4HolocaustHome


 * Holocaust Home Page By: S.S.

Who were the victims/perpitradors? Where did the holocaust take place? Why did this happen? How did the world react?

__Genocide:__

A genocide is the elimination of a certain race, ethnic group, religion, or culture in an area. The crimes committed against certain groups have created points in history that in one way or another present a divide in that nations people. The genocide itself is the systematic murder against these types of religions or groups. Geno- is the Greek word for tribe and cide- is the Latin word for killing. So, with that, the killing of these "tribes" are crimes against humanity. Therefore, in more ways than not, people such as Adolf Hitler take the judgement of a specific race or religion to the extreme.



**__The Holocaust:__

The determination to expunge Jews took place on September 1, 1939. Nazi Germany began the fight to invade Europe in areas such as France, Great Britain, and Poland. War was was Hitler's "Final Solution" to rid Europe of its Jews. Adolf Hitler believed that the Nazi Party could revitalize Germany's economy, and when the Germans were fully convinced of that, the Nazi Party came to power. Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, had a philosophy which was that the Jews were "poisoning the blood and culture of the German people", and with that he was set out for a goal to exterminate all Jews. In order for Hitler to accomplish this so called goal, he called for a boycott of Jewish businesses. When this boycott became official, it marked the thought that the Jews were supposed to be discriminated because they had different beliefs. The success of the boycott soon led Hitler to export and exterminate all European Jews.

media type="custom" key="3906505"

Bibliography:

[] [] [] [] [] [|http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007043]