Wwii

WWII/ Holocaust Essay

There were over eleven million Jews, mentally and physically handicapped people, gypsies, and many other races and religions killed during World War Two and Hitler’s reign of terror. This giant, unforgettable genocide may be the largest ever known to human history. It is called the holocaust.
How Hitler cut through the ranks and somehow got to the top of the food chain of the German military deceives me. But what I do know, is that he was crazy. He wanted power, and wanted Germany to return to power. His country had been so torn down and had so many rules cast upon it from World War One, one could hardly consider them a superpower anymore. Hitler wanted to change that. He decided that destroying an entire “inferior race” would reignite the Aryan’s sense of superiority and “bring Germany back from the dead.” So, that’s just what he did, and it worked. Hitler invaded Poland on September first, 1939, and Germany began to rise from the ashes, with the ultimate intention of annihilating all Jews. He came far too close to succeeding.
The invasion of Poland started World War Two, meaning basically the entire world got involved, or so it seemed, either supporting Hitler or against him. On one side were the Allies, which included the British empire, the USSR, and the United States of America, commonly known as “ the big three.“ There were also many other smaller and less influential nations involved. The other side, called the Axis, primarily consisted of Germany, Japan, and Italy. Just as with the Allies, numerous smaller countries aligned with the Axis.
Hitler was the leader of the group called the Nazi party. Nazism, or national socialism, was Hitler’s perfect theory and government of Nazi Germany. The Nazi ideology stressed that there was one master race; the Aryan race, and all others were beneath them. German Nazis considered themselves to be the most pure form of this master race, and felt that Jews were destroying their bloodline and...