Why Did The Holocaust Exist

From 1941 to 1945, approximately six million jews died by being put into crematoriums, gas chambers, and by getting shot just for the reason they were contrasting individuals. There are victims’ stories, buried bodies that were found, and trials that proved the Holocaust existed. Many believe the Holocaust did not exist, and they think it was just a hoax, but when there is enough evidence, they can be proven wrong. The Holocaust was one of the most important events in history that affected everyone emotionally and physically, and for that reason, it existed. In many instances, there have been many mass graves discovered and evidence of Nazis trying to hide the fact they murdered a large quantity of people. With people discovering the burial mounds containing Jewish individuals, it proves how many innocent people got killed during the Holocaust. For instance, at the Nazi death camp, there was a british archaeologist that discovered mass graves (Lee Cain). “During this time, approximately 850,000 men, women, and children were killed in Treblinka. This figure includes more than 800,000 Jews, as well as a few thousand Romani people” (Lee Cain). It really puts things in …show more content…
The judges were from the Allied powers and they oversaw twenty-two of the major criminals (Nuremberg). Over half of the Nazis were sentenced to death while most of the defendants actually admitted to the crimes they were accused of (Nuremberg). Some of the criminals said they were just following orders of a higher authority, but yet, they seemed not to even blink an eye when tormenting and killing the victims. It just seemed that when the criminals admitted to their crimes that that was the key in figuring out the Holocaust did occur. During the trials, eyewitnesses had reports of Nazi atrocities in Poland and brought them to the Allied governments