The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, throughout Nazi-occupied territory. Of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds perished. In particular, over one million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust, as were approximately two million Jewish women and three million Jewish men. It is seen as the worst atrocity of all time due to the amount of people who were murdered because of their religion. Adolf Hitler also order the persecution and extermination of other races, religions and minority groups.

 

Hitler achieved this through the use of laws and propaganda. These laws removed all of the rights, the citizenship and belongings that they had and simply kept them segregated from the rest of society much like the blacks were segregated in the U.S.A. As the war progressed he decided something needed to be done with the Jews, many plans were thought up including moving them all to Madagascar or another place on the planet. In the end as the war was not going well they opted for the use of concentration camps. In the concentration camps they were either forced to work, maybe dying from this or they were executed directly in the gas chambers and there bodies buried in mass graves.

Quite often in the history of the planet one race has persecuted and dominated another and what Hitler did he must have thought right and correct otherwise it would not have happened. To kill people just because you don't like them can't be allowed to happen otherwise there would nearly no one on the planet because people don't like everyone they meet or know. It would have much better for Hitler to have simply gone with plan to move them away from Europe as the memory and the sadness that people feel connected with the holocaust would be less. In my opinion it was an unnecessary act to have done.