Mark Cheney. Prof. Ross. Engl 1301 - 2050. 10 April 2017.

The tragic events that occurred during world war two and the holocaust were not only horrific but also morally wrong. The Jewish culture was targeted for mass genocide, by the hand of a mad-man bent on world domination, and the only way to prevent another incident like this from happening again, is to thoroughly educate the public. The actions and events that Hitler and his followers proposed not only helped the world realize the extent of his destruction but also how horrible it would be if the events were to happen again. The aftermath of the war and holocaust left half of Europe in ruins, and more than six million Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, and Africans dead, not including

“The 40,000,000-50,000,000 deaths incurred in World War II to make it the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in history” (Hughes, Thomas A., World War II | 1939-1945). This was a global war where everyone was impacted, because of all the alliances that brought everyone into the war in the first place. World War II introduced many new powerful weapons, being used during the war that most people had not yet seen before. The Holocaust was an event during World War II where Jewish people were removed from the population. During this time concentration camps were being entrenched, and death squads were beginning to execute the people who filled the camp. They executed in mass shootings and buried them in substantial sized graves throughout

The Holocaust took place during the late 1930s to the early 1940s, a time when many external and internal factors were affecting Germany and its people (Hill 1). Nevertheless Nazi leaders and common Germans killed almost two thirds of an estimated nine million Jewish people (Hill 2). One of the most puzzling questions about the Holocaust is why did common Germans take part? It is difficult to formulate an exact answer to the question because it deals with a whole nation, but many historians have hypothesized explanations related to the German’s unwilling and willing participation (Goldhagen 375).

After the War, the people whose rights were taken from them during wartime were released. In Germany, the Jewish, allied forces released those who survived. They also had no families to return to, no homes to live in, no clothing to wear. In essence they had nothing. The war wounds of so many deaths and long suffering in the concentration camps shocked the world. After

A fact which we all have to emit is that humanity existence always creates conflicts and fighting which we call "WAR". In war, people kill each others for many reasons ---- resources, personal benefits, territories, powers, revenge, etc. In war, one becomes a hero for killing human lives and eventually he gets honored and well-known in people 's heart. The Holocaust, according to Germans, was the war between Germans and Jews. Approximately six million Jews included 960,000 innocent children died during Hitler 's regime called Nazism. Unlike the "hero(s)" whom people honor, the Holocaust was a hideous crime and the participants were bloody murderers. Today people are taught about the Holocaust

In 1945, the great World War in Europe came to an end, with the Axis powers surrendering before the Allied invasion of Europe. When the concentration camps were liberated and the body counts tallied, the

My understanding of the inhumane event of the Holocaust was deeply strengthened for the past few days from reading Maus (Art Spiegelman) and Night (Elie Wiesel). I soon after quickly grasp how Adolf Hitler’s plan of genociding more than six million Jews off the planet was America’s worst history. Many German soldiers were following orders of removing all Jews, but their tactics of killing them were dreadful. Germans soldiers were able to cremate the victim, murder them, Jews died from harsh conditions, eventually growing weak, or even a bullet to the head of Jews ranging from all ages. During this event, Jews were held up in largely overcrowded concentration camps; such as Buna in the novel Night.

In the time period of January 30, 1933 to May 08, 1945 a total of 11 million people were murdered. These people included Jewish, Homosexuals, Disabled, & Jehovah Witnesses. 1.5 million Of the people that were murdered was children. Innocent children died because they were either non-German or they were too young to help with the war. The other six million where the rest of the population listed above.

Over 80 years ago one of the worlds biggest tragedies occured. The Holocaust was a horrible event that will shape history forever. Over 11 million innocent people were killed due to one man's hatred. The deaths of these people should not be forgotten. This is why the Nazi war criminals should be prosecuted for their crimes.

Throughout history, the world has seen many horrible acts committed against its people, but of all these acts none are as horrendous as the Holocaust. This event led to the prosecution and execution of millions of people just because those from the Nazi Regime felt they were superior. The Nazis invaded Poland because of this assumed superiority over the Jewish population, and since Nazis thought that the Jews were beneath them they sent them to concentration camps to be worked like animals and to die. The entire world saw this as inhumane, but unlike the Polish and German Jews, the entire world did not experience this great atrocity first hand.

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them twice,” Eli Wiesel. These words really reflect the groups that were forgotten to the Holocaust. Many more lives were taken than just the Jews, in fact, the Polish, the Gypsies, and the mentally and physically disabled were some of the main targets for the Nazis. Few people realize that more than just Jews were persecuted during the Nazi regime, so they could perfect their so called “Master Race”. These groups were deemed “defective,” did not have the right to live with the “Aryans” or the “Master Race,” and had to be eliminated along with the Jews. The Nazis did not stop just at the Jews, but planned to eliminate all that were thought to be “defective” or “racially inferior”. As Simon Wiesenthal once said, “The Holocaust is not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy.”

Newspapers across the United States as well as Europe, informed the public of the horrific conditions and atrocities committed within the German extermination camps. “Women and children as well as men

As the Second World War progressed, so did the Nazi regime’s inhumane treatment towards the Jewish population. While World War II fought on, Operation Reinhard was initiated by the Nazi government with the intention to dispose of Jewish victims. Previous to Reinhard, Jewish people were already enduring extremely malicious conditions and targeted as the source of Germany’s problems. Deemed poisonous to the German “master race,” the majority of Jews were put into harsh concentration camps, where they were forced to work in unsparingly brutal conditions. But in the autumn of 1941, Operation Reinhard, also known as “The Final Solution,” took the horrors of the Holocaust a thousand steps further. Reinhard created new death camps throughout Nazi

Genocide was not new in WWII, nor was it an isolated incident, but the ease with which the Nazi’s were able to significantly reduce the Jewish population was only the beginning of a new era in warfare. Personal responsibility would take a back seat to nationality, patriotism, and advancing technology.

‘From the first day that he "seized power," January 30, 1933, Hitler knew that only sudden death awaited him if he failed to restore pride and empire to post-Versailles Germany.’[1] The Second World War was the deadliest battle in History. Figures estimate that over 59 million people were killed during its conflict. German leadership was under Adolf Hitler, a ruthless dictator who was the chancellor of Germany during the majority of the conflict. It is debatable that Hitler was solely responsible for the events in which lead to and occurred during the Second World War. Hitler was responsible to a large degree, however cannot be accountable for every aspect in which the