Monday, May 28, 2007

The holocaust


The term holocaust comes from the Greeks and it means completely burnt. It is often referred to as the mass murder of non racial minorities. A large percentage of which were Jews murdered by Adolf Hitler during World War II, 1939-1945. The holocaust was the result of a mentally unstable leader who believed that Jew's were the root of all of Germany’s problems. Hitler wanted to rid the country of them and all other non arians, (not of pure German decent). from their gene pool. To achieve this, Hitler, the leader of the ruling Nazi Party, constructed enormous death camps, which were devoted to the mass murder of these people. This mad, horrific idea took millions of innocent lives for no good reason. I believe that the world must learn from the holocaust and take steps to ensure that this can never happen again.
Hitler started his purge of the Jews slowly and increased his mission of mass murder progressively. He began by getting the German people to boycott all businesses and professions. He then labeled them with the Star of David. Then he separated them from the rest of society by placing them in Jewish Ghettos. From the ghettos they were loaded onto freight trains and sent to the deplorable death camps. To ensure that this never happens again, I strongly believe that the world should act extremely quickly on any major group or leader that is trying to discriminate against another race or group. If this is done, never again will this sort of mass murder happen and our world will be a safer place to live.

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