The Holocaust was one of the twentieth century’s greatest tragedies that were made possible by anti-Semitism‚ the indifference of other nations‚ isolationism politics‚ and outright fear. Mrs. Arana/ Period 3 Miranda Ruiz 5/16/11 The road to the creation of the Holocaust started with one man. Adolf Hitler. Although thousands of people agreed with anti-Semitism at the time he was the one who started to take his thoughts into actions. After World War 1‚ German was in great poverty‚ unemployment
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explored was the Holocaust. Many years had to pass before artists dared to touch on the subject and render this event. For a long time the artistic recreation of such delicate issue was quite unacceptable. A representative of such an opinion was a German sociologist and philosopher‚ Theodor Adorno‚ who said: “To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric” (17). If someone was to dedicate his work to the Shoah‚ they based their piece on the three rules of conduct for presenting the Holocaust incorporated
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Adolf Hitler was the driving force behind the Holocaust. Many people think he was insane to torture the human race that way. Others praise him for attempting to exterminate the Jewish people. Some wonder what was going on inside his head when he had the first thought and/or plan of the Holocaust. A majority of the world just want to know what drove him or what made him hate the Jewish race so much. Studying Adolf Hitler’s beliefs can give the world history because he gave the world an insight
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reading this book I found the facts that the book had very interesting. One of the things that the book said was that more than 6 million Jews were killed during the holocaust. I found this fact captivating because I asked myself‚ why were so many people killed during a short period of time? If Iread more books on the topic of the holocaust i think it will help answer why so many people were killed. Even though there isn’t a logical answer to this question reading more books on this issue will help answer
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This is what the Jews had to endure for over a decade during the Holocaust. There were several tortures in the concentration camps. One was the actual train ride to get to the camps. The victims were shoved onto a train and crammed until no more would fit and if there were any left they would be shot. The long hours of
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Paper One When Europeans first came into contact with Native Americans‚ they viewed them as murderous savages‚ because of the many horrendous acts they have committed. Their leader‚ Powhatan‚ showed many barbaric acts by brutally killing his own people‚ as well as Englishmen. One of these violent acts includes the annihilation of over 300 Virginians. These crimes led the English to believe that all Native Americans were savages‚ ready to kill anyone without any empathy. Several Englishmen who
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Reflection The holocaust has proven to be a very devastating period in history‚ whether that is because of the 11 million Jewish‚ Jehovah’s‚ Homosexuals‚ gypsies and disabled people that lost their lives or the fact that a man as evil as Hitler had actually planned on killing millions of people‚ and then building a museum on an “extinct race” after he was sure he had assassinated all of the so called “inferiors.” Even the name Holocaust is obtained from the Greek words “completely burnt.” This
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were killed of exposure‚ disease‚ and starvation in the Holocaust. Many people were put to death for speaking out against Hitler and for disagreeing with the government. In the book The Holocaust by Seymour Rossel it is estimated that about 6‚000‚000 Jews died. Not only were Jews being killed during the Holocaust but so were gypsies‚ slaves‚ the mentally ill‚ and the physically deformed people. (Rossel‚ p. 3) The survivors of the Holocaust suffered from depression‚ anxiety‚ nightmares‚ and guilt
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The Holocaust was a time that murdered six million Jews by the Nazi. The holocaust is a word that was used to describe the genocide. The genocide was due to Adolf Hitler felt that this would eliminate the Jews since he believed that the Germans were racially superior. During this time the German also believed that the Jews were inferior along with gypsies‚ Russians‚ homosexuals and many others. They felt as though that these people were inferior and should be killed. Longerich argues that anti-Semitism
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therefore leading to the death of over six million men‚ women‚ and children‚ creating what we now know as the Holocaust. In order to truly understand what happened under the Nazi regime‚ one must understand that there were dark‚ evil forces at work; and that through one man in particular‚ Adolf Hitler‚ these forces destroyed nearly two-thirds of the Jews on the planet. During the Holocaust‚ millions of lives were lost and millions more were affected in ways that we will never fully grasp. By watching
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