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The Holocaust was one of the most horrific events ever to happen in World War II. Over 6 million people were killed in it. Two thirds of the Jewish population were killed because of Holocaust. The word “Holocaust” comes from two Greek words - “holo” (which means whole) and “kaustos”(which means burnt). In some languages it refers to a sacrifice to God, which was usually an animal sacrifice. Adolf Hitler thought that the Jewish race was the cause of everything evil. He blamed the Jews for Germany’s loss in World War I, because he said they wanted to dominate the world. Hitler thought that the only way for Germans to survive was to kill all of the Jews. Holocaust was the time when the Nazis reached the peak of their persecution. This peak was …show more content…

The majority of the people were killed in concentration camps. Over 2,000,000 people were killed at the camp called Auschwitz. Over 1,380,000 people were killed in the camp Majdanek, and over 800,000 people were killed in the camp called Treblinka. Treblinka only had a staff of 150 people. The camp Belzec had 600,000 deaths. Some camps that had a smaller death toll were, Chelmno which had 340,000 deaths. Sobibor had 250,000 deaths. Camps that had “small” death numbers were Mauthausen who had less than 95,000 deaths, Ravensbruck had less than 90,000 deaths, and Bergen- Belsen had 70,000 deaths. Bergen-Belsen was the camp that Anne Frank died at- two weeks after her death, her camp was liberated by British troops. The German concentration camps were first set up in 1933, and the original purpose of them was to keep anyone who was “undesired” or was a political enemy to Nazi Germany. The main purpose of these camps was not to kill people, but many times people would die because of the living conditions, malnutrition, or because they were treated cruelly. Many camps did medical experiments on the detainees, and few of the victims survived these medical experiments. These gruesome experiments would be performed in an unclean room and would be performed without anesthesia. Many times it was common for the victim to die later because of unclean living quarters. Most people think that Germany wouldn’t have been a major threat in …show more content…

The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of fourteen high ranked Nazi officials. At this conference the country of Estonia was considered “free of Jews”, meaning that every Jew had been killed. The Final Solution was when the Nazis reached the peak of their persecution, of the Jews. To Hitler the Jewish race was a secondary race, that was a major threat to Germany. After many years of Jewish people being persecuted, came the Final Solution, which is now known as the Holocaust - when the persecution came to its peak amount of Jewish deaths. The way Germany killed ⅔ of the Jewish population, was because of the death camps they had all across Europe. Anne Frank was a Jewish girl who kept a diary, while hiding from the Nazis, for about two years. Her family hid in an apartment attic, but unfortunately the Franks were discovered in 1944, and sent to concentration camps, sadly Otis Frank (Anne’s father) was the only Frank to survive. Anne died just two weeks before her camp was liberated by British

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