Nazis' Ways of Eliminating the Jews During the Holocaust

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Nazis' Ways of Eliminating the Jews During the Holocaust

In 1941, America and Soviet Russia allied with Great Britain and

France to fight the Nazi forces in the Second World War. Adolf Hitler,

leader of the Nazis, knew he faced the most powerful nations in the

world and was not ready for a long conflict. They needed to destroy

the "evidence", the Jews, of the holocaust before the allied forces

closed in from the west. Up to this point, the Nazis had used slow,

stressful and inefficient methods of killing Jews and Hitler wanted a

faster way of getting rid of them. Hitler met with German Nazi

officials in a town outside of Berlin called Wansee to discuss the

solution to the Jewish problem. Before this conference, Hitler had

planned to deposit the Jews deep into Russia or on the island of

Madagascar. However, the spectacular Nazi invasion had ground to halt

in Soviet Russia and Great Britain ruled the seas, so both of these

plans were impossible.

By 1941 most Jews in occupied territory had either been killed or

forced into cramped ghettos such as the one in Warsaw. These were

sections of cities that had been closed off to keep the Jews away from

everyone else and in one place. This also made it easier for the Nazi

SS to target them for forced labour and random punishments. On 21st

September 1939, a secret conference took place in Berlin. SS General

Reinhardt Heydrich suggested that all Jews in Poland be collected and

placed into Ghettos. The first ghetto was to be found in Piotrkow on

28th October 1939 and was very successful in the views of the Nazis.

It separated Jews from Aryan citizens and also kept them in one place

making i...

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...en, women and children were killed using various methods

of mass murder. Otherwise known as genocide. As German defeat became

inevitable, Hitler's hate towards the Jews was so great that he killed

many German Soldiers swell as Jews on what were called, death marches.

These people were taken to concentration camps as the allied forces

closed in. In 1944, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz and other

eastern camps. On the western front, Allied troops liberated

concentration camps crammed with thousands of dead and dying Jews.

Some of those who had survived the Holocaust returned home only to be

murdered by local anti-Semites when they reached their old home town.

Hundreds of thousands decided to leave Europe forever, to go to

Palestine and rebuild a Jewish homeland so that they would never again

be the persecuted minority.

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