The holocaust:
Why America didn’t want to be involved.
“Those who want to live, let them fight and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.”
- Mein Kampf
Devestated by their deafeat in World War I, the german people were looking for a new hero to restore ther pride in themselves and in their country. They found this person in Adolph Hitler (later to known as the Fuhrer) a rejected painter/articet from Austria. Whose strong dialogue captured thousands of Germans. Even though Hitler was not a German by birth, his love for Germany was greater than anything else, he would do anything to reunite the german people in a mighty empire once again. But life wasn’t all glory and pride for everyone, this only applied to full germans. Hitler promised hope and prosperity to all Germans, but to the Jewish community, there was noting but fear and terror in their future. While the rest of the world was at war, the Fuhrer was waging yet another more sinister, evil war against a group of citizens. Hitler ordered the starvation, torture and death of millions of Jews and other groups that he considered infearior.
In the beginning Jews were encouraged to liquidate all their possessions and leave the country. Some like Albert Einstein and others fled to America, but others who doubted Hitler’s power to exterminate an entire nation were far wrong.
Adolph Hitler’s Jewish question flourished in his teens; “I recognized the Jew as the cold-hearted, shameless, and calculating director of this revolting vice traffic in the scum of the big city.” Pg59 Mein Kampf. Hitler blamed Germanys troubles on the Jewish community. He exposed his idea of what he called, the Aryan Race. Soon enough Germans would be giving Jews noting but cold, harsh stares.
A new decree: Every Jew was obligated to wear the yellow Star of David; failure to do so would result in death. Short couple weeks after the labeling of the Jews, came the ghettos. Jews were forced to live in these filthy places, with limited space. (Ghettos were about 4 blocks as big.) About seven to fourteen people shared one room. The ghettos had a barbed electric wire that encircled the ghetto like a wall. Food was limited, and illness was all around. Some died of these conditions, at times people would collapse and their bodies would go unnoticed.
In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Wiesel tells about his life during the holocaust, he describes the ghettos after a while, “a good thing. We no longer had to have to look at these hostile faces, endure those hate-filled stares, No more fear. No more anguish, we would live among Jews, among Brothers.” Pg 12
Hitler’s plan to get rid of the minority wasn’t going according to plan. So he established what he called, the Final solution. Jews were now to be rounded up and taken into concentration camps; children and the old were to be killed first, men and women would be worked till death, then their bodies were to be burned in the crematorium. These camps consisted of unfathomable actions, and unbelievable actions against humanity.
The United States had just gotten out of World War I, __ years back. They were also facing the depression
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