1939- 1945 Were Possibly The Worst Years In American History.

Once in power Hitler quickly established himself as dictator. He started hauling off thousands of anti-Nazis to concentration camps. The economy, the media, and all cultural activities were brought under Nazi authority by making an individual’s livelihood dependent on their political loyalty. His desire was to establish German rule over Europe and other parts of the world. He realized that this would lead to a European conflict and so he started his plan to conquer Europe by invading Poland in 1939 and started World War ll . The war started off good for the Germans but once the United States entered the war they started to lose. As time passed, defeat became more certain, but Hitler refused to give up. Finally with all of Germany overrun by Allied

The Babi Yar is a ravine on the outskirts of Kiev. Kiev was the capital of the Soviet Ukraine when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. Some 160,000 Jews resided in Kiev, about 20 percent of the city's population. Mobile squads killed at

The time period of 1939 to 1945 was a very devastating time for a lot of individuals especially American’s. During this time frame the world was involved in the crisis called World War ll. World Warll had a large negative impact on America’s economy as a whole it affected America’s financial status greatly, American soldiers also suffered a large variety of mental as well as physical health issues during and after World War 2, and many American’s lost their lives for the cause. The major decision to go into war all began on December 7, 1941 when the Japanese forces bombed

A fact which we all have to emit is that humanity existence always creates conflicts and fighting which we call "WAR". In war, people kill each others for many reasons ---- resources, personal benefits, territories, powers, revenge, etc. In war, one becomes a hero for killing human lives and eventually he gets honored and well-known in people 's heart. The Holocaust, according to Germans, was the war between Germans and Jews. Approximately six million Jews included 960,000 innocent children died during Hitler 's regime called Nazism. Unlike the "hero(s)" whom people honor, the Holocaust was a hideous crime and the participants were bloody murderers. Today people are taught about the Holocaust

“Babi Yar is a ravine on the outskirts of Kiev, where Einsatzgruppen mobile squads killed at least 34,000 Jews over a one week period in September 1941 (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “This ravine was about 150 meters long and 30 meters wide and 15 meters deep (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “The ravine was near the town’s Jewish cemetery (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “The mass murder at Babi yar included men, women, and children systematically getting machine-gunned in a two day orgy of execution (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. The process of how these people had been murdered was very brutal. “The Jews, in their groups of a thousand, were herded into barbed-wire areas at the top of the ravine (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “These areas were guarded by Ukrainian collaborators (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “In this area they were forced to strip their clothes (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “The Jews were also getting beaten at the time of which they were taking off their clothes (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “Once they removed their clothing, it went into a certain pile (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. Each article of clothing had a certain pile to be placed in. “Subsequently, they were led down the side of the ravine (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “Once there, the first groups were forced to lie on the ground, face down, and were machine-gunned by the Germans who kept up a steady volley (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “To be shot, a police marksman came along and shot each Jew in the neck with a submachine gun (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “Once the Jews had been murdered, there riddled bodies were covered with thin layers of dirt (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “The next batch of Jews was ordered to lie over the people before them who died (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “Then the killing

Nevertheless Babi Yar got its name by a writer the name is unknown writing a poem telling the inhumanity of Babi Yar. To tell everyone about the thousands if Jews executed there by Nazi troops ( By Yevgeni

During WWII over 6 million Jewish adults, children, and other groups were killed during the holocaust there were many different groups who tried to stop them like the French Resistance and the Red Orchestra. The holocaust was a dark time in history and is remembered terribly by the survivor's family.

The Germans responded to the uprising by bringing in more firepower and soldiers and systematically burning the ghetto down from building to building, reducing the ghetto to rubble. The German forces also killed Anielewicz in an attack on the ZOB command bunker, the leader of ZOB and others with him. This bunker was later captured on May 8. To symbolize their victory, the Germans were ordered to destroy the Great Synagogue. After the Jewish resistance was broken and the ghetto was in ruins, the remaining Jewish people were then sent to extermination/labour camps. Only a few Jewish sites remain , including the Nozyk Synagogue, the Jewish cemetery located at Okopowa Street and the Jewish Historical Institute (The Zydowski Instytut Historyczny)

The Einsatzgruppen carried out operations ranging from a few people to activities which lasted over two or more days, for example the slaughter at Babi Yar and the Rumbula bloodbath. There are estimations that between 1941 and 1945 the Einsatzgruppen and other groups like Wehrmacht killed more than two million people, including 1.3 million Jews. The total number of Jews murdered during the Holocaust is approximately 5.5 to six million people.

