Events that Prove the Validity of the Holocaust Throughout the 1940s, Nazi Germany was capturing the Jewish population from all over Eastern Europe. Concentration camps were a major cause of death during the Holocaust. This topic is important for the general public to be educated about because it will help promote worldwide education. Without the world knowing the consequences of dehumanization and genocide, history will only repeat itself. Holocaust revisionists believe that the Holocaust did not occur due to their lack of education on the topic. The Holocaust is proven to have occurred because of the evidence left from the concentration and death camps, the “Genocide Convention” and the Final Solution, as well as human documentation during
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The National Holocaust Memorial Museum explains that soon after Hitler came to power in January of 1933, camps were being set up all over Germany (2015). During this time, people were put in these camps for detention, most likely due to them challenging the Nazi police. The SS (Schutzstaffel; the elite guards of the Nazi party) gained their independence from the SA storm troopers in July of 1934 (The National Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2015). After 1938 authority was given to the Gestapo, or secret police, to start incarcerating persons into the concentration camps. An individual was put into one of two types of detentions while at the camps. There was the “protective detention” and the “preventative detention”. The Gestapo would authorize a “protective detention” if the person was considered a political danger after 1933. They could give out a “preventative detention” if the person was considered a habitual or professional criminal (The National Holocaust …show more content…
Unlike concentration camps, which served primarily as detention and labor centers, killing centers (also referred to as "extermination camps" or "death camps") were almost exclusively "death factories." German SS and police murdered nearly 2,700,000 Jews in the killing centers either by asphyxiation with poison gas or by shooting. (2015)
As well as concentration camps, death camps were also used during the Holocaust. In 1941, Chelmno, the first killing center in Warthegau, Poland, was established. The main targeted group there was the Jews, but gypsies were also gassed. By 1942, Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka were also established. These three camps were called the Operation Reinhard camps and were set up to terminate the Jewish population in Poland. At these camps, the SS terminated about 1,526,500 Jews from March 1942 to November 1943 (The National Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2015).
In addition to the concentration and death camps, the Holocaust can be proven through the efforts of the Final Solution and the “Genocide Convention”. This convention was an international treaty that defined the exact definition of the word “genocide”. According to Seymour Rossel (1981), the word genocide was defined as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group” at the “Genocide Convention” (p.
The National Holocaust Memorial Museum explains that soon after Hitler came to power in January of 1933, camps were being set up all over Germany (2015). During this time, people were put in these camps for detention, most likely due to them challenging the Nazi police. The SS (Schutzstaffel; the elite guards of the Nazi party) gained their independence from the SA storm troopers in July of 1934 (The National Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2015). After 1938 authority was given to the Gestapo, or secret police, to start incarcerating persons into the concentration camps. An individual was put into one of two types of detentions while at the camps. There was the “protective detention” and the “preventative detention”. The Gestapo would authorize a “protective detention” if the person was considered a political danger after 1933. They could give out a “preventative detention” if the person was considered a habitual or professional criminal (The National Holocaust …show more content…
Unlike concentration camps, which served primarily as detention and labor centers, killing centers (also referred to as "extermination camps" or "death camps") were almost exclusively "death factories." German SS and police murdered nearly 2,700,000 Jews in the killing centers either by asphyxiation with poison gas or by shooting. (2015)
As well as concentration camps, death camps were also used during the Holocaust. In 1941, Chelmno, the first killing center in Warthegau, Poland, was established. The main targeted group there was the Jews, but gypsies were also gassed. By 1942, Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka were also established. These three camps were called the Operation Reinhard camps and were set up to terminate the Jewish population in Poland. At these camps, the SS terminated about 1,526,500 Jews from March 1942 to November 1943 (The National Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2015).
In addition to the concentration and death camps, the Holocaust can be proven through the efforts of the Final Solution and the “Genocide Convention”. This convention was an international treaty that defined the exact definition of the word “genocide”. According to Seymour Rossel (1981), the word genocide was defined as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group” at the “Genocide Convention” (p.