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Holocaust Persuasive Essay

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Tall, blue eyes, and blond hair; the image of a “master race” in a perfect world, in the mind of Adolf Hitler. From 1933 to 1945, approximately 11 million people were murdered, including one million Jewish children alone. Death was a better option for these Holocaust victims. The concentration camps were horrifying, a cruel place for criminals, let alone the innocent people who walked through the camp gates, without a clue as to what would happen next. It didn’t matter if you were a man, woman, child, or elderly; it was the fight to the fittest, and no matter where they went, the Holocaust victims would always get the shorter end of the stick. They were mistreated and left with nothing but a mere sense of hope to believe that, one day, everything …show more content…

“Of the 11 million people killed during the Holocaust, six million were Polish citizens. Three million were Polish Jews and another three million were Polish Christians. Most of the remaining victims were from other countries including Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Holland, France and even Germany.” [1] The Holocaust victims had included Gypsies, the mentally disabled, the handicapped, German communists, homosexuals, the Jewish, several Polish people, and the Soviet prisoners of war (POW). Hitler had dreamt of a “perfect world”, and he was willing to do anything to obtain it and get his way; even if it meant, having innocent people killed, and starting a war. “These camps were used for a range of purposes including forced-labor camps, transit camps which served as temporary way stations, and killing centers built primarily or exclusively for mass murder. From its rise to power in 1933, the Nazi regime built a series of detention facilities to imprison and eliminate so-called ‘enemies of the state.’" [2] Thus, becoming the foundation of the …show more content…

The precise figure is impossible to estimate, since the Nazis did not calculate the number as individuals but rather as the number of trainloads that arrived to the extermination facilities. Around 1 ¾ million Jews died in the Operation Reinhard-extermination camps: 152,000 were killed in Chemno, 60-80,000 Jews were gassed or shot in Majdanek, while more than 1 million Jews were gassed to death in Auschwitz-Birkenau. To this should be added tens of thousands of gypsies and Soviet POW’s, who were also killed in the extermination camps.” [4] Many of the Holocaust victims had lost hope in finding a savior, Hitler had no limits, and at that time, the Nazi’s seemed

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