FREE ESSAY ON HOLOCAUST

HOLOCAUST

The Holocaust was one of the greatest atrocities known to man. This paper will clearly
show the cruelty, death destruction that was caused during the Holocaust. In addition,
this paper will overview the background and goals of the one man responsible for this
great tragedy.
Holocaust is the name given to the mass murder of six million Jewish people in Europe
during World War II, from the period of 1933- 1945. The word Holocaust originally meant
widespread destruction by fire. By the end of the war, the word Holocaust became known as
the destruction of Jews in Europe by Nazis. 
The Jews were treated horribly. The cruelty inflicted on the Jews began on The Night of
Broken Glass, on November 9th-10th, 1938. On that night, Storm Troopers went through
Jewish cities and burned two hundred and sixty seven synagogues. The Nazis also arrested
20,000 Jews.
Nazis tried to find the longest and most painful way for Jews to die. For Example, thirty
three thousand seven hundred and seventy one Jews were machine- gunned on September 29th-
30th, 1941. Millions of Jews were forced to leave their homes and were imprisoned in
concentration camps. Jews were also required to pay a four hundred million dollar fine to
pay damage done to there own property.
By the end of the war, over two-thirds of the Jews in Europe were killed. Six million
Jews were slaughtered. Also, about two thousand Jewish women raped and killed.
After a decision was made to remove all Jews from Germany, mass arrests began in 1938,
which is when slave labor camps were established. The first German concentration camp
named Dachua, was established in 1938. Between five and six million Jews died. Two
million Jews died in a concentration camp named Auschwitz. Auschwitz was the main
extermination camp. Auschwitz was also known as The Death Camp.
More than half of the Jews killed, were exterminated at the camps. The types of methods
used to kill the Jews at the camps were: carbon monoxide, electrocution, phenol
injections, flame-throwers, hand grenades and machine guns. If Jews weren't killed
immediately, they were placed in concentration camps and killed by punishment.
The one man responsible for the killing of six million Jews was Adolf Hitler. Adolf
Hitler was born April 20, 1889 in Austria. When Hitler got older, he was convinced that
both Germany and himself were stabbed in the back by the Jewish people in Europe.
Hitler's goal was to exterminate all Jews in Europe.
By the time Hitler's life ended he succeeded in killing two-thirds of the Jews in Europe.
Adolf Hitler ended his own life by committing suicide in his bombproof bunker on April
30, 1945 in Berlin, Germany.
The most unbelievable aspect of the Holocaust is the fact that it was planned and
executed because of one insane man. The twelve years, in which the Holocaust took place,
were the most horrific and destructive years known to man.