Genocide And The Holocaust
The Holocaust was a genocide where over 6 million European Jews were killed by Nazi Germany. These victims included 1.5 million children and 2/3 of the entire Jewish European (9 million Jews) population. From 1941 to 1945 killing of the Jews were carried out through German occupied Europe. However it wasn’t only the Jews that were help at the concentration camps, as Soviets, communists the disabled and homosexuals were also help in the concentration camps. In 1941, the Germans had murdered 2 million Jews in mass shooting in less than one year, however in the 1942 the Jews were transported to concentration camps where they would be systematically killed in Gas chambers. This continued on until the end of World War 2 (April 1945). The Jews had
limited resentence to the highly armed Nazis, as the one of the most notable exception was at Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 when thousands of poorly armed Jews held the Nazis at bay for four weeks. In the final months of the war, the Nazis moved camp inmates by train or forced marches often referred as “death marches” in an attempt to prevent the allied forces to attain large numbers of prisoners. As the Allied forces began to move across Germany, they captured more and more concentration camps the prisoners were forced to march from one camp to another until Germany’s Surrender on 7th May 1945.
limited resentence to the highly armed Nazis, as the one of the most notable exception was at Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 when thousands of poorly armed Jews held the Nazis at bay for four weeks. In the final months of the war, the Nazis moved camp inmates by train or forced marches often referred as “death marches” in an attempt to prevent the allied forces to attain large numbers of prisoners. As the Allied forces began to move across Germany, they captured more and more concentration camps the prisoners were forced to march from one camp to another until Germany’s Surrender on 7th May 1945.