Conflict System Of The Holocaust
Throughout history, there has always been conflicts that started within a country, spread to be between two countries and later escalated to become a worldwide problem. There has only been two conflicts throughout time that has escalated to become such a worldwide issue that it has turned into a world war. The event that lead to World War Two was the Holocaust or Shoah. The Holocaust started slowly and grew from the years 1933 to when it ended in 1945, with the conclusion of World War Two. It started with discrimination, and then alienation, before persecution and murder occurred. The Holocaust is one of the biggest cases in history of alienation and persecution, as prior to it, there had been eleven million Jewish people, the main targets, living in Europe
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and after the conclusion of World War Two, only five million European Jews were still alive. About a million and a half of those people killed were children.
There are many different parts to the conflict system of the Holocaust, as it became a worldwide issue over time. It became such a large conflict system that it ended up becoming the only Second World War in history. However, I am going to focus on two main parts of the conflict system, the Nazis and Poland. These two groups were two of the major players in the Holocaust and they both had large parts in the conflict.
One main part of the conflict system was the Nazis. The Nazis were a political party that was created in Germany and its’ full name was National Socialist German Workers Party .The Nazis slowly came into power after the first World War and the effects that a war had on the country of Germany and its’ economy. The leader of the Nazis was Adolf Hitler. The group was first named the Germans Workers’ Party. Adolf Hitler got involved with the group when he was investigating small political groups for the German army and he started to attend meetings and became an active member of the group ("Who Were the Nazi Party?" ). Hitler was a very powerful speaker and he rose to power and became the leader of the party by 1931. Because of Hitler’s
persuasive speaking skills, the group began to gain members by preying on weaknesses and fears of the unemployed and war veterans. World War One had weakened Germany, the country as a whole, tremendously , with food shortages and chaos throughout the country. The Nazis used this to their advantage to gain power throughout the country, as the majority of citizens were looking to support a political party that had the most extreme solutions to all of Germany’s problems. The Nazi party grew from three thousand members in 1921 to over one hundred thousand members in 1928. The Nazis used propaganda to gain support throughout the country and by 1932, the Nazi party had won the majority vote in the German election and Hitler demanded to be named chancellor, but was denied by the current German preside, Hindenburg. By January 1933, Hindenburg had been convinced that Hitler could be kept under control and on January 30th, 1933, Hitler was named chancellor of Germany. Using his newly gained power, Hitler called for a reelection and heavily used propaganda to gain momentum but failed to outright win the election. However, he was able to propose the Enabling Law to the German parliament and when it was passed, Hitler and the Nazi party came into control of the entire government, thus making Germany a dictatorship. And from there, the conflict began.
Another major part of the conflict system of the Holocaust was Poland. Prior to the Nazis’ invasion of Poland in 1939, there had been a population of 3.5 million Jewish people in Poland, which was about ten percent of the total population of Poland. By the end of World War Two, over ninety percent of the Polish Jews had been murdered ("Which Countries Did the Nazis Occupy?"). Poland got involved with the Holocaust when the Nazis invaded them in 1939. The persecution of Jews began as soon as the invasion began, when all the Jewish people were forced out of their homes and put into ghettos, where they were forced to work. After about an year and a half of this treatment, the extermination period of the Holocaust began, with the mass murder of two million Jews, mostly in Poland. The extermination period was only put more in motion by the creation of six extermination camps, where the majority of the murders by the Nazis took place. The Polish population of Jews lost the most majority of lives throughout the Holocaust, but on the other hand, they also had the most amount of its’ people who helped Jews escape to freedom. It is estimated that almost possibly millions of Poles, at least into the hundreds of thousands, helped to hide or aide their Jewish neighbors throughout the Holocaust. They were also the first country to report and expose the existence of the six concentration camps and what was being done to the Jewish and other minority races by the Nazis. This put Poland in direct conflict with the Nazis and therefore, our conflict system has been set up.
and after the conclusion of World War Two, only five million European Jews were still alive. About a million and a half of those people killed were children.
There are many different parts to the conflict system of the Holocaust, as it became a worldwide issue over time. It became such a large conflict system that it ended up becoming the only Second World War in history. However, I am going to focus on two main parts of the conflict system, the Nazis and Poland. These two groups were two of the major players in the Holocaust and they both had large parts in the conflict.
One main part of the conflict system was the Nazis. The Nazis were a political party that was created in Germany and its’ full name was National Socialist German Workers Party .The Nazis slowly came into power after the first World War and the effects that a war had on the country of Germany and its’ economy. The leader of the Nazis was Adolf Hitler. The group was first named the Germans Workers’ Party. Adolf Hitler got involved with the group when he was investigating small political groups for the German army and he started to attend meetings and became an active member of the group ("Who Were the Nazi Party?" ). Hitler was a very powerful speaker and he rose to power and became the leader of the party by 1931. Because of Hitler’s
persuasive speaking skills, the group began to gain members by preying on weaknesses and fears of the unemployed and war veterans. World War One had weakened Germany, the country as a whole, tremendously , with food shortages and chaos throughout the country. The Nazis used this to their advantage to gain power throughout the country, as the majority of citizens were looking to support a political party that had the most extreme solutions to all of Germany’s problems. The Nazi party grew from three thousand members in 1921 to over one hundred thousand members in 1928. The Nazis used propaganda to gain support throughout the country and by 1932, the Nazi party had won the majority vote in the German election and Hitler demanded to be named chancellor, but was denied by the current German preside, Hindenburg. By January 1933, Hindenburg had been convinced that Hitler could be kept under control and on January 30th, 1933, Hitler was named chancellor of Germany. Using his newly gained power, Hitler called for a reelection and heavily used propaganda to gain momentum but failed to outright win the election. However, he was able to propose the Enabling Law to the German parliament and when it was passed, Hitler and the Nazi party came into control of the entire government, thus making Germany a dictatorship. And from there, the conflict began.
Another major part of the conflict system of the Holocaust was Poland. Prior to the Nazis’ invasion of Poland in 1939, there had been a population of 3.5 million Jewish people in Poland, which was about ten percent of the total population of Poland. By the end of World War Two, over ninety percent of the Polish Jews had been murdered ("Which Countries Did the Nazis Occupy?"). Poland got involved with the Holocaust when the Nazis invaded them in 1939. The persecution of Jews began as soon as the invasion began, when all the Jewish people were forced out of their homes and put into ghettos, where they were forced to work. After about an year and a half of this treatment, the extermination period of the Holocaust began, with the mass murder of two million Jews, mostly in Poland. The extermination period was only put more in motion by the creation of six extermination camps, where the majority of the murders by the Nazis took place. The Polish population of Jews lost the most majority of lives throughout the Holocaust, but on the other hand, they also had the most amount of its’ people who helped Jews escape to freedom. It is estimated that almost possibly millions of Poles, at least into the hundreds of thousands, helped to hide or aide their Jewish neighbors throughout the Holocaust. They were also the first country to report and expose the existence of the six concentration camps and what was being done to the Jewish and other minority races by the Nazis. This put Poland in direct conflict with the Nazis and therefore, our conflict system has been set up.