Do you know what was one the worst events in American History that resulted in so many casualties? Did you guess the Great War of 1812, World War 1, World War 2? Were one your guesses 9/11? If any of these were your answers you would be dead wrong. In fact, these guesses pale in comparison in the amount of is more than these guesses combined times 5. Are you ready to find out what the answer is? Ok, drum roll please. The highest casualty that occurred in our american history is the Holocaust. What is the Holocaust you ask? Well, the Holocaust, the systematic massacre of millions of Jews, was one the largest genocides in history was made possible by anti-Semitism, straight-out fear, and other countries that didn 't want to be politically involved.
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This is understandable because Hitler was a dictator and wanted rule germany as a dictatorship and saw Jews as a group of people held the country back and a liability that hindered its success. In the fictional novel,” the true story of Hansel and gretel” is about a 10-year-old girl and her 7 year-old brother, named "Hansel" and "Gretel" by their father and stepmother to disguise their Jewish heritage, are encouraged to run and hide in the ancient, primeval forests of Eastern Poland to escape capture by the Nazis. In the book, it says , “the soldiers scare me and there yelling makes me want to cry”.Here in this quote Gretel can be a great representation of how Jews viewed the holocaust. This also cements my point about anti-semitism because in turn the nazi’s hatred for Jews led to jews fearing the Nazis and Hitler. They chased down Jews and their families and kill them just how they did Hansel and Gretel. In fact, their names were changed to Hansel and Gretel to disguise their Jewish heritage. This shows how much fear is placed in the hearts of Jewish people as the fight for their lives just for being
This is understandable because Hitler was a dictator and wanted rule germany as a dictatorship and saw Jews as a group of people held the country back and a liability that hindered its success. In the fictional novel,” the true story of Hansel and gretel” is about a 10-year-old girl and her 7 year-old brother, named "Hansel" and "Gretel" by their father and stepmother to disguise their Jewish heritage, are encouraged to run and hide in the ancient, primeval forests of Eastern Poland to escape capture by the Nazis. In the book, it says , “the soldiers scare me and there yelling makes me want to cry”.Here in this quote Gretel can be a great representation of how Jews viewed the holocaust. This also cements my point about anti-semitism because in turn the nazi’s hatred for Jews led to jews fearing the Nazis and Hitler. They chased down Jews and their families and kill them just how they did Hansel and Gretel. In fact, their names were changed to Hansel and Gretel to disguise their Jewish heritage. This shows how much fear is placed in the hearts of Jewish people as the fight for their lives just for being