Cause And Effects Of The Holocaust

Most people know very little about the most infamous case of genocide in the world, the Holocaust. Altogether, the Holocaust was the mass murder of over six million Jews and other persecuted groups under the German Nazi direction in the 1940’s. Jews were led into camps where they died in horrific, inhuman ways. Between the number of people killed, methodology of the killing, and the premeditated destruction that was allowed by the entire world, the Holocaust is one of the most important genocides in the history of the globe. After World War I, the Germans were made to pay heavily for the war. The government that was left could not support the poor economy. A German soldier and anti-semitist, Adolf Hitler, tried to overthrow the government in 1923, but failed and was imprisoned. However, his …show more content…
Himmler was Hitler’s appointed military commander. He personally orchestrated several of the camps, and is responsible for many of the deaths in the Holocaust.The worst of the experiments were at Dachau, Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Natzweiler, Ravensbruck, and Sachsenhausen. Some were intended to help the German war effort. They tested how high someone could parachute out of a plane without dying from the effects of altitude, how much of someone’s body could burn without them dying, and how much oxygen you need before you drown. Other experiments were designed to find a cure for typhus, malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis. To test the treatments, they were forced to be exposed to the diseases. Some were also exposed to mustard gas to test its potency. The most cruel and inhuman experiments were designed to prove that Jews were an inferior race. Prisoners that were doctors before the war were forced to perform the experiments on their fellow prisoners. Some tests were on genetics, and others involved taking the limbs off of the prisoners. Himmler’s biggest experimental interest was in