Learned About The Holocaust: Jehovah Witnesses, Gypsies, Jews

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There are many things that I learned about the Holocaust that I didn’t know before. I learned things like only thirty-seven percent of the population actually voted for Hitler. I also learned that Hitler was not elected, he was appointed. Before this unit, I didn’t know that not only Jews were taken to camps. I learned that Jehovah Witnesses, Gypsies, homosexuals, and people with disabilities were also targeted by Hitler. I believe that the people who had to go to camps should not have had to go through it. Being torn away from family and not knowing if you’ll ever see them again would have been terrifying, and if you did lose a family member without being able to say goodbye would almost be worse, in my opinion. Also I didn’t know that Hitler

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