Expropriation Of The Holocausk Essay

To understand the Holocaust you need to understand six words, definition, expropriation, einsatzgruppen, concentration, deportation, and death camps. The Germans define the Jews biologically based on religion of their grandparents. When the regime came to power in January 1933 part of the Nazi movement wanted to out rid or Jews overnight, what they did was they began to legislate against the Jews and rapidly the Jews were kick out not only in civil service but also in education, universities, teachers lawyers and doctors. The Jews became something that was not needed. The climax of this early period of legislation was the Nuremberg laws. The laws were there to determine officially citizenship in Germany, however the only definition that were given who is a citizen were definition for who was not a citizen and the only people define as not citizen of Germany were the Jews. In other time in history Jews could convert, they could hide themselves by assimilating within the host country. However under racial theory during the Nazi period Jews were Jews because of the blood that was coursing thought their veins. So the ultimate theory was that if you wanted to get rids of Jews that you couldn’t do it through conversion or any other way then to murder them.

The expropriation of the Jewish people began with the confiscation of the Jewish wealth, the removal of Jewish property, the registration of all assert, and the inability of Jews to own home property. After the Jew was sent off people moved into their homes and took over their business. Between 1933 and 1939, 80% of the Jewish properties were seized, 50% of Jewish businesses were closed and 50% of Jews was displaced. By the time the war began in September 1939 they were not many Jew...

... middle of paper ...

...nal months of the war, SS guards moved camp inmates by train or on forced marches, often called “death marches,” in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners.

During the holocaust 17, 500, 00 victims were killed or displaced by the Nazi from 1933-1945. On the 24th of July 1994 the Russians liberated Liu Bolin in eastern Poland; just outside of the city they find the concentration camp. The SS had tried to kill the entire inmate and destroy all trace of the extermination plant but a Polish resistance group seized the camp before could complete their work. The gas chambers disguised as bath and disinfection rooms were captured intact. Crematoria still strewn smoking human ashes were only slightly damaged. Close by they found cabbage fields strewn with human bone meal fertilizer. Auschwitz was less than a hundred and seventy miles away.