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    People starve‚ the guards are brutal and corpses are left in the streets. On one occasion‚ the Szpilmans witness the SS kill an entire family during a łapanka (raid) in an apartment across the street. On 16 August 1942 the family are deported to Treblinka extermination camp‚ but Wladyslaw survives at the Umschlagplatz due to an intervention from a friend in the Jewish Ghetto Police. Szpilman becomes a slave labourer and learns of a coming Jewish revolt. He helps by smuggling weapons into the ghetto

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    Rage Against the Nazi Machine Societal norms dictate that violence is wrong‚ but sometimes it might just be right. For Jewish people living in Europe during the Holocaust‚ this was the case and engaging in violence against those who wished them harm often meant the difference between living to see the next day or not. During the early 20th century from about 1939 to 1945‚ the Nazis carried out their draconian orders by systematically killing off much of the Jewish population from Denmark to Romania

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    with makeshift weapons‚ before the SS was able to overtake them. Additionally in a Jewish ghetto in Nazi occupied Minsk (Russia) almost 10‚000 captives were able to escape and they were able to join Soviet sympathizers. In August of 1943‚ at the Treblinka death camp prisoners were able to kill some guards‚ set some buildings on fire‚ and several hundred were able to escape. Another successful uprising occurred at the Sobibor camp in October of 1943. Prisoners there killed several SS officers and guards

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    historic mass killing of around six million Jews or more. These were more of working camps‚ but still‚ out of all of those‚ only six of them were used specifically for actually working the Jews to death. Belzec‚ Chelmno‚ Majdanek‚ Sobibor‚ as well as Treblinka were quite large‚ but none of those five are as large or as infamous as the Auschwitz death camp. Through the beginning of the 1941 to around 1945‚ the camp has gone from 835 square feet of absolute horror to true historical suffering and terror

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    THE PERSECUTION OF JEWS IN EUROPE DURING THE 20TH CENTURY It is an indisputable fact that the Jewish people have been persecuted‚ oppressed and mistreated throughout the history of Judaism. But this persecution finally reached its peak during the 20th century when the Hitler’s dictatorship of Germany and Stalin’s rule over the Soviet Union caused the cruel and tragic deaths of millions of Jews. The main cause of this uncalled for persecution was the fanatic anti-Semitism that took Germany‚ Russia

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    camps started opening in 1941 when Hitler thought of the Final Solution which was to kill all the Jews. These camps facilitated this idea. Some of the notorious extermination camps were Auschwitz-Birkenau‚ Belzec‚ Chelmno‚ Majdanek‚ Sobibor‚ and Treblinka. Being a Jew at any of these camps would mean certain death. These Jews were killed by poison gas which was a very efficient way to kill many people. The largest gas chambers were in Auschwitz-Birkenau where at their height‚ they gassed 6‚000 Jews

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    the Wannsee Conference in Berlin to coordinate plans to find the solution to their problems. The Jews of Europe would now be rounded up and deported into occupied Poland where new extermination centers were being constructed at Belzec‚ Sobibor‚ Treblinka‚ and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Here they were gassed and killed like animals. But soon Hitler and the Nazis got what what was coming to them. Three years later during WWII Hitler was killed by the military and this ended the crucial treatment the Jews

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    Jasenovac Extermination Camp. Extermination camps were camps developed by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust‚ In order to kill millions of people by execution‚ generally by gassing and torture. Jasenovac was Croatia’s largest Extermination camp and by far the worst‚ It had a network of several sub-camps and Its main victims included Serbs‚ Romas‚ Croat partisans and Jews. Jasenovac was well know for its extreme cruelty in which its victims were tortured and killed. Jasenovac was located on 220

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    Racial theories The Meyers Blitz-Lexikon(Leipzig‚ 1932) depicts German war hero Karl von Müller as an example of the Nordic racial type. The Nazis considered the Nordic type to be the highest in racial hierarchy within the Aryan race. In its racial categorization‚ Nazism viewed what it called the Aryan race as the master race of the world—a race that was superior to all other races. It viewed Aryans as being in racial conflict with a mixed race people‚ the Jews‚ whom Nazis identified as a

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    Although we cannot compare the horrors of the Nazi Concentration camps to the American "Relocation Centers"‚ there are many similarities. Both of the groups of victims were of the minorities‚ and these cultures were somewhat of an enemy to the leader of their country. These groups (the Japanese in America nearly two thirds of which were American citizens‚ and the Jews‚ Gypsies‚ the Poles‚ Slovaks‚ Communists and other enemies of the state in Germany and Poland‚ many of which had served the very countries

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