To What Extent Should We Be Responsible For Wartime Actions

The Holocaust was a tragedy in which many lives were lost due to the brutality and crimes of many unethical Germans and members of the Nazi party. The Holocaust hurt and killed people of religious faith such as Jews, the disabled, homosexuals, and others that did not fit the portrait that the Nazis defined as a perfect German. These crimes were unethical and caused many innocent people suffering. The Nuremburg trials were put into place to punish those who had done wrong. These trials made the people who had done wrong face their crimes and were brought to justice. The trials took place between 1945 and 1946 in Nuremburg Germany and decided the fate of many Nazi war criminals (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).

The Holocaust was one of the most horrible and dreaded events in history. Millions of Jews were killed, leaving many families devastated and hopeless. With the goal of racial purity, Adolf Hitler- along with many other Germans believed the Jews caused the defeat of their country, and led the Nazis to the elimination of Jews. For this reason, “Even in the early 21st century, the legacy of the Holocaust endures…as many as 12,000 Jews were killed every day” (The Holocaust). Later, Hitler organized concentration camps, where mass transports of Jews from ghettoes were brought and typically killed also. However, the fortunate Jews that were not killed still had many restrictions on their

the non-Jewish and Jewish survivors were left with the impossible task of assimilating back into society. The odds were against them. Some of these odds set against them were restricted freedom and continuing of new forms of brutality. This was very difficult because antisemitism was still alive in the minds of the most radical people in not only Europe, but the whole world. Jews were afraid to go back to their homes and regain their property

Nearly six million Jews were killed and murdered in what was called the holocaust. In the years between 1933 and 1945, the Jews of Europe were marked for death. Inanition anti-Semitism was given legal sanction. It was directed by Adolf Hitler and managed by Heinne Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, and Adolf Eichmann. There were many other great crimes and murders, such as the killing of the Armenians by the Turks , but the holocaust stood out as the "only systematic and organized effort by a modern government to destroy a whole race of people." The Germans under Adolf Hitler believed that the Jews were the German troubles and were a threat to the German and Christian values.

The Holocaust was inhuman. “The IMT defined crimes against humanity as ' murder,extermination, enslavement, deportation...or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds'” (Trials). Murder, extermination, persecutions all occurred during the Holocaust. Nonetheless the Nazis tried to hide what was going on in Germany. After Soviet Union's attack in eastern Belarus, the Germans began moving all the prisoners in every concentration camp in Europe. The Nazi did not want the public, especially the Allies, to know the stories in these camps. They viewed these prisoners as labors and bargain chips (Death Marches) and treated those poor men and women's lives as dust under their feet. They kept the prisoners alive only because they were “hostages”, and Germans needed those labors to work for them in order to continue fighting the war; in short, the prisoners were still useful to the Nazis. Fortunately, no matter how hard the Germans tried to cover up their crimes, the Allies found enough evidence for the trial after World War II. After the Allied troops captured the concentration camps, the survivors testified and provided evidence for British officials to use on the trials of Nazi war criminals (Testimony). The Allies sentenced the criminals guilty, executed many of the high ranking Nazi officers, and officially ended the bloody chaos.

Nazi War Criminals are the World War 2 Germany Criminals who had persecuted and killed millions of people. They put people into ghettos and concentration camps. The Nazi’s were hunted down and arrested.

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

The Holocaust a tragic catastrophe in which six million Jews were brutally murdered by the Nazi regime. Who were the Nazi’s and what punishments were brought against these war time criminals. During the Holocaust the Nazis used a form of indoctrination that contrived others to believe that the Jews were the ones to blame for the country’s loss after WWI. This indoctrination then lead to the massive murder of the Jews. In later years to come the Nazi leaders were charged with many crimes.

In the years 1933 through 1945 , was more than likely the worst 12 years in world history. This time period was called the German Holocaust. During the this time period , 6 million jews were killed throughout all of Germany. People that were Jewish , were kept in a cruel condition and had no rights what so over. The place were these people were kept at is called the Concentration Camps.

It included the building of concentration camps or “extermination camps” and the twisted mass executions of prisoners inside these camps daily (thus the name “extermination camp”). The Jews witnessed senseless murders and mistreatments on a daily basis during the period in which the Final Solution was implemented, which deprived them from even their fundamental human rights; this period of time later became known as the “Holocaust”. Overall, we can learn about human rights through the Jews during the Holocaust, because Jews were treated horribly by the Nazis, they were deported to concentration camps where they faced the risk of dying through gas chambers, deprivation of provisions, and getting shot, these factors greatly deprived them of their fundamental human

The tribunal prosecuted and tried high ranking Nazi officials for “crimes against humanity,” which included persecution on racial, religious or political grounds as well as inhumane acts committed against civilians (including genocide). After the Nuremburg trials exposed the horrific magnitude of the Nazis crimes, the U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution in 1946 making the crime of genocide punishable under international

During the second World War, a terrible mass murder of over 6 million European Jews had taken place. A prosecution that did not happen in one day. For years, the German Nazis tortured and killed those who were Jews and other minorities. They were sent to ghettos, working camps, and concentration camps. This time period in history is what is known as the Holocaust.

     The Holocaust is one of the most horrifying crimes against humanity. "Hitler, in an attempt to establish the pure Aryan race, decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, non supporters of Nazism, and Jews were to be eliminated from the German population. He proceeded to reach his goal in a systematic scheme." (Bauer, 58) One of his main methods of exterminating these ‘undesirables' was through the use of concentration and death camps. In January of 1941, Adolf Hitler and his top officials decided to make their 'final solution' a reality. Their goal was to eliminate the Jews and the ‘unpure' from the entire population. Auschwitz was the largest

WWII and the Holocaust are two of the most horrific events in history. WWII was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945 and was the deadliest war in history. Adolf Hitler came into power in 1933 and remained in power throughout the rest of WWII. Hitler was disobeying the restrictions put on him by Treaty of Versaille and was gaining power. Other countries saw how powerful Germany was getting and didn 't want to get in Hitler 's way. They were scared that if they confronted him he would want to attack them. This was bad because WWI had ended about 15-20 years before this time and most of the countries armies were still weak. These countries were also trying to repair their financial problems due to the fact that they were in a world wide depression. He took advantage of this power and made an army of soldiers that exceeded the amount of soldiers Germany was able to have according to The Treaty of Versaille. Hitler wanted to take over the world and have the Aryan race rule above everyone else. He believed that, to do so, he would have to get rid of the non-aryans. This included gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled. The mass killing of Jews was called the Holocaust. It got this name because many Jews died by being burned in furnaces and fire pits. The meaning of the word literally means destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. They were also put into concentration camps and death camps in order to

"This case is unusual in that the defendants are charged with crimes committed in the name of the law…." ( United States 31) So began Brigadier General Taylor in his opening statement against a selection of German jurists after the Second World War. This trial, United States of America against Josef Altstoetter et al., commonly referred to as the "Justice Case" because all of the defendants were somehow attached to the Nazi judicial system, was unusual, for as Taylor continued: