The Holocaust was a major event that had happened in the World War II but more specifically between years 1933 to 1945. The Nuremberg trials were mainly created for the reason of the Holocaust, in this tragic event over 11 million men and women had died! 6 million of them were Jewish people, and about 1.5 million of those people were. Nazi Germany had made approximately 20,000 concentration camps, most Sonderkommandos were regularly gassed, and fewer than 20 of the several thousand survived(Sonderkommandos) were the commonly referred names to Jewish people. In Auschwitz there were about 2,000,000 casualties, Belzec had about 600,000 deaths, Bergen-Belsen had about 70,000 deaths, Buchenwald had about 56000 deaths, Chelmno had about 340,000 …show more content…
Germany was a good country but Adolf Hitler and many other had made it look like it was a criminal country. No one liked Germany when the World War II was over, it was stated by a government official that Germany was going to be an unforgiven country. After a while germany was forgiven when the war was over, germany repaired its relationship with countries by basically paying it off, they payed billions beyond billions of dollars to multiple countries like for Poland they had payed 1.3 billion dollars. In the netherlands had taken 69k^2 from west Germany, Yugoslavia on the other hand had gotten 36 billion, dollars worth of germanys factories equipment. In the Nuremberg trials, many verdicts have been made. A few major trails had been trialled, a man named Ernst Kaltenbrunner had been one of the most feared men that has stepped foot in Nazi, Germany. He was known as the Highest ranked leader next to hitler himself. Ernst Kaltenbrunner had been mostly apart of the camps during the holocaust, he had gained a lot of his power year after year due to promotions of working in the Nazi’s Party. In the 4 trials Kaltenbrunner had been in trialled guilty which was then transferred to a death penalty. A man named Hermann Göring, had begun his life knowing he would or wanted to work in the military in 1915-1918 Hermann Göring had attended flight school for war planes, after him learning he goes back to studying history and political science in 1921. Then Hermann
The trials held soldiers, civilians, Nazi party leaders and anyone who committed a serious crime during war accountable for their actions. The Nuremburg trials were proposed by the Allies and soon after in Moscow of 1943 a declaration to bring the Nazis to trial was signed by British, U.S, and Soviet Representatives. Two years later after many discussions a method to bring the trials called the London agreement was agreed upon and brought into place. (Vile, John R. "Nuremberg Trials.") Twenty-four major leaders of Germany were tried for various crimes including aggressive wat, general war crimes, and crimes against humanity. This was along with more than 100 defendants that choose to represent Germany (Library of Congress). There were 12 total trials called the “Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings” this included the Doctor’s Trial, Milch Trial, Judges’ Trial, Pohl Trial, Flick Trial, IG-Farben Trial, Hostages Trial, RuSHA trial, the Einsatzgruppen Trial, Krupp Trial, Wilhelmstrasse Trial, and the High Command Trial. These trials were separated to organize the trials and because of the large amount of people being tried. (Memorium Nuremberg Trials). Out of the 24 major war criminals, 12 were sentence to death. Many plead guilty to the accusations held against them and many also claimed that they were just following orders of their high leaders. The
The Holocaust occurred in 1941 - 1942. This event was significant because it had a lasting impact on the world especially Germany, Poland and other european countries. This led to significant political changes such as the united nations. Hitler was the reason there was a mass extermination of 60,000 people. The Holocaust had devastating short term effects such as loss of money, homes, food, hygiene and most commonly death also the separation of families and the horrific mass destruction on human life. The long term effects effected the survivors mentally and physically after the holocaust.
The Nuremberg Trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany from the 20th of November 1945 to the 1st of October 1946, 24 of the Nazi leaders were tried for their crimes against humanity, however only 22 trials were officially carried out due to Robert Ley committing suicide and Gustav Krupp von Bohlen deemed unfit for trial before their hearing. It was considered to be controversial as all Nazi officials at one time claimed that they were simply following orders from a higher power and that they weren’t to blame for their crimes because they were acting in self defence. Hermann Göring also committed suicide the day before his scheduled execution. Also a few of Hitler’s accomplices committed suicide before they had a chance to be trialled. These adjustments to the expected outcome of the Nuremberg Trials caused controversy amongst everyone who knew of the Nazi’s treatment of others, especially Jews. There was also some bias towards the Nazi party from the people conducting the trial as they were mostly from Allied descent and had personal reasons to persecute Nazis simply because they were Nazis without fairly considering their crimes against humanity.
The Holocaust was a mass murder of millions of individuals’ primary to and during World War II. “Only 54 percent of the people surveyed by the Anti- Defamation League (ADL) in a massive, global poll has ever heard of the Holocaust” (Wiener-Bronner). The Holocaust was from 1933-1945 and was run by German leader named Adolf Hitler. Hitler was a man who wanted to create his own race of people. Therefore to create this race, he wiped out anyone who did not have the specific descriptions that he wanted. For people to fit into his race, they had to have blue eyes and blond hair. This excluded the Jews and from then on Hitler slowly dehumanized them. In the concentration camp the first thing they had to pass was the selection test. The selection test was what the SS man (German soldiers) used to determine who was fit for work. Usually children, mothers, and elders were the first to die because they were not mentally fit for the work they were going to be given. People who passed the selection process either died of starvation, disease, fatigue, or assassination. It took twelve years before anyone intervened and by then it was too late for millions of people. Even though over twelve million people died during the Holocaust, genocides have still happened in Rwanda, Darfur and Cambodia.
