The Holocaust

A detailed Summary of The Holocaust

The Holocaust is described as the deliberate systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jews by Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945.

Adolf Hitler was born in Austria-Hungary, he then moved to Vienna to join the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts to follow his ambition of being an artist. When he was declined admittance to the school, he refused to work and became homeless. This point in time was when he started to hear his Pro-Aryan, anti-socialism, and anti-Jewish views. This is when he thought of himself as a German and not an Austria-Hungarian. In the beginning of WWI, he dodged the draft and was arrested in Germany and sent back to Austria-Hungary where he then joined the army and served in WWI. At this point, he began looking into political parties and joined the German Workers Party. They went form 100 members to 2000 from Hitler who began to move his way up until he was leader of the party. He then changed its name to the Nazi Party. Hitler then began to devise how to take over Germany. His first attempt was a failure called the Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler and 600 armed men stormed a beer hall where the government leaders in Germany were meeting. He was arrested and sent to jail for a few years where he wrote his book

Extermination of the Jews was Hitler's next plan. There were two stages of this process. The first was the Improvised Stage. This stage consisted of putting the Jews being excluded away from the rest of the nation. The Jews were placed in ghettos which were located in the run down districts of towns. Jews had previously been allowed to leave Germany to any country they could enter, but by 1941, Jews were no longer allowed to leave the country. Railroad lines were put in near and beside the ghettos. Every ghetto had a council in which they would meet with

The ghettos were cramped, small towns that had no medical care, small amounts of food, no plumbing, and no schools. Only a handful of ghetto citizens were allowed to leave the ghettos of they had work cards to work in factories to earn a small amount of money for their families. Jews exterminations were not happening very often yet; they were being killed by a shot in the back of the head and throne into a pit. After the ghetto started getting over-crowded to the point they couldn't hold anymore people, Hitler's Extermination Stage began.

Mien Kampf which translates to My Struggle. Upon his release, he regained power in the Nazi Party again. The current German government fell and Hitler took his role as Germany's new dictator. Some of his first legislation that he passed was to create a Pure-Aryan race, and then he passed discriminatory laws against all Jews. He pulled the country out of the depression and created a huge army.

The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was a plan by the Jewish to try to save themselves from the horror that was to come upon them. They smuggled guns and other weapons into the ghetto and in April 1943, they tried to destroy the ghetto and

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