Analysis Of Four Major Claims Regarding The Holocaust By Doris Bergen

In this book, Doris Bergen aims to write about four major claims regarding the Holocaust throughout World War II. Bergen claims that the Holocaust was 1. An event of global proportions, with worldwide repercussions. 2. What is the difference between a'smart' and a'smart'? A step-by-step movement happening gradually, as there was no formal beginning or end of the Holocaust. 3. What is the difference between a'smart' and a'smart'? An event that would not have happened without World War II. 4. What is the difference between a.. A movement specifically targeting the Jewish population. Throughout the book, Bergen writes chronologically explaining the events of the Holocaust by year, as well as by the four major themes focused on within the thesis.

Bergen’s first argument regarding the four-pronged thesis is explained within these first few chapters. Bergen claims that without the Nazi regime, there would not have been a Holocaust or a World War (Bergen 2016, 13). Bergen explains that while the Jewish people have not been liked in the past by other antisemitic groups, Hitler took it to another level by setting the goal to exterminate the whole Jewish population throughout the entire world. In fact, Bergen explains that Hitler first experimented with finding different ways in which to kill the Jews by first testing these experiments on the disabled. Hitler was a strong believer in Eugenics, therefore he knew that his German countrymen would be more sympathetic to the killing of the disabled first, rather than the Jewish population, as these disabled people were already in institutions far out of the reach of the German public (Bergen 2016, 25). Therefore, Hitler’s plan of exterminating the Jewish population in order to make room for his perfected Aryan race was swiftly becoming reality versus a figment of his imagination (Bergen, 2016,

Six years before World War II would officially begin, Hitler passed laws within Germany to boycott Jewish businesses, as well as promote the threatening and abuse of the Jewish community (Bergen 2016, 76). Within this chapter, Bergen started to emphasize another point of the thesis, that Hitler specifically targeted the Jewish population more so than other groups. This point is very clear, as Bergen states, “.not even two months after Hitler became chancellor, Nazi authorities opened the first official concentration camp” that not only targeted the Jewish, but homosexual men as well (Bergen 2016, 83). Within the next couple of chapters Bergen explains that last two points of the thesis, how the Holocaust was an event of global proportions with worldwide repercussions, as well as an event that was step-by-step happening gradually, as there was no formal beginning or end of the Holocaust. Hitler’s first concentration camp was started two months after he became chancellor, however his approval of Jewish abuse within Germany started way before he was chancellor, therefore there will never be a clear beginning to the Holocaust, nor an