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What many victims went through is horrendous and difficult to comprehend. The debate between intentionalist and functionalist has been long and argumentative. Timothy Mason developed the term in a written essay, having the aim of turning the focus away from Hitler as the sole object of the Holocaust. Mason being a functionalist held the theory that it’s significant whilst studying the Holocaust, to consider the ‘dynamics of Nazi barbarism’ {Mason} as economically and institutionally motivated, without insisting Hitler must ‘carry the main burden of explanation’ [Mason, 1995, p. 216]. Furthermore, Mason believes along with other functionalists that the Holocaust must examine the factors in the development of the event on a wider scale. The economic aspect and issues in 1930 undoubtedly resulted to the chaotic political environment. Evidently, functionalists emphasise and place great importance on the multiple social issues and the effect it had on the decision making in the Third Reich. Hitler doesn’t play a significant role in the functionalist’s judgment. Additionally, Lucy Dawidowicz writes that “war and annihilation of the Jews were interdependent”. I believe historians or writers such as Dawidowicz take into account all factors whilst making the judgments which is great, however I don’t believe that the killing of six million people was ‘interdependent on the war’. It’s like saying all of

The German Soldiers did many things to Jews, and it should have been stopped earlier than it did. The way that they treated the children and the prisoners were worse than what it ever should have been. “Get up! Roll call!” We stood. We were counted. We sat down. We got up again. Over and over. We waited impatiently to be taken away. What were they waiting for? Finally, the order came: “Forward! March!” (19). They were treated like dogs doing the same thing over and over, waiting for something good to happen, waiting to be taken away. Not caring about their lives is one thing, but they also did not care if it was just one person that messed up. Everyone would be killed if one person made

Approximately six million Jews were killed, the most abundant number of all. It was not as if it were peaceful deaths either. They were sick, painful and unimaginable deaths. The people were taken out of their homes, lost all of their human rights and were sent to concentration camps to die. As some of them got off the train, the children were sent straight to the gas chambers. Others were looked at straight in the eye and were shot. The rest of the people would have entered the concentration camps only to be killed by exhaustion or starvation. The terrors of the concentration camps spread rumours out to the ones trying to escape, and the ones in hiding.

In conclusion, the Holocaust was some of the worst years in many peoples lives. From the begging of the rise of Hitler, to the end of the German powers, and the defeats of the Nazi's, unfair ridicule was among people. Concentration camps, un-rightful death, and torture, was the main purpose of the Nazi's plan. They wanted to eventually rule the world, but as you see, they were defeated. I am now aware of the terrible things that took place in these horrible

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.

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

Countless events in the world have been caught in history books but between the ones that have held to the memory of people is the holocaust. The Holocaust was a very disturbing event that triggered an eye-opener for individuals about how harsh humans can be. The purpose for this is since the vast number of victims and questions as to what was the actual motive behind the need to defeat a whole community. Holocaust is an organized, state financed torment and slaying of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi government run by Adolf Hitler. Separately from Jews, other groups considered lesser or anti-establishment, such as Polish, Gypsies, and Romans were killed. There were numerous reasons for these gruesome murders, insensitive imprisonment and enslavements of victims who were forced into labor while starving.

“The Nazi Holocaust 1938-1945 6,000,000 Deaths.”(2) That many deaths in a 7 year period is just horrific. “It began with a simple boycott of Jewish shops and ended in the gas chambers at Auschwitz as Adolf Hitler and his followers attempted to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe.”(2) Hitler obviously hated the jews he blamed them for everything. He blamed them for all of germany’s problems. “The first mass arrest of Jews also occurred as over 25,000 men were hauled off to concentration camps.”(2) Then the Night of Broken Glass happened and Jewish shops and synagogues were all burned. “The Night of Broken Glass (kristallnacht) occurred on Nov. 9 & 10 after a 17yrd. Herschel Grynszpan shot and killed Ernst Vom Rath, a German embassy official in Paris, in retaliation for the harsh treatment of his Jewish parents had received from the Nazis.”(2) This was not a smart idea because what happened after he did that was horrendous. The Germans retaliated in a big way. “Ninety Jews were killed, 500 synagogues were burned and most of the Jewish shops had their windows smashed.”(2) Innocent people died and their stores had smashed windows, they must have been terrified. “Spurred on by Joseph Goebbels, Nazis used the death of Vom Rath as an excuse to conduct the first state-run program against jews.”(2) If boy wouldn’t have done what he did all the tragedies that happened afterwards probably

Sit back, and imagine this: you’re sitting on a hard mattress. You can smell the smoke. The screams and tears of adults and children, just the same, fill the dirty air you breathe. Outside, acres upon acres of barbed wire and fortified walls. Platforms, cremation ovens, gallows, and gas chambers. The year is 1945, January 27th to be exact. This is a day that will be remembered for years to come. This is the day that the prisoners at camp Auschwitz being held by Nazi German soldiers were liberated.

When the concentration camps were liberated and the body counts tallied, the resulting numbers appalled people the world over. Millions of people lay dead, and dozens of top Nazis faced punishment for unspeakable war crimes.

The trial attracted a lot of public recognition in Germany, but considered Fritz Bauer; who played a significant role as a Judge and prosecutor on the trails, was quoted to say that the trials in a macro-scale was a failure. Only 22 SS members were charged, with an estimate of 6,000 to 8,000 who were thought to have been involved in the administration and operation of the camp. Six officials received life sentences, and many others were given long sentences. However, several were given on average 3-7 years and it is documented that four were acquitted and released. It was the first time individuals responsible for the Nazi's methods of exterminating Jews and people of other minorities were brought before national courts in Germany. In my focus, I would also like to show emphasis on the 360 witnesses who were called to testify, of which 210 were survivors of the Holocaust and the Hitler

This 1945 documentary reveals horrifying truths of World War II Nazi concentration camps and the evidence of war crimes committed to the European Jews. The entire Documentary depicts remains of what used to be humans that were starved and worked to death until their bodies did not resemble a human's. The film goes in depth through inhumane living conditions of camp members and their everyday life which included beatings, public whippings, forced labor, and execution. Additionally, the documentary shows the liberation of some camos and the examination of some liberated camp members. These freed camp members resembled carcasses and were on the brink of death.

When the war finally ended after six long years, the was fell into a period of complete and utter chaos. So many people were so angry, shocked and horrified that they didn’t know where to begin. After dealing with the initial problem of helping the victims in the concentration camps, many people wanted to find the people who were responsible and make them pay. This is where the Nuremberg Trials come into the picture. The Nuremberg Trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany in 1945 and 1946 where Nazis were put on trial for their role in the Holocaust.

Back in the times of the Holocaust, after the war took place, some of those who were responsible for the crimes committed, were taken to trial. Those trials took place on 1945 and 1946 in Nuremberg, Germany. The Nuremberg trials conveyed to open consideration the most noticeably bad of the Nazi abominations. “Judgment at Nuremberg” breathes life into those trials. Right up until today, the Nuremberg trials remain as a model for universal criminal tribunals, due in huge measure to the spotlight tossed at them by Mann's emotional translation of the notable occasions. Mann's staggering sympathy strikes at the heart of human, enduring his accomplishment has been to reaffirm humankind and equity in the wake of unspeakable malice; as the world remembers

The Holocaust victims should of been treated as any equal. Jews were discarded, looked around by Nazi’s, as if they were a nobody and not human. The children were used for pleasurement, as if they were slaves. As the first article say’s everyone has the same rights