How Did The Holocaust Survive
The Nazi Holocaust claimed twenty million lives (Day). Around 270,000 disabled, 5,000 to 15,000 homosexuals, 90,000 to 220,000 gypsies were killed (Berenbaum). The holocaust was an inhumane act on society. What Hitler did was something that could not be forgotten. He killed millions because they did have the same views as he did, they didn’t look the way he wanted them to, or they "deserved to die". The worst part was no one knew what was going to happen to them when they were taken away from their friends and family. Millions were killed in crematoriums, starved to death, beaten, or gassed. Families were torn apart for Hitler’s own satisfaction. Luckily, some of the victims of the Holocaust survived. Nazis blamed Jews for the loss of WWI,
…show more content…
“The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators” (ushmm.org). These people were so unfairly treated, not only was it just the disabled, gypsies, and disabled there were so many other groups that went through this tragic event in history. The men and woman that suffered and went through the holocaust are not given enough recognition in today’s time. The holocaust in my opinion had to be the biggest mass murder in the history of the whole world. So many lives were lost through those years. Some those children could’ve invented a cure for cancer, aids, or even made world impacting decisions. No one will ever know what those people could’ve become or done for our world. “Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Germans and their collaborators persecuted and murdered millions of other people” (ushmm.org). “In the final months of the war, SS guards moved camp inmates by train or on forced marches, often called “death marches,” in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners. As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Germany, they began to encounter and liberate concentration camp prisoners, as well as prisoners en route by forced march from one camp to another. The marches continued until May 7, 1945, the day the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies”
“The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators” (ushmm.org). These people were so unfairly treated, not only was it just the disabled, gypsies, and disabled there were so many other groups that went through this tragic event in history. The men and woman that suffered and went through the holocaust are not given enough recognition in today’s time. The holocaust in my opinion had to be the biggest mass murder in the history of the whole world. So many lives were lost through those years. Some those children could’ve invented a cure for cancer, aids, or even made world impacting decisions. No one will ever know what those people could’ve become or done for our world. “Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Germans and their collaborators persecuted and murdered millions of other people” (ushmm.org). “In the final months of the war, SS guards moved camp inmates by train or on forced marches, often called “death marches,” in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners. As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Germany, they began to encounter and liberate concentration camp prisoners, as well as prisoners en route by forced march from one camp to another. The marches continued until May 7, 1945, the day the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies”