Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust

The Holocaust. A proper noun representing the mas killing of around eleven thousand people from 1933 to 1945. The majority of those killed were people of Jewish faith. Jewish people were collected up and brought to different types of concentrarion camps where pogroms were set up to extinguish life in every form. People died from starvation, illness, exaustion, beatings, being gassed, shooting, and being burried alive.

Before World War Two broke out, the trouble in Germany started in the year 1933 when a man named Adolf Hitler became chancelor after the previous chancelor died. He made his way up through Germany's government until he was second in command. Then he passed a low saying that if the current chancelor died, he would not be replaced. Convieniently for Hitler, shortly after this law was passed, the current chancelor passed away making Hitler the head man in charge in Germany. Because Hitler was so good at giving encooouraging speaches, and using propaganda, people worshiped him, and he was called, "The Furthur" or in English, "The Leader."

After Hitler became chancelor of Germany, he introduced the idea of, "The Final Solution." This was the idea that to be pure German or, "Arian" as he would say, you must have blue eyes and blonde hair, and you muust be physically fit. The Final Solution stated that Germany should be rid of those who are un Arian or German. In order to accomplish this, Hitler haad all people that were considered, "undesirable" collected up and usually killed. This included, but is not limited to people of Jewish faith, people of color, gypsis, and the mentally retarded or phisically handicap. The treatment of the people, and German Nazi forces trying to take over Europe, was the initial cause of World ...

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...and. One of the worst camps, and was often reffered to as a death camp. There they were tatooed, seperated, and they had most of thier hair cut off. Anne's mother, Edith, died of strarvation shortly after Anne and Margot were shipped to another camp called Bergen-Belsen. Both girls died within days of eachother due to Typhus.After the war, the only member of the Frank family that remained was Otto Frank. He returned to his spice buisiness, and also started the Anne Frank Foundation, to teach children about discrimination and how it's wrong.

So why exactly do we learn about the Holocaust? The answer is simple really. To answer, we first must ask this. Why do we learn about history in general? We learn history so that the bad things that happened in years pasted do not repeat themselves. In other words we learn about the Holocaust simply so it does not happen again.