Holocaust
Think about what life would be like if you had to wake up every morning wondering if you were going to live to see tomorrow, under Hitler's control people of all ages feared of bring murdered. When you look at people today many laugh, smile and play. But under the persecution and terror of Hitler, many of these people couldn't do these simple everyday things. When the nazi regime came to power in Germany in January 1933, it immediately began to take systematic measures against the Jews. One early decree was a definition of the term Jew. Crucial in that determination was the religion of one's grandparents (About 1). Anyone with three of for Jewish grandparents was automatically a Jew, regardless of whether that individual was a member of the Jewish community. Half-Jews were considered Jewish if they themselves belonged to the Jewish religion or were married to a Jewish person. All other half-Jews, and persons who had one Jewish grandparent, were styled Mischlinge (half!-breeds). Jews and Mischlinge were "non-Aryans." In Nazi doctrine, such emphasis on descent was regarded as an affirmation of "race," but the principal purpose of these categorizations was the clear delimitation of a target for discriminatory laws and di
ry 18, 1945. At the end of January 1945, 45,000 prisoners were evacuated from Stutthof and its satellite camps. In the cold and snow, these prisoners were forced to march. In some cases, the prisoners marched for a long duration and were then loaded onto trains or boats. The SS were trying to get the prisoners to camps that were deeper within Poland or even to Germany. Sometimes they made it; thus creating even more extreme crowding conditions and further spreading epidemics such as typhus (Stolf 45, Warlimont 54). Sometimes the camp the column was supposed to reach was liberated before they got there; thus the columns had to change directions en route. Sometimes the Allies would overrun the columns. The SS would often sense the closeness of the Allied troops; thus the SS would run off in the middle of the night, leaving the prisoners to fend for themselves. Although the prisoners were very glad to be liberated, most were very near death (Holocaust 45,Cledinnen 36). As the! , salves, gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, communists, and others that were targeted by the Nazis, had died in the Holocaust. The Nazis massacred 6.5 million Jews, 200 thousand to 500 thousand Gypsies, and only 10 thousand Homosexuals, for a total of 6.71 million to 7.1 million souls - which translates to 92% to 97% Jews. war days came down toward an end the final solution drew near, camps equipped with facilities for gassing people were erected on the soil of occupied Poland. Most prospective victims were to be deported to these killing centers from ghettos nearby. From the Warsa
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