What Is The Cause Of The Holocaust?

The Holocaust is a tragedy that plagues the memory of the entire world; one’s race, sexuality, disability, or, most often, religion, could be a death sentence in Nazi Germany, and every year the world gathers to promise that such a genocide will never happen again. But despite this promise, events mirroring the Holocaust are starting to occur. Reports have been published claiming that in Chechnya--a republic within Russia-- 3 gay Russian men have been killed, and at least 100 more have been detained.1 Some European countries are accepting refugees from Chechnya, and the United States State Department released a statement hoping for the end to this situation. However, the continued existence of this problem means those efforts have not been enough.2, 3 As a major world power and the “Leader of the Free World,” the United States must do more to help gay individuals in Chechnya and end this persecution before it spirals into genocide. The situation in Chechnya is already eerily similar to the events leading up to and occurring during the Holocaust, and the United States must speak up against the persecution of gay men in Chechnya so that history does not repeat itself.

World War II was a disaster in which millions of people died. Within 1.2 and 1.6 million people died in Auschwitz (“Auschwitz.” History. Np). The Nazis made it clear that if anyone was a Jew they would be a “Jewish problem.” The “Jewish problem” meant that anyone would be killed for being a Jew. Hitler did not agree with Jewism (“KL Auschwitz-Birkenau.”). The Nazi government pursued the “Final Solution.” The “Final Solution” was to kill all six million Jews living. He said that Jews were not religious, but that they were a race (“Auschwitz.” History. A). Most of the concentration camps the Nazis made were located in Oswiecim, Poland.

During World War 2 the German Nazis killed millions of people because they were just doing what the Nazis thought was true. They killed people of all ages no matter what. They basically destroyed the Jewish race because the Nazis thought they were the best people. So, they decided to try to get rid of the things they thought were impurities. This was very wrong for them to do just because they thought they were inferior.

First on July 6, 1938 - Nazis banned Jews from trading and providing a variety of specified commercial services.

During the Holocaust, Hitler gathered up millions of Jews, and thousands of Gypsies, physically or mentally disabled, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. Many of which did not know what was going on. The Nazis then put these innocent people into ghettos, transit camps, extermination camps, or forced labor camps. ( “Introduction to the Holocaust”) “The camps played a large part in the Holocaust- the deliberate and systematic attempt by the Nazis to kill all the Jewish people in Nazi-controlled lands.” (Shuter, pg. 4.) People in the camps were divided by their genders. Men and older boys in one place, and women and young children in another. (Shuter, pg 14) The camps and ghettos also had very harsh conditions. People became very sick with typhus, died of starvation, got lice, and there were barely any showers or toilets. Camps likes Auschwitz, Belzec, and Sobibor were even worse. They had gas chambers where the frightened Jews were killed. The Nazi soldiers also made the

The Holocaust is by far the worst genocide ever committed, with between 5 and 6 million Jews murdered; along with countless other minorities the Germans deemed inferior (The Holocaust Chronicle Appendices). The Holocaust began with the boycott of Jewish businesses, and ended in camps such as Auschwitz. The destruction of the Jews was made possibly with the rise of Adolf Hitler to power, as he and his fellow Nazi followers attempted to exterminate the Jewish populace of Europe. In the paragraphs to follow I will attempt to explain the reasons, as well as the implications of the Holocaust.

The Serbian-Bosnian conflict in the mid-1990s, the Rwanda Genocide in 1990, and the Darfur Crisis in the early-200s; all of these events were reported on extensively by most major American newspapers including, The New York Times. But, these events were post-Holocaust when The New York Times had learn its lesson from how the paper handled covering the Holocaust in the early and mid-twentieth century. In this paper, I will examine why The New York Times buried reports of the Nazi regime and why some Holocaust survivors might prefer it that way.

The Holocaust started in the 1933, when the Nazis and Adolf Hitler took power in Germany. The Holocaust from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned) cause chaos and tragedy for Jewish people. At this time Germany was a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000 people. Nazis thought that they were the most inferior race and no other race was better than the Aryan race. This cause a lot of discrimination and hate against other people based on their beliefs and looks. The Nazis provoked the outbreak of World War II, when they invaded Poland. The Holocaust lasted 12 years and it end it on May of 1945.

