Introduction to the Holocaust
The Holocaust was a time period of the torture and murder of about 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and it was legalised by the Final Solution, signed by Hitler’s second in command Hermann Goring. The word Holocaust is a Greek term meaning “sacrifice by fire”. When the Nazis came to power in Germany in January 1933, they believed that the Germans were racially superior over the world and they believed that the Jews were less than them. They were considered a threat to Germany and were stripped of their rights. The Nazi’s also targeted the Gypsies, some of the Slavic people who were the Russians, the Polish and some others, the Communists, Socialists, the denomination of Christianity and homosexuals.
In 1933, there were over 9 million Jews in Europe, most of the countries in Europe which Jews lived in were occupied by the Nazi’s in World War 2. By 1945, the Nazi’s and their allies had killed about two out of three Jews in Europe as part of the Final Solution. The Final Solution was the plan of the Nazis to exterminate all Jews in Europe which created genocide and mass destruction. Other victims of the war were 200,000 gypsies, about 200,000 mentally or physically disabled peoples, who were mainly Jews and they were murdered in the Euthanasia Program, a peaceful death by starvation or overdose of medication. Two to three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, diseases or maltreatment. The Germans deported many millions of Polish and Soviet civilians for forced labor in Germany or in German occupied areas of Poland, in harsh conditions causing death. They also persecuted anyone who broke the social laws such as homosexuals.
In 1933, there were over 9 million Jews in Europe, most of the countries in Europe which Jews lived in were occupied by the Nazi’s in World War 2. By 1945, the Nazi’s and their allies had killed about two out of three Jews in Europe as part of the Final Solution. The Final Solution was the plan of the Nazis to exterminate all Jews in Europe which created genocide and mass destruction. Other victims of the war were 200,000 gypsies, about 200,000 mentally or physically disabled peoples, who were mainly Jews and they were murdered in the Euthanasia Program, a peaceful death by starvation or overdose of medication. Two to three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, diseases or maltreatment. The Germans deported many millions of Polish and Soviet civilians for forced labor in Germany or in German occupied areas of Poland, in harsh conditions causing death. They also persecuted anyone who broke the social laws such as homosexuals.
The Final Solution
In the starting years of the Nazi regime, the National Socialist government created concentration camps to hold political opponents and all the threats to the Germans. The SS and the police officers imprisoned Jews, Gypsies and other racial hatred to Germans. Ghettos, forced labor camps and transit camps were created to monitor the Jews and to keep them in one place to be deported into camps later. After the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) who went past the German occupied areas to carry out murder operations to the Jews, Gypsies and other racially hatred to the Germans and all Jews from German occupied areas and their Axis allies were deported in a total of millions. The paper was signed in January 1942. It was addressed in the Wannsee Conference.
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