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How Did Hitler Characterize The Holocaust

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The Holocaust was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi army. The Jews in the society were scared to death, they had no idea what to do, or where to run, they were helpless. Hitler was a great leader but a cruel and manipulative man, he ruled Germany and had quickly planned to exterminate all the Jews he possibly could. During the Holocaust and WWII, Hitler killed six million Jews and possibly more that were not accounted for.
From the beginning Adolf Hitler had a plan. According to Hitler Communism was large threat to Germany. In Hitler’s mind Communism was a Jewish invention wish possibly could have been the spark of his hatred for Jews. In his book Mein Kampf, or My Struggle, Hitler mentioned wanting to kill all of the Jewish people (36 Questions About....) The first volume of the book was published in 1925 which was eight years before the Holocaust began. At that point the Nazi party had already been established. Hitler had made his desires clear to his soldiers and that is when their mission began. Now Hitler just got to sit back and relax while his dreams slowly came true.
The Nazis constantly found ways to segregate Jews from the German society, banning them from public school, universities, theaters, sports events and Aryan zones. An Aryan is anyone who was not Jewish and was a racial grouping term often used to describe a pure German citizen. Jewish doctors were also barred from treating Aryan patients. The first measures that Nazis took was a boycott of Jews in businesses on April 1, 1933. Not long after on …show more content…

Hitler was an evil mastermind who could do basically whatever he wanted to anytime he wanted. From 1941 to 1945, the Jews were murdered in the deadliest genocide in

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