Megan Engelman
Dr. D’Ann Campbell
First Year Experience 100 B
8 November 2015
Paper #3 The Holocaust When you think about the Holocaust you think of Adolf Hitler, the Jewish, and millions of deaths. Now I am going to tell you about the rest. The definition of Holocaust is “destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.” According to Adolf Hitler the Jews were an inferior race that threatened the German racial purity. However, the Holocaust was not the beginning of racial discrimination for the Jews. Anti-Semitism dates back all the way to the ancient world when the Romans destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and forced the Jewish to leave Palestine (The Holocaust). Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in 1889. He served in the German army during World War I and like many other Germans he blamed the Jews for losing the war in 1918. After the war ended Hitler joined the National German Worker’s Party, which was later called the National Socialist German Worker’s Party or the Nazis. In 1924 Hitler was imprisoned for treason where he wrote a memoir and propaganda tract where he predicted a war that would result in “the extermination of the Jewish race in Germany.” After Hitler was released from prison he took advantage of the weakness of …show more content…
The main task for these killing squads was to kill all Jewish men, women, and children in the places that were being conquered. By December over 500,000 Jews were killed. The Nazis’ found that way of killing “insufficient and inefficient.” On January 20th, 1942 15 Nazi officials met to discuss the “Final solution of the Jewish Question.” The “Final Solution” was a code name for the murder of all the Jews in Europe. The reason for the meeting was to decide the best way to commit mass murder in the most organized and methodical way possible (What was the final
Dr. D’Ann Campbell
First Year Experience 100 B
8 November 2015
Paper #3 The Holocaust When you think about the Holocaust you think of Adolf Hitler, the Jewish, and millions of deaths. Now I am going to tell you about the rest. The definition of Holocaust is “destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.” According to Adolf Hitler the Jews were an inferior race that threatened the German racial purity. However, the Holocaust was not the beginning of racial discrimination for the Jews. Anti-Semitism dates back all the way to the ancient world when the Romans destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and forced the Jewish to leave Palestine (The Holocaust). Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in 1889. He served in the German army during World War I and like many other Germans he blamed the Jews for losing the war in 1918. After the war ended Hitler joined the National German Worker’s Party, which was later called the National Socialist German Worker’s Party or the Nazis. In 1924 Hitler was imprisoned for treason where he wrote a memoir and propaganda tract where he predicted a war that would result in “the extermination of the Jewish race in Germany.” After Hitler was released from prison he took advantage of the weakness of …show more content…
The main task for these killing squads was to kill all Jewish men, women, and children in the places that were being conquered. By December over 500,000 Jews were killed. The Nazis’ found that way of killing “insufficient and inefficient.” On January 20th, 1942 15 Nazi officials met to discuss the “Final solution of the Jewish Question.” The “Final Solution” was a code name for the murder of all the Jews in Europe. The reason for the meeting was to decide the best way to commit mass murder in the most organized and methodical way possible (What was the final