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The Jewish Holocaust

  • Date Submitted: 05/26/2010 06:26 PM
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In the early 1940’s the world experienced one of the most tragic events in history. The “Final Solution To The Jewish Question”, the genocide of over six million people all over Europe, the Holocaust they call it. The Holocaust of the 1940’s is a fine example of historical intolerance. The Nazi regime led by the powerful dictator, Adolf Hitler, believed in a “pure race” (blonde hair, blue eyes, white, Christian). Those who did not meet the standards of the Nazis were brutally tortured and/or murdered.
Hitler’s slaughter started in the Soviet Union in June 1941. Killing squads called the Einsatzgruppen rounded up all Jews, Gypsies, and Soviets and shot them to death one by one. Other killing squads included the Schutzstaffel or SS for short, also took part in the slaughters not only against the Jews, Gypsies, and Soviets but the handicaps, mentals, Slavs, homosexuals, and Johova witnesses. Those who were not killed on site were told they were to be moved to a new home, what they weren’t told was that their new “home” was a Nazi death camp.
Many, many people were moved to these camps, where they awaited to be abused and murdered. Several of these camps were called Belzec, Auschwitz which was the biggest and most notorious, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka. All which were located in the vicinity of Poland. They killed about six million men, women, and children. Which was more than two thirds of Europe at the time by working them to death, starving them, and abusing them. However, the most popular way of execution was the gas chambers. People of all sorts were kicked into the gas chambers where the Nazi’s had released the newly developed Cyclon B gas. The people who were in the chambers fell to the floor when the gas was done getting into their systems. This was commonly found upon in the camp of Auschwitz. Some people died   due to lack of food, they had become so skinny, you could see their bones through their skin. Some people died because they were...

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