The Causes Of The Holocaust

The Holocaust was one of the most horrific events in history. It involved the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews and certain groups of people that were unable to meet the standards of the Aryans. The Holocaust involved the slaughter of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators under Adolf Hitler. The three main causes of the Holocaust were, Anti-semitism, Propaganda, and Hitler.

During World War II from 1933 to 1945 in Europe, horrifying systematic events took place were millions of innocent people were tortured and killed based on their religious views, culture, and sexual orientation. The Nazi’s under the command of Adolf Hitler committed these crimes. These horrifying systematic events that took place are known as the Holocaust. The following texts Elie Wiesel’s Night, Eve Bunting’s Terrible Things, and Martin Niemoller First They Came all convey how the surrounding public during World War II stayed silent and didn't stand up for the people who were being oppressed. All three of these texts explains why it is highly important to stop indifference and inaction. Indifference can lead to horrific actions; those actions can probably lead to the genocide of an entire group, furthermore the inaction of a bystander can not only affect and hurt the victim but can also strongly affect the bystander, and finally inaction against oppression can harm and devastate many lives.

Power, could there be too much of it? Or not enough? In the wrong hands, too much power lead to millions of innocent lives being taken away. One of the world’s most famous dictators takes power and has control on whether you live or die. He may not like the color of your hair, skin or what you believe in and for that, the price you pay is your life.

Why was the world silent during the Holocaust? It’s hard for us to imagine that the world could stand silently by. There are many factors that can be contributed to that. Those reasons include economic, social, and a general apathy for the plight of the Jewish people. From an economic stand point, the Allies were financially strained due to the cost of fighting a global war. Socially, the question of how and where to offer refuge to millions of Jews would have seemed like an impossible task. Finally, there were those who felt and believed that the Jewish people were somehow responsible for the death of Christ led to a general feeling of contempt towards the Jewish people. These are just a few of the reasons that the world stayed

In the 1940s, people started to speak up. There were witnesses that hoped the newspapers would put their stories out for people to read. Reports from the survivors were mostly concealed. If there were any articles, they would have been hidden deep in the back. Sometimes, the United States would even unconfirm articles and reports. “A major part of the reason for the public's skepticism was the failure of the American media to treat Nazi genocide as a serious issue” (Editors of the Holocaust Encyclopedia, www.ushmm.org). If the men and women could not get their story in the news, they would write it down somewhere else. In 1942, newspapers began to tell some of the experiences from the Holocaust (Grobman,

The Holocaust is one of the most well-known genocides of all time because of the large number of the human killed during the year. During the Holocaust genocide approximately six million (6,000, 000) European Jewish were killed. Conducted by Hitler, most of the Jewish were arrested and killed with stray bullets before being burned down to ashes. In the entire Europe continent, approximately nine million Jewish lived with the rest of the population in Germany. However, after the Holocaust, almost two-thirds of the population perished.

The Holocaust was a horrific event in our history and should be studied today to insure that these events never happen again. There are several factors and parts of the Holocaust that are cruel and demeaning you would be able to study. Dehumanization of the Jews during the Holocaust pushed them to their absolute limit of starvation, disease, and cruelty, which showed the inhumane acts people are capable of. Also, bringing the Jews back a step in evolution, the cruelty and harsh conditions inflicted upon the Jews reversed their evolvement and civilized behavior. Overall, the Holocaust is a significant time in our history that should be studied and not forgotten.

