The Holocaust was a mass genocide committed by Nazi Germany that began on January 30, 1933, the history behind, we’ll discover. This all started with Adolf Hitler and his views on Jewish people, he saw them as an inferior race and scapegoated them for Germany’s defeat in 1918, a threat to Germans. Germany had now ruled now, persecuting Jews as they come and go; but Hitler had now wanted to exterminate their entire race. He was going to do this with mass killing centers and most commonly known, concentration camps. Hitler was obsessed with the idea of German purity and power over other nations, he thought that the Germans were better than everyone. He was in full control now. In 1933, only 525,000 Jews were in …show more content…
Survivors found in nearly impossible returning home in fear of being oppressed again or anything remotely as bad as that to ever occurring again. In many cases, people were left homeless, without their families, wondering if they were still alive. Due to the high numbers of refugees and homelessness came Israel. This was gifted to them as a homeland for the survivors. To make up for their wrongdoings, the German government in 1953 made payments to Jews who suffered from trying and healing the wounds of the war. Other refugees immigrated to other countries. After the Holocaust, nations pledged to punish genocides and crimes against humanity. This also reformed the way human rights were seen. As you would expect, the war would leave multitudinous and complex physiological effects on survivors. These were caused by the fear of knowing their family might be dead or if they would ever return. It was difficult to cope with the realization of what had happened to them or ever returning to a normal life again. They tried to begin new lives but their conditions were often poor and cramped, having poor work. Physical effects were also common, they were starved and often looked like skeletons with skin, ‘living corpses’. They had caught diseases or lost body parts and may have been beaten to a point where it is impossible to recover. As well, after the holocaust, many more Jews became active in civil right movements. This also increased the sense of nationalism amongst Jewish