Wednesday 25 May 2011
Holocaust
One of the most disturbing and barbaric genocides of all time would have to be the Holocaust of 1941 done by the Nazi government. Leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler, was so passionate about his anti-Semitic and racist views that he ordered all Jewish people and whoever he didn't think was the ideal human being, which in his eyes, was blonde with blue eyes, they were all sent to concentration camps. Camps that usually isloated the Jewish people and "undesirables" to locations, such as Bergen-Belsen and Buchenwald in Germany. Matters got worse, because as soon as the victims arrived to those areas, they were immediately stripped down out of their clothes and were all forced to shave their heads. Thus everyone looked the same and at the time, everyone probably also felt the same, useless. They lost themselves as persons, because they also lost their loved ones as they were separated from their families. However, it did not stop at that. The terror went on as the young, the old, and the weak were instantaneously annihilated in gas chambers. Though if you were healthy, it didn't differ that much from getting killed. The healthy worked as slave labourers, but they were murdered as soon as they had a disease due to overworking and starvation. A report of more than six million Jewish people and another five million Roma, Slavs, and other "undesirables" were exterminated by the Germans by 1945. This was a monumental loss and will be unforgettable. It is true that the Allies were well conscious about the Holocaust, but they weren't fully aware of the enormity and nefariousness that took place. Till this day, there are an immense amount of people out there, namely Jewish people who will never
forgive the Germans. Consequently, till this day, there are still Germans out there who distastefully deny that the Holocaust even happened.
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