Argumentative Essay: The Horrors Of The Holocaust

This world and the billions of people that have inhabited throughout the centuries have made good choices, bad choices, and those had some extremely positive and negative consequences. A human rights issue that I believe is extremely important that we have not covered in class in the Holocaust. This horrific event that seems like a satanic nightmare that could not possibly have happened, but it did and it violated millions of peoples’ lives and their human rights. In this paper, I will explore what led up to the Holocaust, explain the horrors that were experienced, the aftermath, and the trials that followed. I will then argue that the punishments handed down through the Nuremberg trials, and the trials that followed were justified on the grounds that they received just

Though the first prisoners were not the disabled, old or very young or even Jewish. They were communist. But 5 years later when the Germans invaded Poland on September of 1939, things took a drastic turn for the worst. Discrimination against other humans met new heights that no one thought imaginable. After the Germans occupied Poland the Jewish people of Poland were forced into ghettos. All of their property, money, and belongings were confiscated by the Germans. Anyone who could not be used in labour camps was sent to the first concentration camps in Poland. The Nazis selected 70,000 that were institutionalized for being physically and mentally disabled and were Gassed by the Nazis. By the end of the Second World War (1945), over 275,000 people with disabilities were killed. The start of the killings of people with disabilities started as the “pilot” for the Holocaust. The Germans were in no way wanting to slow down, and they continued to conquer and murdered