always be Hitler and his cruelty toward Jews. What is strange about this answer is the fact that the majority of people do not realize what actually occurred in Europe during this time. To most people‚ the Holocaust was an event where many Jews were killed by Nazis. (www.ushmm.org) In fact‚ the Holocaust was a tragic point in history which many believe never occurred‚ or do not realize the suffering behind the widespread destruction. The pain and conditions experienced by the victims is unimaginable by
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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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Year 10 Humanities 2013 Unit 2: World War 2 Task 2 The Holocaust The Causes of the Holocaust The Process of the Holocaust In 1933‚ the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Germany would occupy during World War II. By 1945‚ the Germans killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the Final Solution‚ the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Although Jews‚ whom the Nazis deemed a priority danger to
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The Holocaust It is difficult to grow up in the world today without hearing about the horrors of the holocaust. From an early age‚ I recall hearing about it in history classes. The numbers and facts were all there‚ the millions that were slaughtered‚ the atrocities that were committed. Yet‚ it is an impersonal type of reporting that is given in a history class‚ and while the mind can sympathize and agree that the event was horrific‚ the heart is not as affected by facts and figures. When the story
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The Holocaust Melissa Vargas Mr. Smith AP US History 1 April 2014 Imagine one day coming home to your parents packing all your bags‚ telling you that it’s time to go‚ but you have no clue where you are going. With no idea where you are going you freak out‚ and are scared to death of what is to come for you and your family. This wasn’t uncommon for the Jewish people of Europe from the early 1930’s to the mid 1940’s. Hitler had another plan for all the Jews‚ one which he called
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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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The Holocaust first started in Germany in 1933‚ when Jew and other ethnicities began to lose their right. It began with exclusion from school‚ certain jobs and other public roles. Then Jews had to wear the Star of David so be identified‚ and soon after a mandatory curfew was imposed. Not long after‚ Jews were forced into ghettos and then into concentration camps (“The Holocaust” par. 12-18). Heinz Skyte‚ a German survivor of the Holocaust‚ recalls what happened when the Nazis first came to power:
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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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