Holocaust

The Holocaust originates from the Greek name (holos) which stands for whole and Kaustaus which stands for burned, this term was historically used to describe a sacrifice on the altar. by 1945 this word has taken a new and horrific meaning: the state-sponsored persecution, genocide, and mass murder of millions of European Jews and millions of others that were in minority ( like the intellectually disabled, homosexuals, and the Romani people) were also ruthlessly persecuted by the German Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945. According to the anti-Semitic German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race and a threat to German purity and community. After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which the Jews were constantly persecuted, Hitler's final solution to ruthlessly eliminate Jews was the creation of this mass murder strategy, under the guise of world war two, now with mass killing concentration camps constructed in occupied Poland. Approximately six million Jews and five million others, who were targeted for political, ideological, and behavioral reasons were mercilessly killed, and more than a million of them were young and innocent children. Anti Semitism did not only begin when Hitler came to power although the term itself dates to the 1870s. there is evidence that suggests that there was hostility towards Jews even dating back to the ancient world. Back when Roman authorities destroyed Jewish temples in Jerusalem and forced Jews to leave Palestine. The enlightenment during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a period that emphasized religious tolerance, and in the nineteenth century, Napoleon and other European rulers enacted legislation to lift the long-standing restrictions on Jews. Although despite all of this anti- Semitic emotions still lingered, however, in many instances it took a racial turn more than a religious one. The root of a particularly gory brand of anti-Semitism is unclear, born in Austria in 1889, he served in the German army during world war one, like countless anti-Semites in Germany, he blamed the Jews for the countries defeat in 1918. Soon after the war ended Hilter joined the national German worker party, (NSDAP) known to the English speakers as the Nazis. While he was imprisoned for treason for his involvement in the beer hall putsch in 1923, he wrote the memoir ( Mein Kampf ) which meant my struggle. In which he predicted another European war which would entail the extermination of Jews. Hitler was obsessed with the idea of the pure German race, which he called the “ Aryan” race, and with the need of Lebensraum, or living space for that race to expand. In that decade after he was released from prison, he took advantage of the weakness of his opposition to catalyze his party’s rise to power. On January 30th he was named chancellor of Germany after the president died in 1934 he anointed himself as the Fuhrer and built concentration camps and conducted barbaric experiments that sent millions to their deaths. Now let’s take a look at the concentration camps that Hitler built in-depth, firstly let’s understand what a concentration camp is: this term is coined for the instance when prisoners are detained or confined under Harsh conditions without any regard for legal norms. The first concentration camps in Germany were constructed shortly after Hitler was appointed chancellor in January 1933. In the weeks after the Nazi’s came to power, the Sturmabteilung ( or more commonly known as the stormtroopers), who were the elite guard of the Nazi party built detention centers to incarcerate political prisoners Germans built these camps and admitted people on an ad hoc basis to the prisoners, The earliest camps that were established were the Oranienburg and north Berlin, The Dachau camp, and the Columbia Haus specialty, and prisoners were thrown in this camp by the Gestapo. In a specifically horrific incident which occurred from November 9 to November 10 in 1938 which was an incident known as “Kristallnacht” The Nazis vandalized Jewish homes and torched synagogues, Kristallnacht also coined the night of the broken glass 30000 Jewish men being sent to concentration camps and were subject to a lot of brutalities. The most Gut-wrenching brutality that these prisoners suffered were the gas chambers, SS men escorted, men, women, and children to their death in these chambers: Initially into the crematorium and bunkers 1 and 2 and from the spring of 1943, to the gas chambers in crematoria 2,3,4,5, trucks carried those who were too weak to walk, and the rest walked. These people had to undress before entering the gas chambers. In crematorium 1, they either undressed in the yard or antechamber, and later wooden barracks were constructed for waiting and grouping purposes to send them to their death. This was a time in history that nobody wants to or likes to remember, it was the height of hatred, cruelty, and inhumanity, not even the Deutsch themselves like to remember It, wishing that all who fell victim to this cruelty to rest easy and with a peaceful soul in heaven.

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