Anti-Semitism Before The Holocaust
Even before Adolf Hitler had come along to power there was some anti-semitism which was basically racism against the Jews. The reason for the anti-semitism before the Holocaust was for religious matters. The Holocaust is a period in time in which there are many horrible events that had taken place. After Adolf Hitler’s appointment as German chancellor on January 30th, 1933, the Nazi state had become a regime or a type of government really fast. It basically was when the citizens had no guaranteed basic rights. In March of 1933 the Nazi government established the Dachau concentration camp, which was the first camp. What happened was, the Nazi’s imprisoned opponents, homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses and others who were considered “dangerous”.
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There were different camps for different purposes such as transit camp, forced-labor camps , and death camps for mass murder. After the Holocaust there was about eleven-million deaths, six-million were Polish citizens, three-million were Polish Jews and almost another three-million were Polish Christians. How did the Holocaust start? After Hitler became German Chancellor he had pushed forward the Nazi genocide against the Jews. Jews has been forced to live in specific areas of a city and they were called ghettos after World War II has starts. Also in larger ghettos, up to about one-thousand people a day had been picked up and brought by train to concentration camps or death camps. The Nazi’s had moved all the Jews from the German society and put them in camps and some had to go by train and this was very uncomfortable ride and some had even died before arriving. “On November 9th and 10th, Nazi’s pillaged, burned synagogues, broke windows of Jewish-owned businesses, and attacked Jewish people in Austria and Germany. 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps” (“11 Facts About the Holocaust.”, 2015). The biggest death camp that there was, was called Auschwitz. At this camp there was a killing center at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This camp had the most deaths from 1.1 to 1.5 million
There were different camps for different purposes such as transit camp, forced-labor camps , and death camps for mass murder. After the Holocaust there was about eleven-million deaths, six-million were Polish citizens, three-million were Polish Jews and almost another three-million were Polish Christians. How did the Holocaust start? After Hitler became German Chancellor he had pushed forward the Nazi genocide against the Jews. Jews has been forced to live in specific areas of a city and they were called ghettos after World War II has starts. Also in larger ghettos, up to about one-thousand people a day had been picked up and brought by train to concentration camps or death camps. The Nazi’s had moved all the Jews from the German society and put them in camps and some had to go by train and this was very uncomfortable ride and some had even died before arriving. “On November 9th and 10th, Nazi’s pillaged, burned synagogues, broke windows of Jewish-owned businesses, and attacked Jewish people in Austria and Germany. 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps” (“11 Facts About the Holocaust.”, 2015). The biggest death camp that there was, was called Auschwitz. At this camp there was a killing center at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This camp had the most deaths from 1.1 to 1.5 million