Holocaust
What is the Holocaust? Why did it happen? What happened to people during the Holocaust? These are the questions everyone asks. Webster's dictionary defines the Holocaust as, 1: a sacrifice consumed by fire, 2: a thorough destruction especially by fire (i. E. a nuclear Holocaust), 3 a often cap. :the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II -usually used with the b: a mass slaughter of people; especially genocide. The Holocaust is generally thought of as the massacre of about 11 million innocent people, wiped off the earth by the Nazis regime and its collaborators. In 1919, the Nazi Party started as a gang of unemployed soldiers. In 1933 they became a legal government of Germany. In fourteen years, a once unknown corporal, Adolf Hitler, would become the chancellor of Germany. With Hitler's controlling influence the Nazi Party quickly consolidated its power. He maintained legality throughout the Nazification process. Over the next six years, he transformed Germany into a police state. He began to rearm the military, in violation of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. Hitler engaged in a "diplomatic revolution" by skillfully negotiating with other European countries and publi
Resistance against the Nazis came in many forms, but was very hazardous. Some escaped by hiding, or through legal or illegal emigration. Others struggled to survive by smuggling food, clothing, and medicine. In addition to the direct threat to those involved in resistance, there was a huge risk of immediate retaliation by the Nazis. Sources: Florida Center for Instructional Technology, (updated August 1,01) A teacher's guide to the Holocaust, from www.fcit.coedu.edu/holocaust cly expressing his strong desire for peace. Camps were an important part for the Nazis' to oppress and murder large amounts of Jews, Political adversaries, and others. There were concentration camps, forced labor camps, extermination or death camps, transit camps, and prisoner-of-war camps. The living environment of all the camps was brutal. Throughout the Holocaust, victims received help from rescuers. Courageous citizens were able to hide and protect thousands of Jews and other victims of oppression until the defeat of Nazi Germany and the liberation of the death camps by allied forces. The SS (Schutzstaffenlnor guard squadrons) was a small guard unit made to protect Hitler and other party leaders. Heindrich Himmler developed the SS into elite corps, the black shirts. There was a power struggle between the SA and the SS called the "Night of the Long Knives." The SS won. Himmler was made the chief of police and the head of the SS. This meant that he as able act within the law, as chief of police, and outside the law, as head of the SS. Germany was truly a police state in which almost any act of terror could now be interpreted as legal. Dachau, one of the first camps, at first housed only known political opponents of the Nazis. Gradually, they imprisoned more Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies, dissenting clergy, and homosexuals. They were placed in Dachau for disbelieving in the Nazis' ways.
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