World War II was a time in which many people were discriminated against, hated, and ridiculed. Nazi Germany is infamous for the stories that came out of the brutality they displayed to the Jewish people. Japan is also very well known for their treatment of American Prisoners of War. Although both forces were, in fact, very savage in their ways, one can argue that the Japanese were ultimately more vicious toward the Allied Powers than the Nazis. The Nazis were very severe in the ways that they dealt with the Jewish people. For example, the Night of Broken Glass, also known as Kristallnacht, was a very influential example of Nazi hatred toward the Jewish people. Many Jewish families were ripped from their homes, with no explanation to what
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Hitler was directing his officers to throw the Jews into concentration camps, with no regard for age, strength, or health. Children under the age of ten and elderly people over the age of sixty were being forced to do laborious work, running their bodies into the ground, and ultimately making them even weaker with the lack of food a nutrition that was provided. It all started with Hitler’s “Final Solution”, in which he wanted to exterminate all of the Jews. It began “with Einsatzgruppen death squads in the East, which killed some 1,000,000 people in numerous massacres, and continued in concentration camps where prisoners were actively denied proper food and health care,” (Taylor 1). The concentration camps eventually turned into, or led to the building of extermination camps, in which their only purpose was to systematically murder prisoners in mass numbers. When the Allied troops found these extermination and concentration camps, they found hundreds of sick, hungry, weak people that were being forced to live among the dead bodies of friends, relatives, and neighbors. Many camps are famous for the stories that have come out of them, such as Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Treblinka, and Buchenwald. In these concentration camps, prisoners such as “The sick, the old and those who could not keep up with the work temp were “selected” and then killed with gas, injections or shot,” (Holocaust 1).
Hitler was directing his officers to throw the Jews into concentration camps, with no regard for age, strength, or health. Children under the age of ten and elderly people over the age of sixty were being forced to do laborious work, running their bodies into the ground, and ultimately making them even weaker with the lack of food a nutrition that was provided. It all started with Hitler’s “Final Solution”, in which he wanted to exterminate all of the Jews. It began “with Einsatzgruppen death squads in the East, which killed some 1,000,000 people in numerous massacres, and continued in concentration camps where prisoners were actively denied proper food and health care,” (Taylor 1). The concentration camps eventually turned into, or led to the building of extermination camps, in which their only purpose was to systematically murder prisoners in mass numbers. When the Allied troops found these extermination and concentration camps, they found hundreds of sick, hungry, weak people that were being forced to live among the dead bodies of friends, relatives, and neighbors. Many camps are famous for the stories that have come out of them, such as Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Treblinka, and Buchenwald. In these concentration camps, prisoners such as “The sick, the old and those who could not keep up with the work temp were “selected” and then killed with gas, injections or shot,” (Holocaust 1).