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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The Holocaust The Holocaust is considered one of the worst and most tragic genocides in the history of the world. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Army and was a very cruel leader and man. The Holocaust was the genocide of many Jews over in Europe during the time period of January 30‚ 1933 to May 8‚ 1945. The executions made during this time period was horrific and terrifying. Adolf Hitler would find the Jews and have them put in concentration camps where the living conditions were horrible
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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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IB History 1 Name: The Holocaust by William Heuvel Questions Directions: Answer the following questions alone and with complete sentences. What are complaints that some people make about America and FDR about the Holocaust? That why didn’t the Allies just bomb the railways that fed the concentration camps and why didn’t the US let St. Louis port in America when Cuba wouldn’t allow them to. Roosevelt had done a lot to facilitate the emigration of Jews. In 1933‚ 37‚000 Jews
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History Study Notes Topic - Holocaust The Holocaust! Topic 1: Term 1! ! ! ASSESSMENT 1: WEEK 5 (25 FEBRUARY)! Stage 1: Discrimination (1933-1939)! ! Period in which Nazis excluded Jews from all aspects of life via a range of social policies and legislative changes. In doing so they also dehumanised them and made them scapegoats of the Nazi regime.! ! ! - Hatred of Jews = anti-Semitism ! ! Key Features! ! Social Discrimination! - Gradual process of discrimination
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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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“There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.”- Fidel Castro The Holocaust was one of the biggest historical events that took place in the 20th century. It was the time when innocent civilians were no longer in control of their own lives but by the hands of one man‚ Adolf Hitler. His "supremacist and racially motivated policies" were responsible for taking the lives of around six million Jews and about five million people who were deemed "undesirable". Starvation‚ disease‚ extermination camps
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