The Holocaust
Nearly six million Jews were killed and murdered in what historians have called "The Holocaust." The word 'holocaust' is a conflagration, a great raging fire that consumes in it's path all that lives. In the years between 1933 and 1945, the Jews of Europe were marked for total annihilation. Moreover, anti-Semitism was given legal sanction. It was directed by Adolf Hitler and managed by Heinne Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann. There were many other great crimes and murders, such as the killing of the Armenians by the Turks, but the Holocaust stood out as the "only systematic and organized effort by a modern government to destroy a whole race of people." The Germans under Adolf Hitler believed that the Jews were the cause of all the German troubles and were a threat to the German and Christian values. Dating back to the first century A.D. the Jews and Christians were always at war. The Jews were considered the murderers of Christ and were therefore denounced from society, rejected by the Conservatives and were not allowed to live in rural areas. As a result, the Jews began living in the cities and supported the libe
Unaware that they will be gassed, the Jews kept quiet until the last moment. When their fate was clear, the first Jewish uprising came in April 1943 in Warsaw Ghetto, when more than 60,000 pitifully armed Jews decided to resist. The battle took 28 days before the heavily equipped German forces put down this violent uprising. Individual Jews also resisted by joining partisan groups. Jewish resistance, however, was mainly spiritual.’ The Jews prayed, wrote, observed festivals and also refrained.' When the news reached the allies, they all refused and put down any rescue plans to aid the Jews. American Jews were warned against seeking any action for the benefit of the European Jews although Zionists managed to save small groups of young Jews and brought them to Palestine. The Vatican condemned racism in general but did hardly anything to stop the German actions. rals. This made the Germans see the Jews as the symbol of all they feared. Before the start of the second world war, the Jews of Germany were excluded from public life, forbidden to have sexual relations with non-Jews, boycotted, beaten but allowed to emigrate. When the war w
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