This History Channel video clip uses animation for the reason of the Holocaust being gruesome and horrific. The intended audience for the video is for people who want to learn more about the rise of the Nazis and how Hitler took power of the Nazi Party. In September 1919 Adolf Hitler joined the German Worker Party, which then became the Nazi Party. President Von Hidenburg made Hitler chancellor and he took power in the government right away. Hitler, a talented speaker persuaded Germans to believe that he would make Germany better. Germans thought they found their “savior”. He blamed all Jews for the post war and punished them by the plan of total extermination with the use of concentration camps. Later Hidenburg died and Hitler made himself

During the holocaust, there was much bloodshed. Countless innocent Jewish lives were taken by the Nazi army. The Holocaust was the planned extermination of all Jews in order to create the perfect race, known as “The Aryan Race”. The Nazi army killed off anyone that was not of German blood, and also killed the Germans that were physically and mentally disabled. The most important leader during the Holocaust was Adolf Hitler who became chancellor of Germany in 1933. The main reasons for the holocaust were: The Treaty of Versailles, The Weimar Republic, and Anti- Semitism. The factors listed are the reasons for the tragedy known as the Holocaust.

Holocaust is one of the greatest era of tragedy during World War II which was one of the worst ages that is horrific time for everybody in the world especially for the Hungarian jews that were being selected by Nazis to be sent to the gas chambers of Auschwitz concentration camp that people have also been burned alive including infants. This has resulted in many lives lost that caused up to six million through eleven million of jews to lead up to their death and numerous of people were in extreme misery. “Holocaust“ comes from the the Greek word holocaust, itself a translation of the Hebrew Allah, meaning “completely burnt offering to God,” implying that Jews and other “undesirables” murdered during World War II were a sacrifice to God. The

The ideological mindset of the perpetrators was to wipe out the Jews. The Jewish population was flourishing, and out of direct orders for the troops of war the Jews were heading towards mass extermination. Territory was vital, Hitler insisted, because the expanding population of a race required it. Without new territory to support an expanding population, Hitler believed the race would ultimately stagnate and face eventual disappearance. The Nazis also postulated the idea of a qualitative hierarchy of races, in which not all races were equal. Hitler believed that Germans were members of a superior group of races that he called “Aryan.” The German “Aryan” race was gifted above all other races, Hitler asserted, with this biological superiority

“To be silent is impossible, to speak forbidden.” said author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. This quote here is Wiesel’s way of showing one who did not experience time during the Holocaust how it is fair to say that they could never begin to understand what it was like. If one were also to ask Wiesel to speak about the work he did or what he saw at the concentration camps, he may explain how speaking of it fails to acknowledge the depth of evil put out, and how it is discourteous to the memories of those who died during the Holocaust. Speaking may be forbidden, however, it is for the failure it may bring for speaking the truth about the Holocaust.

First on July 6, 1938 - Nazis banned Jews from trading and providing a variety of specified commercial services.

“They refused to listen,” always seems to be a reoccurring statement during times of war, whether the war transpires inside oneself or in the real world (Wiesel 7). Listening has always been a troublesome area for the human brain, simply because people have trust issues regarding others thoughts. The Holocaust is a prime example of the lack of listening skills from the world; for instance, the United States was aware of the plan of the Nazi’s and did not listen to the information, simply because they did not think it was possible (“The United States and the Holocaust”). The United States’ lack of attention towards the information was a contribution to why millions of lives were taken. After the tragedy many authors and directors, including

What Events must occur in someone’s life too cause them to hate? What needs to occur to make someone’s mentality change and view another human being as less than a human being? The real question is, what makes a person want to commit a genocide. However, many people do not know that the Holocaust was one of the many Genocides against the Jews, for example, the Diaspora. The Diaspora was an exile of Jews from their homeland Israel to Babylon in the 6th century, however what made the Holocaust so different was the way that it was organized and its task to eliminate the entire Jewish people. “By the end of World War II, nearly two thirds of Europe's Jewish population had been wiped out leaving a small remainder of the Jewish culture that had existed throughout Europe for nearly 2000 years”. Despites Adolf Hitler’s and the Nazi party’s resentment on Jews for multiple reasons, it is said that the Jews were never a huge threat to the Germans nor in military, economic, or a political threat, they only different from German Society in Religion. So, what really was Hitler’s conspiracy towards the Jews ?