Reinhard Heydrich

The Holocaust The Holocaust was the mass murdering of Jews, politicians, prisoners of war, and social minorities by Adolf Hitler’s idea called the “Final Solution”, which was the idea of the Jew’s extinction (The Holocaust). The Holocaust mainly took place in Middle Europe,because the majority of Concentration and Death camps were in Poland and Germany (Blohm 6).The people that were involved in the Holocaust were mainly Jews and the Nazis, but there were others who played roles such as the…

after the rise of Hitler and his Nazi party, the numbers of members of the SS were 200,000. Over ruling the SA which had no command over SS units. The SS were altered into a professional and disciplinary parliamentary force. Later on, both Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Muller were introduced and given significant responsibilities in the SS. 7. Pre-war Himmler introduced a 5-year enrolment procedure and signed up men of the Aryan race and tested on their stand on moral, racial and physical…

“The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.”(ushmm.org). The Holocausts was the world’s most inhumane massacre of Jews by the German Nazis. Adolf Hitler, who firmly believed that Germans were “racially superior”, was supreme power of Europe, due to his proclamation of himself as the Fuhrer. He was a very anti-Semitic man: always plotting atrocious schemes of eradicating the Jews. He…

Why did the Holocaust Occur? What factors led to the Holocaust? Ryan Le ELA/ History 8 Mr. Zussman/ Mrs. O’Connor 3/2/15 - 4/17/15 The Holocaust was an organized, systematic genocide of those Hitler and the Nazi Party considered “inferior." They included Jews, Roma, the disabled, homosexuals, Slavic peoples, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and political rivals of the Nazi’s. There were many events that led to the Holocaust. From 1914 to 1918, World War I raged throughout Europe.…

The tragedy known as the Holocaust was the systematic murder of 6 million Jews (Strahinich 7). However, not only Jews were ruthlessly murdered by the Nationalist Socialist German Workers’ Party, or the Nazi Party. Approximately 5 million gypsies, handicapped people, Soviets, homosexuals, Slavs, and anyone deemed sub-human by the Nazi regime also perished in the Holocaust (Strahinich 8). The Holocaust took place mainly in Germany and its annexed countries like Poland, but it was present in…

anything, because they were ordered by Nazi officials to do nothing about the riots unless they were going to harm Aryan-owned property, then they could put it out. At 1:20 a.m., a couple of hours into the riots, the head of the Security Police, Reinhard Heydrich, sent a telegram to SA leaders, Hitler’s military, giving them directives regarding the riots of Kristallnacht. SA and Hitler Youth units helped…

Israeli laws could put a man to death if they were to impose it. The death sentence was imposed on Eichmann. He was hanged on May 31st, 1962 (Eichmann Trial). Reinhard Heydrich was known as the Hangman because he organized the murder of all the Jewish people of Europe (In Their Own Words; The Holocaust: A Primary Source History, page 58). Heydrich was one of the most powerful men in Germany, under Hitler and Himmler. As the Hangman, he can be compared to Roger from the book, Lord of the Flies;…

After the downfall of the First World War, Germany was hit hard by the economic depression which caused millions of people to be out of work and lacked confidence because of this defeat. Due to these conditions, it allowed for Adolf Hitler to rise and make himself be heard as he was a powerful and spellbinding speaker who promised Germany a better life. Hitler was then appointed chancellor in 1933, guided by racist and authoritarian ideas he removed the basic rights for Germany and sought to…

genocide – the intentional killing of a large group of people who belong to a particular national, racial, cultural, or political group 1. Why was Heinrich Himmler a key to the implementation of Hitler’s New Order? Heinrich Himmler was the leader of the SS and a fervent supporter of the Nazi racial ideology in which he would obediently carry out Hitler’s New Order. In Hitler’s New Order, Hitler strongly believed that that only the Germans were capable of organizing Europe. Therefore, as Germany…

For this reason, The Nazi Empire and Germany's victories in Europe, Nazi Empire created glowing images of a new European order based on “equal chances” for all nations and an integrated economic community. This was not Adolf Hitler conception of a European new order. Adolf Hitler saw that that Europe had conquered back Germany with full power and dominating everything. Only the Germans, he once said, “can really organize Europe.” The Nazi Empire stretched across continental Europe from the…