The main factors that led to the Holocaust were social, political and economic. There was a global economic crisis that led to mass unemployment and that led to the migration of people that were seeking for work. The political situation in Poland that raised to antisemitism led to many Jews fleeing to Germany. Germans hatred towards the Jewish race was the main reason of the dreadful holocaust. The holocaust was full of racism.
The holocaust started on January 30th 1933, as Adolf Hitler gained power in Germany and became the chancellor, when the war in Europe officially ended. The holocaust is considered as one of the most horrific times said by the Jewish community in Europe. Adolf Hitler was mostly …show more content…
The holocaust affected millions of people and over 6 million people died in the end. Anti-Semitism was the main effect on the holocaust and anti-Semitism affected all Jews. Adolf Hitler hated everybody that didn’t have blonde hair and blue eyes, he wanted an all Aryan race and then eventually murdered the rest. About the Jews that were shipped off to camps, if they were too weak to work they would be straight away murdered and killed so there would be more room for more workers. The Jews wore clothes that looked like pjs, they had numbers tattooed on them and they were kept in by razor wire and guards all around them. But it wasn’t just Jews that were taken to camps, Germans hated anybody without blonde hair and blue eyes so they were either shot or put in gas chambers if they didn’t work. Hitler wanted to technically take over the world, he took over many neighboring countries and towards the end over 6 million were murdered and killed. Hitler started to send Jews to the camps. It’s known that about 32,000 to 33,000 people were killed at the camp. The camp was originally designed for holding Germans political prisoners and Jews, but in 1935 it also began to hold actual and ordinary