“There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.”- Fidel Castro The Holocaust was one of the biggest historical events that took place in the 20th century. It was the time when innocent civilians were no longer in control of their own lives but by the hands of one man‚ Adolf Hitler. His "supremacist and racially motivated policies" were responsible for taking the lives of around six million Jews and about five million people who were deemed "undesirable". Starvation‚ disease‚ extermination camps
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Sabrina Liu Mrs. Osmonson English 2 8 May 2014 The Holocaust The Holocaust was one of the world’s darkest hours‚ a mass murder conducted in the shadows of the world’s most deadly war. The Holocaust also known as Shoah‚ means a systematic‚ bureaucratic‚ state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews during the WWII by German Nazi. Adolf Hitler the leader of Nazis‚ who afraid Jews would take power over Germans; also‚ many Germans felt they were mistreated by the lost so Jews
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The Holocaust was a form of genocide‚ which refers to the intentional‚ systematic extermination of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945. The Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Europe did not happen suddenly. It was the end of a long process of anti-Semitism and the belief in the pseudo-science of eugenics. The Nazis used propaganda and terror to enforce their anti-Semitic policies. By 1938‚ the lives of Jews living in Germany had become intolerable. A policy of annihilation
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I chose to write about the Holocaust and how people took stands and were found and killed afterwards… The Nazis were the perpetrators of the holocaust and were also Hitler’s followers. The Holocaust is also known as the Shoah. It was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews in the 1930s and 1940. Prior to 1938 the Nazis politically took civil rights away from Jewish people. They were not allowed to own businesses and they couldn’t hold
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The Holocaust was a period of time that will go down throughout history. It was a time period where many innocent people were getting tortured‚ abused‚ and even getting killed. All this was because of one man who thought to believe that the jews were the ones to blame for all the problems that was happening throughout the world. All the jews were sent to concentration camps‚ not many survived the harsh years. The two main camps that made a huge impact to many were the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Buchenwald
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1. Introduction 1.1 What was the Holocaust? The word Holocaust means the destruction or slaughter on a mass scale‚ especially caused by fire or nuclear war. This was an accurate use of the term because The Holocaust was a systematic destruction and extermination of Jews and other lesser people on a mass scale. Hitler’s Genocide only reached European countries before he was stopped‚ however if he had been allowed to continue on his war path he would have wiped out entire cultures with no remorse
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think that youd have to be crazy too think that another Holocaust in todays world is near impossible‚ but would it be that hard when there are still people in the world that think that hitler had the right ideas. Just in 2001 Osama Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11‚ all because he hates white people? Or vise versa for are part after what they did so are we suppose too hate muslims and kill them all well if you think about that’s how the Holocaust started was because hitler want too eliminate the jewish
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The Holocaust also known as Shoah’‚ was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II‚ a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany‚ led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party‚ throughout the German Reich and German-occupied territories. Of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust‚ approximately two-thirds were killed. Over one million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust‚ as were approximately two million Jewish
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Year 10 Humanities 2013 Unit 2: World War 2 Task 2 The Holocaust The Causes of the Holocaust The Process of the Holocaust In 1933‚ the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Germany would occupy during World War II. By 1945‚ the Germans killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the Final Solution‚ the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Although Jews‚ whom the Nazis deemed a priority danger to
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History Study Notes Topic - Holocaust The Holocaust! Topic 1: Term 1! ! ! ASSESSMENT 1: WEEK 5 (25 FEBRUARY)! Stage 1: Discrimination (1933-1939)! ! Period in which Nazis excluded Jews from all aspects of life via a range of social policies and legislative changes. In doing so they also dehumanised them and made them scapegoats of the Nazi regime.! ! ! - Hatred of Jews = anti-Semitism ! ! Key Features! ! Social Discrimination! - Gradual process of discrimination
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