The Nazi Party: The Holocaust In A Nutshell

In 1941, Germans started to transport the people they believed were the least useful from the ghettos to the concentration camps. Many of these people were sick, old and very young. On March 17, 1942, the first gassings began at the camp of Belzec. From then, five more mass killing centers were built at camps in Poland. Between 1942 and 1945, Jews were taken to the camps from all over Europe. In Warsaw ghetto, 300,000 Jews were taken and placed into a camp and at Auschwitz more than 2 million people were murdered. Within the labor camps, there was a large population of Jewish and non-Jewish prisoners who were not only gassed, but thousands of others either died of disease or starvation. A large proportion of Hungary’s Jewish population was taken to Auschwitz, killing as many as 12,000 Jews every day.

The events that took place at Death camps were horrific and very hard to understand. “At these camps, Jews and other inferiors were herded like cattle, told to take off their clothes and go to the shower.” These “showers” were not actually showers like the prisioners thought, they were gas chambers. In the gas chambers, they lined people up and sent them into the large chambers with many others where toxic gas was was spread into the air and the prisioners were forced to stay in and breathe the air until the died. This was a very easy way to murder a large amount as fast as possible, just as the Nazis wanted. The gas chambers were just one way that the prisioners were killed. A different method of murder they used was lining everyone up and shooting them. When they died, they fell into the trench behind them and were either buried in the trenth or taken to the crematorium. (Hitler’s

In the summer of 1919 Hitler became member #7 of a small group called the German Worker's Party. The party had no goals or plans, it was just against the government. Soon after joining this group he became their leader. Within two years of joining this group Hitler turned it into a large group and changed the name to the National Socialist German Workers Party. The work Nazi Came from the first two words of the German name, NAtional soZIalist. All kinds of people jointed Hitler's group such as war veterans, poor students,

The Nazi Party began in 1919 as the German Workers' Party in Munich created by Anton Drexler(“Nazi Germany”). The Nazis came to true power with an influential leader in Adolf Hitler. Hitler was a powerful leader who tapped into the fear of his followers to guide them into becoming strong followers. The Nazi’s propaganda seemed to promise the citizens of Germany to pull them out of the depression they were in at the time (“The Nazi Rise To Power”). The Nazis wrote each of their speeches depending the audience they would have. An example of this is, “ when speaking to businessmen, the Nazis downplayed antisemitism and instead emphasized anti-communism and the return of German colonies lost through the Treaty of Versailles”(“The Nazi Rise To Power”). On January 30, 1993, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany after a series of previous failures of

The Holocaust was the Nazi attempt to wipe out the Jewish race (Rossel 12). The Holocaust took place from 1933 to 1945 (Rossel 12). The Holocaust took place in Europe, mainly Germany (“Introduction” par 3). Mainly Jewish and Nazi people were involved in the Holocaust, as well as some Gypsies (“Introduction” par 2, 3). The Holocaust was the persecution of 6 million Jews and millions of others forced to live in ghettos, deported to camps, and systematically annihilated until the Allied forces liberated the remaining survivors.

The beginning of the Nazi Party can be traced back to 1919, just a year after the end of World War 1. Beginning with a group of unemployed soldiers unhappy about the Treaty of Versailles, the group quickly spiraled into a mass movement. In 1921, a former army veteran by the name of Adolf Hitler joined the association and quickly became the group's leader. Hitler soon began gaining new members as he went throughout the country advocating anti-semitism ideas and the idea that Germany would continue to suffer, unless their was a total revolution of German life where Jews and communists were eliminated. His ideas caught the attention of many, especially young, economically disadvantaged Germans, as they saw this as a chance to gain more than they ever had

Summary: This article was an introduction to the Holocaust. The German Nazi’s thought that the Jews were a community. Not only the Jews were targeted, anyone with a racial inferiority was targeted. For example, although the Jews were the main threat the gypsies, Jehovah’s witnesses, and homosexuals and the disabled were also targeted. The Holocaust was a way to decrease the Jewish population; the final solution was to murder the Jews of Europe or anyone that was a threat to their German culture. Many died of incarceration and maltreatment. During the war they created ghettos, forced-labor camps between 1941 and 1944 the Nazi German Authorities would deport the Jews to extermination camps where they were murdered in gassing facilities. May 7, 1945 the German armed forces surrendered to the allies.