It is estimated that the genocide killed at least 6,000,000 people and at most 12,000,000.

What Events must occur in someone’s life too cause them to hate? What needs to occur to make someone’s mentality change and view another human being as less than a human being? The real question is, what makes a person want to commit a genocide. However, many people do not know that the Holocaust was one of the many Genocides against the Jews, for example, the Diaspora. The Diaspora was an exile of Jews from their homeland Israel to Babylon in the 6th century, however what made the Holocaust so different was the way that it was organized and its task to eliminate the entire Jewish people. “By the end of World War II, nearly two thirds of Europe's Jewish population had been wiped out leaving a small remainder of the Jewish culture that had existed throughout Europe for nearly 2000 years”. Despites Adolf Hitler’s and the Nazi party’s resentment on Jews for multiple reasons, it is said that the Jews were never a huge threat to the Germans nor in military, economic, or a political threat, they only different from German Society in Religion. So, what really was Hitler’s conspiracy towards the Jews ?

Nobody has the right to criticise or diminish the suffering of others when they have not endured the same pain themselves. So why is it that there are still people in our world today who are heartless enough to repudiate the facts from the mass murder and systematic annihilation of the Holocaust; debatably the most cold-blooded crime in human history?

In the late 1941, Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the next day United States declared war on Japan (“The Holocaust and World War II: Timeline”). Roosevelt and Winston Churchill agreed upon defeating Nazi Germany rather than saving Jews should be their top priority (“Franklin Delano Roosevelt”). It is believed that winning on the side of the Allies of World War II is the only way to end all unjust, inappropriate behaviors, and wrongdoing towards victims of the Holocaust. After confirming details about Hitler’s Final Solution (Germans planning to annihilate Europe's Jews), Allied governments issued a public declaration vowing that after the war, perpetrators will be punished and they are condemning Nazi Germany’s “‘bestial policy of cold-blooded extermination’ of Jews” (“American Presidency Project”). Thereafter, Roosevelt met with notable leaders within the Jewish community in which they discussed the horrors of the news in camps and genocide, but Roosevelt did not promise to rescue or liberate the victims. In a way, this demonstrates Roosevelt as a great leader because he does not make any empty promises towards civilians. In the United States, more and more people are exposed about mass killings, which puts on pressure, leading to a conference between United States and Great Britain in order to explore rescue options, but ultimately produced no results (“Franklin Delano Roosevelt”). This frustrated and disappointed not only the American Jews, but also members of

Can you even imagine going and living through the Holocaust? You’d had to live your life completely scared and living on edge. The Holocaust was a very difficult and hard time period. It may have just started with hatred and unfairness, but escalated all the way to torture and killing. It is just unimaginable.

World War 2 caused so many Jewish deaths. Six million to be more exact. But before and during the war where did they go? Their home towns and cities were turning against them and they had nowhere to go.

For centuries, the Jews were exposed to wicked treatment and even today, they continue to face a similar form of hatred. Unsurprisingly, but not widely acknowledged, Jewish people have been blacklisted and tormented even before the world-known genocide, the Holocaust. It seemed like every religious, political, or cultural perspective had something to hold against them as for years, they have constantly generated more and more reasons to hate them. This, however, leads many to question everything. Why were they so hated especially by a well-known killing-fanatic, Adolf Hitler. Prior the Holocaust, the Jews were blamed for multiple things that made everyone wary of them. For example, in the first century, the Jews were deemed responsible for the death of Jesus where they earned the anti-semitic slur the “Christ killers” and many have persecuted and executed them to avenge Him. Christians also had a problem with how they rejected the Christian message and taught followers about their sin in churches for centuries. Another religious problem arose in the 6th-7th century when they did not believe in Muhammad's prophethood, insulting his believers and followers. Years after that, the Jews have been documented to roam across the world, garnering a handful of negative canards that caused interminable Jewish suffering. They were seen as money-thirsty usurers who had no heart for those without it. History says, however, that the Christians excluded the Jews from many occupations, thus