“The deepest sense of social responsibility for the creation of better foundations for our development, coupled with brutal determination in breaking down incurable tumors.”
-Adolf Hitler
Nazi Germany: Rights and Responsibilities of a “Superior” Race
INTRODUCTION
The Holocaust, carried out by the leader of the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler, from 1933-1945 in various European countries resulted in the extermination of minority groups deemed inferior by the Nazis, other groups being displaced, taken from their families, removed from their homes, and leaving to start a new life. Hitler’s actions were unknown before this time, and did not involve just the German states, but instead brought in countries from across the globe, and caused many
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During his rule he perfected the use of propaganda in order to convince the people under his control that what was going on was right. He used his impressive speaking skills to convince people to conform to his new ideas, and he created new traditions such as the phrase “Heil Hitler” as his standard greeting. For Germany, Hitler seemed like a savior. Hitler used Germany’s deprivation for a strong leader to aid him in coming to power. He gave the German population a leader to look up to. During his reign, he used his power to make the desperate Germans believe the Jews caused most of these problems they were experiencing during this time. Due to their blind devotion to their chancellor, they were willing to accept this new idea wholeheartedly, and without question. This assisted Hitler in beginning to carry out his “Euthanasia Program”, a euphemism for the “Final Solution”, the extermination of the Jews, more formally known as the Holocaust.
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The real events of the Holocaust started with an event called Reichskristallnacht, which roughly translates to “Reich’s Crystal Night,” but is better known as “The Night of Broken Glass.” (Benz, 31) On this night, a German officer by the name of Ernst vom Rath was shot dead by a young Jewish boy, for reasons unknown. This began a spread of anti-Semitism around the world, and the Nazi party used this to their advantage. They coordinated an attack on Jewish shops across Germany, and broke in and stole their goods.
The Holocaust started in the 1933, when the Nazis and Adolf Hitler took power in Germany. The Holocaust from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned) cause chaos and tragedy for Jewish people. At this time Germany was a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000 people. Nazis thought that they were the most inferior race and no other race was better than the Aryan race. This cause a lot of discrimination and hate against other people based on their beliefs and looks. The Nazis provoked the outbreak of World War II, when they invaded Poland. The Holocaust lasted 12 years and it end it on May of 1945.
The Holocaust was the murder and persecution of approximately 6 million Jews and many others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis came to power in Germany in January of 1933. The Nazis thought that the “inferior” Jews were a threat to the “racially superior” German racial community. The death camps were operated from 1941 to 1945, and many people lost their lives or were forced to work in concentration camps during these years. The story leading up to the Holocaust, how the terrible event affected people’s lives, and how it came to and end are all topics that make this historic event worth learning about.
The Holocaust was one of the most horrible and dreaded events in history. Millions of Jews were killed, leaving many families devastated and hopeless. With the goal of racial purity, Adolf Hitler- along with many other Germans believed the Jews caused the defeat of their country, and led the Nazis to the elimination of Jews. For this reason, “Even in the early 21st century, the legacy of the Holocaust endures…as many as 12,000 Jews were killed every day” (The Holocaust). Later, Hitler organized concentration camps, where mass transports of Jews from ghettoes were brought and typically killed also. However, the fortunate Jews that were not killed still had many restrictions on their
As tensions mounted up until the point of World War II and the war stormed through Europe, another battle silently raged. Not only did Hitler and the Nazi party wage war on countries throughout Europe, they also assaulted and purged entire innocent groups. The Holocaust began in 1933 and reached its height in WW II, while coming to an end with the war in 1945. Hitler used the Holocaust as a mechanism to rid his "racially superior" German state of any "inferior" groups (especially Jews) that would be of some threat or sign of inferiority to Germany. As a result of the Holocaust, millions of men, women, and children of various national, ethnic, and social
The Holocaust was a colossal systematic extermination and murder of about 6 million Jews in Eastern Europe under the criminal hands of Nazis and SS troops during World War II. It started from 1933 and ended in 1945, when the war in Europe finally ended. The whole genocide was organized methodically by the leader of Germany at the time, Adolf Hitler. His command of the operation quickly sprung to action after procedures took place. At first Jews were persecuted, stolen of their citizenship, then moved into ghettos, and quickly into concentration camps. The evil plot developed and grew and what started out as hatred turned into a scheme of mass murder. The resources that portray the critical themes in the Holocaust
The Holocaust took place in twenty-one countries in Europe that were occupied by the Nazi Germans during the Second World War. Adolf Hitler and National Socialists led Germany’s government which carried out the massacre of the Jewish population. The Holocaust started because Hitler disliked the Jewish religion; they believed in a god that Hitler didn’t believe in. “The Nazis always pretended to be innocent victims, and pretended the real victims are the aggressors” (Henry Makow).
