Holocaust Research Paper

The Germans killed more than eleven million innocent people during WWII. Not only Jewish people, but also millions of others deemed as "subhuman" (such as Gypsies, Russians, and Poles), during World War II, by the well known dictator, Adolf Hitler. This unfortunate and tragic event was called the "Holocaust." The horror of the Holocaust made it a turning point in European history, the Holocaust changed the way people look at themselves and judge others by their race or religion. Aside from many points in history that changed race and religion views on people, this is known to be one of the most tragic. Prior to World War II, many people from all around the world believed that civilization had overcome the brutality and barbarism of earlier

He was born in Braunau on April 20,1889 and grew up in Leonding on the Danube, near Linz, Austria. At age eighteen he left home and moved to Vienna hoping to fulfill his dreams as an artist. He applied for entrance to the Academy of Fine Arts in the Summer of 1907, but his dream of becoming an artist disappeared when he failed the entrance examination. He tried one more time and again failed. Some say this is the start of his fire and rage. On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, the act that started World War II.

The day before, Nazi officers had posed as Polish military officers to stage an attack on the radio station in the Silesian city of Gleiwitz. Germany used the event as the start for its invasion of Poland. France and England declared war against Germany on Sept. 3, but neither country was prepared to fight and would not deploy a significant number of military forces until the next year, leaving Poland alone in its defense. Although it had an army of more than 700,000, Poland was unprepared for Germany’s tactics. Its army could not deploy its troops quickly enough to defend against the more powerful German forces. As a result, many civilians lost their