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Thursday, December 5, 2013

The Holocaust


    
        The Holocaust was an extremely tragic period lead by Nazis that lasted almost 6 and a half years! During this time nearly eleven  million  people were killed (six million of them being Jewish), that is like wiping out the whole population of Cuba! After the Holocaust there were only about 3,000,000 Jewish people left . The Jews were captured by Nationalsozialistishe Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Nazis) and put into concentration camps. In the camps the Jews were forced into labor. Mass murder happened in these camps. People in concentration camps died from hunger, dehydration, being whipped, and being killed with harmful gases. In addition to Jews, the Nazis targeted Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the disabled for persecution. Anyone who resisted the Nazis was sent to forced labor or murdered. These acts were lead by German dictator Adolf Hitler.




Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary. Hitler was raised in a Catholic household. Throughout his youth, Hitler dreamed of becoming an artist. He applied twice to the Vienna Academy of Art (once in 1907 and again in 1908) but was denied entrance both times. He also wanted to be a priest. During World War One ,Hitler was a resident of Munich and volunteered to serve in the Bavarian Army as an Austrian citizen. Hitler later  became the dictator of Germany in  August 1934. He lead the Nazis in the Holocaust. Even though he lead these soldiers in the war to kill the Jews, he'd never even been to one of the concentration camps. It's extremely strange that Hitler could kill Jewish people but he was all against smoking and eating meat. In 1945 Hitler shot himself one time in the head because he knew he was going to be taken alive by soldiers from Berlin. In 1939 Hitler was nominated for a noble peace prize, why do you think he was nominated for this honorary award?`



The Holocaust ended at the end of WWII. The Nazi were defeated due to being defeated in war. They were defeated by Russia and the U.S who were called the allies. The Holocaust ended in certain places when the allies let go of the prisoners in the camps in 1944-1945 But, before this act came, Germans killed as many Jews as the could 






  




2 comments:

  1. I read a book from the Holocaust; It is very sad so many people die and suffer. I hope nothing like that ever happens again! Do you think it was right too kill the children that would've die anyways in the camps from undernourishment and beatings.

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  2. The fact that all this happened is very sad. That Hitler guy should not have been born for all the bad stuff he did! Sure, in his youth years he was innocent, but when he started killing other defenseless people, yeah, he should not be alive at that time. So, I’m kinda glad he shot himself. The people who nominated him for the noble prize, are stupid.

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