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    The Holocaust is an important time period to keep in our minds in order to avoid the repetition of this obscure history. This time period was a time filled with hate, prejudice, and fear among victims, bystanders, and the oppressors. Many events during the Holocaust were silenced even when many civilians were experiencing such violence being inflicted upon other human beings. This silence is what led hatred to succeed in the annihilation of about thirteen million European Jews, Soviet Prisoners,

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    assigned Adolf Hitler as their chancellor. Once Hitler had finally reached power he set out to complete one goal, create a Greater Germany free from the Jews (“The reasons for the Holocaust,” 2009). This tragedy is known today as, “The Holocaust,” that explains the terrors of our histories past. The face of the Holocaust, master of death, and leader of Germany; Adolf Hitler the most deceitful, powerful, well spoken, and intelligent person that acted as the key to this mass murder. According to a research

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    with horror, abandonment, torture, suffering, famine, and misery; in a place of death, abuse, a hopeless state of mind; dying is better than going through something like this. This is the exact portrayal of what the victims of the Holocaust have gone through. The Holocaust was the mass slaughter of (mostly) Jews prior to World War II. They put them into concentration camps and more than six million Jews were killed. The Nazi Party were heartless, immoral, and inhumane people who treated the Jews like

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    In the summer of 1944 the soviets freed the Jewish from the concentration camps like Belzec, Treblinka and the most infamous killing camp Auschwitz. In an examination of the holocaust I will converse the effects of the holocaust and their worlds response, to its victims and perpetrators. The aftermath of the holocaust shows the mass Genocide people found, as Germany cures itself it showed civilization that we should not let someone manipulate us, and let them change our ideals and beliefs. I will

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    The Holocaust was a very depressing and frightening era for European jews because of an unruly upcoming power in Germany. Adolf Hitler and at his side the Nazis Party seized Poland in the summer of 1939. His actions sparked to what is known as World War 11 which was about 2 decades after the first World war. Throughout all of this, the Holocaust was a mass murder of more than 6 million European jews that were discriminated against the Nazis and their leader Hitler who had an ambition of world domination

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    The Holocaust “was the systematic bureaucratic, state sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaboration.” This callous event took place in Northern Europe from 1933 to 1945. It affected Jews, gypsies and other enemies of the state. The Holocaust was perpetrated by Nazi Germans. The cause of the Holocaust was scapegoating, dehumanizing Jews and other people and anti-Semitism. Generally, A lot of Jewish scapegoat of the Hitler. Scapegoat mean “a person or

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    eyewitness accounts, the Holocaust had horrendous effects on the people who lived through it. During this time Jews were being rounded up and put into concentration camps by order of the German government. Writings and testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust are around even to this day. According to these sources, Holocaust survivors suffered tremendously since they were treated as less than human , they lost loved ones, and were constantly abused. During the Holocaust, people in the Nazi’s custody

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    Even five years after the Holocaust, there were still survivors with nowhere to go.19 Few survivors attempted to return home, and most of those who did stayed only a short time. They learned it was nearly impossible for them to be in places so closely linked to their childhoods.20 Everything in their cities, towns and villages would remind them of years of humiliation of unthinkable atrocities, of tragedy and irreparable loss.21 Those few survivors that did decide to return to their home towns did

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    The Mysteries Of The Holocaust There are many many important factors of the Holocaust. Do you ever wonder what happened in the Holocaust? How about why it happened? Do you know how they killed the Jews or where they killed the Jews? Do you know how long it lasted? What happened to Adolf Hitler? Adolf Hitler was the man who was responsible for World War II and the Holocaust. He even believed that everyone should have blonde hair and blue eyes (such as the Aryans). Hitler

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    The Holocaust The news anchor Tom Holden once said, “ The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.”. The Holocaust was the mass murder of Jews in 1933. The Holocaust lasted from January 30,1933 to May 8,1945. The person who led the genocide was Adolf Hitler. Many wonder what made the Holocaust possible, why people participated

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