Anti-semitism in Germany led by Adolf Hitler would back up a plan called the final solution, to exterminate all of the Jews in Europe. Out of the 100 million Jews aimed for extermination, 6 million of them were killed. On his path to German greatness, Jews became victim to inconceivable actions. First the Nuremberg Laws were passed which stripped Jews of their german citizenship, eliminating their opportunity to flee to other countries. After Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Hitler forcefully deported Jewish people into fenced confinements called ghettos. More Jews died here than in any extermination camp due to the harsh conditions and labor. Most people living in ghettos had no access to running water or a sewage system and overcrowding

You were probably wondering what they did at the death camps and what happened in the camps? There were six major death camps, Aishwitz, Birkenav, Chelmna, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Warsaw. Jews weren’t the only victims in the camps, there were also Gypsy people, and enemies. Only 7,650 jews survived when the camps closed, and hundreds of millions died a day. All of this took place in the death camps. Jews, Gypsy, and enemies went to suffer everyday. And

Jews were moved into concentration camps between 1930 and 1940 depending on when the camps opened and most were kept until death (Byers 26). The 1940 death camps were located mainly in Poland (“Concentration” par. 4). In these concentration camps men and women were worked too hard, beat, and killed by Nazis (Byers 23). Concentration camps were places used for torture and murder of men, women, and children (Byers 13). The Dachau concentration camp was located in the city of Dachau and was not used for criminals but for placing people in “protective custody” (Byers 23). The beds were made of wooden planks, had no light or heat, had small rations of food, and beat with clubs and wet towels (Byers 23). Anne Byers, author of The Holocaust Camps, stated, “Conditions were harsh and treatment was brutal” (Byers 23).

Upon arrival at a concentration camp, victims did not realized what these “camps” consisted of. Some say that they didn’t exist. Others knew exactly what occurred at these camps from gossip or friends that had escaped. Uniforms were issued to each individual according to the crime they had committed. A yellow triangle placed on the uniform displayed that you were Jewish. Pink triangles displayed homosexuality. Triangles with a brown tint exhibited gypsies. Red triangles paraded communism. Triangles that were green displayed that a prisoner was a criminal. A double lined electric barbed fence surrounded all camps in Europe. Snipers then sat in stands to view the camp from above. At night they would use spotlights to guard the surroundings. Scattered around the grounds would be about a dozen soldiers marching the premises looking and scavenging around for mishap. It was as if the people within the camp were animals, restrained and punished when committing a wrongdoing. “When someone would disobey or not listen to a guard, we would be forced to strip down to the nude and roll around in hot coals until the body bled from everywhere. Once this was complete, you either died from infection or suffered severe burns.” (David 91). Seven million were forced to work at a concentration camp during the Holocaust. This boosted the economy because this was unpaid labor. Concentration camps existed because the Nazis couldn’t just exterminate all Jews or

A horrid event known as The Holocaust took place in 20th century Germany. It all began when Adolph Hitler was appointed as chancellor of Germany on January 30th, 1933. Soon after, Hitler gained a numerous amount of followers and rapidly developed his Nazi Germany. Led by visions of racial purity and spatial expansion, the Nazis mainly targeted Jews. In addition, Nazis also targeted Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and disabled people along with anyone who resisted them. This tragic event lasted a total of 12 years.

The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that Jews, were “inferior” and were a “threat” to the German Racial community: this was the idea behind the Holocaust, meaning “sacrifice by fire”. The Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million in 1933, most of these Jews lived in countries that the Nazis would soon occupy. By 1945, the Germans and collaborators killed two out of every three European Jews as part of the “Final Solution”.

The organization Hitler was a member of was popularly known as the Nazi Party. Originally was a small group of people under the name of German workers party. Adolf Hitler attended the meetings and joined it in 1919. Soon after he became leader of the party and changed the name to National Socialist German Workers Party. Hitler increased the Nazi party’s political power steadily. Then in 1933 Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. (3)

In 1933 Adolf Hitler was chosen as Chancellor of Germany by president Paul von Hindenburg. With this, the Nazi party came to power. Originally called the National Socialist German Workers party (Nazi for short), the Nazi party emphasized how Laissez-faire capitalism, economic liberalism, and democracy failed in government. The National Socialists stressed the importance of the impeccability of the German race. Although they had very determined ideas, The Nazi party began as a relatively small group in 1918. But coming into the 1930’s this was not the case. The widespread use of propaganda and radio broadcasting were instrumental to the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party.