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The Events Of The Holocaust In The 20th Century

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The Holocaust The events of the Holocaust evolved slowly between 1933 and 1945. They began with discrimination. The “Final Solution” was implemented in many stages. The Holocaust was a unique event in the 20th century. The Nazi’s set up their first concentration camp, Dachau, in the wake of Hitler’s takeover in 1933. In September 1933, the German army occupied the western half of Poland. The Holocaust was a unique event in the 20th century history. The events of the Holocaust evolved slowly between 1933 and 1945. They began with discrimination; then the Jews were separated from their communities and persecuted. Finally they were treated as less than human beings and murdered. During the Second World War the Nazi’s sought to murder the entire Jewish population of Europe and to destroy its rich and diverse cultures. In 1941 there were about eleven million Jews living in Europe. The “Final Solution” was implemented in stages. After the Nazi party rise to power, state-enforced racism in anti-Jewish legislation boycotts, “Aryanization” and finally the “Night Of The Broken Glass.” The genocide of the Jews was culmination of a decade of Nazi policy, under Adolf Hitler. All of which aimed to remove the Jews from the German …show more content…

By the end of the war, twenty-two main concentration camps were established, together with around 1200 affiliate camps. In 1945, when allied forces liberated the concentration camp at Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Auschwitz, the world was shocked at the sight of the dead/half-dead bodies at the camps. A concentration camp was not the same as an extermination camp-camps constructed with the specific purpose. Imprisonment in a concentration camp meant human forced labour, brutal mistreatment, hunger, disease, and random executions. Aussen Kommandos and thousands of smaller camps were murdering Jews and other victim

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