Holocaust Essay

The Holocaust One of the biggest genocides in history, the holocaust, is a symbol of human apathy. Millions of innocent citizens were the target of mass murders. World War II was a time when the world showed indifference. Not only did they ignore what was going on but they also helped the problem at hand by doing nothing. However, there were a few brave and courageous people. These people helped victims, saved thousands of lives, and risked everything for total strangers. We call them resisters…

For the theme Exploration, Encounter, Exchange in History my group chose the "Killing centers of the Holocaust." Our national history day process started with researching a few topics. Choosing our topic was a challenge. It had to be something that interested us both. We researched multiple topics until we found one we were really interested in, which ended up being the killing in the Holocaust. We changed our topic a lot of times to find what interested us the most. After doing a little…

During the twentieth century, one of the most well-known and devastating events occurred in history. From 1933 to 1945, a mass genocide on the Jewish people took place. This historical event was known as the Holocaust. A group called the Nazis had a belief that the German people were perfect and almighty. They considered the Jewish people to be inferior and required them to be exterminated. Jews were imprisoned in concentration camps and were slaughtered in the gas chambers. What started it al1…

The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million other people such as the disabled, communists, homosexuals and Soviet prisoners of war by the Germans leading up to and during WWII under the command of Nazi Party leader, Adolf Hitler. Historians have problems putting a date on the Holocaust due to the fact that there are three different views all backed with their own evidence and subjective interpretations to support them. The views are the intentionalist view, the…

The holocaust was a terrifying dramatic genocide that started on January 3, 1933 and ended on May 8, 1945.The holocaust was a mad genocide that caused approximately over 6 million deaths. And the person in charge of all the killing was Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Many people don’t know in details what occurred in the holocaust like the axis powers German, Italy, Japan and how they signed the Tripartite Pact on September 27, 1940. Also, how Nazis surrender on May 8, 1945, which is known as V-Day.…

Left Captive in Camps The Holocaust was both a time of extreme emotion and war. Many were persecuted and put into concentration camps, and some were even killed because of who they were. The concentration camps were a place of imprisonment for Nazi Germany’s enemies. To begin, the concentration camps were first established and built in 1933, shortly after Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor. “In the weeks after the Nazis came to power, The SA, the SS, the police, and local civilian authorities…

The counter-memorial refuses ‘to turn the memory of something so grave to exhibitions of public craftsmanship or cheap pathos.’ In Carinthia, however, the majority of Holocaust memorials remain shrines (‘traditional memorials’) and not counter-memorials. These ‘traditional memorials’ are rejected by artists of counter-memorials for sealing the memory off for contemporaries as they merely ‘console viewers, redeem tragic…

The Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC showcases the unfortunate events of WWII and the Holocaust. This statement is objective, meaning that the information is measurable, observable, and/or factual. The opposite of this is subjective, which means that the information is based on opinion or feeling, and that it isn’t true to everyone. Usually, with non-fiction articles or texts, you will only have one of the two types of text: objective or subjective, sometimes with a little bit of the other.…

The Holocaust and Skewed Minds The Holocaust and the events that occurred in Nazi Germany are very popular topics of discussion. Today’s society views the actions that occurred during this time to be inhumane and horrific events that should never be repeated or replicated. Therefore, certain aspects of the events are often “played-up,” or exaggerated, while others are ignored resulting in skewed and sometimes naive people. However, the acts of “deadly medicine” that occurred during the Holocaust…

1.We are the scapegoats in the eyes of the Nazis. Hitler said we were to blame for all Germany's problems such as losing WWI so given the saying “backstabbers. He also said we are the most inferior race therefore must be eliminated. We are considered to be rats. Our rise in business, science, and other fields made anti-Semites anxious. They thought our success was the cause of a conspiracy of alien, non-Christian people. Such beliefs led to many in Nazi-occupied Europe to belief this therefore…