The word holocaust comes from the Greek language and means to sacrifice by fire, this is the fate that some of the holocaust victims suffered. The Holocaust or Final Solution was the inhumane killing of over 6,000,000 Jews and 5,000,000 minorities between January 30, 1933-May 8, 1945. The Holocaust took place in Germany and Eastern Europe during World War II. The anti-semitism had been going on in Europe way before the Holocaust was even thought of , the hate for Jews comes from the ideas of Christians and their religion. The Nazis viewed the Jews as an alien species that were a threat to the German racial community.
The Holocaust took place in a time when Adolf Hitler was the Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi’s came to power. Hitler believed Germans were the most perfect race on earth and they were superior to all the other races. The Nazis would boycott Jewish businesses and send the message to only do business with German businesses. The Nazis issued an official order defining a non-Aryan as anyone with Jewish heritage in 1933. After that the Nazis started to take away more and more of the Jews rights like taking away their citizenship, not allowing them to own land, serve in the military, and taking away any job …show more content…
The Nazis used the ghettos to separate the Jews from the rest of the population. The ghettos were usually closed off by walls, barbed-wire fences, or gates. The ghettos were designed to be temporary; some only lasted a few days or weeks, although some
would last for a couple years. The ghettos were very crowded and unsanitary, many of the Jews that were in the ghettos died from disease or starvation some of them would get shot or deported to concentration camps. When the final solution plan was put into place the Nazi’s would come through the ghettos and shoot them up to get rid of the Jewish
The Holocaust took place in a time when Adolf Hitler was the Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi’s came to power. Hitler believed Germans were the most perfect race on earth and they were superior to all the other races. The Nazis would boycott Jewish businesses and send the message to only do business with German businesses. The Nazis issued an official order defining a non-Aryan as anyone with Jewish heritage in 1933. After that the Nazis started to take away more and more of the Jews rights like taking away their citizenship, not allowing them to own land, serve in the military, and taking away any job …show more content…
The Nazis used the ghettos to separate the Jews from the rest of the population. The ghettos were usually closed off by walls, barbed-wire fences, or gates. The ghettos were designed to be temporary; some only lasted a few days or weeks, although some
would last for a couple years. The ghettos were very crowded and unsanitary, many of the Jews that were in the ghettos died from disease or starvation some of them would get shot or deported to concentration camps. When the final solution plan was put into place the Nazi’s would come through the ghettos and shoot them up to get rid of the Jewish