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    How the Holocaust could have been Prevented Throughout history, humans have asked themselves the same question, if it were possible to turn back time, could certain events have been prevented. In the 1930s, most of the superpowers of the world were not necessarily pre-occupied by Nazi Germany’s developing of plans for world domination, while destroying an entire race of people. The Jewish community, in turn, missed the warnings, which revealed what was in store for their people. So, while some consider the Holocaust an inevitable event, there is circumstantial evidence to assert the prevention of the Holocaust, if the Nazi party of Germany had faced harsher economic constraints by the world powers, and if the world’s remaining superpowers had…

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    January 30, 1933 marked the beginning of the holocaust and the torture of Jews as well as other raises then May 8, 1945 it finally ended. Germany conquered most of Western Europe, where most of the Jewish population of the whole region fell in 1941. The death camps were built in Poland and then continued throughout Paris, Germany, and the rest of Europe. From the beginning the holocaust could have been prevented by military and politicians from other countries, and within it's own country. Some…

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    Holocaust Essay

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    The Holocaust, part of World War II, was held from 1933 to 1945. This historical event was a genocide that murdered approximately six million Jewish people. This mass murder began when the Nazi’s believed that they were “racially superior” to the Jews and saw them as a threat to the German community (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, N.d.). The German authorities also targeted others such as the Gypsies, the Slovaks, the mentally and physically disabled, the homosexuals, and many others…

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    in the Holocaust. They believed in a different religion, were disabled, or did not fit this “perfect race” of blonde hair and blue eyes. The Holocaust was a genocide led by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi soldiers. Adolf Hitler used the Jewish people as a scapegoat for Germany’s loss in WWI. Jews were believed to be “alien” and an inferior race. Millions of Jews were held in concentration camps. Six million were killed. Bruno’s father was a Nazi soldier during the Holocaust. When Bruno and his family…

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    The Ten Stages Of Genocide

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    “the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.”(“Genocide”) Because this kind of barbarism isn’t normal and humane, it has to be stopped or prevented. Genocide could be prevented by understanding what causes it, the effects it has on the victim, and how it could be stopped or prevented. The main cause of genocide is of a specific power rising into authority. Genocides seen in many countries usually start out with a dictator or an oligarchy…

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    official definition of the Holocaust is “...the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime…” that occured from roughly from 1933 until salvation in 1945 (Introduction to the Holocaust). The importance of having an educated generation of South Carolinians, is more important now, than it ever has been. People need to understand the past, present, and future effects of this atrocity on the human race. Holocaust education should be vital…

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    Night, by Elie Wiesel is about the Holocaust and the struggles that Jews went through. Elie and his family were Jews who were taken to a concentration camp. This is a story retelling the tragic and cruel things that happened to Jews during WWII. Elie’s message during the story is indifference. There are many scenes in the book showing indifference such as lack of emotion toward cruelty, the Jews themselves, and how the world helped with the Holocaust. By writing this book, Elie proved how cruel…

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    The Holocaust was a huge tragedy, the event killed thousands of people with different cultures, but with one common belief: Jeudaism. The way they were killed was horrorific, even thinking about it would make someone cringe at times. Not only were they killed, they were forced to work in labor camps. These camps were located in Germany at first, within the time of World War II these camps would spread out to countries like Poland, France, Austria, and other countries. These camps was where Jews…

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    The holocaust was a very tragic period of time where millions of people were being killed just because they weren’t the same as the Germans. The most targeted people were the Jews, having accounted of over five million deaths during the reign of Nazi Germany. Due to this event, we can learn many lessons from it to prevent anything like this ever happening again in the future. The United States made a few mistakes during that time that it heavily regrets. It’s vital that we have to learn from…

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    Around 1983, America turned down the ship St. Louis. The ship contained about 900 or more Jews who were trying to escape from Adolf Hitler. Many people think that if America would have opened their gates for the Jews, we could have prevented the deaths of over 1,000,000 people who were killed during the Holocaust. As we flash forward about 100 years or so, Americans are making the same mistake as we were in 1983. The higher governing people decided that we are only going to let in a miniscule…

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