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The Holocaust: The True Meaning Of The Holocaust

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A Middle East Editor in Newsweek, Janine di Giovanni, said: “In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.” Millions of women, men, and children have been tortured, killed, raped, and forced out from their homes in mass atrocities. Many of them are already part of the past and whether there was some kind of aid response from the world or not, is too late to change the occurred, and to bring back the deceased ones. However, the aftermath of any genocide can always bring back some kind of hope for those who are still hurt and were victims of such massacre, if done for the aspiration of the well-being and social justice of the people. Nevertheless, the aftermath is not a magic spell to go back in …show more content…

The Nuremberg Trial was formed a year after the holocaust. There were many camps and facilitates for the displaced people formed. The word ‘genocide’ was brought into existence in order to describe the crimes against humanity as an international crime, and used by the nations to prevent and punish.
After the holocaust, there were some courageous Jews that saved others, but most of them were bystanders. In the Holocaust Museum, they highlight the activities of French village, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon. This village aided Jews by hiding them, and offering them shelters anywhere. The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg was formed in 1946. The U.S., the UK, the Soviet Union and France each supplied two judges (a primary and an alternate). Some Nazi officials were sentenced to death, others received life sentences in prison, and some of them had prison terms for up to 20 years, a few of them were found innocent. However, many Nazis’ perpetrators of the Holocaust were never punished, including Hitler. The organization United to End Genocide described that under the development of the Nuremberg Trial “the international community has continued and improved accountability through forums such as the International Criminal Court, and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda” (United to End …show more content…

After the genocide, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), political party in Rwanda, established a union with a Hutu president and a Tutsi vice president. The United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) provided peace process and relief in the aftermath of genocide between Hutus and Tutsis. United to End Genocide describes how twenty-six percent of the population in Rwanda still suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. “In 1994, the United Nations created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), dedicated to bringing those responsible for the genocide to justice” (United to End

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Since the Holocaust, the United Nations have made sure to let everyone throughout the world have equal rights. This mass killing of Jews violated every right that they had. They were beaten to death, shot on spot, starved, poorly clothed, et cetera. No one deserves the harsh treatment that they got throughout World War II. Nearly six million Jews died during this regime of a Nazi leader named Hitler.

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In history, events of genocide have occurred and humankind has fought to stop them. Such horrific events have occurred across the world; possibly the most horrific event of them all was the Holocaust. Hitler led a dictatorship throughout the entire country of Germany and during this time he had devised a strategy to take over Europe. While ruling his Nazi state and having a world war, Hitler had been running concentration camps secretly throughout his controlled territories. In the camps he had organized a method to systematically eliminate all races he viewed as inferior.

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IMT defined crimes against humanity as murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds. " Holocaust war criminals have escaped their prosecutions of the murder of six million Jews and have fled to different continents around the world(Pruitt).They have been on the run for years now and many were caught, but there are still a few out there. Others killed themselves before to avoid being

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The Holocaust was the mass genocide of mainly Jewish people and the “undesirables”. The jewish people were dehumanized by the Nazis. All of the people that were persecuted in the mass genocide were either placed into death camps, work camps, or the ghetto when waiting to get to a death camp or work camp. Though the Nazis were trained to be ruthless killing machines, some were kind at heart and helped some of the jewish people survive. “She pinned a lie to the lips of all those who said they had no choice”, Gerda Weissman went through and saw all of the horrific actions of the nazis.

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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’.

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Jewish people were excluded from public life on September 15th, 1935 when the Nuremberg Laws were issued. These laws also stripped German Jews of their citizenship and their right to marry Germans. When the Nuremberg Laws were established, the Jewish population began the process of losing their identity and eventually themselves. As soon as Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, the human race would be forever scarred. Although it is estimated the number of people killed in the Holocaust was around 11 million, there is a high chance of the death toll being much higher.

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The most infamous of these camps was Auschwitz, which was responsible for the deaths of over one million people. The Holocaust ended in 1945 with the defeat of Nazi Germany by the Allies. The scale of the atrocity shocked the world, and efforts were made to bring the perpetrators to justice. The Nuremberg Trials were held in 1945-1946, where Nazi leaders were prosecuted for war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against

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The Blame Game When a person is murdered, or hurt an investigation happens. This usually leads to a murderer, and accomplice. This murderer goes on trial and is either found guilty or not guilty. During the time period of January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945 a mass murder happened of about 11 million people in Germany.

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All of the millions of Jews who survived through the Holocaust didn’t receive a compensation, nor did the thousands of Jewish families was suffered a lost due to the Holocaust. Nobody was able to help the Jews, for the 12 years that they were imprisoned in the many concentration camps. Here many Jews were violated, tortured, and even killed. Many of the Jewish lost faith; they gave up on their lives and even gave up on their gods. The actions done by the Nazis can never be reversed; the Holocaust will forever be a dark time in which humans treated other humans like animals, what the Nazis did to the Jewish will forever be remembered.

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Although millions were murdered during the Holocaust, many war criminals were brought to trial and convicted for their crimes (Nuremburg Trials). The Nuremberg trials were a series of thirteen trials carried in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949.

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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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Some believe that the Nuremberg Trials brought justice to the victims of the war. The trials did acknowledge the Holocaust, but they were never able to bring righteousness to the victims (Rubenstein). The Boston Globe said in 2015, "It is true that the International Military Tribunal, the first and most widely remembered trial at Nuremberg, focused on the crime of aggression and was not specifically intended to cover the mass murder of the Jews, what we have come to call the Holocaust" (Rubenstein). The main point of the first trial was to bring justness to the Holocaust victims and survivors.

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The Holocaust was a horrific tragedy which started in January of 1933 and ended in May of 1945, the Holocaust was the mass murder of millions of people. The word was derived from the Greek word that meant Sacrifice to the Gods (Steele 7), also called the Shoan which is the Hebrew word for catastrophe (Steele 7). So many countries took place in this 12-year genocide, including, “Germany, Italy, Japan, Romania, Hungary, and Bulgaria, which were also known as the Axis Powers” (Steele 34). But, although there were all those countries they were all part of one larger group called the Nazis, were the ones who were killing all the different denominations of people. (Bachrach 58).

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As the laws against Jews in Germany got progressively worse, some Jewish people thought to stick up for their rights, but it was futile. Jewish people began fleeing the country, but few countries would take them due to the fear of a newly empowered German state. On the evening of November 9, 1938, the Holocaust began with carefully coordinated attacks on Jewish businesses. Unfortunately, this was just a sample of the horrors that would be shown in the next twelve years. Hindsight is already 20/20 and from the events leading up to the Holocaust most historians concur that the Holocaust should have been predicted and stopped.

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