a large number of Historians taking a more intense view on Hitler
To make this argument, they reject all the evidence submitted at Nuremberg. They denounce as fabrications the genocidal intention of the Nazi state and the thousands of orders, memos, notes, and other records that document the process of destruction. When they cannot sustain arguments that documents are forged, they argue that the language in the documents has been deliberately misinterpreted. Furthermore, some Holocaust deniers insist that the Allies tortured the perpetrators into testifying about their role in the killing process and that the survivors who testified about Nazi crimes against Jews were all lying out of
Many people deny the existence of the Holocaust and the genocide of the Jewish population during World War II, which keeps the anti-Semitism and stereotype chain intact. “The Holocaust is one of the most well documented events that ever happened in history,” (Confronting Antisemitism). Usually, the deniers are people who discriminate against the Jewish or claim that the whole tragic event is or was exaggerated (Confronting Antisemitism). Some other reasons why the deniers deny the Holocaust is, to reduce sympathy for Jews, to doubt the Jews and the Holocaust, draw attention to this issue, and most importantly, undermine our understanding of history (Confronting Antisemitism). Mino 2 “It says that the six million Jews did not die in vain,” (Gottfried 99) stated Ted Gottfried.
After World War Two (WW2) had ended and the dust began to settle over the Nazi regime, historians began to try and analyse the monstrosities that had occurred in Nazi Germany. The two first interpretations of the Holocaust that came about were intentionalism. This was the belief that without Hitler as Führer the Holocaust would never have happened. Therefore it’s no coincidence that Michael Marrus was an intentionalist historian. The other interpretation was structuralism.
The Holocaust “We despaired when the United States announced its neutrality.” These were the words of a young woman whose family’s last hope was the Untied States coming to their rescue, Clara’s war story (13). From January 1933 to May 1945 a man named Adolf Hitler and his political group, the Nazis, attempted to obliterate an entire group of people that did not live up to the Nazi ideal. At the head of this hatred were the Jews. At the beginning Hitler’s purpose was to force the Jews to emigrate, but later changed to the murder of all Jews. According to Hitler’s Willing Executors, six million Jews and millions of non-Jewish civilians lost their lives.
Chastain Sarabia Contemporary History 10/15/10 The Holocaust Devry University Abstract This paper discusses The Holocaust along with how, why, and when it took place. It also talks about those who believe it never really happened. The paper starts off by giving a brief history of the event such as where the word was derived from how it was organized and when it came it action. It then focuses on one man in particular giving the history and view point of Adolf Hitler the man who was the voice behind the conflict. After it stems off into descriptive details of what the families had to endure during the time of prosecution.
More recently, there was Hitler's genocidal six-million-death final solution to the Jewish problem, and the Communists' ten of millions of mass murders continue to this day. All this has been done without benefit of nuclear power. Many made comments came at the beginning of the atomic or nuclear age, and while the source and the judgment deserve respect, experience has shown that nuclear power in Western hands deterred a third world war and ultimately caused the collapse of the greatest
Before his rule the previous administration, under Weimar, enacted a strict gun control law in 1928. This was after the country had already been confiscated of their weapons in 1921 when the government was being overthrown. Such acts and laws required heavy resections on gun ownership and made a minimal amount of the population able to legally possess guns. The town of Northeim had a population of nearly ten-thousand people and only nine-hundred were permitted guns due to registration laws. This paved way for the Nazi government in 1938 to rewrite the law and confiscate all weapons from those who they viewed opposed to their way of things, especially the Jews.
Slaughterhouse Five was banned on political grounds for showing the American firebombing of Dresden in World War II. The destruction of 135,000 people (almost twice as destructive as the atomic bombing of Hiroshima) is something that I had never even heard of. Obviously, the US Army has done a good job in keeping it quiet. Teachers and administration claimed that the book displayed "un-Godliness, bathroom language, and an unpatriotic portrayal of war." I believe that the unpatriotic aspects of the war is the main reason the book was banned.