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The Holocaust is generally regarded as the killing of not only six million Jews, the primary victims, but also five million others. Approximately 11 million individuals were wiped off the Earth by the Nazis. It is hard to grasp the idea or visualize 11 million deaths, however 11 million lives where taken because of racism and hate, all in a period of eleven years(1933-1945). It is sad that the Holocaust represents eleven million lives abruptly ended. The Holocaust was the extermination of people not only for who they were, but rather for what they were considered. Groups such as the handicapped,Gypsies, Poles and others were persecuted by the Nazis because of their religious orpolitical beliefs, physical defects, and failure to fit the "Aryan" ideal(Schwartz). The Nazis believed that if reproduction was stopped within the non-Aryan people, the"Master Race" could become pure. In 1933, this plan went into effect. The German Physicians were allowed to perform forced sterilizations, operations making it impossible for the victim to have children. Some targets were 30,000 Gypsies in Germany, and handicapped individuals, including the mentally ill and people born deaf and blind. Another target were th
There was about twenty thousand Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany in 1933. The religion was outlawed by the Hitler and the Nazis, yet they continued their practices. The Witnesses sent letter to the government explaining their beliefs and political neutrality. Hitler and the Nazis didn't like the fact that they were going against orders to raise their arms in the "Heil Hitler" salute or to serve in the German army. The group was banned by national law in 1935. The Jehovah's Witnesses who refused to abide by the national law, where arrested and sent to prisons and concentration camps. Purple triangular badges "A poet has said that the death of a child is the loss of infinite possibility"(Berenbaum). The murdering of the children of the Holocaust was a crime that is unimaginable. An astonishing one million children under the age of fifteen were murdered by the Nazis. children in the Getto were very useful to there families. They snuck around the camps through sewage pipes, holes in and under the fences, and climbed over the fences. They left the camps to steal food from the nearby towns and bring it back to there starving In 1939, Hitler invaded Poland and World War II began. Hitler also started a war against the handicapped. He said, "Wartime was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill"(Berenbaum). The handicapped were probably the group that the Nazis hated the most. They considered them useless and not worthy of life. At the beginning of World War II, the Nazi murdered the mentally retarded, physically handicapped, and mentally ill "euthanasia." German doctors were used to determine which handicapped or mentally ill individuals should be killed. Gas chambers were constructed in six institutions in Germany and Austria. If a doctor picked an individual to die, they were sent to any of the six institution for gassing. The infants were not as lucky to die in a gas chamber. They were killed
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