Holocaust 6

A detailed Summary of Holocaust 6

Throughout history the Jewish people have been scapegoats; whenever something was not going right they were the ones to blame. From Biblical times through to the Shakespearean Era, all the way to the Middle East Crisis and the creation of Israel, the Jews have been persecuted and blamed for the problems of the world. The most horrifying account of Jewish persecution is the holocaust, which took place in Europe from 1933 to 1945 when Adolf Hitler tried to eliminate all the people that he thought were inferior to the Germans, namely the Jews, because he wanted a pure Aryan State.

In January of 1933, Adolf Hitler, who was part of the Right Wing National Socialist German Workers Party or Nazis, became Chancellor of Germany. Chancellor was the highest and most powerful position in all of Germany, and this gave Hitler the control of everything and everyone in Germany, after that nothing would ever be the same. Hitler wanted a pure Aryan State, a country that had a superior race to the rest of the world. This meant that he would have to kill all of the people who stood in the way of his purification. This was called a cleansing of Germany. Hitler had most of the Jews, Romani (Gypsies), Poles, Slavs, homosexua

...Dr. [Hermann] Pfannmuller approached one of the fifteen cots which flanked the central passage to the right and left 'We have here children aged from one to five,' he pontificated. 'All these creatures represent for me a National Socialist [Nazi] "living burdens"... a burden for our nation.... In this sense, the Fuhrer's [Hitler] action to free the national community from this overburdening is quiet simply a national deed, whose greatness non-medical men will be able to assess after a period of years if not decades. We do not carry out the action with poison, injections, or other measures which can be recognised...for then the foreign press and certain circles in Paris or London would only have new opportunities for propaganda against us.... No, our method is much simpler.' With these words he pulled a child out of his cot. While his fat, gross man display the whimpering skeletal little person like a hare which he had just caught, he coolly remarked: 'Naturally we don't stop their food straight away. That would cause too much fuss. We gradually reduce their portions. Nature then takes care of the rest.... This one won't last more than two or three days.'(Lace, 1998, page 12)

Hitler came up with a more efficient way of killing off the weak and the people that were of no use to him without causing a major stir among watching countries:

People often wonder why no one put a stop to the elimination of the Jewish people; but most people did not know what happened in Germany and the rest of Europe until the end of the war. If they did know about it they chose not to believe that it existed and thought that it was only a bunch of lies. Aryan's knew that if they tried to help or stop the Nazis that they would be next to be sent to the concentration camps. Most of the world was oblivious to the persecution of the Jews. It was the fact that the people who knew about it chose to ignore it because it seemed untrue that anyone that was created by God could do anything so inhumane. In an interview with Margaret Moore, who was in her twenties and living in Canada during WW II, she recalled not hearing about the Holocaust until after the war was over and the camps had already been liberated. This could have been because of the lack of media involvement; unlike today or it could be that our government chose to ignore a problem that had affected billions of people in the world. It is a known fact that many people did not have clue what was going on in Germany and her Third Reich.

The Concentration camps were a place that the SS or the Schutzstaffel or protective units took the non-Aryans to be detained. They were built like a prison; with barbed wires, high walls, armed guards and a military like order. People were sent there to work, they were then "worked to death." They were under fed, over worked, and had little or no sleep. The SS often gave the people useless physical labour made to tax their bodies and souls. Their chances of survival in these camps all depended on the their will to live no matter the conditions, many people did not have this will to survive.

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Category: History