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For the living and the dead we must bear witness - Elie Weisel

The Holocaust, Shoah, it has gone by many names, but it is the same great tragedy. Hitler’s third Reich, his pure utopia was built on the blood and children of innocent Jews and Gypsies. It was time of prejudice, pain, suffering and of anger, but also of heroes and valor of people who stared at Hitler and his mighty armies in the face and laughed. The holocaust started with Germany’s economy and old disputes but closed with concentration camps and Jewish fighters.

If I were a German I wouldn’t sign it – Theodore Roosevelt

After the First World War Germany was handed the bill of the entire war. The Germans had to pay for a war they did not start, a war of which they were told they would win. Germany had two choices: sign the treaty of demands or risk enemy invasions. When the treaty was signed, Germany was left with no money. Soon inflation took such a bad turn it was cheaper to burn money rather than buy firewood, and coins were worth more as scrap than currency. Germany itself was destroyed and a young officer named Adolf Hitler knew just who to blame.

Monsters exist but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous, More dangerous are the functionaries who will act and believe without asking questions.- Primo Levie

Adolf Hitler used old rumors such as Jews murdering Christian babies and of Jewish people stealing from Catholic churches to. Though these rumors had never been used with such force, they were not new but in fact very old. Many such rumors had been used in Germany for thousands of years. Hitler simply relit old fires to cause Germans to turn against one another. Despite popular beliefs, Hitler was powerless without his mighty armies and his ...

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“If we bear all this suffering, and if there are still Jews left, when it is over then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example” – Anne Frank

Through the Holocaust and through the fighting, the hunger and the fear, those persecuted managed to hold on to hope, the one thing no Nazi could break. Though the camps were liberated in 1944-1945, the horrors had already been committed. The death counts of the Nazi prisoners go as high as 13 million, but even with this the Jews still held out hope, still kept fighting, even as they were dragged from their homes into the Death Camps that awaited them, And it is for this reason that none will ever truly forget all the atrocities, horrors and, most importantly, the victims.

“For it is to die once as a victim, but to die a second time when their name is spoken for the last time.”- Elie Wiesel