The Vel' d'Hiv Roundup came at a horrible point in the history of the world. The Holocaust is hands down one of the worst tragedies to have happened ever. When one thinks of the Holocaust you think of the Nazis and all the wrong they did but it wasn’t just the Nazis they had to have help. The Vel d’Hiv Roundup is an example of the help the Nazis received.
In 1942, the Nazis began one of the most terrifying and gruesome campaigns in the history of the world. Hitler and his Security Service (SS) tried to eliminate all “inferior” races compared to the race that was originally from Germany that were called Germanic tribes and the key physical features that they were made up of was tall, strong, blonde hair, and blue eyes. The Germanic tribes were known for be ruthless and evil. The race he had a particular focus on eliminating was the Jews but he also targeted other races and/or people groups (The Holocaust in France, The Vel'd'Hiv Roundup).
Hitler and the advisors he had put in control of eliminating the Jews ordered that they be rounded up as much as they could at a time and killed quickly as possible. A major surprise about this is everyone turned a blind eye to this. Not only did they not stop this but some actually helped the Nazis roundup their friends, neighbors, and co-workers which led to the deaths of where the police the very
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people that it is there job to protect the citizens of France helped round up the citizens that the Nazis were looking for and just turned them over to be lead to their deaths. After two months the French police allowed the Nazis to take the people to concentration camps like Auschwitz. In these camps they would decide if these “prisoners” were fit to work if they determined that one of them wasn’t then they would be “terminated” and then either thrown into a mass grave or they would burn the body. Out of 38,000 prisoners only 738 survived. That is two percent of the people that were rounded up. This is the cruelest time in the history of the world (The Holocaust in France, The Vel'd'Hiv Roundup). Madeleine Testyler was a part of the 38,000 people rounded up. Out of that 38,000 13,000 were from the same town she was from. She was one of 40 survivors that is unimaginable to be one of 40 survivors out of thirteen thousand from your town. That means that less than one percent of the people from her home town survived that were rounded up friends, family, neighbors gone all gone. Her father was one of the many who didn’t survive. With the help of a wealthy former business partner of her father she would be dead along with her sister and mother who all survived. He was able to pay for their freedom and got them to safety before anything could happen to them again. The question that Madeleine could not find an answer for was why and how could people just stand by or even worse helps them be rounded up to be lead to their deaths? That is the sickest part of all this is humans were leading other humans to their deaths and did nothing to try and stop all this from happening. Madeleine and her sister escaped but her mother wasn’t so lucky. Hitler and his SS took their mother and father away from them and made them orphans all because of his sick ideals about how the world should be. And this didn’t just happen once it happened many times and in many different places not just Paris. If someone would have just helped them they wouldn’t have died that terrible death they did nothing, absolutely nothing to receive (Weiss and Brackman). Cecile Widerman Kaufer is another survivor of the roundup. She was one of the lucky ones she and her sister heard that the roundup was happening before it got to them she hid along with her younger sister and when it was safe enough to they fled to Normandy. When she found out what had happened to her hometown and everyone like her that was in it she was devastated and felt guilty for fleeing. She had survivors guilt because she was one of the few to survive that would be a horrible feeling knowing that you would never see them again and that you only survived because you ran away. You would have to be incredibly strong to make it through that, but every person who did had to deal with it alone for the most part because if you were lucky enough to survive then chances are that the people in your family were not (Cecile Wilderman Kaufer,Holocaust Surviver, Recounts1942 Vel d'Hiv Roundup in Paris Stadium). Cecile decided to try to make as many people as she could be aware of what was happening.
She would write about all the horrible things that you can imagine happened when people were being round up. How horrible it must have been for her to have to relive all those awful memories of that dark time in history. She went on to write an autobiography on the round up and became very outspoken about human rights and the treatment of those people around you. She and her sister never forgot how lucky they were to survive or the ones that were lost (Cecile Wilderman Kaufer,Holocaust Surviver, Recounts1942 Vel d'Hiv Roundup in Paris
Stadium). The Vel d’Hiv Roundup was undoubtedly one of the worst times in the history of the world. But to learn from our prior mistakes we must learn about this so we can prevent this from happening again and more lives being lost. 38,000 people were rounded up and 738 survived that means that 37,262 people were killed and that may not be the actual number many believe it to be much higher. If the number of 37,262 deaths is right then that is 37,262 to many. None of those people should have died.
