The Holocaust
"The Holocaust was a very dramatic and major event during World War 2."
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in history, in which millions of innocent people died. We don't know how many died between the years of
1933 and 1945, but an estimated amount of these people is approximately eleven million (11,000,000) that had died during that time.
About five million of them were among various groups of people who had refused to
acknowledge the leadership of Adolf Hitler or those whom the German Fuhrer
disliked — political dissenters, artists, homosexuals, the mentally and physically
handicapped, priests, the Roma and Sinti, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Freemasons
are just a few examples. Half of the victims were of the Jewish faith (nearly 6 million).
Jewish children were prevented from going and were not allowed to go to the same schools with the other German children. Jewish businesses were shut down and forced to close, and Jewish temples were burned and
vandalized.
The Nazis also set up ghettos. These were where Jews were segregated from
other people and were forced to live in the most horrible of conditions.
The Nazis developed "The Final Solution." This was a plan to get rid of all the
Jews. They decided the most efficient way of doing this was to set up camps to
exterminate their existence so they would not pass on their genes and disrupt
the Nazis' quest for the perfect race. Though the Nazis did not achieve their
goal, they managed to kill close to five or six million Jews in cruel, sadistic, and inhumane
acts of murder.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/world-war-ii-the-holocaust/100170/
http://www.nps.gov/wwii/historyculture/the-holocaust.htm
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in history, in which millions of innocent people died. We don't know how many died between the years of
1933 and 1945, but an estimated amount of these people is approximately eleven million (11,000,000) that had died during that time.
About five million of them were among various groups of people who had refused to
acknowledge the leadership of Adolf Hitler or those whom the German Fuhrer
disliked — political dissenters, artists, homosexuals, the mentally and physically
handicapped, priests, the Roma and Sinti, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Freemasons
are just a few examples. Half of the victims were of the Jewish faith (nearly 6 million).
Jewish children were prevented from going and were not allowed to go to the same schools with the other German children. Jewish businesses were shut down and forced to close, and Jewish temples were burned and
vandalized.
The Nazis also set up ghettos. These were where Jews were segregated from
other people and were forced to live in the most horrible of conditions.
The Nazis developed "The Final Solution." This was a plan to get rid of all the
Jews. They decided the most efficient way of doing this was to set up camps to
exterminate their existence so they would not pass on their genes and disrupt
the Nazis' quest for the perfect race. Though the Nazis did not achieve their
goal, they managed to kill close to five or six million Jews in cruel, sadistic, and inhumane
acts of murder.
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/world-war-ii-the-holocaust/100170/
http://www.nps.gov/wwii/historyculture/the-holocaust.htm