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Causes And Effects Of The Holocaust

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What happened when Germany conquered its neighboring territories? They caused a whole war to take place. This paper will discuss the Holocaust; why it took place, what happened during, and the effects.
The Holocaust and a war took place because of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party. They believed the Jewish people and other groups were inferior to the Germans and a threat to society (History.com). The Nazis thought of them as a race, and not a religious group (Berenbaum). They also blamed the Jewish for the country’s defeat in World War I in 1918. Because of this hatred towards the Jewish people, Adolf Hitler wanted a European war that would end the Jewish communities in Germany and cause racial purity and expansion of his power (History.com). Adolf Hitler gained his power to do so when he …show more content…

After he became chancellor, Adolf Hitler fought his way to become the “Fuhrer”, also known as Germany’s “supreme ruler” (History.com). This gave Hitler enough power to cause Germany to invade its neighboring territories, such as Poland and the Soviet Union. Several years later, the Nazi Party met in Berlin to discuss their plan about the murdering of the Jewish people. They named their plan the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” The Nazis carefully planned each stage of the “Final Solution” before it ever began. This plan also went over how the Jewish people were to be identified from the rest of the crowd (The Holocaust). To put this plan into action the SA, (Sturmabteilungen in German, or Storm Troopers) and the SS (Schutzstaffel in German, or Protection Squadrons) were made to create concentration camps for incarcerating political opponents of the Nazis (Concentration Camps). To get Germans into identifying the Jewish people in their community, the Nazis tricked them

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