Beginning in 1933, Hitler and his Nazi party targeted not only those of the Jewish religion but many other sets. Hitler was motivated by religion and nationalism to eradicate any threats to his state. It was Hitler’s ideology that his Aryan race was superior to any other. Hitler’s goal was to create a “master race” by eliminating the chance for “inferiors” to reproduce. Besides the Jews the other victims of the genocide include the Roma (Gypsies), African-Germans, the mentally disabled, handicapped, Poles, Slavs, Anti-Nazi political parties, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Homosexuals. In Hitler’s eyes all of these groups needed to be eliminated in order for his master race to be a success.
Anne dairy opened so many doors for journalists and many others. They have a diary of a real end of the Holocaust in their hands. Anne accepted you can still have fun while you're in hiding. A quote from Anne Frank is ‘’You could not do this, you could not do that.
HIV is a serious issue that is commonly pushed off and considered an irrelevant topic. In “AIDS, Inc.” by Helen Epstein, the topics of lifestyle brands and government funded organizations were discussed, and provided readers with an understanding of the depths of the disease. The excerpt discusses programs (i.e. loveLife) that had the potential and opportunity to save and inform many lives, but failed to do so, which continues to be a problem today. Our government is capable of helping and educating those who are infected, and anyone who could become infected. Instead of acting like having the disease is something to be ashamed of, governments should fund clinics that provide free HIV testing and free protection to all genders, create a structured
So Hitler’s Plan of a “Perfect Race” never was able to hit the land and roll into play, how he wanted. He targeted the Jewish, along with many others because he didn’t like them, But soon it led to Hitler’s death and the freeing of the Jewish and along with many others including, The Gypsies, Gays, Blacks, and The Mental and Physical Handicapped, By the English and Russian troops.
The Nazis thought of the Jews as a race that they needed to get rid
Hitler wanted a pure nation and he thought he could get that by having only the Aryan race in Germany (“Background”). The people of Germany, seeing their economic problems start to get better, ignored the discrimination and let the Nazis put their plan into action. Hitler had one goal and that was to kill every single Jew in Europe (Haugen and Musser). After capturing towns, cities, and countries, Hitler would take all the Jews and put them into concentration camps (Haugen and Musser). Some camps were designed purely to kill every single Jew that was sent there, while some were labor camps.
In the Holocaust, the Nazis persecuted and murdered over 6 million Jews during a four and a half year period. By the 1930s the Nazis rose in power and all the Jews became victims. One of the ways the Nazis persecuted the Jews, was putting them into tight confined places called ghettos were they suffered for many years.
Adolf Hitler's rise to power was just the start to a horrifying 13 years. Hitler became Chancellor Hitler of Germany in 1933, knowing what his goal was and what he wanted to do, which he called "The Final Solution." According the The Holocaust: An Introductory History, published by Jewish Virtual Library, Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution" plan was to exterminate the entire Jewish population, and all of the other undesirerables. Every group of undesirerables is listed in the Nuremburg Race Laws. The Nuremburg Race Laws took away some of the Jews political rights, didn't let Jews marry anoyone of the German desent, and didn't focus on peoples' religious beliefs. Instead of focusing on their religious beliefs, they defined people as a Jew if they had three of four Jewish granparents, whether the individual defined people as a Jew or no...
