The holocaust was a gruesome and terrible experience for millions. It started in 1933 when the German Nazis invaded other European countries to gain control of as much land as possible. While they expanded territory they tried to make a single superior race, which of course would be blond-haired, blue-eyed Germans, or Aryans as Hitler called them. Their leader, Hitler, was himself a Jew which was incredible because he was murdering millions of Jews.
The persecution of Jews was fuelled by many different reasons. First off, Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany believed that Jewish people were lower than everyone else, and that they were a direct threat to the German people. Also, the persecution of Jews helped Nazi Germany fund their war. Germany was in an economic depression, and needed more money. One reason why the Jews were picked was because after World War 1, the Germans needed someone to blame for their loss. Because of this, the Germans were able to take out all their anger on the Jews.
One reason why Jews were blamed and persecuted was because Adolf Hitler believed that Germans were inherently superior human beings, and that the inherently inferior Jews threatened them to their very existence. They believed that the threat was so great that the only option was to exterminate them as though they were vermin. About six million Jews were killed in the genocide. Jews were considered the scapegoats to Germany. Germany didn’t want to take all the blame from the first war, and needed someone to blame it on.
The effects of the holocaust were horrific it left thousands dead and changed Judaism forever. Some people say that it was a war every day they got up and they struggled to stay alive. This is just how it was if you weren’t killed as soon as you got to the camp they would work you to death. This affected not only thousands of Jewish family’s but countries as a whole. Germany would have to live with this reputation forever. After the war was over the Jews were freed but this wasn’t the end of the fighting for them. They protested for many years, the lucky families that made it through the camps had no idea where their loved ones went. The Nazis hardly kept records at all just a simple tattoo on your arm. Before the war Jews were outcasts and no one wanted to be associated with them. After the war the Jews were furious with their government a large amount of them moved. The long lasting effect on this is that the Jews were falling asleep every night wondering what happened to their mom or dad, or brother and sister but they would never find out.
Hitler the leader of the Nazis was killing not only Jews but Christians and other religions as well. He built concentration camps and started to starve and gas all that got in his way of his single race. Hitler’s actions were inexcusable and when the Americans started to take back control Hitler committed suicide. When Americans got to the concentration camps they could not believe what they have seen. The holocaust was truly a terrible thing that happened.
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