Anti-Semitism: The Most Possible Causes Of The Holocaust

Throughout history there have been many tragic events, but most people believe the Holocaust is the worst. Many events led up to this awful event where thousands murdered and killed because of the hatred against them. The Holocaust was a traumatic time when Jews got treated unfairly and showed how inhuman people can act. During the Holocaust humans no longer got treated like humans and showed the inhuman things leaders do to gain total control.

Causes of the Holocaust

Of course, many events led to the Holocaust, but the reasons don’t add up. Anti-Semitism believes the Jews caused the problems through society. Jewish people typically get stereotyped for controlling all the banks. Many people targeted the Jews for Germany’s economic problems. They didn’t blame only economic problems, but also blamed any problems Germany had. The Germans held hatred towards the Jews because they could easily place all problems Germany has on them, even though the Jews didn’t deserve all the hatred they got (“Introduction to the Holocaust”).

As a matter of fact anti-Semitism always rises during times of crisis. The anti-Semitisms believed the Jews caused

every problem throughout the society. People started having the same views as Hitler because he had strong public speaking skills which persuaded them into believing Jews caused all problems in the society. The rise of anti-semitism grew lots during Hitlers time of power.
Adolf Hitler
With this in mind, Adolf Hitler started the Holocaust. He had great speaking skills but that didn’t make him a nice guy. He didn’t have a great life growing up but definitely not the worst. His father died when he was a child, but he didn’t agree on many things he did as a kid. Two years after his father's, death his mother allowed him to drop out of school. He showed interest in German naturalism at at early age. He applied to the Academy of Fine Arts twice and got rejected both times causing hatred towards many people. He lacked money, making him stay in homeless shelters blaming this time for when he first cultivated his anti-semitism. He didn’t have the best life growing up which caused him to hold much hatred.
After all, he had strong interests in Germany society and wars. He moved to Munich and applied to serve in the German army at the outbreak of World War I. He got accepted and fought in a number of significant battles however he spent most of his time away from the front lines. He was in awe when he found out Germany’s surrender. He also believed the Treaty of Versailles was degrading. After the war Hitler joined the Nazi party, created the Nazi party banner, and gave servers speeches against the Treaty of Versailles (“Adolf Hitler”). He tried to take over the government getting him nine months in prison in which he wrote his book Mein Kampf about changing the German society to become one based on race. He ran for president, but got appointed as chancellor and had total control over both the legislative and executive branches. The Nazi party was deemed the only legal party on July 14, 1933 and later that year he withdrew Germany from the League of Nations.
Suddenly, Hitler began his fight with the Jews in 1933. Anti-Semitic laws excluded Jews in society and the Nazis pledge was to persecute Jews. It first began with boycotting all Jewish businesses. Then he put in place the “Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service” excluding Jews from state service, which excluded Jews from organizations, employment, and all aspects of public life. The Nuremberg laws went into action on September 15, 1935 which considered you a Jew if you had three of four Jewish grandparents (“Adolf Hitler Commits”). Hitler held hatred towards many people, however the Jews got it the worst.
However, Hitler was not only against Jews, but many other groups as well. He disliked disabled and homosexuals Germans as well. During the time of the Holocaust, he killed thousands and thousands of people. He had his followers capture all the people he didn’t like, placed them in concentration camps, forced them to do labor, and finally put to death. All of the things Hitler did to the Jews and many others were all part of his plan the “Final Solution”.
Concentration Camps
In fact, the biggest piece to Hitler's plan the Final Solution had to be the Concentration camps.

Hitler sent Jews to Concentration camps also known as horrible places where many people lost their lives. The camps held any enemies Nazi Germany had which were German Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, Gypsies, Jehovah witness, Jews, anyone with Jewish Background, and anyone who went against the beliefs of the Germans. The camps, called concentration camps or killing centers, imprisoned any and all people they thought could go against the German government. They sent able people to do forced labor in labor camps and the went straight to death camps and killed quickly (“The Holocaust”). In order for Hitler to accomplish his final plan he had to use concentration camps and killing

center.
In order to accomplish the “Final Plan” the Germans couldn’t do it alone, they needed their allies. Germany and their allies started building the camps in 1933. They built them fast with more than 15,000 camps by 1945. They designed killing centers for mass murder and killing quickly to eliminate as many Jews as possible. They used gas chambers which would kill all the people inside with poisonous gas. At some camps as many as 6,000 Jews would die in gas chambers each day. Hitler needed his allies help in order to achieve the Final Solution.
People in the camps experienced something very miserable. Every prisoner got tortured and many killed. During a typical day they went through roll calls standing in the cold rainy weather for hours with nothing but a thin striped cloth outfit. Many died standing during roll call. They must make their beds to the satisfaction of the SS guards, however not hardly beds at all, just a wooden board and a thin blanket. They shared their bed with 10 other people often waking to dead bed mates. For breakfast, they got 10 ounces of bread, one small piece of salami, or an ounce of margarine, with a black coffee. They did forced labor for 12 hours with one break for lunch. For lunch, they got soup which consisted of a quart of water with little carrots and rutabagas. They finished their labor which led to dinner, which consisted just bread and rotten salami or skim cheese if they were lucky. In the camps they had no running water, heat and few toilets (Kirsch). No one would ever want to experience life inside a concentration camp.
Children of the Holocaust
Most people would think children would have it easier than adults, however that’s not the case. Children got treated just as bad and even worse in some circumstances. If they thought a child could not do forced labor they would send them straight to killing centers. Older children had a higher chance to survive since they could do labor and the Germans believed that made them “valuable”. Children often got split up from their family leaving scared and lonely. Children died just like the rest in killing centers, right after birth, in institutions, or in anti-partisan operations. Most people would believe a child should never have to go through that, but during the Holocaust they did.
In order for a child to survive, they would have to hind. Some Germans took on Jews and hid them in their homes or property to keep them from being captured and imprisoned. Sometimes children got lucky and would go into hiding with their families, but in most cases they got split up. Once a family got split up they most likely would never see each other again. Hiding actually gave some Jewish children a change to survive the Holocaust.
The Holocaust Coming to an end
As the war came to an end so did the Holocaust. In some camps Germans began letting prisoners go, however in other American and Soviet troops discover these horrible places. The American and Soviet troops came across the camps when they invaded Poland (“The Aftermath of the Holocaust”). When they discovered the camps they shut them down immediately trying to save all of the surviving prisoners. Many remaining survivors died as they were being saved from starvation and disease. Throughout the world no one knew what was happening to the people behind the fences of the concentration camps.
After the Holocaust, Jews and other involved stayed completely mortified and the hatred for the Jews continued. Many too scared to return home traveled to new places hoping to return to life before. Many Holocaust survivors migrated towards European territories and housed in refugee centers or displaced persons camps. Special programs provide food and clothing for the survivors along with rehabilitation. The United States and European countries had to limit that amount of immigrants who migrated to their country. People involved in the Holocaust would never forget what had happened to them, they could only hope for things to get better.
The top priority for the survivors was definitely finding their family. Finding family was a long lasting struggle for the Holocaust survivors. The Germans shipped family’s off to different camps often splitting families and some never to return again. Survivors had no clue if their family had lived through the tragedy. It could take years to forever to find their family or hear of their death.
One of the most tragic events through history is what we know as the Holocaust. During the Holocaust humans no longer got treated like humans and showed the inhuman things leaders do to gain total control. Many lives gone from inhuman actions by the Germans. No one will ever understand what the prisons experienced we will only know what we have read and seen. Although we cannot go back and change history, we can only hope for a tragic event like this to never happen again.