take their seats‚ he begins to explain their next unit. It is on the Holocaust. His eyes rove over his class. Some seem excited‚ others confused‚ still others uncomfortable. He knows what some of the parents teach their children about the Holocaust. Explaining that he has a backup unit planned‚ in case of controversy‚ the teacher asks his students to take a silent vote with their eyes closed: should they learn about the Holocaust‚ or proceed to the backup unit? Teachers‚ parents‚ and students struggle
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The Holocaust‚ also known as Shoah‚ was a mass genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany along with collaborators killed about six million Jews. “Holocaust” or the final solution is the word originated from two Greek words “holos” meaning whole and “kaustos” meaning burned or all together‚ “sacrifice by fire.” Historically‚ Holocaust signifies sacrifices offered on the altar. After 1945‚ the word modified to take horrible meaning of mass destruction and loss of life. Owing to the brutal murder
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scarcely any event can compare in atrocity to that of the Holocaust. We will never know the comprehensive truth of the Holocaust and its’ notorious leader Adolf Hitler‚ and as such we are left to speculate on the origins and impact created by those involved. To some‚ Adolf Hitler is the inimitable leader‚ the charismatic politician with a heinous purpose and the sole person to blame for the events which became known to history as the Holocaust. This ideology is known as the intentionalist argument
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The Holocaust was the end of the long process which included terror and propaganda‚ known as Anti-Semitism. When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933‚ they imposed the Nuremberg Laws (“How and Why Did the Holocaust Happen?”)‚ forcing Jews to wear yellow stars on all of their clothing so they could be easily identified‚ and stripped the Jews of all their basic human rights. On the Night of Broken Glass‚ the Nazis organized violent attacks on the Jews. This night was named the Night of Broken
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The Holocaust (1933-1944) was the period in which Adolf Hitler and his followers‚ the Nazi Party‚ systematically killed people of “inferior” races. Jews were one of their main targets. The German dictator believed that Jewish people should be removed from the face of the planet so the Aryan race would remain pure. Some methods of extermination were gas chambers or mass execution. This story tells the tale of one survivor of the Holocaust and what she went through in her fight for freedom.
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The Holocaust was the almost complete destruction of Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II‚ which lasted between1939 and 1945. We can learn much from this event and ways to prevent similar events from happening again. However‚ it can be compared to today’s Arab Israeli Conflict‚ which is the cause of a dispute over the land of Palestine. The Holocaust was the worst genocide in history. The Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler wanted to eliminate all Jews as part of his plan for world power
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The role of ordinary Germans in the Holocaust is that of bystanders. The people of Germany watched on‚ without protest‚ as the Jewish people were murdered. Small and large jobs such as engineering and railway work contributed to the operation of the Holocaust and the murdering of Jews. The manipulation of the German people‚ through racist and anti-Semitic propaganda‚ speeches and polices from Hitler‚ meant that millions of Germans backed the plans to rid the nation of Jews. The idea that the Jews
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The Nazi Holocaust claimed twenty million lives (Day). Around 270‚000 disabled‚ 5‚000 to 15‚000 homosexuals‚ 90‚000 to 220‚000 gypsies were killed (Berenbaum). The holocaust was an inhumane act on society. What Hitler did was something that could not be forgotten. He killed millions because they did have the same views as he did‚ they didn’t look the way he wanted them to‚ or they "deserved to die". The worst part was no one knew what was going to happen to them when they were taken away from their
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Einsatzgruppen - Killing Squads Do you ever stop and think about how many lives were taken in the Holocaust? More than six million Jews lost their lives throughout the course of this traumatic event. Some of us may find it hard to even wrap our brains around a number this large. Try and imagine that each and every digit in that number was a living human being. Now they’re dead. It is my honor to write this paper and educate the reader as much as I know about the horrors of this genocide. One of
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The Holocaust was arguably one of the most horrific events in the history of our race. The fact that a human being was capable of such terrible things is just incredibly hard to believe. The main reason we do learn about the Holocaust is to keep it from happening again. But it’s hard not to wonder whether simply knowing of the event can really stop somebody from doing something like this a second time around in a country as developed and opportunistic as the United States. Our country is
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