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    believed their centers to be top secret. To obliterate all the traces of gas‚ prisoner work untis (the Sonderkommandos‚ mentioned earlier) were forced to remove the corpses and cremate them. "Killing Centers: An Overview." United States Holocaust Memorial Council. 10 June 2013. Web. 8 February 2014. "Shoes and clothing of prisoners found at Auschwitz-Bikenau." Scrapbookpages. n.d. Web. 8 February 2014.

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    Terrorism is the simple fact of threatening another country of violence and carrying on with deathly results such as destruction and casualties. Terrorism does work because it creates fears among people. For example‚ in the holocaust‚ the terrorists “Hitler” wanted to whip out of earth an entire race of people called Jews because they lived on the land he controlled. The land that he wanted Germans to live in. To achieve their goals they placed all Jews into ghettos‚ where they died from starvation

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    The Holocaust By: Chris Bush 8th Eduard Hornemann was the son of Elizabeth and Philip Hornemann. Eduard was born in 1932 in Eindhoven‚ Holland. Eduard’s family consisted of four known people‚ his mother‚ his dad‚ his younger brother Alexander‚ and himself. His father worked for the Philips Corporation and could provide the family with a great living area‚ because he was an executive there. Eduard was eight years of age when the Germans occupied Holland in May of 1940. When the

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    11 million dead‚ 6 million of those people killed during The Holocaust. Hitler’s reign has destroyed society and has killed nearly every Jew the Nazis could find. People were dying in execution and concentration camps. Nobody was completely safe. They called this period of mass murder‚ The Holocaust. Where was I during this time? I was enjoying my life‚ completely unaware of the dying world around me. “Erika Adelman‚ Germany‚ April 31‚ 1942.” I wrote at the top of my test. It was the last day of

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    World War II was a horrific event that lasted from 1939 to 1945 with over 60 million people killed throughout the world. In particular‚ the Holocaust accounted for millions of deaths in the persecution of Jews‚ with very few survivors in comparison. Anti- Semitism was an already occurring belief during this era‚ but because due to the eruption of World War II‚ the hate for Jews grew rapidly. In order to justify the Nazis desire toward the persecution of Jews‚ the Nazis enacted a series of anti- Semitic

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    During the barbarity of the Holocaust‚ thousands of Nazis discreetly committed morally atrocious acts in support of Nazi Germany‚ completely disregarding their inevitable and significant consequences. Influenced by Nazi propaganda‚ laws targeting minority groups‚ and the encouragement of prominent Nazi leaders‚ these Nazi’s participated in immoral sexual acts and kidnapped innocent children despite basic human morality. Striving to breed the Aryan race‚ they felt a sacred obligation to fulfill their

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    Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe (“Jewish”). The Holocaust was one of the most horrific events to ever occur in human history‚ and is most commonly known for when the mass murder of over six-million Jewish people took place. In 1939‚ thousands of Jewish families were forced to leave their homes and live in small‚ fenced-off areas known as ghettos. With miserable living conditions‚ and constant Nazi terror‚ resistance was not easy‚ but certainly not impossible. During the Holocaust‚ Jewish people engaged in various

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    Most people credit Adolf Hitler as being the man behind the holocaust. If you would know about his childhood‚ schooling‚ and political beliefs and goals you might think of him as a different person. Adolf Hitler was in 1889 in Austria. Adolf Hitler had 6 brothers and sisters. His father didn’t treat him very well. When Adolf Hitler’s littlest brother died it kind of drew him away from his family and he became isolated. When he was old enough he applied for the German military. He was soon accepted

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    Concentration Camps in the Holocaust World War II brought many atrocities‚ 6 million to be precise (Wachsmann 2017). With so many camps not even discovered yet‚ as they are still doing an investigation into all of the locations of the camps‚ but we may not even know how many deaths and the torture of the prisoners by the Fuhrer and the Nazi’s. The Germans had many uses for the concentration camps. A concentration camp is a detention site outside the normal prison system created for military purposes

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    The Holocaust effected millions of people Hitler wanted an all Aryan race because he was filled with hatred towards polish citizens. He killed Jew and everyone who didn’t have blonde hair and blue eyes. All Polish citizens had to pay the price of death because of racial issues. Hitler wanted to kill mostly all the Jews. He didn’t only kill Jews though‚ he killed Muslims‚ too. Polish citizens had to work for Hitler and Hitler’s soldiers. They were sent to concentration camps. They were forced labor

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