How Do Jews Affect The Holocaust

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During the holocaust there was much discrimination going on but not only with the jews but also with homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses. Even though 17 million people died in the holocaust 6 million of them were jews. The holocaust came to its name by the greek words ‘holos’ (whole) and ‘kaustos’ (burned) which is describe as a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Hitler thought that the jews, Gypsies, and the homosexual are going to ruin the chance for him to have the perfect race of pure people. Hitler killed 1.1 million children since they were his biggest fear since they could go up and become a parent and that would mean a new generation of jews and he did not want that. He started the first camo not to kill anyone or start to gather the jews or any other race the first camp that was made was for the political people who opposed him and also for their kids since he did not want more people running for …show more content…

May jewry perish! Was meant literally and will be literally brought to pass if the way fanatics have their way’.....(times).... He would stop at nothing to have his perfect race and not have other oppose him so he ended up killing everyone in his cabin that was against him and everyone that followed him, he would make them one of the Nazi leaders. “Those officers and men who have seen these things have gone back to the second army moved to an anger such as i have never seen in them before.’ …….(Richard Dimbleby).... Everyone that survived the holocaust still have nightmares of what they seen in the camps. ‘For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.’ ….. (Elie Wiesel).... Soldiers who walked in these camps could not believe what their eyes were seeing. People that looked like skeletons walking around in dirt throwing their own kind in ditches burning them or whatever the Nazi soldiers told them to do. They use gas chambers, they shot people and many other ways just to get rid of them and for him to have his perfect race.

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