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The Holocaust: The Most Horrific Events In The 20th Century

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The Holocaust was one of the most horrific events in 20th century history, killing 11 million people and 6 million of them being Jews, occurring during WWII, it wasn’t until the Allies started liberating camps in Northern Europe controlled by the Nazi’s, in early 1944 and slowly removing power from Hitler. Americans and other allied forces took a while to respond to the action because they didn’t want to be involved for the fear that Germany might launch an attack on the U.S or in the other Allied forces territories. We didn’t know how to react to the situation, so we just put it aside like it was nothing, which was something America still regrets. Eventually, in 1943, the Allied forces started raiding Europe and reducing the Nazi control until …show more content…

This problem right now is just like what happened with the SS St. Louis. Jews boarded the ship in hopes of finding a new home in Cuba or the United States. They were turned away in both countries and sent back to Europe. Syrian refugees have been traveling around parts Europe in hopes of finding a country that will let them take refuge, and yet all the European government has done is built a barbed wire wall on the border of Serbia and Hungary to keep them from coming in. When the Jews were locked up in concentration camps during WWII with no escape it was like no one knew what was going on. The word was kept quiet that Jews were being exterminated in camps and worked to death in labor camps so the Nazi’s could continue their plan known as “Final Solution” to exterminate all Jews. While there is no plan in Syria going on right now to exterminate all Syrians, it 's definitely not being kept quiet that there is a war going right now in Syria and the Americans are not doing anything to try to help other than having all these unimportant meetings deciding what to

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Imagine watching your beloved hometown being captured by your worst enemy. All the things that you love, being stripped of you one by one. Forced to wear a gold star just because of your religion, and being beat up and mistreated by your fellow neighbors. Sadly, this was just the beginning. As time continued on ghettos where the Jews’ new home.

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The Holocaust was a terrible tragedy which consisted of the deaths of 6 million Jews. It started in 1933 and ended May 8th 1945. A man named Adolf Hitler decided that Jews were an unclean, unworthy race. He “relocated” the Jews to concentration camps and when there were too many to keep in the camps he either shot them or put them in the gas ovens. The American government decided that it wasn’t our place or fight and therefor hid it from the public.

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was having our own problems, which a majority was due to The Great Depression, and had their own people to think about. Bodenner mentions that critics insisted, “The Holocaust was so hidden, that from the onset of the war in 1939 until it was confirmed by the State Department in late 1942 the U.S. was unaware of its true nature” (16). This was largely due to the rumors of genocide being such an unfathomable situation it was difficult for not only the U.S. but other neighboring countries to believe as well. Bodenner clearly states the numerous ways, and tactics, that the U.S. could have enforced a stronger intervention in the Holocaust. He gives us a great point on how the U.S. denied the rescue of so many Jews, “How could Congress kill the Wagner-Rogers Bill, and thus refuse entry to thousands of Jewish children endangered by the Nazi regime?”

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Not many people today could imagine the pain and suffering that millions of innocent Jews had gone through during the Holocaust. It’s something that people tend to not think about and bury it in the back of their minds. The brutal truth, though, is that these events did happen. Millions of innocent women and children were murdered, men and boys were starved, and it seemed like all hope was lost. As much as we resent it, we need to think about it sometimes, so that we do not make the same mistakes in the future.

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Nowadays, no one knows or cares about those that history. There are even ones out there that choose to consider this catastrophe bogus. Most people living today did not experience the Holocaust in first hand; some have read about it and others have visited the concentration camps. Too many individuals take the Holocaust subject lightly because they do not know what it was like to suffer so much that you begin to lose your faith in everything. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses

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It is estimated around 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust, each death leaving a scar on modern history, each death showing the monsters we all can be to our own people, or just revealing the monsters we truly are. Harsh changes were put on the Jews from the loss of basic human rights like freedom to the loss of lives. This inhumane treatment was done by their own kind, no sympathy, no empathy,

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So at a time where millions of people were going under prosecution, and were being slaughtered by the masses, the American government turned a blind eye, and did very little to help. There was also public support to restrict immigration of persecuted Jews. This public support stemmed from a growing sense of nativism, and anti-Semitism (history.com). As the Holocaust went on, the Government eventually eased some of the restrictions put in place, allowing more people to come over. This was too little, too late though, as millions had already been killed, and many were still unable to emigrate.

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Unspoken Victims of The Holocaust Of the countless victims of Adolf Hitler’s brutal genocide none were persecuted more than the Jews, however, among the large death toll many others were mercilessly punished for their race, beliefs, or occupation. A major target for Hitler’s “Final Solution” was the mentally and physically disabled. In their article on the mentally and physically handicapped the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum wrote “The Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases, proclaimed July 14, 1933, forced the sterilization of all persons who suffered from diseases considered hereditary, such as mental illness (schizophrenia and manic depression), retardation (congenital feeble-mindedness), physical deformity,

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The Holocaust lasted for four years, a mass genocide executed by Nazi Germany, with the goal to eradicate all Jews. Six million Jews were successfully murdered, and hardly anyone lifted a finger to help the thousands killed daily. Elie Wiesel was right in saying that 'Being a neutral bystander helps those who are evil; that remaining silent encourages even more evil to happen '. This is true, since evil always comes back and causes so many people so much pain.

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Survivors of the Holocaust After the war against the Nazis, there were very few survivors left. For the survivors returning to life to when it was before the war was basically impossible. They tried returning home but that was dangerous also, after the war, anti-Jewish riots broke out in a lot of polish cites. Although the survivors were able to build new homes in their adopted countries. The Jewish communities had no longer existed in much part of Europe anymore.

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Holocaust Reaction Did you know America didn’t even know about the holocaust for the first few years? Today you will hopefully learn a bit more about the American reaction to the holocaust.

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The Holocaust is the deadliest recognized genocide in human history. It lasted from January 30,1933 – May 8,1945 and would result in the l1 million deaths. The causes of the Holocaust begin at the end of World War One with what Germans referred to as “the stab in the back”. This was a myth that claimed the German Army did not loose World War One but was betrayed by the Jewish population who gave up land and supplies to the Allies. As this spread anti-Semitism or hate for Jewish people grew in Germany as people viewed the Jewish population as deceptive and traitorous.

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