The Horrific Holocaust :: World War II History

The outrageous Holocaust Nearly six million Jews were killed and murdered in what historians defecatec everyed The Holocaust. The word holocaust is a conflagration, a greatraging fire that consumes in its path all that lives. In the years between1933 and 1945, the Jews of Europe were pronounced for total annihilation.Moreoer, anti-Semitism was given legal sanction. It was directed by AdolfHitler and managed by Heinne Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann.There were many other great crimes and murders, such as the cleansing of theArmenians by the Turks, but the Holocaust stood out as the only overbearingand organized effort by a modern government to stamp out a whole race ofpeople. The Germans under Adolf Hitler believed that the Jews were thecause of all the German troubles and were a threat to the German andChristian values. Dating back to the commencement ceremony century A.D. the Jews and Christians werealways at state of war. The Jews were considered the murde rers of Christ and weretherefor denounced from society, rejected by the Conservatives and were notallowed to live in rural areas. As a result, the Jews began breathing in thecities and supported the liberals. This made the Germans see the Jews asthe symbol of all they feared. Following the defeat of the Germans in WW1, the Treaty Of Versaillesand the UN resolutions against Germany raised many military voices andformed extreme nationalism. Hitler took advantage of the situation and rose to power in 1933 on apromise to destroy the Treaty Of Versailles that stripped Germany transfer land.Hitler organized the Gestapo as the only executive branch and secret apprehensionorganization of the Nazi police system. In 1935, he made the Nuremberg Lawsthat debar Germans to marry Jews or commerce with them. Hitler thoughtthat the Jews were a nationless parasite and were nowadays related to theTreaty Of Versailles. When Hitler began his move to conquer Europe, hepromised that no mortal of Jewish background would survive. Before the start of the second world war, the Jews of Germany wereexcluded from existence life, forbidden to have sexual relations with non-Jews,boycotted, beaten but allowed to emigrate. When the war was officiallydeclared, emigration ended and the final solution to the Jewish problemcame. When Germany took over Poland, the Polish and German Jews were forcedinto overcrowded Ghettos and employed as slave labour. The Jewish propertywas seized. Disease and starvation filled the Ghettos. Finally, the Jewswere taken to concentration camps in Poland and Germany were they were