Definition of the Holocaust: A genocide where over 6 million Jewish were killed by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi soldiers that lasted from 1933-1945
Causes of the holocaust?
1 Countries turning a blind eye to Hitler’s actions against Jews
2 Germans blamed Jews for their economic problems
3 Hitler wanted to eliminate those that weren’t of pure German race
Adolf Hitler
Who was he and his philosophies? Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi political party and first attempted to take over Germany by force, however he was arrested and sent to prison for a year. He decided to take over legally and eventually became Chancellor of Germany. He believed that Germans were of superior race and that Jews were the cause of Germany’s downfall during World
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4 Edith Goldberg
Heroes
Raoul Wallenberg
• First Secretary to Swedish Embassy in Budapest 1944
• Used diplomatic status to issue “protective passports” to Jews
• “protective passports” identified the Jews as Swedish citizens, preventing deportation to death camps
• Often personally intervened to obtain the release of these passport owners
• Rented over 30 buildings to house around 10000 Jewish refugees
• Put up fake signs on buildings saying “The Swedish Research Institute” and hanging Swedish flag to help hide the Jews
• Rescued around 100,000 Jewish
• In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviet Red Army troops and was reported to have died 2 years later
Giovanni Palatucci
• Entered police force in 1936
• When anti-Jewish laws were enacted in 1938 used authority to forge travel papers permitting hundreds of Jews to flee persecution in eastern Europe
• Sometimes provided Jews with funds
• When Mussolini’s government fell, he made sure Jews were sent to a prison turned refugee camp run by his uncle instead of arresting and deporting them
• Destroyed over 5000 Jewish refugees saving them from death in concentration camps
• His activities were discovered in 1944 and was sent Dachau where he died
Oskar
What causes conflict? Well, conflict is caused when there is a disagreement or miscommunication. The Holocaust was a huge and bloody disagreement that led to World War II and was a horrific event that took place in the 1930-1940’s. A man that we’ve probably all heard of, named Adolf Hitler, came into power and participated in the slaughter of nearly 6 million jews, 250,000 disabled, and 196,000-220,000 Gypsies (according to the National Holocaust Memorial Museum website). These deaths were all over the European continent that were under German rule. My position on the main cause for the Holocaust was that the end of World War I left Germany in poverty. With the government in corruption, the people were desperate for change, so they allowed Hitler into power with the belief that others could control him if he did something bad. This obviously wasn’t true.
Although it was not the only concentration camp it was a place where they did experiments with a lot of the prisoners. For example they tried out medication to see the reactions, to see if salt water was drinkable. They also used gas chambers which they crowded as many inmates as they could fit in there tricking them they were going to be free as soon as they took a shower, but what it really did was intoxicate them with Zyklon-B and they died. Afterward there was not many to speak of what had happened so the rest really believed that they were going to become free. So many orders from a solder at one point a man jumped onto the electric fence to take away his life instead letting the solder humiliate him. When it had started to know what was happening in the camps they stopped it immediately the US liberated the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945 . They sent some death trains, Dachau had 141 trains that held 3,000 dead
The nazi did many things to make the jews feel less human and more like “things”. One way was they were taken from their home no explanation, no reason just told them to get their belongings. They only gave them 24hr to get a small bag of their belongings. “I have terrible news ; deportation.
In Nicholas Kristof “Would You Hide a Jew From the Nazis,” This column illustrated how, in 1938, the United States and other countries make excuses to not allow the Jewish refugees into their countries. They believed Nazis spies were among the Jewish. Ordinary people like Martha Sharp and her husband were willing to risk their lives to help Jews escape the horrible lifestyle but they were not the only people who helped Jews. Jozef Ulma and his seven months’ pregnant wife, Wiktoria, lost their lives sheltered two Jewish families not only did they lose their life but there six small children were killed as well as the Jewish families. Let not forget about Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul general, who reject the orders to not accept Jewish
The Holocaust was an event that occurred between 1933 and 1944, during this time period, millions of Jews, and other minorities were persecuted, tortured, and killed throughout much of Europe at the hands of the Nazi regime. At the end of the Holocaust more than 6 million Jews were killed. The book The Holocaust, edited by Jeff Hay and Frank Chalk is a collection of essays that summarize the events that make up the Holocaust. Genocide is defined by the United Nations as, killing, causing bodily or mental harm, forcibly transferring children to another group, and preventing the births of a particular group (6). The Rome Statue also defined crimes against humanity as, murder, extermination, enslavement, forcible transfer, torture, rape, and persecution
One of the holocaust survivors was Kazimierz Piechowski, he was one of the 144 Jewish
What happened when Germany conquered its neighboring territories? They caused a whole war to take place. This paper will discuss the Holocaust; why it took place, what happened during, and the effects.
