Why Did The Holocaust Happen
The Holocaust is one of the most famous examples of genocide in human history. The mass killing of predominantly Jewish people during the reign of Adolf Hitler inundates history books throughout the world. From the end of WWI to the end of WWII Jewish people from many countries in Europe were forced into concentration camps, where their best option was living and working in terrible conditions, and their worst option death. My question is why did this devastating genocide occur? Looking back, the holocaust was a horrible event in human history yet years after the event, even with the treaties that resulted, genocide would occur again in several instances. In my paper I will give a detailed history of the political/environmental conditions that
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The Wannsee Conference would change that, as the idea of the Final Solution was presented to the government officials. This was the final push towards complete Jewish genocide, and the plans to exterminate all 11 million Jews across Europe was finalized. The implementation of this converted many camps, most notably Auschwitz, to fully functioning death camps. The Nazi party explained to the impoverished Jewish ghetto’s that they were being moved southward; and because of the abysmal conditions in these neighborhoods, almost all were happy to leave. It was this belief of a better life that helped the Nazi Party to exterminate half of Europe’s Jewish population with little resistance (YELLOW). This practice would be continued until 1944, when the last death camp, Auschwitz, was officially closed down due to the allied forces surrounding Germany. Although this was the end of the death camps and the near end of the war, the Nazi party would still try to cover up their crimes by making the survivors of the camps walk towards the center of Germany, which cumulated in the deaths of thousands, and would thus be called the Death Marches. The official end of the genocide came in 1945 with the end of the war and the prosecution of officials who had allowed it to
The Wannsee Conference would change that, as the idea of the Final Solution was presented to the government officials. This was the final push towards complete Jewish genocide, and the plans to exterminate all 11 million Jews across Europe was finalized. The implementation of this converted many camps, most notably Auschwitz, to fully functioning death camps. The Nazi party explained to the impoverished Jewish ghetto’s that they were being moved southward; and because of the abysmal conditions in these neighborhoods, almost all were happy to leave. It was this belief of a better life that helped the Nazi Party to exterminate half of Europe’s Jewish population with little resistance (YELLOW). This practice would be continued until 1944, when the last death camp, Auschwitz, was officially closed down due to the allied forces surrounding Germany. Although this was the end of the death camps and the near end of the war, the Nazi party would still try to cover up their crimes by making the survivors of the camps walk towards the center of Germany, which cumulated in the deaths of thousands, and would thus be called the Death Marches. The official end of the genocide came in 1945 with the end of the war and the prosecution of officials who had allowed it to