Holocaust War Criminals During World War II

When the Nazis settled that the Jews were the primary cause of Germany’s problems in the Second World War, they launched a mission aimed at torturing and killing them (Rosenfield 28). In particular, they sought to wipe all the Jews out of the surface of the earth. To gain political mileage, Hitler faulted the Jews for Germany’s economic woes following the First World War. This further created a lot of negative feelings required for Hitler to come and rule Germany. He embarked on a mission geared towards imprisoning the Jewish people in concentration camps. In January 1937, 214,000 Jews by religious definition lived in Germany. The persecution of the Jews in 1940s took

From 1941 to 1945, Jews were systematically murdered in one of the deadliest genocides in history, which was part of a broader aggregate of acts of oppression and killings of various ethnic and political groups in Europe by the Nazi regime. Every arm of Germany 's bureaucracy was involved in the logistics and the carrying out of the genocide. Other victims of Nazi crimes included Romanians, Ethnic Poles and other Slavs, Soviet POWs, communists, homosexuals, Jehovah 's Witnesses and the mentally and physically disabled. A network of about 42,500 facilities in Germany and German-occupied territories were used to concentrate victims for slave labor, mass murder, and other human rights abuses. Over 200,000 people are estimated to have been Holocaust perpetrators. Beginning in 1941, Jews from all over the continent, as well as hundreds of thousands of European Gypsies, were transported to the Polish ghettoes. Every person designated as a Jew in German territory was marked with a yellow star making them open targets. Thousands were soon being deported to the Polish ghettoes and German-occupied cities in the USSR. Since June 1941, experiments with mass killing methods had been ongoing at the concentration camp of Auschwitz and many more. That August, 500 officials gassed 500 Soviet POWs to death with the pesticide Zyklon-B. The SS soon placed a huge order for the gas with a German pest-control firm, an ominous indicator of the coming Holocaust. Beginning in late 1941, the Germans

Many victims of the Holocaust, regardless of race, endured the same unethical punishment for having what the Nazi’s believed to be wrong beliefs. Though Jewish people were the main target by the Nazi’s, groups such as homosexuals, Gypsies, and Jehovah’s Witnesses were also targeted. Locations that these people were imprisoned in varied from prisons to killing camps. There were multiple concentration camps, but certain ones had a greater importance due to their location, such as Sachsenhausen and Dachau, which were both located in Germany, which was where Hitler wished to rid the Jews from. Many prisoners of these concentration camps suffered the same fate, but it is important to know as many of their stories as possible. Karl-Heinz Kusserow, a Jehovah’s Witness during the Holocaust, faced imprisonment for refusing German authorities, faced hardships of the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps, and was released from Dachau in 1945.

Brainwashed, heartless Nazis. Many believe these were the kind of men who were involved in the Holocaust, which makes it much easier to dismiss them and believe we could never become like them. However, this was not truly the case for many of those who participated in the Holocaust. These men were not brainwashed, and some were not even Nazis— they were simply ordinary men.

The Holocaust was an event that took place during the late 1930s and early 1940s. The Holocaust was carried out by the German Gestapo, its sole purpose was to exterminate all “inferior”races of people. After the Germans’ defeat and the discovery of the concentration camps, the officials that ran these camps were put on trial for their crimes against humanity. However, some of these war criminals ran from their trials and are now being found in their later years. Their age, however, does not change what they had done in their younger years. Though many believe these men should be left alone, these men should be persecuted for what they did to those many innocent people during WWII.

One was Irma Grese, known as the “Beautiful Beast”(Degob.org), she was a tall,blonde haired female guard that was feared by the prisoners. Part of the reason she was so cruel was possibly the way she grew up. At age 13 she lost her mother, after elementary school she immediately began work. She ended up in control of one of the concentration camps when she was the head of road construction and was promoted. Some of the things she did to the prisoners included; beating and killing prisoners for no reason, often for fun. She would also stomp on prisoners that were on the ground with her boots. Another cruel Nazi official was Herman Goering. He created the gestapo, as well as establishing one of the most feared secret police in Nazi Germany, he would steal millions of pounds(currency) from the Jewish victims. One of the other horrible Nazi officials was Paul Gobbels(Listverse). He was the administrator of propaganda. He was responsible for all of the awful hate messages sent through Germany meant to turn the public on the Jewish population. Those were the other side of the Nazi officials whom should be punished for the crimes they

The top SS officers are the most responsible for what happened during the Holocaust because they created the concentration camps that led to the torture and death of many people. In the book Night, Elie Wiesel states, “Standing in the middle of it was, though I didn’t know it then, Dr. Mengele, the notorious Dr. Mengele. He

Heinrich himmler , the architect of the holocaust and considered to be the biggest mass murderer ever , by some ( although it's really Josef Stalin ) . The holocaust would not have happened if it wasn't for this man. He tried to breed a master race of Nordic appearance , the aryan race . His plans for racial purity were needed by hitlers vanity in making rash military decisions rather than letting generals make them, thus ending the war prematurely. Himmler was captured after after the war . He unsuccessfully tried to negotiate with the west , and the west, and was genuinely ns hocked to be treated as a criminal upon capture . He committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule he had bit upon.

