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The Aftermath Of The Holocaust

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Peter Fiorella
Mr. Whalen: RST 12PH, Period 6
Thesis Project 1
27 October 2015
The Aftermath of the Holocaust
Introduction
With the end of World War II, came the end of the Holocaust. The aftermath of the
Holocaust has had a profound affect on non-Jewish and Jewish survivors who tried to rebuild their lives in society such as the country of Israel gaining statehood. It has changed the way people set up society and the way government functions in certain countries such as Germany following the Holocaust. The Holocaust didn 't effect just the world from the time of 1933-1945, but this has had a lasting impact on the way people live and the way society is in the world today. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels both committed suicide in April of 1945 and Germany soon surrendered. The next question that the world had to solve was how to deal with Hitler 's faithful and the crimes committed during the war as a result of the Holocaust.
Atrocities
After the concentration camps and killing centers were liberated by the Allies in 1945, the non-Jewish and Jewish survivors were left with the impossible task of assimilating back into society. The odds were against them. Some of these odds set against them were restricted freedom and continuing of new forms of brutality. This was very difficult because antisemitism was still alive in the minds of the most radical people in not only Europe, but the whole world. Jews were afraid to go back to their homes and regain their property

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