April 13, 2012
Holocaust Essay
Before the Holocaust, many German citizens blamed the Jewish for their country's problems. One of those citizens was Adolf Hitler, who was a little known political leader. In his opinion, he thought that the only thing to do to fix the country's problems was to rid of all the Jews. And when Paul von Hindenburg made Hitler chancellor of Germany, he used that power and opportunity to do just what he wanted.
April 1, 1933, the Nazis announced their first action against German Jews, a boycott of all Jewish-run businesses. Nazis then issued additional anti-Jews laws over the next several years. For example, some of these laws excluded Jews from places like parks, fired them from civil service jobs (i.e. government jobs), made Jews register their property, and prevented Jewish doctors from working on anyone other than Jewish patients. On November 9th, 1938, Hitler allowed Germany citizens to smash Jewish owned businesses, churches, residents, etc.
Adolf Hitler in Yugoslavia.
Auschwitz concentration camp, arrival of Hungarian...
English: Rows of bodies fill the yard of Lager Nor...This was known as the Kristallnacht, "Night of Broken Glass".
In the early years of the Nazi regime, the National Socialist government established concentration camps to detain real and imagined political and ideological opponents. The most famous concentration camp was Auschwitz. To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos -overcrowded areas the Jews were forced into, transit camps, and forced-labor camps for Jews during the war years. After World War II started in 1939, the Nazis began ordering Jews to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing so that Jews could be easily recognized and targeted. But Hitler thought these processes were taking too long.
So he speeded up the extermination of Jews by genocide -a systematic killing of...