How Is The Holocaust Justified

One of the darkest moments of the worlds' history took place between 1941-1945. The Holocaust, as it is referred to, was the mass murder or genocide of millions of people. The responsible party, The Nazi Regime, was a dictatorship out of Germany headed by their notorious leader, Adolf Hitler. The group targeted Jewish people and persecuted groups, such as gypsies and homosexuals. Hitler justified these actions because he felt the Jewish people were a lower class compared to the German people. Under the Nazi rule there was continued Jewish persecution. However, Hitler at some point, decided to finally exterminate the Jews completely. To put the plan in action, Hitler created death camps, concentration camps, and labor camps in Poland. During the Nazi regime between 1941-1945 approximately 6 million Jews were killed. An additional 5 million non-Jewish people were killed. Hitler's despicable actions and hunger for power lead to the Second World War.
At the end of the 19th century, anti-Semitism, or hatred against Jews was developed and thought of as a deformity on the body politic.
Despite the fact that German Jews were among the best assimilated, Hitler and his Nazi’s succeeded on segregating the Jews from the rest of the population. Back in Germany, you could find Jews almost anywhere, and that annoyed the Germans. The Nazis’ ultimate goal was to create a “Greater Germany free from Jews.” Because the Germans wanted to get rid of Jews so desperately, they attempted to deport Jews. However, in 1839 when the European war began, all plans were canceled. At around the same time, the Nazis had gained experience with mass murder using Euthanasia Program, where physically and psychologically disabled were killed by the state. The beginning of the Germans’ cruel war of extermination against the Soviet Union also began in 1941. As a result of Germany’s problems, all those events led to the systematic mass murder of over six million
Jews.
Towards the end of the war, Germany’s military force was collapsing and the Allied armies closed in on the Nazi concentration camps. Once the Germans noticed this, they wanted to hide all evidence of their killing centers, so they began to move the prisoners out of the camps. The Nazis began by taking the prisoners by train but later forced them to walk, this is what prisoners called a “death march.” Prisoners were forced to not walk, but trek extreme distances in extreme cold with limited food, water, and rest. If prisoners could not keep up, or did something the Nazis did not like, they would be shot or beaten. When the Soviet army began its liberation of Poland, one of the largest death marches took place in the winter of 1944 to 1945. The Nazis often murdered large groups of captives before, during, or after death marches. During one of the last death marches, 7,000 Jewish prisoners, 6,000 of them women, were moved from camps and forced to march. During the march, lasting ten days, seven hundred were murdered. Sadly, those who survived were taken to the shores of the sea and driven into the water and shot.