Analysis: What Happened In The Death Marches With The Holocaust

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The Holocaust was a massive war that changed and frightened people especially Jews. The Jews were the most affected in the Holocaust because of the Germans ways about them. The Germans were thoughts were put there because Hitler twisted their thoughts about the Jews. The Jews were treated bad to worse in the companions of Germans still they were treated as 2nd class until they were nothing. The Jews were forced to do things they didn’t want to do, by the Germans. What happened in the Death Marches with the Holocaust? Jews are forced into the concentration camps. Thousands of Jewish men and women were rounded up, and stripped of their property, and imprisoned in concentration camps. In the aftermath, the Jewish community was subjected to additional restrictions and segregation. “Although these outrages were reported around the world, there was almost no organized opposition to what …show more content…

¨From 1938, the Nazis had begun to seek a profit from the work of prisoners, and new camps were added near factories, prisoners were also used as labor to aid in the war effort, working in munitions factories and building roads, they the Jews,were subjected to deplorable living conditions and many died from overwork, disease, or starvation.¨ (Holocaust.¨Britannica School, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9 Apr. school.eb.com/level/middle/article/Holocaust/274919.) All Jews were to be evacuated to camps in Eastern Europe.Jews were often exterminated by gas chambers, many as 8,000 Jews were killed there daily. Although both Allied and Jewish leaders in the U.S knew of the exterminations, the Jewish efforts to have the Allied bomb the camps were unsuccessful. Some Soviets traveled from town to town gathering and murdering large numbers of people, including entire families of men, women, and children. During a short stay in a town, sometimes no more than a day or two, the squads killed thousands, and in some cases tens of

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