Alyssa Dittman
Ms.Dwiggins
computers 2
22/9/2014
The Holocaust
The word “Holocaust” was originally taken from the Greek word “Holokauston”. In Greek, this word meant “sacrifice by fire”. Holocaust is the name given to the German Nazis killing and persecution of Jews. Other targeted groups were Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals, the handicapped or deformed, and all others who disagreed with what Adolph Hitler was doing. It all began in 1933 when the entire world was in a depression. Adolph Hitler became chancellor of Germany in January of that year. In Germany alone, over five million people were without work. They were afraid and still angry because Germany was defeated in World War I. In that war, Hitler was in the German army. After the war, their country was made to sign the Treaty of Versailles. This Treaty forced Germany to lose some of their territory along with limiting the size of its army and having to pay large amounts of money for war damages. Adolph Hitler took advantage of the German’s feelings and preached his own racial thinking that Aryans (people of Nordic descent) were superior to all other races. He told the people that Germany would once again become a huge world power. The adults and children believed him because his preaching gave them hope. Hitler blamed the Jews for losing the war. After the war was over he became a member of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, known to other parts of the world as Nazis. Hitler was
Nowadays, people tend to forget the morality of human beings. For instance, the people in today’s world are attracted to greed or power letting their mind and body rot them. However, are we doing a right in letting people like that win? It might not seem much or anything, but as history has shown us otherwise with World War II. Like letting a tyrant leader like Adolf Hitler take over different countries and bring in what is believed the most horrific discrimination ever known. Therefore, it is right to agree with Elie Wiesel a former target of the Nazi Final Solution that the moment race and religion are involved then that soon must become the center of the universe’s attention.
The Holocaust is well known around the world, and many people do not realize the devastation and the technology that was used in that time. What we knew before was that the Holocaust resulted in the death of six million jews, and was controlled by the Nazi Regime. Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Germany and came up with the Final Solution, a plan to exterminate all the people of Jewish faith or race during World War II. This then brought in the concept of concentration camps. Concentration camps did not just hold Jews captive, they also targeted other groups such as Gypsies, African-Germans, Homosexuals, Atheists, and the physically and the mentally disabled. Now, it is common knowledge that that many people were killed in gas chambers or
From 1933-1945, it was a period of time when the Jews were targeted as an enemy. This period of time is called the “Holocaust.” This is when the Germans killed over 6 million Jews and it was a genocide. They also killed any Jew that they could recognize. The Germans during this time were called Nazis. Nazis were the people that controlled the concentration camps and liberated people. Concentration camps were the places where the Nazis took the Jews to be killed. In the concentration camps there were gas chambers. They were the places where they took the children and their moms for a “shower”. They thought it was a shower, but it was actually a place where they would end their lives. When all the jews went in the Nazis threw a chemical that burnt everything. The people who did that were the Holocaust war criminals. They were the Nazis that killed 1,000s of jews and didn’t care. The most dangerous war criminals were Alois Brunner,Beate Kunzel Klarsfeld, John Demjanjuk, Hans Lipschis, Hans Frank, Alfred Rosenberg, and Gerhard Sommer.
The point of where this all began was when Adolf Hitler came to became known as a war hero after World War I, and soon after gaining enough power to become chancellor of Europe in January of 1933. In March of 1933 one of the world 's greatest and worst tragedies in history began. This tragedy was the holocaust where the Jews were persecuted, and killed all because of the man named Adolf Hitler. He used his power and influence on others to make it seem like the Jewish people were behind everything that had happened to them. There were many things that they did to the Jews that were inhuman and evil to the very core. One thing they
"Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire". But in the English language, the Holocaust was the most horrible genocide of approximatley six million Jews by the Nazi regime and it's collaborators.
