The Holocaust was a very heartbreaking and tragic story about the mass murder of Jews. This murder was brought about by the Nazis during World War II. The Holocaust was a process that occurred in carefully organized stages. It first began with laws that required the Jewish to be removed from the rest of society. These laws forced Jews into filthy areas in the city, used as concentration camps. Because of their race, they were stripped from their homes, their friends, and their families. These people were not even given a choice if they wanted to leave or not. The Nazis also forced the Jews into slave labor. They had to do work at these concentration camps. Some of these people weren’t even physically capable of doing labor. They later died of disease, starvation, and exhaustion. The Nazis continued to take over different areas in Europe and set up more concentration camps. Death squads began executing Jews in mass shootings and burying them in mass graves throughout the continent. In the end, approximately six million Jews were murdered.
There are many perspectives to the reason for the Holocaust. One being that the Holocaust started because Germans didn't like the Jews' religious beliefs. The Jews shouldn't of had been murdered just for their own beliefs, but in this tragic story that is what happened. Another reason would be that many people just wanted someone to blame for all the corruption in their government, so they chose to blame the Jews. I don't think this was right. The Holocaust was very inhumane because The Nazi's killed many innocent lives for no real apparent reason.
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