Holocaust & Euthanasia Program
WOH 2022
06/19/13
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was not just a war that occurred these days. It was a war that every human being will remember as one of the greatest tragedy of the world. It made a huge impact on history especially for the Jews people. It was the effort of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany to exterminate the Jews and other people that they considered to be inferior such as homosexuals and disabled people. The murders were done by every means imaginable, but most of the victims died as a result of shooting, starvation, disease, poison gas, tortured to death and in horrible medical experiments. Born in Austria in April 1889, and being a child interested in fine arts, Adolf Hitler grow up wanting to be an artist. Latter on he drop out of school and moved to Vienna where he was expose to extreme German nationalists. Young Hitler applied to the Academy of Fine Arts twice but he got rejected both times. Later in his life he decided to apply to serve in the German army at the outbreak of World War One. He got accepted on august 1914 and this was the beginning of the rise of Hitler to power and his acceptance by Germany. After many battles, revolutions, and even prison, Hitler and the Nazi Party were declared the only legal political party in Germany and then head of state. At this point is when everything started to get out of control and when Hitler withdrew Germany from the League of Nation and announced a massive expansion of Germany’s armed forces that they were prohibited on the Treaty of Versailles, it began the regin of terror. Basically Hitler and the Nazi Party believed that the “Aryan race” (pale skin, blond hair and blue eyes) were superior and he condemned all “undesirable” people such as European Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Communists and disable people to extermination in the so called The Holocaust. He first started changing the laws of Germany such as the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 (Protection
06/19/13
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was not just a war that occurred these days. It was a war that every human being will remember as one of the greatest tragedy of the world. It made a huge impact on history especially for the Jews people. It was the effort of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany to exterminate the Jews and other people that they considered to be inferior such as homosexuals and disabled people. The murders were done by every means imaginable, but most of the victims died as a result of shooting, starvation, disease, poison gas, tortured to death and in horrible medical experiments. Born in Austria in April 1889, and being a child interested in fine arts, Adolf Hitler grow up wanting to be an artist. Latter on he drop out of school and moved to Vienna where he was expose to extreme German nationalists. Young Hitler applied to the Academy of Fine Arts twice but he got rejected both times. Later in his life he decided to apply to serve in the German army at the outbreak of World War One. He got accepted on august 1914 and this was the beginning of the rise of Hitler to power and his acceptance by Germany. After many battles, revolutions, and even prison, Hitler and the Nazi Party were declared the only legal political party in Germany and then head of state. At this point is when everything started to get out of control and when Hitler withdrew Germany from the League of Nation and announced a massive expansion of Germany’s armed forces that they were prohibited on the Treaty of Versailles, it began the regin of terror. Basically Hitler and the Nazi Party believed that the “Aryan race” (pale skin, blond hair and blue eyes) were superior and he condemned all “undesirable” people such as European Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Communists and disable people to extermination in the so called The Holocaust. He first started changing the laws of Germany such as the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 (Protection