Night Of Broken Finch Research Paper

When the Nazi party won a huge percentage of the electoral vote of 1932 in Germany, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg on January 30th of 1933. The Nazi party took advantage of the political unrest to rise up in the electoral vote. They created propaganda campaigns against political opponents, the weak Weimar government, and the Jews that were blamed for all of Germany’s problems. Once Hitler had become the chancellor of Germany, he and the Nazi party had soon turned into a dictatorship. By the end of 1934, Hitler had absolute power over Germany and was able to push his campaign against the Jews and with that, came the start of a period of time called The Holocaust. The Nazis would claim that the …show more content…
A 17-year-old Jewish boy by the name of Herschel Grynszpan shot Ernst vom Rath who was the third secretary in the German Embassy in Paris. The Nazi had used this assassination as the pretext for starting Kristallnacht, a night of destruction known as The Night of Broken Glass. When really, the German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis had carefully organized the event. During this night, the Nazis destroyed and looted Jewish businesses and homes. Over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and over 250 synagogues were burned. Many Jews were beaten and killed on that night. Around 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration …show more content…
Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, and Auschwitz being the biggest. Between the years of 1940 and 1945, over 1.3 million people were sent to Auschwitz and 1.1 million had been murdered there. By January 27th, 1945, the Soviet army entered Auschwitz along with two other concentration camps, saving around 7,000 prisoners, most being sick or near death. In 1933, the Jewish population was over nine million. By 1945, the Nazis and their collaborators killed nearly two out of three Jews in Europe. During the Holocaust, at least 200,000 mentally ill or physically disabled patients, around 200,000 Roma (Gypsies), and the six million Jews were all murdered because of the idea of being a strong and pure German. Near the final parts of the war, the Nazis gathered the concentrate prisoners in a parade named the Death March. They did this to attempt to keep the Allied forces from liberating them. As the Allied forces continued moving into Germany, they would set free the prisoners in the concentrations and the Death Marches. The Death Marches continued until May 7th, 1945 when Germany finally had surrendered.
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