1. Introduction 1.1 What was the Holocaust? The word Holocaust means the destruction or slaughter on a mass scale‚ especially caused by fire or nuclear war. This was an accurate use of the term because The Holocaust was a systematic destruction and extermination of Jews and other lesser people on a mass scale. Hitler’s Genocide only reached European countries before he was stopped‚ however if he had been allowed to continue on his war path he would have wiped out entire cultures with no remorse
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We are all aware of the unspeakable things that happened in the Holocaust. The Holocaust was one of the worst mass murderings in history. On the day of january 30‚ 1933 Adolf Hitler announced the Final solution. This stated that all Jews were to be sent away to concentration camps. The biggest of which was Auschwitz. Auschwitz was originally a camp for Polish political prisoners. Then it shut its doors‚ but little did anyone know it got reinstated. The camp of Auschwitz was soon to be the site of
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Sabrina Liu Mrs. Osmonson English 2 8 May 2014 The Holocaust 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 Holocaust also known as Shoah‚ means a systematic‚ bureaucratic‚ state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews during the WWII by German Nazi. Adolf Hitler the leader of Nazis‚ who afraid Jews would take power over Germans; also‚ many Germans felt they were mistreated by the lost so Jews
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When people hear the word genocide‚ the first thing that comes to their mind is probably The Holocaust; unfortunately there are many more genocides that not many people know about. The Holocaust was a tragic genocide in which six million Jews were murdered by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi soldiers‚ and for what reason? Sadly there is no valid reason other than the fact that they were just Jewish and Hitler didn’t like that. Genocide is when a large group of people are murdered because of their beliefs
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The Holocaust was a form of genocide‚ which refers to the intentional‚ systematic extermination of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945. The Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Europe did not happen suddenly. It was the end of a long process of anti-Semitism and the belief in the pseudo-science of eugenics. The Nazis used propaganda and terror to enforce their anti-Semitic policies. By 1938‚ the lives of Jews living in Germany had become intolerable. A policy of annihilation
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The Holocaust was a period of time that will go down throughout history. It was a time period where many innocent people were getting tortured‚ abused‚ and even getting killed. All this was because of one man who thought to believe that the jews were the ones to blame for all the problems that was happening throughout the world. All the jews were sent to concentration camps‚ not many survived the harsh years. The two main camps that made a huge impact to many were the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald
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March 1‚ 2013 Holocaust 111 There are 5 stages of the Nazi Holocaust. The first stage is the Nazi killing camp and the deportations. In Ruth experience she was deported from Lodz in August 1944. She had the worst experience when she got separated from her brother. The ride to the concentration camp was not the best one. They were in a truck full of victims‚ it was hot‚ no space to breath‚ and no bathroom. She was sent to Auschwitz afterwards. In Werner’s testimony he was deported to many camps
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Holocaust The Holocaust was one of the‚ or possibly the‚ most horrific event to take place in human history because of the complete disregard of innocent human life‚ Adolf Hitler’s idea of "ethnic cleansing"‚ and the fact that civilians and many other people went along with it. It was the Nazi plan for the total annihilation of the Jewish people during World War II. The amount of lives lost throughout the Holocaust was disgusting. Hitler was the main cause of the deaths because he thought the Jewish
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The History of the Holocaust: 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
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People question how a tragic event like the Holocaust was allowed to happen. Many think that one person or one factor caused the Holocaust‚ when in actuality multiple factors and average people of that time contributed greatly to the rise of the Nazis. Although they may not have known it‚ the general public began to conform to the beliefs of Nazis. It could be seen as a feat to get almost a whole country to conform to a single person’s beliefs‚ but many studies show that it would not be as hard
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