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As a person looks at the last thousand years of history, many events come to mind. To be more specific, many world-changing events have occurred. Many of them have good explanations, or just reason as to why they happened. There were also a handful of events that had no rhyme or reason. These are the events the world may never understand. In the writer's mind, these are the events that changed the world the most. There is one particular event that seems to stand out when considering only the events of the 1900's. The events of World War II are broad and abundant, from the advances in warfare and technology to the cruelty of using genocide to gain power. Genocide took a major role in the occurrences during the war. It involved persecution of Jews and other minorities. This is the event during the war that appalls the writer. Why the Nazis would put the Jewish people through such devastation is something the world may never know. What we do know is how they did it. It began as a proclamation by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. His proclamation was that Germans were a superior race destined to rule the world. Hitler drilled this thought into the minds of his fellow Germans until they believed i
One death camp seems to stand out over all of them. Auschwitz, Poland was the site of perhaps the largest murder factory in the world. The main method of execution at Auschwitz was the gas chamber. The victims were ordered to disrobe and were herded into what they thought was a shower room. Once inside, the doors were shut and locked. Cyclone B, a poisonous acid was then dropped into the death chamber through an opening. The terrified people screamed when they finally realized what was happening. Their deaths were agonizing, taking anywhere from three to fifteen minutes. In their efforts to find fresh air, the victims climbed on top of one another. After the screams ceased, the bodies were removed for burial or cremation. The writer likes the way Auschwitz was described in the book Eyewitness Auschwitz. This book has a very vivid account of a period during 1942 in Auschwitz. "Beating and being beaten was taken for granted, and was an integral part of the system. Everyone could beat an inmate and the more experienced inmates never questioned why. They knew that they were beaten merely because they happened to run into someone who wanted to beat them. In most cases, the beating did not even involve personal anger or hatred; the authorities hated their victims as a group because when you wrong people for no reason, sooner or later you must come to hate them."
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Approximate Word count = 2022
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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