The Holocaust was the murder of about six million Jews by the Nazis. Between the German invasion of the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, the end of the war in Europe in May 1945, Nazi Germany and its accomplices to exert oneself vigorously to murder every Jew under their power. The Nazis discrimination against the Jews began with Hitler’s meet to power in January 1933, many historians consider this the start of the Holocaust generation. The Jews weren’t the only victims of the Hitler authority, but they were the group that the Nazis sought to destroy entirely.

The War Crimes Trials, also known as the Nuremberg Trials, were a series of two-hundred sixteen court sessions and thirteen trials charging twenty-four main Nazi party officials, highly- ranked military leaders, doctors and lawyers against their involvement with the Holocaust. The trials began on November 20, 1945 at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, due to its significant connection to the Holocaust, and the Nazi Party. The trials were conducted by a U.S., French, British, and Soviet military tribunal, and the trials were authorized by the London Agreement. The charges against those being tried were crimes against peace including planning, starting and waging war; war crimes including violations of laws of war; crimes against humanity

Millions of people witnessed the crimes of the Holocaust all over Europe in there every day lives. There were numerous people across Europe who willingly collaborated or were complicit in the Nazi crimes during Holocaust. What could motivate so many people to turn against other human beings and treat them as lesser? Why did others not help? There were a lot of people who did help the Jews. Everyone believes in something and has ideas of what they believe to be right or wrong. Most people will stand up for what they believe in. People tend to waver in their support of their beliefs when they come up against scrutiny by a perceived group of power or influence. There are some people who will stand up for what they believe or oppose something

The Holocaust began in 1939 and ended September 2 1945. The Holocaust began because of one man named Adolf Hitler. Hitler was the ruler of Germany who felt that Germany was a disrespected country and they would eventually be taken out by some bigger country. Hitler felt that the Jewish population were responsible for the the state of Germany. He also thought the Treaty of Versailles was to strict and couldn’t ever allow Germany to expand because of it. Hitler managed to convince an entire country to follow his words and would soon start World War 2 in which he was responsible for the deaths of over 1 million Jewish men, women, and children.

When you hear the words Holocaust, Nazi, Hitler, or genocide, your mind immediately thinks they are evil, malicious, unjust, and immoral. You think the people in charge, who commanded the encampment and death of millions of Jews are guilty of immorality and murder. Are they though? In Hannah Arendt 's book Eichmann in Jerusalem, she discusses Adolf Eichmann one of the highest ranked leaders of the Nazi during the Holocaust. He was behind the ordering of Jews to be taken from their homes and put into camps or to die, yet when he was captured and put on trials for his crimes he pled innocent. He said nothing he did was immoral according to Kantian philosophy. Would Kant agree with Eichmann? I believe he would not, and that Eichmann misunderstood and misused Kant’s ideas.

Adolf Hitler is a strong military leader who sought to lead Germany to becoming a Nation with a pure race. His idea of a pure race made every one without blonde hair and blue eyes inferior to the ‘true Germans’. Nazi teachers “measured skull size and nose length, and recorded the color of their pupils’ hair and eyes to determine whether students belonged to the true ‘Aryan race’.” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Nazi Racism) Jews and Gypsies were two groups included in the ‘inferior’ category. During World War II many Jews were sent to concentration camps in Nazi territory. Three survivors who lived to tell their stories were Irene Fogel Weiss, Ibi Ginsburg, and Val Ginsburg.

Thousands of Jews were saved because of the people that helped hide them from the Nazis and also helped fight back against the Nazis. Most Jews survived the holocaust by hiding in places such as houses, attics, cellars, closets, and anywhere else they could find to hide. Jews that fought against the Nazis were called Jewish resistance fighters. These Jews managed to help save thousands of other Jews from death from the Germans. Jews fought back in many different ways, including Spiritual ,and physical resistance. Jews fought back spiritually by refusing to lose hope and faith in the concentration camps even when their situation was very bleak. The holocaust would have been much worse for the Jews if weren't for