Research Question:What was hitlers reason
The term "Holocaust," originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire," refers to the Nazi's persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people. The Hebrew word "Shoah," which means "devastation, ruin, or waste," is also used for this genocide. in addition to jews the Nazis targeted gypsies homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the disabled for persecution.
Anyone who resisted the Nazis was sent to forced labor or murdered. Hitler anointed himself as ‘Fuhrer becoming Germanyś ruler. In 1933, Jews in Germany numbered around 525,000, or only 1 percent of total german population. Twin goals of racial purity spatial expansion were the core of hitler. Hitler and the Nazi
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The Jews they claimed had done much to spread defeatism and thus destroy the german army. Democracy in War Weimar Republic, they argued, was a form of governance that had been imposed on germany and was unsuited to the German nature and way of life. They construed the terms of the Versailles peace treaty and the steep compensation payments that it entailed as revenge by the victors and a glaring injustice. During the 2nd world war the nazi party under the leadership of Adolf Hitler tried to kill all the Jews in Europe, so the Nazi and their collaborators murdered six million Jewish people, including 1,500,000 children. Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in 1945. The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany , it ended 1945 when Allied powers defeated the Nazis. Young children were practically targeted by the Nazis to be murdered during the holocaust. Beginning in late 1941, the Germans began mass transports from the ghettos in Poland to the concentration camps, starting with those people viewed as the least useful the sick, …show more content…
From 1942 to 1945, Jews were deported to the camps from all over Europe, including German controlled territory as well as those countries allied with Germany. The heaviest deportations took place during the summer and fall of 1942, when more than 300,000 people were deported from the Warsaw ghetto alone.Though the Nazis tried to keep operation of camps secret, the scale of the killing made this virtually impossible. Eyewitnesses brought reports of Nazi atrocities in Poland to the Allied governments, who were harshly criticized after the war for their failure to respond, or to publicize news of the mass slaughter. This lack of action was likely mostly due to the Allied focus on winning the war at hand, but was also a result of the general incomprehension with which news of the Holocaust was met and the denial and disbelief that such atrocities could be occurring on such a scale. At Auschwitz alone, more than 2 million people were murdered in a process resembling a large scale industrial operation. A large population of Jewish and non Jewish inmates worked in the labor camp there, though only Jews were gassed, thousands of others died of starvation or disease. Some 50 million pages -scraps of