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Germany During The Holocaust

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During the Holocaust about 5,900,000 Jews were killed which is 63% of the Jews in Europe at the time (Holocaust Statistics). This statement easily shows that evil can be very strong however just like Hitler it will not last forever. There were many factors that lead this great evil to come to power and many things working against it. On March 19, 1944 Germany invaded Hungary despite Hungary being part of the Axis for four years. Hungary’s relationship with Germany was varied throughout the years and as early as 1930 Hungary’s economy relied on trade with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy to pull itself out of the great depression. By 1938 German policies had infiltrated Hungary and their cultures became more similar. In 1940 Hungary joined the …show more content…

Soon after a Soviet diplomat’s son was kidnapped by the Germans the USSR was forced to revoke the armistice. In 1945 Hungarian and German forces were defeated by the invading soviet forces. There were many people who aided the Jews in Hungary and these people saved countless lives there were two specific people in Hungary who stand out from the others either by how many people they saved or to the extent they went to to help them. One of these people is George Mantello who is credited in saving some 435,000 Jews. Mantello was a Jewish Diplomat who did a majority of his work helping Jews get fictive Salvadoran Citizenships. He also greatly helped publicize Jewish deportation to Auschwitz. Mantello became involved in halting the deportation and sent his friend, who was a diplomat from Romania, to Hungary to help find out what was happening there. The Romanian diplomat then went to Budapest and acquired reports from a Jewish leader and returned to Geneva with the reports. One of these reports that the diplomat brought back to Geneva was a five page version of the 33 page Auschwitz Protocols. This report described all the inner workings of the Auschwitz death camp and all its atrocities. A second report described the ghettoization of 435,000 Jews that lost their …show more content…

This would’ve left Germany in a much better situation after World War I so they wouldn’t start wars with countries who helped them after the war. It also could’ve been prevented if one of a few nations chose to stop Hitler from gaining power. Hitler just kept getting more bold after each appeasement other European countries gave to Germany so if one of those countries would have stopped Germany’s bullying of nearby countries they might not have had the confidence to start the war like that or at least not that

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