When people hear the word genocide‚ the first thing that comes to their mind is probably The Holocaust; unfortunately there are many more genocides that not many people know about. The Holocaust was a tragic genocide in which six million Jews were murdered by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi soldiers‚ and for what reason? Sadly there is no valid reason other than the fact that they were just Jewish and Hitler didn’t like that. Genocide is when a large group of people are murdered because of their beliefs
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Children of the Holocaust Children were the most vulnerable people during the holocaust era. The Nazis had it set in their minds that they killed them because of a racial struggle or as a measure of security. The Germans and their collaborators killed them for both those reasons and also in retaliation towards the partisan attacks. 1.5 million children were brutally murdered by both the Germans and their collaborators. Amongst these children about one million Jewish children were killed. The
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The Holocaust It is difficult to grow up in the world today without hearing about the horrors of the holocaust. From an early age‚ I recall hearing about it in history classes. The numbers and facts were all there‚ the millions that were slaughtered‚ the atrocities that were committed. Yet‚ it is an impersonal type of reporting that is given in a history class‚ and while the mind can sympathize and agree that the event was horrific‚ the heart is not as affected by facts and figures. When the story
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The Holocaust Melissa Vargas Mr. Smith AP US History 1 April 2014 Imagine one day coming home to your parents packing all your bags‚ telling you that it’s time to go‚ but you have no clue where you are going. With no idea where you are going you freak out‚ and are scared to death of what is to come for you and your family. This wasn’t uncommon for the Jewish people of Europe from the early 1930’s to the mid 1940’s. Hitler had another plan for all the Jews‚ one which he called
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Brutal and pitiless‚ the Holocaust was the most unhuman treatment of a certain group named by the Germans; Untermensch (meaning under man). These individuals were described as the enemies of the state. Across 6 years approximately 6 million Jews and many more other “minority” groups were ‘eradicated’ by Adolf Hitler. The persecution of the Jews will be a scar in our history that should never be forgotten. Moreover‚ Hitler’s campaign against the Jews began as subtle indoctrination of his country
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Holocaust Denial The title of my piece sums up my entire article: Are You Serious? I mean honestly? Are you kidding? Don’t worry‚ reader‚ this isn’t to you. Unless you’re David Irving‚ of course. What’s that? You don’t know what I’m talking about? You don’t know that some people in this world actually believe the Holocaust never took place? Then welcome to the modern day‚ the 21st century‚ an age where even the most widely recognized event in human history can be‚ and ferociously is‚ questioned
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the Jewish people. It is very specific‚ sad and instructive. In order to properly clarify this picture‚ we have to start from the beginning‚ shed light on the history of the Jewish people‚ and pay particular attention to the dark times during the Holocaust‚ and particularly refer to the Jewish understanding of the holiday. Jewish history tells us about how the Jewish people lived from the time when they appeared up to the present day. The nation is like a big family‚ and a large family can be compared
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Hannah Brooks Mr. Turner World History II 27 November 2012 The Holocaust The Holocaust is one of the worst scenarios of genocide ever known to the world. The Jewish people of Europe were terrorized and slaughtered over a period that lasted nearly two and half years. During that time‚ nearly eleven million people were killed‚ including six million Jews. Even though the actual mass killings of the Jews lasted about two and a half years‚ the planning of this genocide started many years earlier
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The holocaust is a historical tragedy that affected the entire globe. There are still people alive today who suffered and survived the holocaust - they lost everything - their families‚ homes and cultural histories have been demolished. If that does not merit remembering a devastating part of history then what is? How can anyone forget? It’s important to remember atrocities like the Holocaust for several reasons to honor the victims and keep their memory alive through stories of their lives‚ to
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The Holocaust was a form of genocide‚ which refers to the intentional‚ systematic extermination of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945. The Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Europe did not happen suddenly. It was the end of a long process of anti-Semitism and the belief in the pseudo-science of eugenics. The Nazis used propaganda and terror to enforce their anti-Semitic policies. By 1938‚ the lives of Jews living in Germany had become intolerable. A policy of annihilation
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