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    What did America do during the time period in which the Holocaust was happening? To start, the Holocaust was the genocide that killed six million Jews in Europe by Nazi Germany. America did not do much to help at this time. The US did things like making immigration laws way more difficult than it needed to be. They also turned away the St. Louis that boarded almost a thousand Jewish people and when given the chance to help, they chose not to. The United States during World War II did not consider

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    may describe the holocaust as a living nightmare because of the death and destruction that it caused them and their families, whereas as SS leaders may have seen this as an opportunity to stamp their authority on the situation and showcase their leadership skills. One major limitation that comes when trying to represent the holocaust involves the title that civilization has given to this period of history. Many scholars such as Bruno Bettelheim criticize the use of the word ‘Holocaust’ as it is the

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    Dr Klein: ‘the Jew is the gangrenous appendix in the body of mankind’ (The Nazi Doctors: Robert Jay Lifton) Hello ladies and gentleman, What does the Holocaust mean to you? Some would say mass genocide, the extermination of the Jews or some may not be able to define it at all. The Holocaust – one of mankind’s worst atrocities committed in the past one hundred years. Full of the thirteen years of prejudice and mistreatment that was endorsed by the fascist ideals. Over twelve million people perished

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    The Holocaust was a terrifying time, it brought to light how important it was to fight for each other. Men and women either sat and stayed quiet out of fear or they got up and fought for what they believed in no matter the cost. These brave souls risked their lives and the lives of their families to save those prosecuted by the Nazis. They weren’t afraid to stand up to the Nazis. Some hid Jews in their homes, other snuck into ghettos and other places to help people in need. Some even falsified documents

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    With Jews being killed left and right by the Nazis, only those who are brave are left to stand up to their merciless predators. With Hitler coming to power came the mass death of millions of Jews or in other words the Holocaust. The Holocaust has erupted many things such as groups being formed, people arms bearing against the Nazis, and the failure of many uprisings. Almost all hope is lost for the Jews, starved and forced to work until a spark emerges from the heart of the ghetto. With millions

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    The Holocaust: Stages of the Holocaust The Holocaust is a term that has come to describe the destruction of European Jewry from 1933 to 1945. In 1933, when the Nazis came to power, the Jews were their first target. According to some scholars such as Lan Kershaw claimed that Hitler’s involvement in day to day decision making was limited, infrequent and capricious. Kershaw points in his biography to 1919 that in Nazi Germany officials of both the German State and Party Bureaucracy usually took the

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    The holocaust was a series of events that took place in Germany then throughout the rest of western Europe. Firstly Adolf Hitler was imprisoned for high treason after leading a failed coup d'etat on November 8th-9th 1923. During his incarceration he wrote a book called ‘Mein Kampf” or “My Struggle”. In the book he went on to say that the “Judes” or Jews were to blame for Germany’s problems and later went to create the Nazi party. Later on German occupation was to establish Jewish ghettos in Poland

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    friends, I was also “an inquisitive and bright student” (biography.com). Life changed for me when the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940: I was forced to attend a Jewish lyceum and my father’s business was signed over to a non-Jew (People of the Holocaust). In 1942, my father converted an attic in his company warehouse in case we needed to go into hiding. And we did, that same summer. My race and I were strenuously condemned during my lifetime, and my loneliness became overbearing. Fortunately, I

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    The Holocaust was one of the many tragic events that happened throughout history and because of it, most of the Jewish population was left to suffer and die daily. The Nazi regime had brought radical and daunting social, economic, and communal change to the Jewish community. When reading what Anne Frank said in her diary, there was a variety of thoughts that were similar and different to what Jews had to experience in daily life since she was in hiding. However, the events going on around Anne had

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    From the 1930’s to 1945, over 6 million Jewish people and others were murdered in what the world now calls the Holocaust. This unthinkable atrocity came to be with the rise of the Nazi regime in 1933 Germany. The rise of the Nazi’s had much to do with the current economic and political climate of both Germany and Europe as a whole. Hitler and his Nazi sympathizers were able to persuade Germans that they could restore their power, prestige, and place in the world following both World War I and

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