Life during the Holocaust
Kellie Byrom
Professor Rose
English 1013 Comp 1
October 16, 2013
Life During the Holocaust
Approximately one year before World War II started, in late 1938 a power hungry-dictator caused such an event it's remembered throughout history. The Holocaust was one of the world’s darkest hours, a mass murder conducted in the shadows of the world’s most deadly war. The German government controlled by the brutal Nazi Party and its leader Adolf Hitler. The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis, who came to power in Germany on January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. Hostility discrimination against Jews is anti-Semitism, a term that has wide currency even unto this day in the 21st century. In the 20th century the economic and political dislocation caused by World War I intensified anti-Semitism, and racist anti-Semitism thrived in Nazi Germany. Nazi persecution of the Jews led to the Holocaust. Hatred of the Jews has long been established in Europe. The Jews in Christendom were humiliated, banished from their homes, forced to wear marks to identify them, and confined to separate living quarters. They were characterized as offspring of the Devil. One main concept for the Nazis was racial hygiene. Hitler's early policies targeted children with physical and developmental disabilities, and later authorized an euthanasia program for disabled adults. The Holocaust was also conducted under the auspices of racial hygiene. Nazis and their collaborators were responsible for the deaths of 11 million to 14 million people, including about 6 million Jews, representing two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe (1939-1945). Deaths took place in concentration and extermination camps and through mass executions. Concentration camps in
Professor Rose
English 1013 Comp 1
October 16, 2013
Life During the Holocaust
Approximately one year before World War II started, in late 1938 a power hungry-dictator caused such an event it's remembered throughout history. The Holocaust was one of the world’s darkest hours, a mass murder conducted in the shadows of the world’s most deadly war. The German government controlled by the brutal Nazi Party and its leader Adolf Hitler. The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis, who came to power in Germany on January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. Hostility discrimination against Jews is anti-Semitism, a term that has wide currency even unto this day in the 21st century. In the 20th century the economic and political dislocation caused by World War I intensified anti-Semitism, and racist anti-Semitism thrived in Nazi Germany. Nazi persecution of the Jews led to the Holocaust. Hatred of the Jews has long been established in Europe. The Jews in Christendom were humiliated, banished from their homes, forced to wear marks to identify them, and confined to separate living quarters. They were characterized as offspring of the Devil. One main concept for the Nazis was racial hygiene. Hitler's early policies targeted children with physical and developmental disabilities, and later authorized an euthanasia program for disabled adults. The Holocaust was also conducted under the auspices of racial hygiene. Nazis and their collaborators were responsible for the deaths of 11 million to 14 million people, including about 6 million Jews, representing two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe (1939-1945). Deaths took place in concentration and extermination camps and through mass executions. Concentration camps in