The Holocaust
On the Saturday morning of April 20, 1889, one of the most vengeful dictators in all of history was born, his name was Adolf Hitler. Adolf was a German idealist that believed in the so-called “master race”, he believed that Aryan’s, blonde hair, blue eyes, were the pure breed and that they could dominate in anything (Altman 8). He viewed Jews as a threat to the master race, so he came up with a plan and called it the “Final Solution”. In this, he believed that if he killed or “exterminated” all the Jews across Europe he could potentially make Germany one of the largest, strongest, and most beautiful empires in the world (Gray 15). After gaining enough power, Hitler built ghettos and concentration camps across all of Europe (Introduction). He would later use these camps to murder an estimated 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews. This would at a later time in history be known as The Holocaust (Schuman 32). The Holocaust is a time in history when millions of people were persecuted in Europe by being …show more content…
His plan was simple, while Jews were in the ghettos he would use them for labor, then he would send them to a concentration camp where he would make them work a little while longer or until they were too weak to work. After he would gas them and rid of their bodies by either burying them or burning them in crematoriums (Concentration).
Hitler began ordering Jews to concentration camps in late June 1942. Nazi soldiers would round up the Jews and tell them that they were being emigrated due to the war. They asked them to pack their most valuable possessions and board onto little shabby cattle cars or trains. They would then be crammed by the hundreds without anything to eat or drink. Once they arrived at their camp, they were told to leave all of their belongings behind and would be separated from their families (Gray
On the Saturday morning of April 20, 1889, one of the most vengeful dictators in all of history was born, his name was Adolf Hitler. Adolf was a German idealist that believed in the so-called “master race”, he believed that Aryan’s, blonde hair, blue eyes, were the pure breed and that they could dominate in anything (Altman 8). He viewed Jews as a threat to the master race, so he came up with a plan and called it the “Final Solution”. In this, he believed that if he killed or “exterminated” all the Jews across Europe he could potentially make Germany one of the largest, strongest, and most beautiful empires in the world (Gray 15). After gaining enough power, Hitler built ghettos and concentration camps across all of Europe (Introduction). He would later use these camps to murder an estimated 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews. This would at a later time in history be known as The Holocaust (Schuman 32). The Holocaust is a time in history when millions of people were persecuted in Europe by being …show more content…
His plan was simple, while Jews were in the ghettos he would use them for labor, then he would send them to a concentration camp where he would make them work a little while longer or until they were too weak to work. After he would gas them and rid of their bodies by either burying them or burning them in crematoriums (Concentration).
Hitler began ordering Jews to concentration camps in late June 1942. Nazi soldiers would round up the Jews and tell them that they were being emigrated due to the war. They asked them to pack their most valuable possessions and board onto little shabby cattle cars or trains. They would then be crammed by the hundreds without anything to eat or drink. Once they arrived at their camp, they were told to leave all of their belongings behind and would be separated from their families (Gray