The Holocaust
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SummaryThe twelve years between 1933 and 1935 saw the systematic elimination of over ten million people, including over six million Jews and over four million Gypsies, Slavs, Communists, and people deemed unfit for life, such as the mentally retarded and homosexuals. Known as the Holocaust, this mass-genocide was perpetrated by German nationals under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, who promoted a racial ideology of German superiority over “inferior races.” At the height of the Holocaust, extermination camps such as Auschwitz and Treblinka “processed” over 9, 000 victims daily, in what would become the paradigm of efficient slaughter of human beings.
Table of Contents- The Holocaust was the realization of the racial ideology developed by Hitler in his semi-autobiographical work, 'Mein Kampf?
- On January 30, 1933, Hitler was named chancellor, the most powerful position in the German government, by President Hindenburg, and swiftly moved to put his racial ideology into practice.
- Though Hitler's racial ideology was primarily anti-Semitic, it also included those 'unworthy of life' such as the sick, disabled, mentally retarded, and homosexuals.
- The next attempt at solving the 'Jewish question' was one the Nazi's first experiments in mass extermination
- The primary strategy resolved upon by the Conference involved deportation, forced work and systematic killing.
- The six main sites chosen by the designers of the Final Solution were Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno, Majdanek, and Auschwitz-Birkenau
- The methods of murder were similar in the killing centers, which were operated by the SS.
- The liberation of Jewish prisoners began in July 1944 when advancing Soviet troops discovered the extermination camp of Majdanek.
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