How Did Hitler Start The Holocaust

Peter Farag 10A
Mr. Laidlaw
The holocaust.

Adolf Hitler couldn’t help but just keep killing people when he took power in Germany during the year 1933. The Nazis (Hitler’s army) killed millions of Jews and Gypsies basically because they thought that they were smarter than the Germans. The mass killing of Jews occurred in late 1938 and ended in 1945 during World War 2. Many concentration camps were constructed by Hitler and his men to hold people who he called his enemy. People who were sent to camps were treated poorly and were enslaved.

There is no real answer to why Hitler started the holocaust. Millions of Jews and minorities were killed during the holocaust for no reason. The Nazis killed and tortured approximately six million Jews
People were taken from their homes and either killed or taken to ghettos. Many other people were taken to concentration camps to work or be killed. Hitler was killing these people becasuse he thought they were evil, “the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew”2. There were also other types of camps including extermination camps, labor camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and transit camps. Only tough Jews would live and survive to tell their story, but not many did. One of the first concentration camps was Dachau, which opened on March 20, 1933. The camps were horrible, when on the premises the prisoners had to do hard labor, were starved and even beaten. The prisoner slept in bunches in wooden cabins without mattresses or pillows. Hitler used his prisoners for human experiments against their will, and if they died, he couldn’t care less. At the beginning of the war the Nazis were killing the Jews with weapons but when the concentration camps were built they were killed or tortured with gas chambers. A random prisoner left this behind, "Everybody got a piece of metal sheet with a number imprinted on it... we had to take good care of it, for in case it got lost, one was to be flogged twenty-five strokes... our shoes taken away and wooden clogs given instead... they detailed me to work with coal, which was one of the heaviest jobs...I tried to protest... in return, I suffered several blows in the head with a horsewhip... We stripped off the clothes and went over to get a haircut and shave...there were large tubs with water in them...who knows how many there might have been before me and how many more there going to be after". They were sent to “take a shower”, stripped down and went into a pitch-black room where gasses that kill you were released. After the gas chambers