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    For some, it seems that the Holocaust was just a killing of Jews, but for others it will be something they will never forget. The holocaust was a genocide in which six million Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi army in Germany. The Nazi’s belived that Germans were “racially superior” while the Jews deemed inferior and were a threat to the German community. Coming just two decades after the last World War the Second World War was the most widespread and deadliest war in history, involving multiple

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    Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War 1 fueled the rise of Adolf Hitler. His invasion of Poland in 1939 pushed Britain and France to declare war on Germany. However, for those of Jewish decent, war and suffering had begun years earlier. The Holocaust was a horrific and disturbing act of genocide against the Jews, scarring the hearts and minds of the for years to come. In 1923, while imprisoned for treason, Hitler wrote about his dream to rid Germany of its Jewish presence and influence. After

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    can’t be out here this late you are breaking curfew (BANG). In the life of a Jew at a concentration camp of even the beginning of the Holocaust you would have heard this if you were past curfew. In the graphic novel, Maus, Art Spiegelman interviews his father, Vladek Spiegelman, and tells his father's story of surviving Nazi Germany-controlled Poland during the Holocaust. When Vladek talks about him surviving in the Nazi-controlled Germany, he talks about his family with his lovely wife Anja and her

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    The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events that happened during World War II between 1939 until 1945. World War II involved the vast majority of the world’s countries, one of them being Germany, who played a big part in the Holocaust. Germany became involved because of Adolf Hitler, the chancellor, wanted revenge for the trouble Germany had in World War I. During World War II, Hitler exploited anti-semitic feelings towards Jewish people because he believed they were the reason Germany had to

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    Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel once stated, “No human race is superior; no religious faith inferior. All collective judgements are wrong. Only racists make them.” Imagine being discriminated against for something you couldn’t control; like the way you look or talk, what you believe in or the way you live, how would that make you feel? Now imagine being dehumanized for that something you can’t change. It may sound preposterous, but during the holocaust that’s precisely what happened. The dehumanization

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    Have you ever feared for your life or worried you will never see your family again because you’re a different race? This happened to 6 million Jews in 1933 when Hitler took over and the holocaust begins. In 1933, May, any books written by Jews, political dissidents and other not approved by state were burned. In 1935 Nuremberg laws passed which meant Jews were no longer considered citizens. Next 1936, August no Jews were allowed to hang Jewish signs. On July 1937 the Buchenwald concentration camps

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    After WW2, there was a thing called the holocaust. There were many concentration camps all over Germany where many Jews were killed in different ways. It happened between WW1 and WW2, 1933-1945. My position on why this happened is that Germany was going through a rough time, so Hitler wanted their country to resemble power. Read on to learn more about the causes and ways the Holocaust could have been avoided. The Holocaust was a mass slaying of groups of people which that Germany saw as inferior

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    This story is mostly about the Holocaust that occurred in the years 1933-1945. It’s about the jews and how and what happened to them after the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the time where about six million jews and one million other people dying. Most people were killed because they belonged to different races and religions. The Nazis wanted to kill people that weren’t from their same religious group. The Nazis also killed people who disrespected Hitler. Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party

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    The Holocaust disrupted all of Europe and as a result of the Nazi regime’s wrath, 6 million innocent Jews were killed. While studying this tragic event, one must thoroughly examine what these victims experienced during the Holocaust in order to further understand their actions in response to the darkness they faced. Upon evaluation, one can conclude that the extraordinary circumstances of the Holocaust forced the many victims to respond in an extraordinary manner. These reactions challenged people’s

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    Intro: When the Holocaust began on January 30th, 1933 it brought famine, inhumane experimentation, and most of all death to the Jewish population (Auschwitz). The prison camps, extermination camps and the labor camps were all located in one vicinity in Poland, which was annexed by Germany in the beginning of World War II. Adolf Hitler, the horror behind this three-part camp known as Auschwitz and other terrors that came with the Holocaust, believed the only powerful nationalities in the world were

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