Through the course of history, the Jewish people have been mistreated, condemned, robbed, even put to death because of their religion. In the Middle Ages, they were forced to wear symbols on their clothing, identifying them as Jews. The dates 1933 to 1945 marked the period of the deadly Holocaust in which many atrocities were committed against the Jewish people and minority groups not of Aryan descent. Six million innocent Jews were exterminated because of Hitler’s “Final Solution.” This paper will exhibit how Adolf Hitler used the three anti-Jewish policies written in history, conversion, expulsion, and annihilation to his advantage.
After WW2, there was a thing called the holocaust. There were many concentration camps all over Germany where many Jews were killed in different ways. It happened between WW1 and WW2, 1933-1945. My position on why this happened is that Germany was going through a rough time, so Hitler wanted their country to resemble power. Read on to learn more about the causes and ways the Holocaust could have been avoided.
The Holocaust is often considered one of the darkest and most heinous periods in modern history, however there are numerous accounts of heroism and selfless charity to emerge from the ashes. Despite the Nazi regime’s stranglehold on European affairs during a large part of the second world war, their radical and racially charged agenda was not universally accepted amongst German citizens and Nazi officials. The fear of strict punishment at the hands of the SS squashed popular outcry over the atrocities, but it did not stop the heroic acts of a few compassionate and unassuming individuals. One such hero is Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who spearheaded an effort to protect his Jewish factory workers from the uncertain fate of the
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.
“Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.”- Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor. The largest mass murder in all of human history is known as The Holocaust, or in Greek, stands for “sacrifice by fire.” After rising to power in 1933, Germany’s Nazi Party planned a highly organized strategy of prosecution, murder, and genocide targeting Jews specifically due to their “race.” Leaving nearly six million Jews and five million Slavs, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma, disabled, and political and religious dissidents dead, The Holocaust was called the largest mass murder ever recorded in history, lasting for nearly twelve years.
Throughout the endless history, there were lots of important and influential event. For example the Dark Age, Enlightenment, Civil War, World War I and II and the Cold War. Over all of these event, there was one event that deeply influence the world and the Jews today, it was the Holocaust. Holocaust, a term that people use to describe the horrible event that happened during World War II which kill millions of innocent citizens. The Holocaust started at January 13, 1933, when Hitler became the leader of Germany. It continued until the V - E Day, which happened on May 8, 1945. 6 million Jews, and 5 million non-Jews were killed during the Holocaust. The causes and effect of the Holocaust was Hitler’s racism, poor economic conditions, and the death of 6 million Jews which led to the creation of the nation of Israel.
The Holocaust is one the most notable examples of the psychological phenomena known as groupthink. As a result of the human instinct to adapt to the people and their culture, individuals begin to think and act in a similar manner. When many different elements such as discrimination against racism come into play, groupthink occurs. Unfortunately, many disastrous events soon follow. The Nazi regime utilised anti-semitism to unify Germany, propaganda to control society’s way of thinking, and fear to oppress individualism and encourage collectivism. Anti-semitism, propaganda, and fear all contributed to the subconscious occurrence of groupthink, that ultimately set the stage for “The Final Solution”, the Holocaust.
In the tumultuous period leading up to World War II, a series of laws were devised in Nazi Germany that subjected the Jewish people to prohibitory and discriminatory forms of treatment. Although the Jewish people only accounted for 503,000 of the 55 million occupants of the country, Adolf Hitler’s dictatorship preached the incorporation of anti-Semitism into law and practice in order to quell the people he considered to be the enemy of the country.