The Holocaust Was The Systematic, Bureaucratic, And...

1.1 Background The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, and deliberate persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime. It is a word of Greek origin and means â€Å"sacrifice by fire† †¨Shortly after Adolf Hitler gained power in the Third Reich, he began to implement horrific measures designed to disempower the German Jews from economic and social positions. Life for the Jews became increasingly worse when the onset of WWII came along in 1939. The Germans began to strip the Jews of their lives, and began deporting (or resettling as the public believed) them to the East to Ghettos and later to concentration and extermination camps. At the camps, the Germans either worked the Jews to death or gassed them in massive gas chambers, then destroyed the evidence by burning the copious amounts of bodies at a time in the colossal crematoriums. †¨During the six years of the War, there were around 6 million Jews, including 1.5 million children that were murdered by the Nazis, and around two million other â€Å"undesirables† also exterminated. Hitlers annihilation of the Jews killed one third of the Jewish world population, and two thirds of the European Jewish population. 1.2 Treatment of the Jews The Jewish people in Germany never were treated with the same respect and kindness as those not of Jewish descent. The Germans anti-Semitic ways date a long way back in history, however it was Hitler’s leadership and power that enforced horrific anti Semitic actions throughoutShow MoreRelatedHolocaust Genocide Essay817 Words   |  4 PagesGenocide, the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic, or nation. This heinous vocabulary term did not exist until the year of 1944 around the time of the holocaust. A Polish Jewish lawyer by the name of Raphael Lemkin created the term in his infamous book, Lemkin on Genocide. Geno- meaning race or tribe from the Greek language, and -cide meaning killing in Latin. He was the man who gave the crime without a title an actual name. (Lemkin, p.g 2) ThusRead MoreGenocide: A Historical Perspective Essay1462 Words   |  6 PagesAccording to Dictionary.com Genocide is the â€Å"deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.† A few notable examples of genocide would be the War in Darfur, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Holocaust which are all among some of the worst genocides of the 20th century. The situation in Darfur is in part still going on today, while the Holocaust and Rwandan genocide are now a serious part of our world’s history. Each of these three genocides occurred due toRead MoreRastafarian79520 Words   |  319 Pageslate twentieth century, its apparatus of cultural formation was controlled fully by the elite who, to a large extent, ran the educational apparatus and the economic system. But much of the country was beginning to question in earnest the structure of colonial society by the early 1930s. The emergence of Rasta during that period corresponds with so much that was happening around the world. Rastas could tell that social unrest in Jamaica was going to lead to a movement away from colonial rule and