Most people didn't know what was going on, and people didn't really know where Jews and gypsies etc. were going, all they knew was that they were being removed. When word and photographs got out into the public view about what happened in these camps, everyone is shocked to see so many dead bodies. With the role of media, the international response to the war crimes in the Holocaust was to establish an international tribunal and it was agreed to punish those responsible of crimes.

Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Germany during World War II. He was well adored by many citizens of the country, but he was also behind a horrifying tragedy that took the lives of millions of Jews. He was a very compelling leader which is why so many people followed him blindly. Hitler’s story comes from humble beginnings to becoming one of the most powerful dictators in the world. He used his powers to influence his country and plunge the world into a full on war.

When Germany invaded Soviet Russia, Himmler gave orders to the SS Cavalry Brigade in Russia to “shoot all Jewish men and in addition demanded that violent measures were to be taken against Jewish women.” Himmler’s orders were understood differently by both the 1st Cavalry and the 2nd Cavalry, as the 1st Cavalry murdered all Jews without distinction which meant, men women and children were murdered.. According to Peter Longerich on August 11 the mounted unit reported that the 1st Cavalry from August 3rd to the 11th “had shot 6,504 people, although the full total can be estimated at 11,000 people.” The 2nd SS Cavalry Regime shot 6,526 people between August 5th-11th, but many believe that number was closer to 14,000 . Unlike the 1st SS cavalry Regime a majority of the people murdered by the 2nd regime were mostly men. The final Report by the SS Brigade that was written on September 18 1941 reported that more 25,000 Jews were murdered in August alone. Peter Longerich estimates that by the end of 1941 that the number of European Jews killed “during the first two phases of the persecution of the Jews in the occupied Eastern areas must be of the order of at least 500,000.” Even before the Wannsee Conference took place Jews in Europe were being murdered in large numbers in countries that Germany were occupying; countries such as Soviet Russia and Poland.

How could the author include this, sacred to many Ukrainian, Russian Jews and not only Jews people, part of history in a work like this? For Ukrainian and Russian people Babi Yar is not only a tragedy, it is the place where the earth is soaked with the sacrificial blood.

World War II ended in the spring of 1945. “Germany unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945” (Jewish Life in Austria and Germany Since 1945, 47). An article called The Aftermath of The Holocaust, in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website states that: “in 1945, when Anglo-American and Soviet troops entered the concentration camps, they discovered piles of corpses, bones, and human ashes—testimony to Nazi mass murder. Soldiers also found thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish survivors suffering from starvation and disease. For survivors, the prospect of rebuilding their lives was daunting (The Aftermath of The Holocaust).” After the war was over, there was still a lot of hatred of Jews. “Pogroms means violent anti-Jewish riots” (The Aftermath of The Holocaust) occurred in Poland. “The largest of these occurred in the town of Kielce in 1946 when Polish rioters killed at least 42 Jews and beat many others” (The Aftermath of The Holocaust). An organization called “the Jewish Brigade Group, a Palestinian Jewish unit of the British army was formed in late 1944. This organization that aimed to facilitate

Adolf Hitler began his rise to power at the end of World War One. He rose on the wave of brokenness that enveloped the German population after the demoralizing loss of the Great War. He was charismatic and knew how to woo people to his side. He also read the German culture and knew how to inflame their national pride. But even with all of his great leadership gifts, the man did not rise to power alone. With him, he gathered malcontents and people who hated their circumstances and formed them into formidable forces. Two of the groups that catapulted him into unassailability were the SA and the SS. These groups guaranteed that Hitler would gain and hold power for a very long time.