The Holocaust Anti-Semitism in Europe did not begin with Adolf Hitler. Though use of the term itself dates only to the 1870s‚ there is evidence of hostility toward Jews long before the Holocaust--even as far back as the ancient world‚ when Roman authorities destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and forced Jews to leave Palestine. The Enlightment‚ during the 17th and 18th centuries‚ emphasized religious toleration‚ and in the 19th century Napoleon and other European
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The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of the Jews of Europe along with other groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators[1]. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program‚ progressing to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by the Nazis. The Jews of
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How Would the World be Different in Adolf Hitler Never Existed? Imagine a world in which the Jewish population was much more prevalent. During the late 1930’s there were around 15 million Jews worldwide. However‚ by 1945 there were only 11 million Jews worldwide (Weinberg xii). How had there been such a drastic decrease in the Jewish population? The answer is one man: Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1934-1945. During this time‚ Hitler
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Jewish Life During the Holocaust Solomon Radasky is one of the few Jews that made it through the holocaust alive. The following is one of his stories told in his own words. 1944 when they give up the lodz ghetto... they give up... they was some in them a people lot of people coming to Auschwitz from Lodz. A lot of people got killed in Lodz. In the ghetto got the children. The Germans hold the people with the children‚ hold the and the children was grown up a little‚ and 4 years is not
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The Treaty of Versailles The Treaty of Versailles was the peace treaty that officially ended World War I between the Allied and Germany. The Allies created a League of Nations and armed with concept of a 14 point treaty that would stop war forever. The treaty was forced on Germany‚ in doing so they had to accept sole responsibility for starting the war. And that they had to pay for all the damages‚ decrease their military and surrender territory. With Germany unable to pay for the war and the
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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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Adolf Hitler as a Terrorist Name Institution Adolf Hitler as a Terrorist Adolf Hitler‚ the famous Germany dictator and leader of National Socialist German Workers Party‚ commonly referred to as the Nazi Party‚ lived between April 20‚ 1889 and April 30‚ 1945; almost exactly fifty-six years. For the first thirty years of his life‚ he was an obscure failure; becoming a local celebrity almost overnight before becoming a man around whom the whole world policy revolved when he became Germany’s
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’" ( "Concentration Camp" 498). Among those deported were Jews‚ Poles‚ Gypsies‚ Soviet POWs‚ socialists‚ Communists‚ homosexuals‚ priests‚ ministers‚ and many more. They were deported to Vernichtungslager‚ or death camps‚ such as Belzec‚ Chelmno‚ Majdanek‚ Sobidor‚ Treblinka‚ and the most infamous‚ Auschwitz (Kornblum). Suffering didn ’t start for the prisoners with their arrival at the camps. Deportees endured many hardships on the trips to the camps‚ and some weren ’t strong
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The Weimar Republic -- Doomed to Fail The Weimar Republic (1919-1933) was born in the aftermath of the defeat of Germany in World War I. Not only was this a fall from grace‚ it was a resounding crash that shattered Germany’s belief that they were the superior undefeatable race. Following the destruction of the old totalitarian German Empire‚ a new democratic republic was put into place. The question was‚ could Germany‚ splintered into groups of socialists‚ communists and the extreme right‚ unify
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The Holocaust was an event in history that people would like to pretend never happened however in reality it will never be forgotten. Hitler came into power in 1933 and wanted to create the “master race”‚ meaning the Aryan race (Ushmm‚ 2013). The Jews‚ along with other groups such as the gypsies‚ were not included in this superior race. He thought of them as inferior and knew he had to expel them from the world. The word “Holocaust” means a “burnt sacrifice offered solely to God” (Niewyk‚ 2011)
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