The Holocaust was the systematic, organized, frighten, vicious event that sponsored by Nazi Party throughout the Europe continent that approximately took away six million Jews’ life with assisted from Nazi Germany and its collaborators, the event also caused different extent of casualties to contemporary third party countries in the Europe simultaneously. The official beginning date of event started from January 1933 when Adolf Hitler first came to power in Germany with Nazi as his backup to openly addressed the conspiracy of Jews within Germany boundary by classified all the Jews as inferior that should be fully eliminate due to the Adolf Hitler circulated the misconception of Jews’ existence had created threaten to the central power of government within the German domestic which carried out the massive killing events later on in entire Europe continent from 1933 to 1946.
The Holocaust was a horrible event that had many tragedies and losses of family and friends. It starts in 1933 when Hitler, Prime Minister of Germany, rises to power then ends in 1945 where Hitler is defeated and the genocide is over. Jews in Europe were subjected to cruel imprisonment that ultimately led to the murder of 6 million Jews, half of which were women and children. They didn't just kill them, they caused the destruction of five thousand Jewish communities. The Jews were the victims of Hitler’s plan to genocide the entire Jewish population of Europe.
In the Holocaust, countless Jewish families were torn apart by the German government’s stanch desire to remove “unwelcome” peoples from Europe. Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party killed millions of Jews, prisoners of war, homosexuals, and anyone else that the Nazis despised.
The Holocaust painted a devastating picture on countless lives, leaving many scarred, losing faith and hope in the society. Prejudice began to spread like wildfire, mainly after the Soviet Union was at blame for Germany’s loss in World War I. Superior and inferior races formed, where the Nuremberg Laws began to define a Jew (“Genocide in Rwanda 1994”). Violence and conformity were both main factors of The Holocaust. Between five to six million of the Jewish population were killed, most were stripped of their rights, property, and belongings.
The Holocaust was an event that took place from 1933 to 1945 in Germany. During this time, Adolf Hitler was in charge, resulting in the prejudice actions that are well written in history. Facing economic, social, and political oppression, thousands of German Jews wanted to flee, but found few countries wanting to take them in. Eventually, under Hitler’s leadership, some 6 million Jews were murdered during World War II. In this time period the Nazi’s waged a war against the Jews and other races that they considered to be unequal in race and superiority to the German race. The actions that took place during the Holocaust were seen as the “Final Solution”. The Holocaust was one of the darkest times in history, and can be traced to the rising of Hitler, “An egomaniac with delusions of grandeur, and power” (Steinberg 240). The Holocaust resulted in the deaths of many Jews and other non- Germans, until they were liberated by America.
Countless events in the world have been caught in history books but between the ones that have held to the memory of people is the holocaust. The Holocaust was a very disturbing event that triggered an eye-opener for individuals about how harsh humans can be. The purpose for this is since the vast number of victims and questions as to what was the actual motive behind the need to defeat a whole community. Holocaust is an organized, state financed torment and slaying of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi government run by Adolf Hitler. Separately from Jews, other groups considered lesser or anti-establishment, such as Polish, Gypsies, and Romans were killed. There were numerous reasons for these gruesome murders, insensitive imprisonment and enslavements of victims who were forced into labor while starving.
The Holocaust was the destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis through an officially sanctioned, government-ordered, systematic plan of mass annihilation. As many as six million Jews died, almost two-thirds of the Jews of Europe. Although the Holocaust took place during World War II, the war was not the cause of the Holocaust. The war played a role in covering up the genocide of the Jewish people. How could this have happened? The answers can be found by understanding how violence of this magnitude can evolve out of prejudice based on ignorance, fear, and misunderstanding about minority groups and other
The Holocaust of 1933-1945, was the systematic killing of millions of European Jews by the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (Nazis) (Webster, 430). This project showed the treacherous treatment towards all Jews of that era. Though many fought against this horrific genocide, the officials had already determined in their minds to exterminate the Jews. Thus, the Holocaust was a malicious movement that broke up many homes, brought immense despair, and congregated great discrimination. The Holocaust was an act of Hell on earth.
The Holocaust is most well-known for the organized and inhumane extermination of more than six million Jews. The death total of the Jews is this most staggering; however, other groups such as Gypsies, Poles, Russians, political groups, Jehovah’s witnesses, and homosexuals were targeted as well (Holocaust Encyclopedia: Introduction to the Holocaust). The initial idea of persecuting select groups of people began with Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany. In January 1930, Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany after winning over its people with powerful and moving speeches. From this point forward, it was a goal for both Hitler and his Nazi Party to rid the world of deemed “inferior” groups of people (Holocaust Encyclopedia: Timeline