Why Did The Holocaust Happen
1. What happened?
The holocaust was the systematic extermination of over six million Jews, along with many black, gypsy, homosexual, and disabled people. It is considered one of the largest cases of genocide from modern history. Even though it started as simple discrimination, before long it had escalated to full blown organized murder. From 1933 all the way through 1945, anyone that Hitler deemed as ‘undesirable’ was annihilated. In 1933, there were roughly nine million Jews in Europe, with the bulk of their population in Germany and the countries Germany would occupy in World War II. By the end of the war, almost two-thirds of their population had been executed by the Nazi’s so-called ‘Final Solution’.
2. Why did it happen?
There were multiple reasons as to why the Holocaust happened. One reason being Hitler deranged goals and his intent to create the ‘Aryan Race’. He wanted a race of pure Germans with blue eyes and blond hair. He believed that Germans were superior and therefore attempted to exterminate any other races that could interfere with his goal. Also, Hitler believed the Jews were a ‘low and evil’ race and blamed them for all social and economic problems in Germany. The Nazi party had extremely anti-Semitic ideologies, so when the Nazi’s rose to power they enforced laws which took away all human …show more content…
Often they refer to their work as ‘historical revisionism’. However, scholars consider this misleading, as their methods of work differ from those of historical revisionism. They tend to believe that the Holocaust was made up by the Allies, the Jews, and the Soviet Communists in order for them to benefit. Holocaust deniers claim that the Allies needed the Holocaust to justify their occupation of Germany in 1945. Also, they claim that the Jews needed the “Holocaust Myth” the allow them to receive large payments for restitution and give them reason to establish the State of
The holocaust was the systematic extermination of over six million Jews, along with many black, gypsy, homosexual, and disabled people. It is considered one of the largest cases of genocide from modern history. Even though it started as simple discrimination, before long it had escalated to full blown organized murder. From 1933 all the way through 1945, anyone that Hitler deemed as ‘undesirable’ was annihilated. In 1933, there were roughly nine million Jews in Europe, with the bulk of their population in Germany and the countries Germany would occupy in World War II. By the end of the war, almost two-thirds of their population had been executed by the Nazi’s so-called ‘Final Solution’.
2. Why did it happen?
There were multiple reasons as to why the Holocaust happened. One reason being Hitler deranged goals and his intent to create the ‘Aryan Race’. He wanted a race of pure Germans with blue eyes and blond hair. He believed that Germans were superior and therefore attempted to exterminate any other races that could interfere with his goal. Also, Hitler believed the Jews were a ‘low and evil’ race and blamed them for all social and economic problems in Germany. The Nazi party had extremely anti-Semitic ideologies, so when the Nazi’s rose to power they enforced laws which took away all human …show more content…
Often they refer to their work as ‘historical revisionism’. However, scholars consider this misleading, as their methods of work differ from those of historical revisionism. They tend to believe that the Holocaust was made up by the Allies, the Jews, and the Soviet Communists in order for them to benefit. Holocaust deniers claim that the Allies needed the Holocaust to justify their occupation of Germany in 1945. Also, they claim that the Jews needed the “Holocaust Myth” the allow them to receive large payments for restitution and give them reason to establish the State of