Greek Swastika Research Paper

The Holocaust was a slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Jews from 1933-1945 led by Adolf Hitler. It is a word of Greek origin meaning, "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933 and believed that they were the superiors and Jews were the inferiors and a threat to the German racial community. Although the Jews were the main objective, the Nazis also targeted other racial groups such as the gypsies, the disabled, Russians, homosexuals, and many other groups. To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population and later to easily “kill them off” the Nazi had created ghettos, and concentration camps, where they forced them into hard labor and executed them starting with the weak ones, the elderly and children. Hangings, shootings, and the most famous gas chambers often set execution forth. In the gas chambers, the Nazis would round them up and tell them to strip off their clothes for a shower, at which they would go into the mortuary, which had been filled to capacity and after the doors sealed the gas would be shaken down through holes in the roof. The process of the crematory lasted hours, but it killed more people at one time. The picture I was assigned is located outside of what I’m …show more content…
The word swastika comes from the Sanskrit svastika that means “good fortune or well-being." The swastika was known as a good luck symbol before Hitler and the Nazis made it a symbol of evil. Hitler selected the swastika as the symbol of racial purity lying on a red background “to win over the worker.” He replaced the original German flag with the swastika. In parts of the world, specifically in regions with Buddhist or Hindus, the swastika is displayed as a religious symbol. However, in other parts of the world, it is forbidden to be on display. In Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, and Poland it is against the law to fly a Nazi swastika flag or publicly display Nazi