How Did The Holocaust Affect The World

The Holocaust had many effects on Germany, but people forget that it also had many effects on the rest of the world. The Holocaust began in 1933 which also happened to be the year that Adolf Hitler was elected to be the chancellor of Germany. The Holocaust was a period in time when approximately six million Jews in Europe were harshly murdered and tortured for twelve years. Over five thousand Jewish communities and neighborhoods were destroyed. These Jews were sent to concentration camps where they were held hostage, beaten and eventually killed. In 1933 the Jewish population was on average nine and a half million and by 1950 the population decreased to three and a half million Jews. More than one million of the Jews killed were women and

Concentration camps is where the Nazis, Hitler's army, would take the Jews after they were captured. These camps had very harsh conditions and was not a place you wanted to be as a Jew. The Jews were treated harshly and tortured on a daily basis. When taken to the camps, they were separated by men, women, and children. Families were split up and relocated. The camps were not sanitary and with thousands of people in one camp, the sanitation and health was not adequate for a person’s living conditions. The Jews had no other choice but to use dirty water to bathe in and drink. Jews were also brutally killed and tortured in these camps as well. One way the Nazis would kill the Jews were gas chambers. Gas chambers were small rooms that they would pack tightly. The Nazis would then shove as many people as they could get in there and close the door and lock it. Then, they would turn on the poisonous gas that rained from the ceilings which once inhaled, would kill the Jews instantly. After they died, they would put all the bodies into a pile and burn them. Once the Jews had arrived to the concentration camps, they were killed within approximately twenty four hours later and not there long enough to even register as prisoners. Some were also killed off by the unsanitary conditions and diseases and illnesses that spread among the other people in the camp, exhaustion, and starvation. The prisoners in the camps would also be put to work all day long, rain or shine. One of the jobs they had was to expand the camp grounds to make room for more