Malnutritio And Mental Effects Of The Holocaust

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Physical pain, mental trauma, malnutrition, and loss of your family. How would you like those things? Well the Holocaust caused all of those things on millions of people. In WWII a group called the “Nazi’s” hated Jewish people. They inprisoned them, starved them, beat them, and even murdered them. Millions were killed due to the tragic event we call the “Holocaust”. The Jews who survived suffered malnutritio and mental effects for the rest of their lives. What were the effects of the Holocaust? The effects of the Holocaust were people were starved, people had been beaten, and millions were killed by the hands of the Nazi’s.
Millions of victims in the Holocaust were starved, or were fed a small amount of food.
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The Nazi’s saw it as the victims didn’t deserve to eat good like they did. They felt if they starved or fed them very little, that it would be a proper punishment for the victims. The bread the Nazi’s fed the Victims werent full loaves or even a half. They fed them about the size of a small dinner roll. The Nazi’s believed the victims who got bread were unworthy of it. Sometimes the Nazi’s even took it away from them if they were disobedient or rude. The soup they got wasn't a huge bowl. It was roughly a small bowl,and it wasn't like the best soup ever obviously. It was basically tasteless, but due to their hunger they didn't care. The Nazi’s had to make millions of soups for their victims, sometimes the victims had the cook job and had to do it themselves. They had to cook large amounts of soup, however people were given little rations of it. This was because the Nazi’s thought the victims didn't deserve the bread either. Not only were the victims starved or fed poor food rations, but they had also gotten beaten. Millions of the victims of the Holocaust had been violently beaten by the hands of the Nazi’s …show more content…

This resulted in millions killed. According to “United States Holocaust Memorial Museum” 6 million Jews were murdered. Slaughtered just because of their religion. For some reason Nazi’s believed Jews were evil and they were the cause of WWI. When they were not at all. The source also said the Nazi’s killed up to 250,000 people with disabilities or that lived in mental institutions. The Nazi’s did not want to listen or give extra care to these people. So they decided it was easier to just kill them off. The Nazi’s believed the “perfect people '' were blonde, blue eyes, and white. So when they would see black people they saw them as “impure” and would then murder them. So all together there were multiple effects of the Holocaust. So what were the effects of the Holocaust? People being starved, people being beaten, and millions being killed. There were years of harmless, innocent, and even young people being beaten, starved, and killed by the hands of the cold hearted Nazi’s. The Holocaust was a brutal event. With brutal people who thought it was good to hunt and kill others. We need to keep learning it so history doesn't repeat

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