The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. Gypsies, people with mental and physical disabilities, and Poles were also targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or national reasons. However, did The Nazis party ever unravel the true intent behind Hitler’s desires to extinguish the inferior race? This question is one of the most difficult to answer. While Hitler made several references to killing Jews, both in his
The Jewish people were targeted, hunted, tortured, and killed, just for being Jewish, Hitler came to office on January 20, 1933; he believed that the German race had superiority over the Jews in Germany. The Jewish peoples’ lives were destroyed; they were treated inhumanly for the next 12 years, “Between 1933 and 1945, more than 11 million men, women, and children were murdered in the Holocaust. Approximately six million of these were Jews” (Levy). Hitler blamed a lot of the problems on the Jewish people, being a great orator Hitler got the support from Germany, killing off millions of Jews and other people, the German people thought it was the right thing to do. “To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community” (History.com Staff).
To begin with, Racism had a big effect in the genocide and murders in Germany. According A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust, it states that “ It was the explicit aim of Hitler's regime to create a European world both dominated and populated by the "Aryan" race. Some people were undesirable by Nazi standards because of who they were,their genetic or cultural origins, or health conditions.” (“ Victims” ). It is so devastating that someone could kill or torture anyone who was not like them or who fought against them. The Jews were required to carry their identification cards. They were also excluded from businesses, parks, resorts, and forests. German children were taught that the Jews and Gypsies were not as good as the Germans. One of the methods used to teach German children was to make the Jewish children stand up and point out their distinguishing features. Later on the Jewish children were banned from schools and had curfews. John Boyne Quotes from his book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas “What exactly was the difference? he wondered to himself. And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms?” In his speeches and writings Hitler spread his believes in racial “purity” and in the superiority of their Germanic race. What he called an “Aryan master race”. These believes became the governments ideology and were spread in publicly displayed posters on the radios,m...
Jews all over Europe feared for their lives and many were aware that the punishment for their religion depended on the country they were fortunate, or unfortunate, enough to live in. Hitler not only held prejudice against Jews, homosexuals, gypsies and those who harboured any of the above, but also held firm convictions that some countries’ citizens were fit to die, no matter their religion. No one was hit harder by this prejudice as was Poland. Hitler hated all Polish citizens and hated Polish Jews even more. In Warsaw, Jews were confined to a blocked off area which came to be known as the Warsaw Ghetto. Many of these Jews never saw outside the Ghetto again and for those who did it was only en route to a concentration camp or labour prison. Food rations inside the Ghetto were very low and though many outsiders smuggled food in, there was not nearly enough to keep everyone alive. Many died of starvation or died due to illness they had contracted because their bodies had grown so weak. Throughout the war, Sweden remained neutral and many Jews from neighbouring countries were smuggled in. Nazi police soon realized that they had to find ways to prevent this from happening and turned to the animal world. Dogs were trained to detect the scent of humans and soon, all boats leaving for Sweden were searched to detect any Jews that were hiding in basement compartments. Most Jews were discovered before they could escape and this discouraged many more from attempting to do the same. Jews that were apprehended were not treated much differently by the Nazis but the Jews left behind received the brunt of the their anger. Danish Jews in particular were often accused of planning to escape because of their proximity to Sweden. There are stories of countless ...
Hitler had thought that the Jews did not believe in the “right” thing so he tried to eliminate the race. He did not want them to believe in what they did and still do. He thought that the Jewish race was inferior and did not mean anything. The way that Hitler treated the Jews were crimes against humanity and I know that many non Jews saw that but did...
The treatment of Jews and other minority groups by the Nazi’s can be described as actions that could only be done by a totalitarian state. Hitler believed in eugenics, the idea of improving a race by selective breeding. Nazi ideology of the Jewish race was severe anti-Semitism and pure hatred. The Nazi policy towards the Jews has been said to be the most brutal and horrific example of anti-Semitism in history.
Most people think that only Jews were killed by the Nazis. That was not the case. The Nazi’s graded humans on a scale of pure Aryan to Non-Aryan (subhuman). Germans, Dutch, Scandinavians, French, Italians and the English were at the top of the scale achieving master race status. The Salvs were considered to be non-aryan. The nations of Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Croatia were at first considered to be inferior. They were eventually considered to be ethnically superior. This was because of some theories about these nations having a mixture of German blood. People in these countries were put through a racial selection process to see if they were racially