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THE HOLOCAUST UNPACKED HOW TO KEEP YOUR GRADE
ISSUE #6296
SUNDAY APRIL 29,1945
Dachau Liberated Dachau Liberated set in time. On the morning of April 29 1945, Dachau Concentration Camp was empty of Nazis. The prisoners were alone. Freedom was a new feeling for everyone as the Nazis controlled Europe for a little more than six years. The Holocaust was a very terrible time in European History due to the large number of jewish deaths, many concentration and work camps, and the discrimination of people with a different faith other than christianity. Examples of this are how around 40 percent of the entries world’s jewish population was killed, over 40,000 concentration camps and death camps where jews were worked and tortured, and how the rules for jews varied dramatically from those that practiced christianity.
what about those deaths?
“Suddenly one of the prisoners near the end of the line broke off and ran. The Nazis saw him right away and yelled for the guards at the gate to catch him, but he wasn’t headed for the gate. In a stumbling, broken run, the prisoner threw himself on the highvoltage electric barbed wire that lined the fence. His body sparked and thrashed in the wires and bled as the barbs cut him. Within seconds his body hung dead and limp.” This excerpt explains my analysis because it is an example of how people would purposely kill themselves in the camps. The people who survived conditions at one concentration camp and were strong enough to survive were often moved to different concentration camps across the continent and forced to perform even harder labor.
There were a large number of jewish deaths during the holocaust due to the discrimination between religions in Europe. Leading up to the start of World War 2, as Hitler’s hatred for people unlike himself grew. When Britain and France first declared war on Germany, it was because of the German invasion of Poland. The Nazis abducted thousands and thousands of jews and sent them to the first Nazi concentration camp, Dachau. Here, they were worked to the point they couldn’t move and forced to live without basic necessities like a toothbrush or change of clothes. Many people died of fatigue and starvation, but there was also a large of number of people who purposely would get themselves in trouble to so they could be killed.An example of this is an excerpt from the book Prisoner B-3087.
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“the prisoner threw himself on the high voltage electric barbed wire”
concentration camps. There were over 40,000 large and small concentration camps scattered across Europe. Some of them were used for extermination, or torture, but many more of them were used as extra slave labor so that the Nazis wouldn’t have to do the dirty, grueling work themselves. The Nazis first opened their work camps after the 1939 invasion of Poland, a country with a high jewish population. Thousands of prisoners died from starvation and exhaustion as well as exposure to many diseases. The Nazis also opened their first killing, or extermination camps there, so they could easily kill a large amount of jews at once. Following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, the Nazis opened forced-labor camps where thousands of prisoners died from exhaustion, starvation, and exposure. the Nazis established killing centers in Poland, the country with the largest Jewish population. The killing centers were designed for efficient mass murder. The middle of the war was when the extermination camps were established with the new ones being Gusen (1939), Neuengamme (1940), Gross-Rosen (1940), Auschwitz (1940), Natzweiler (1940) Stutthof (1942), and Majdanek (February 1943). In the book Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz, it talks about how the Nazis would kill the jews by gassing them. An example from the text is when on page on page 162 it says, “They whipped us and beat us again to herd us into the next room, where shower heads lined the ceiling. I remembered what the man on the train had said, that you died fastest if you stood underneath one of the shower heads, where the gas came out. This evidence supports my analysis because the nazis killed so many people so cruelly and that is one of the reasons that this time period
jewish discrimination jewish discrimination. There was a lot of jewish discrimination and rules and privileges were changed and revoked. In Europe during the late 1930s and early 40s, jewish people were not allowed the same rights as other people because of their religion. A very similar situation was happening in the us only 15 years later during the civil rights movement with the white and african american people. Simple privileges like going to school and working were taken away and for no reason. People weren’t allowed to pay jews or buy from jews, and anyone caught practicing their religion were killed without legitimacy. There were signs that would say “Closed for Jews” or “Forbidden for jews”. There would be announcements saying that school was closed or that there would be a selection that day. This shows my analysis because the fact that so many things were taken away and it wasn't their fault is so mean and they shouldn’t be punished for it.
comparing the holocaust to other tragedies. In conclusion, the Holocaust was extremely tragic and devastating time in history. This is because of the over 6 million jewish deaths, thousands of concentration and work camps, and the discrimination of jews across the continent. So what could compare to the holocaust in severity or tragicness? During the Rwandan genocide in 1994, between 800,000 and 1 million people were killed.
was so horrible. The jews that didn’t get taken to camps or hid in their own towns were treated so much more differently than the others.
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Although that is significantly less than the amount of deaths during the holocaust, they can be considered somewhat equal in severity or tragicness because the Rwandese genocide happened over a period of 100 days in between April 6, 1994 and July 16, 1994. â…™ of the people that died during the holocaust died during this genocide in 1/20 of the time so theoretically if that kept going for the same time as world war 2 they would have killed 30% more people.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE The Rwandan Genocide, also know as the genocide against the Tutsi, happened in 1994. Until 1962, when Rwanda gained independence from Belgium the small minority of tutsis was the most powerful in the country until the hutus got annoyed with always being the oppressed. The hutus had a revolution and drove out the majority of the tutsi population. The actual genocide stated when a plane carrying Burundi’s president was shot down with no survivors. Though the attackers were never determines the most powerful people in the government believe it was the tutsis, so they contained all of them in one area to begin slaughtering them. Radio stations would encourage hutu people to murder their tutsi neighbors. Unlike many other genocides, no international countries stepped into mediate the fighting and no one else was interested.
Signs all over cities and ghettos with high jewish populations would say that jews were forbidden or that that building is closed for jewish people.
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