According to Jennifer Rosenberg the word “Holocaust” was originally from the Greek word “holokauston” which in the Greek language means “sacrifice by fire”. What the Holocaust meant to Adolf Hitler was the plan to slaughter and ravage almost all of the Jewish race. This is a fact that I and many others did not know before research was done, because this was a really unpopular, I polled different people about this fact and found out that a large portion of people I surveyed did not know about the origin of the name “Holocaust”. This was not much of an important fact, but it’s good to know little bits and parts of the
Have you ever wondered or thought about what happened to the Nazis that helped with different parts of the Holocaust after World War II ended? Well, I thought about it and I did some research about the famous trials that happened between the years 1945 through 1949. These trials were made up after a man by the name of Adolf Hitler wanted world domination and he treated the jews horribly. This event solved a lot of problems from establishing an International Court and knowing what to do with the men that helped Hitler with the Holocaust. The charges were among many things but mostly crimes against hummanity was the most used charge. There was also a lot of controversy about the laws that were made in the court and before the trials even
Holocaust. Hol-O-caust. Word of greek origin that means to sacrifice by fire. Now repeat it in your head a few times. The word “Holocaust” isn't just a word in the dictionary, it's more than that. In 1933, There was a man named Adolf Hitler, and he created the Holocaust. The Holocaust was when Hitler and his crew (the Nazi’s) killed over 6 million Jews because of their belief in religion. Hitler didn't want to just kill the Jews, he wanted to make them suffer, and then kill them. The Holocaust took over 6 million innocent people's lives and we cannot forget that. (paraphrased from USHMM.org)
During World War II, the world witnessed unspeakable acts of violence, particularly that of the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a mass genocide primarily of, but not limited to, the Jewish population in Germany, and other countries that were controlled by Germany. From 1941 to 1945, the Jews were targeted and methodically murdered because of Hitler’s views of his Utopian society made up of an Aryan a race. Hitler fought to create this society through creating an anti-Semitic movement, his motivation and thirst for power and through his rituals of violence used to purge society of the undesirable races.
Hitler and the Nazi party came into power during January 1933 in Germany. They believed that Germans were the superior race. This meant that they thought Germans was basically better than everyone
The holocaust was very sad,during world war ll Adolf Hitler thought that Germany should be a racial infirmary. Also he did not think that disabled people deserve a life. He kicked out the jews and many more people that were not germane.
World War I, the first actual war played out on a global scale. During the time of the war, many people, military and civilians a like, lost their lives. However, among all of these people, one man got very lucky in the sight of death, for you see this man had been partially blinded after being exposed to mustered gas, and when when stumbling on the battle field, a British solider by the name of Henry Tandey who saw this man, took pity on him and let him go. The man that he saved was Adolf Hitler. Soon after the war ended, Hitler joined the National German Workers’ Party, which became the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), commonly know as the Nazis. The end of the war was also a very personal and emotional disaster for Hitler as well. It brought about the threat of demobilization, tearing him from the only community in which he had ever felt at home and returning him to a civilian life in which he had neither direction nor career prospects. However, the next few months would only for shadow what Hitler was going to do.
From extreme prejudice to mass genocide, I think everyone could agree that the holocaust was one of the worst things to happen to the world in the twentieth century.
The Holocaust was an ultimate abomination of Nazi racism that occurred between 1938 and 1945. The word Holocaust derived from the Greek word holokauston, which stands for a burnt sacrifice that is offered whole to God. The word was chosen for this occurrence because of the amount of dead bodies that were cremated in open fires by Nazis. The Holocaust was known for the mass murders of European Jews that took place during the Second World War. European Jews were the fundamental victims during the Holocaust and seemed to be the most targeted. In 1933, approximately nine million Jews lived in Europe and settle in 21 different countries. It eventually would be seized by Germany during the Second World War. By 1945, around five or six million European Jews had been brutally murdered. A majority of them died in concentration camps that were build primarily for Jews. However, Jews were not the only victims that were persecuted by Hitler’s and his Nazi regime. A half million Gypsies, mentally or physically disabled persons, and Soviet prisoners from war were also discriminated victims to Hitler’s Nazi genocide. Jehovah’s Witnesses and homosexuals were also persecuted in Europe.
The Holocaust. A proper noun representing the mas killing of around eleven thousand people from 1933 to 1945. The majority of those killed were people of Jewish faith. Jewish people were collected up and brought to different types of concentrarion camps where pogroms were set up to extinguish life in every form. People died from starvation, illness, exaustion, beatings, being gassed, shooting, and being burried alive.