“There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer - or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night
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Events
“...the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.”
- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
"For us, this is not a problem you can turn a blind eye to-one to be solved by small concessions. For us, it is a problem of whether our nation can ever recover its health, whether the Jewish spirit can ever really be eradicated. Don't be misled into thinking you can fight a disease without killing the carrier, without destroying the bacillus. Don't think you can fight racial tuberculosis without taking care to rid the nation of the carrier of that racial tuberculosis. This Jewish contamination will not subside, this poisoning of the nation will not end, until the carrier himself, the Jew, has been banished from our midst."
- D Irving, The War Path: Hitler's Germany 1933-1939. Papermac, 1978, p.xxi
"For us the Jews are also exceptionally damaging because they are being such gluttons. There are an estimated 2.5 million Jews in the General Government, perhaps…. 3.5 million. These 3.5 million Jews, we cannot shoot them, nor can we poison them. Even so, we can take steps which in some way or other will pave the way for [their] destruction, notably in connection with the grand measures to be discussed in the Reich. The General Government must become just as judenfrie [free of Jews] as the Reich."
-Hans Frank,(quoted in A J Mayer, Why Did the Heavens Not Darken: The "Final Solution" in History. London: Verso, 1990, pp. 302-03)
The Holocaust refers to the period from when Adolph Hitler became chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933 to the day World War II officially ended on May 8, 1945. During this time, Jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsher persecution that ultimately led to the murder of 1.5 million children and 6,000,000 total Jews. This total included two-thirds of European Jews and one-third of all world Jewry. These Jews were the victims of Germany's deliberate and systematic attempt to annihilate the entire Jewish population of Europe. Hitler called this plan the "Final Solution." The persecution of Jews in Europe resulted in the more obvious surviving accomplices being tried at Nuremberg.
Attacks on Shops
In 1938, Jewish owned shops along with many Jewish homes and every synagogue in Greater Germany were vandalized by Nazi stormtroopers. There was not a Jewish store window left unbroken. This photo shows what is known as the "Night of Broken Glass". 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps and two thousand of them were dead by Christmas of 1938. Jews were ordered to move into designated Jewish apartment blocks in many large German cities. The invasion of Poland in 1939 and the start of World War II led to Jews being forced to live in ghettos surrounded by barbed wire and high walls cut off from surrounding areas . The Nazis controlled the supply of food and medicine which led to higher death rates.
Deportations and exterminations
Mass deportations and exterminations began in late 1941 when the first routine deportations from Berlin and other cities began. Experimental gassings were carried out at Auschwitz in September 1941. The first routine mass gassing began at Chelmno using mobile vans with the exhaust directed into the vans in December of 1941. Further, large extermination camps were established in the next few months at Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka and Birkenau. The Nazis even used Majdanek as a 'back-up' extermination camp. The bodies of those killed were destroyed in crematoria as depicted in this photo or on outdoor pyres and the ashes buried or scattered. In 1942, the Nazis began this most horrific phase of the Holocaust. More than 1.7 million Jews were killed at Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka by October 1943. The largest death camp built was Auschwitz-Birkenau. It possessed four gas chambers and crematoria. This camp was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.6 million Jews. Birkenau's gas chambers killed approximately 8,000 a day at the peak of operations. 500,000 people were slaughtered in one room which is the most in any one room in world history. ARE YOU CHECKING YOUR WORD COUNT?
Tour of what it was like at a camp i will fix this video im figuring out if it will let me ~brooke
The Holocaust lead into nuremberg trials
The Holocaust led to the Nuremberg Trials which will be explained later. Some of the higher ranking Nazi officials were tried and 5,025 Nazi criminals were convicted between 1945-1949. One of the Holocaust organizers named Alfred Eichman was tried as late as 1961 and you still hear about cases occasionally even today. The Nuremberg Trials were not able to save any lives but they did force the international community to take action against future genocide, including the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948.
“I must first and foremost state categorically that whenever the superior requested them, there were enough volunteers for execution squads. This was the case also in Jósefów,” which was their first killing operation. “I must add that, in fact, so many volunteered that some had to be left behind.” Adolf Bittner p.128
“It did not at all occur to me that these orders could be unjust. I was then of the conviction that the Jews were not innocent but guilty. I believed the propaganda that all Jews were criminals and subhumans and that they were the cause of Germany’s decline after the First World War. The thought that one should disobey or evade the order to participate in the extermination of the Jews did not therefore enter my mind at all.”
-holocausthistory.org
“The Jew was not acknowledged by us to be a human being.”
-www.suu.edu
“It did not at all occur to me that these orders could be unjust. I was then of the conviction that the Jews were not innocent but guilty. I believed the propaganda that all Jews were criminals and subhumans and that they were the cause of Germany’s decline after the First World War. The thought that one should disobey or evade the order to participate in the extermination of the Jews did not therefore enter my mind at all.”
-holocausthistory.org
“The Jew was not acknowledged by us to be a human being.”
-www.suu.edu
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