Why Did The Holocaust Happen

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The Holocaust will always be remembered as one of the biggest loss of life ever in history. People still to this day actually believe that the holocaust didn't happen. This essay is here to explain and view both sides and give you reliable information on how the holocaust did happen. Also how denying it is huge dishonor to those who were there and had their lives and families lives stripped from them so violently.

During the holocaust mass executions occurred and people were gassed and then burned but many more different forms were used, like mass shootings, starvation, and horrible torturous experiments. After people arrived at the camps, the people were rounded up like cattle and were sent into the left to die and the right to live, they had no rights, they killed innocent women and children and infants. Who could say that this didn't happen when the photos and documents, and the confessions from the men who did it themselves are in plain sight? This is real and not much research has to be done to actually see what horrors occurred in camps like Auschwitz, or Treblinka.
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The photos of the dead, thin, bodies stacked up where in fact Jews who were in concentration camps the disease went through the camp like a wildfire. There was no way of keeping clean and the typhus disease is spread through ticks, fleas, and mites which prisoners had so the disease had no problem wiping out many people. This was good for the nazies because this was less work for them to kill

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