Mein Kampf: The Story Of The Life Of Adolf Hitler

When we think of the Holocaust, we usually just think of Adolf Hitler, but there was much more to the story than what meets the eye. Hitler was born on April 20th, 1889 in Austria to his mother, Klara Hitler, and his father, Alois Hitler. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Adolf was baptized a Catholic, even though he was born partially a Jew. His young life was difficult, always fighting with his father, and growing up in a middle class family. But, when going to jail for treason in 1924, his life got even harder. He was supposed to be in jail for five years, but ended up staying only for nine months. While spending his nine months in jail, he wrrote a book called Mein Kampf. Adolf Hitler's book, called Mein Kampf, translates to My Struggles. His book was written about his struggles, and what his plan was to do. Hitler's book also got him out of jail, beginning his rise to power.

Adolf Hitler's rise to power was just the start to a horrifying 13 years. Hitler became Chancellor Hitler of Germany in 1933, knowing what his goal was and what he wanted to do, which he called "The Final Solution." According the The Holocaust: An Introductory History, published by Jewish Virtual Library, Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution" plan was to exterminate the entire Jewish population, and all of the other undesirerables. Every group of undesirerables is listed in the Nuremburg Race Laws. The Nuremburg Race Laws took away some of the Jews political rights, didn't let Jews marry anoyone of the German desent, and didn't focus on peoples' religious beliefs. Instead of focusing on their religious beliefs, they defined people as a Jew if they had three of four Jewish granparents, whether the individual defined people as a Jew or no...

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...called Westerbork. After the holding camp, they were transfored to Auschwitz-Birkenau, an extermination and concentration camp. Anne and Moarogt got transfored to a concentration camp in Northern Germany, called Bergen-Belsen. At Bergen-Belsen, both Anne and Margot died of a bacterial disease spread by fleas or lice. Otto Frank, Anne's father, was the only one who survived, dying at 91 years old of natural causes.

The years between 1933-1945 was a horrifying time period. We learn about the Holocaust to know and learn about how bad the past was and what people had to go through. People study the Holocaust to be educate and undertsand the past. The most important reason why we study the Holocaust is so that nothing as bad as the Holocaust was, happens again. According to Edmund Burke, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."