Adolf Hitler And The Holocaust

insane to torture the human race that way. Others praise him for attempting to exterminate

At the “Wannsee Conference”, which took place in Berlin, on January 20, 1942 the German regime with its main protagonists Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler planned the ‘final solution of the Jewish question. Even if massacres of about one million Jews occurred before the plans of the Final Solution, with the decision to eradicate the entire Jewish population, extermination camps were built and industrialized mass slaughter of Jews began in earnest. The scene where a train of Schindler’s workers was wrongly sent to Auschwitz shows such an extermination camp were the Nazis systematically gassed thousands of Jews. Another example for the organized genocide is the mass cremation after the mass execution during the eviction of the ghetto in Krakow.

85 years ago, over a 12 year period, nearly six million Jews were killed in a genocide called The Holocaust. The Holocaust was led by the Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler was their leader. The mass murders took place at concentration camps throughout Europe. The majority of concentration camps resided in Poland and Germany. Many people believe there were only a few concentration camps. “However, researchers found that the Nazis had actually established 20,000 camps between 1933 and 1945” (“How Many Camps,” n.d.). In this paper I will be discussing the largest concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The holocaust was a genocide of approximately 6 million Jewish people throughout Germany and German occupied territories. It was committed by the Nazi party of Germany and took place from 1941 to 1945. Many people have been blamed for the atrocities that took place but there a handful of people who were able to orchestrate this systematic mass murder.

The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that Jews, were “inferior” and were a “threat” to the German Racial community: this was the idea behind the Holocaust, meaning “sacrifice by fire”. The Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million in 1933, most of these Jews lived in countries that the Nazis would soon occupy. By 1945, the Germans and collaborators killed two out of every three European Jews as part of the “Final Solution”.

“If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example” (Vollhardt). Universally, genocide is viewed in various ways by every party involved and has eight specific steps. In Germany, Adolf Hitler’s persistent lectures on the Jews and their role in World War One created tension in the government and in the people. The Holocaust can be looked at through eight itemized stages. Genocide can only be stopped with intervention on a worldwide scale. It disheartens me to know that mass murders have taken place throughout Europe because the Nazi Party declared themselves the higher being and therefore gave themselves the right to be the judge, jury, and executioner of the people less fortunate. Finally, The Holocaust, driven by the power and influence of Hitler and the Nazi Party, was based on the belief that Jews, inferior to the human race, should be eradicated from existence.

World War 2 brought upon a time of disappointment and the Jewish purgatory. This event caused millions of death to innocent people and disgrace to many Jewish families. This time period was ruled by the powerful leader of the Nazis as they were know for. He was the chancellor of Germany, he was Adolf Hitler he was known as the greatest leader to all the Nazi’s party. Hitler came into power in the year of 1933. This Nazi’s party planned to exterminate all the Jewish. This event was called the “Final Solution” also known as the holocaust. The Holocaust was created to operate massive killing along with, death camps, concentration camps, resistance efforts, Warsaw-ghetto, and liberation. All these schemes were fabricated to massacre all the

Many people find Adolph Hitler as a cruel and wicked man after what he did during the World War II and the Holocaust. He lived an unfortunate life and brought misery to the innocent lives around him. Adolf’s relationship with his parents, failure to attend art school, and moving to Vienna helped to lead him to become the inhuman monster he was.

During World War II the German Army had constructed concentration camps in order to imprison people of their dislike, such as Jews. Concentration camps were great for the Germans, but they were not great at all for the people that were imprisoned them. There were many camps, some were work camps and other death camps, yet they all had an evil purpose. Auschwitz, which was the “most effective” concentration camp of the Holocaust during the war, was the place where more than a million people lost their lives (Auschwitz Concentration Camp The Historical Outline). The camp of Auschwitz started as a place to place prisoners, but as the war went on it evolved into a place of mass murder (Auschwitz Concentration Camp The Historical Outline). Auschwitz had one of the worst treatments towards its prisoners which can be showed through the prisoner’s living conditions and their punishments.

Just because Germany has so much beautiful history, doesn’t mean there wasn't any hardships taken to get where they are now. Nazi pioneer Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a standout amongst the most compelling and notorious tyrants of the twentieth century. After World War I, he rose to power in the German Socialist Workers Party, taking control of the German government in 1933. His foundation of inhumane imprisonments to capture Jews and different gatherings he accepted to be a risk to Aryan amazingness brought about the demise of more than 6 million individuals in the Holocaust. The ambassador of Japan, on December 8, visited the German Foreign Minister (von Ribbentrop) to cut a deal with the Germans to go to war against America. Von Ribbentrop

Imagine being taken away from your family to be slaughtered like a an animal in a cold lonely place. Having to hide and having your rights taken away like your not a human being.

Adolf Hitler organized the most inhumane killing operation that the world has ever seen. Adolf Hitler, the Final Solution, and eventually the Nuremberg Trials together make up three of the most important aspects of the Holocaust. Before Hitler became the dictator of Germany, he obtained his anti-semitism from his political teachers. Afterwards, he used his knowledge and hatred to attempt to exterminate all Jewry from Germany. This process was known as the Final Solution. The Final Solution was Hitler’s attempt at exterminating the Jewish population in Europe. He was so dedicated to this task that it surmounted winning the war itself. Finally, the main opposition of the legitimacy of the Holocaust comes from neo nazis who believe that

It began with a simple boycott of Jewish shops and ended in the gas chambers at Auschwitz as Adolf Hitler and his Nazi followers attempted to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe.

Being responsible for the deaths over 960,000 Jewish civilians, Auschwitz concentration camp had a terrible psychological effect of many European people (“Auschwitz”). This camp was regarded as the most effective in the Neo-Nazi regime, and was described by many survivors as being absolutely brutal and horrific (“Auschwitz: The Camp of Death” 17). The events surrounding the uprise and downfall of the Auschwitz concentration camp demonstrate the abhorrent ideals of the Nazi regime and the effect on its victims.

There were over 1.3 million victims at Auschwitz. And about 1.1 million of them were killed. Auschwitz is the largest mass murder of human history. Febuary 21, 1940- Auschwitz was selected to be a concentration camp. November 22, 1940- First execution at the camp took place; 40 Polish prisoners were shot, then cremated in Crematorium 1. March 1942- First gas chamber goes into operation. May 1943- Dr. Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz where he conducts inhumane experiments on prisoners. January 18, 1945- Nazis evacuate the camp, forcing many prisoners on a “death march.” (no.2 (March 2001) : 119-132. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, EBSCO host.)