The Holocaust Genocide During World War II

A Genocide is the planned mass killings of a certain type of people based on religion, ethnicity, or some other determining factor. The biggest genocide of all time was the Holocaust. During the end of World War II it was Hitler, Chancellor of Germany, that came up with a plan he called the “Final Solution”. This “Solution” was to rid Germany and her neighbors of a plague they called Jews. It started out with massive shootings of the Jews, a method found insufficient. Soon a more effective method came along, Concentration and Extermination Camps. The plan was to send all Jews to camps that held them in secluded areas until they were killed off by way of work, starvation, bullet, or gas chamber. Over six million Jews were killed this way. Their
People are Identified and Separated and the requirements for the genocide become fulfilled. Such as in the Holocaust the Jews were put into Ghettos, and then transferred into camps by cattle cars. The gas chambers were built. In Holodomor preparation was getting the Red Army to surround Ukraine so people couldn't get in or out for food. The working class were given passports to identify them from the peasants, the class Stalin wanted to kill off. Stalin also put in the Law of Spikelets. The law declared that anyone found stealing, sneaking or holding food was to be put to death. All the while Stalin increased grain collections throughout the previous stages leaving less and less for the people to eat. This is the final stage before the actual mass killings of the
In my opinion, I think that the worst stage was stage seven, Extermination. It is the stage with the most suffering and biggest amount of deaths. This stage is normally the worst stage, but it can cross over to other ones. For example, the mobile firing squads were used before the gas chambers were built meaning the could have been used before Organization or Polarization. The stages aren't always in order and not every stage has to happen. So most of the things in Extermination might have been done before its just when they reached their worst point are they considered extermination. What I learned while researching this paper was how many genocides there were and are in the world. Before this project I was only aware of the Holocaust but now I am educated in multiple other genocides as well. I hope you were able to take away some new knowledge to use in further research. Did this genocide change the world? Well most genocides do change the world but this one was so well hidden, it was only recently considered a genocide. So in my opinion it has not been known long enough and studied as much as the holocaust to be a big change in the world. Thank you for taking the time to read this