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Hitler's Responsibility For The Holocaust

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The Holocaust was a period of time when the Nazi organization ran Germany using totalitarianism and used their power to execute millions of people from January of 1933 through May of 1945. Out of the 10 millions who were killed during the Holocaust, 6 million were Jewish, other groups of people who opposed to the Nazi’s rule including communists and Jehovah's witnesses were also among the other 4 million killed. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi organization, making him the individual at the highest level of authority during the Holocaust. Hitler gained power after a series of events made it easier for him to gain support from citizens of many social classes including veterans and business workers. He gained their support by using propaganda …show more content…

The last anti-Jewish law established by the Nazi influenced, German government found many Jewish people guilty of crimes and were to be sent to extermination camps. As there were many steps members of the Nazi organization had to take in order to carry on with the Holocaust, this last law allowed them to not only persecute the Jewish people, but begin the process of extermination. Having the government already against Jewish people, laws became rigged and officers corrupt against Jews, making it nearly impossible for a Jewish person being trialed to get out of police custody. Once found guilty of crimes, Jewish prisoners would still have been something the Nazi organization still had to deal with, which they did not want. The Nazi organization would come up with several other stages that would not only damage, but end the lives of Jewish people in Germany. Extermination camps would have Jewish people as prisoners put to work until the day of their deaths. The weaker and less able a prisoner became, the higher his/her chance became to be killed even faster as they were no longer useful for the labor put upon them. In document 3, the memoir of Rudolf Huess, the former commander of Auschwitz who was now a prisoner on trial after World War 2 was written for the government to read as suggested by psychiatrist. In the memoir, Hoess states that he would not only command at the prison, but take order from Hitler or Hitler’s second in command. Hoess recalled having to “watch day and night, whether it was the dragging and burning of bodies, the teeth being ripped out, the cutting of hair”. As the commander, Huess had the lives of all the prisoners in his camp at his hands and did nothing but crush them one by one. Huess made the decisions about what and how things took place under his command after having

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