The Holocaust was a mass slaying of groups of people which that Germany saw as inferior. This included the jews, Soviets, disabled, gay people, etc. The holocaust mostly ran from January 30, 1933 - May 8, 1945. During this time period, concentration camps were made in most of Europe, mostly the nazi occupied territory. These camps
Around six million European Jews were killed (The Holocaust). The Holocaust was run by Adolf Hitler, and Hitler loved being on top (The Holocaust). The word Holocaust comes from holos which is whole, and kaustos which is burned (The Holocaust). Hitler’s army tried to keep all of the concentration camps a secret, but with all the killing they just couldn’t keep it from the world (The Holocaust). Over 275,000 handicapped were killing (The Holocaust). In the fall of 1939, the army choose the mental and disability people to be gassed (The Holocaust). July 1933, German camps held 27,000 people (The Holocaust). At the end of the war, Hitler commited suicide (The
As we grow up our parents teach us how to be respectful and very well-mannered. They enforce the importance of saying, “Please, thank you, and excuse me,” when needed. Parents also insist we listen and respect our elders, because they have authority over the world since they have been here the longest. We were raised to comply with the demand of someone who had authority over us. According to Patricia Werhane (1), “In the early1960’s Stanley Milgram undertook his noteworthy study of human obedience to authority. Puzzled by the question of how otherwise decent people could knowingly contribute to the massive genocide of the Holocaust during World War II, Milgram designed an experiment that sought to cause a conflict between one’s willingness to obey authority and one’s personal conscience.”
During World War II and the Holocaust, many people wondered why Jewish people did not fight back against the Nazi’s. But what many people do not know is that about 30,000 Jewish people resisted and fought back against the Nazi command (Resistance). The Holocaust started in 1939 and ended in 1945. The Jews were forced into ghettos and were ostracized from the world by a wall or barbed wire fence. There were also concentration or death camps where after the war ended, almost no Jews survived. During the Holocaust, the Jewish people engaged in both armed and unarmed resistance in order to preserve their faith, morale, and humanity.
The Jewish Holocaust is often described as the largest, most gruesome holocaust in history. It began in 1933 with the rise of Adolf Hitler and lasted nearly twelve years until the Nazi Party were defeated by the Allied powers in 1945. The expression “Holocaust” originated from Greece which is translated to “sacrifice by fire”. This is a very proper name considering the slaughter and carnage of Jewish people inflicted by the Nazis. In addition to the Jewish, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexual, and physically and mentally disabled were targeted by the Nazis. Although the numbers are not exact, it is estimated that approximately eleven-million people were killed during the Holocaust. This includes about six-million Jews and one-million children. The persecution begins on April 1, 1933 when Nazis initiated the first action against Jews. It began with a boycott of all Jewish businesses and only became more extreme as time went on. In September of 1935 Jews were excluded from public life and stripped of citizenship and marriage rights. This was an unprecedented action that was enforced by the German government through the Nuremberg Laws. Several other anti-Jewish laws were established during the buildup of World War II. During these dismal years, countless Jews were sent to “camps”. These “camps” ranged from concentration camps, extermination camps, labor camps, to prisoner of war camps. Nevertheless, all of these camps treated Jews inhumanly. Dachau, Germany was the home of
The Holocaust occurred around the 1940’s. It was a horrific event. Nazis, an Aryan superiority race, took over Jews in Germany and proceeded to do awful things to them. The Nazis were torturing these Jews, take the littlee bit of self-confidence and recognition they had as a Jew. It was already bad enough that Jews were shunned before the Holocaust came onto the picture. During the Holocaust, millions of Jews were killed in concentration camps or work camps. They were stripped of their individuality and had no freedom really. Still to this day, no one knows exactly why a group of people would do such a thing as killing millions of innocent people. At the age of around fourteen, a young lad named Eliezer Wisel survived the Holocaust and lived
The Holocaust was a terrible event that lead to many unnecessary events. Six million Jewish peoples and five million non-Jewish peoples were murdered in the Holocaust (“The Holocaust”1). The deaths all together made a grand total of eleven million dead. Most prisoners died in the Holocaust camps, but the prisoners were not the only ones that died. Nazi soldiers who disobeyed Hitler were killed.(Schwartz
The Holocaust is one of the horrible things that can, and did, happen during war, when hate and prejudice was at its highest. It forced many people to hide away in small cramped areas with little to no privacy and food. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. It ended in 1945 when Allied powers defeated the Nazis. 1.1 million children were killed or died during this horrendous time in history. Not just Jews were murdered, many people were homsexual, hiding a Jew, or did not agree with Hitler and the Nazis. These people were escaping a horrible injustice based in stereotype, discrimination, and
The Holocaust was a tragic event that took the lives of 6 million innocent Jews. Nazis believed that Jews were a problem that needed to be removed. This resulted in prosecutions, and mass killings of the Jews. The life of a Jew was grueling, unjust, and overall a terrible one. This was due to forced labor, minuscule food rations, mass extermination, and many other harsh
The Holocaust was an awful yet historic event that occurred not so long ago when compared to some historic events but changed the world into what it is today. The German army under the control of Adolf Hitler was responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews, homosexuals, the physical and mentally challenged and other religions Germans. The Holocaust started in 1941 and ended with the invasion of Germany by the Russians in 1945. This is a famous example of oppression in history. The prisoners at these concentration camps
Towards the end of World War II ally powers began to come across concentration camps which housed what the Nazi’s deemed the “undesirables” mainly people of the Jewish faith, gypsies, Russians, polish, the mentally disabled, and the physically impaired. What happened in these camps is one of the most appalling events in world history which would become to be known as the Holocaust. Approximately eleven million people died in the Holocaust due to malnourishment, slave labor, extermination, and medical experimentation (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). These were so heinous that allied powers took the Nazi members to international court for crimes against humanity, which became to be known as the Nuremburg Trials (Duhaime's Law Dictionary).