The Holocaust was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler, ruler of the Nazi party, and his associates conducted the mass murder of over six million Jews. Nazi Germany under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler was responsible for the brutal, inhuman slaughter of the Jews from 1933 to 1945. Many German civilians were ashamed of the callous, blasé and insensitive killings led by their own ruler and therefore deny any knowledge of the events of the Holocaust. Their claims to be unaware of the events of the Holocaust are not valid and are only used as a shield for their pride and dignity.
Adolf Hitler and the Nazis believed that the Germans were the ‘perfect race’ and all other races were deemed ‘inferior’. (Source 4) Hitler wanted to exterminate all of the ‘inferior races’ so that Germany could take over Europe and house the ‘perfect race’. The Jews were looked down on as they were inferior to the Germans that they lived amongst and therefore were ridiculed and made vulnerable to persecution.
Hitler was afraid that the Jews would summon the other ‘inferior’ races to rise up against the Nazi regime as they were believed to hold much of the world’s finances and mass media. (Source 4) They believed that killing the Jews
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(Source 8) Jews in the concentration camps were also used as cheap slave labour in factories and the employees and owners would have therefore been exposed to the horrors of the Holocaust. (Source 6) People working on the railroads and operating the trains to the camps experienced the Holocaust through their own eyes as they saw the pain and misery the Jews that were on the train had to go through. (Source 9) People were also needed to build the concentration camps and supply ovens and gas chamber so would have therefore known about the plans for the Holocaust. (Source