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Overview Of The Holocaust
The holocaust took place towards the end of the 1930s to 1945. The holocaust for most people is remembered as a horrible time in history. One of the most horrific times in history especially for Jews. Throughout the holocaust there was “mass murder of millions. Six million Jews and 5 million others,” including people who were disabled, gay, with different views politically, behaviorally, and many others. The Holocaust was “ran by German Nazi’s and the German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.”

Adolf Hitler saw Jews as “an interior race and a threat to German racial purity and community.” The Holocaust came about as the “final solution.” The Holocaust took place throughout WWII. There were 20 concentration camps total where the horrors took place. The most known and “largest concentration camp was Auschwitz. In Auschwitz alone, more than 2 million people were murdered.” Not only did the Jews starve to death, but others were either “gassed or died of disease.” At Auschwitz experiments took place. “Josef Mengele would conduct medical experiments that ended with death. Mengele was nicknamed the angel of death.”

The Holocaust claimed many lives in horrific ways ended in 1945. “German leadership was dissolving racial laws were put in place, Hitler committed suicide, and a week later came Germany’s formal surrender in WWII.” “German forces began evacuating many of the death camps in the fall of 1944. This led to death Marches resulting in the deaths of 250,000 to 375,000 people.” For those who escaped and survived the Holocaust life was never the same. “Many survivors witnessed beyond gruesome sightings, had lost their families, and had been tortured.” In “1953, the German government made payments to individual Jews and to the Jewish people as away of acknowledging the German people’s responsibility for the crimes committed in their name.” The payments, money does not bring back those who lost their lives in horrible ways and money does not clear the memories of the survivors.