A Thousand Words: A Holocaust Analysis

If you look at the picture I was given you won’t see much. At first glance you will only see skeleton like bodies being thrown into the bed of a military truck. Yet if you continue to look you may be able to see more. You may be able to see the pain these people endured before meeting the relief of death. You may also see those are still alive. Are they jealous? Would they much rather be dead then continue to suffer the daily anguish of being Jewish decent during one of the darkest times of the century? In all honesty the answer would probably be yes. And last, you would see the soldiers throwing the lifeless bodies into the rear of the truck. You would begin to ponder their emotions. Did the feel remorse for the devilish acts that they are in the middle of? Or did they act as …show more content…
These are things one cannot see by only looking at a picture. A picture does say a thousand words, the only thing to question is are you cable of seeing the thousand words it possess?
The Holocaust began in nineteen thirty three. The act to imprison the Jewish race was the idea of becoming leader Adolf Hitler. It was his idea of forming the perfect race, the Arian race. This would contain people of German decent with specific attributions. To do this he quickly flooded the streets with propaganda of how the Jewish race was to blame for the problems occurring in the world, it gained support very quickly. With this at his hands he organized work camps. The Jews were gathered daily, being told pack one suitcase worth of clothing and other belongings to take with