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Jews, Nazi's and Concentration Camps

            World War II Nazi soldiers who worked at concentration camps committed horrible acts of cruelty and brutality against Jews and others. Most soldiers enjoyed their job while a few others actually tried to help the prisoners. The soldiers working at the camps were called the Schutzstaffel, or SS for short. The SS began as an elite group of bodyguards for Hitler. The job of many of the SS was to kill every communist party official and every Jew they could capture. A normal job involved marching victims out of a town or city, lining them up at the edge of a .
             ravine, mowing them down with machine guns, and bulldozing soil and earth over the mass .
             grave. To Hitler, the Jews were a problem. He called them "a pestilence " and .
             "personifications of the Devil. " He believed that Jews wanted to dilute pure German blood .
             and take control of the world. To fix this problem he came up with the idea of the "Final .
             Solution. " This solution was the answer to the question of how to get rid of the Jews. People .
             that were very close to Hitler decided that the best way of killing hundreds of thousands of .
             people would be to gas them. The new duties of the SS were to implement the "Final .
             Solution, " which was the extermination of the Jews. .
             Before the war had begun, some of the soldiers had been nurses, farmers, salesmen, .
             and factory workers. Few of them had criminal records. They were not chosen because they .
             were cruel. Some of these people actually wanted to join the SS because they thought they .
             were ridding the world of Jews who were subhumans. Others were drafted. These normal, .
             everyday people were willing to kill a population of Jews who did nothing to them. The .
             Germans viewed the Jews not as human beings, but as animals and creatures that were .
             inferior to them. Since the Nazis had taken over, the German people had consistently been .
             reading and hearing about how evil the Jewish people were and how they were going to take .


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... were required to let the Red Cross inspect any potential concentration camps since it was not unusual for countries to set up camps in times of war. The promise to let the Red Cross inspect a camp (and to allow the Red Cross to send packages containing food and medicine) was one of the few that the Nazis surprisingly kept. There were two aspects of increasing outside ... pressure. In December 1942 twelve allied governments denounced the Germans for their treatment of the Jews, and in late 1943, Denmark's king increased pressure even more by urgently repeating appeals for a visit to one ...

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2. Holocaust And Art Speigalmen

... from Cuba, the United States and other countries. It's safe to say, that most likely the 930 on the St. Louis were killed when arriving back in Europe. In 1940, the Nazis began the first mass murder of Jews that took place in Poland. At this time the Jews were starting to be placed in concentration camps. Many not knowing what the camps were like, or even ... where they were going. Stories heard through the grapevine, traveled back to parts of Europe, telling the horror stories of those who died in the death camps. Many could ... line or were too tired to walk. The Soviets liberated Au...

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3. Hitler and Germany's Totalitarian State

... Party, which violated many aspects of religion. All of this caused that between 1933 and 1935, 3 millions of political prisoners were sent to concentration camps. At the same time, the terror went on out of the camps. From 1933, the Jewish shops were boycotted and their access was reserved to Jews. As the Nazis tried to get rid of them, they were forbidden to have government jobs ... and they were obliged to wear the Star of David on their clothes. The beginning of ... the apogee of the terror in Germany was the Kristallnacht (Crystal Night) of November 10 1938: after a Nazi was killed...

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4. Italy And The Holocaust

... , at the end of World War II, the realization of the Holocaust - that is, the systematic state-sponsored murder of six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators - was difficult for many people to comprehend and, moreover, accept. Those who visited concentration camps after the war in Eastern Europe were confronted by things that, in the words of United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower, beggar description ... not only of the Nazi occupiers but of the Italian police who assisted in the roundup of Jews throughout the fall and winter of 1943/44.22 Later we examine the actions of r...

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5. Hitler And Germany In WW2

... with his arm in Nazi salute. Everything was performed to impress Germans and world with giant power, intensity, unity and perfection of fuehrer. Nazis ruled with terror. Their regime became police state, typified by mass arrests, concentration camps, harassment and murdering of Jews and those who resisted Hitler. From 1935, when Hitler declared that Germany ... Nazis tortured and killed millions of people such as Jews, communists, people who opposed regime. In one Polish province, Germans executed priests and intellectuals, closed schools and churches. The Germans especially hated Russia...

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6. The Right Of The Jews

... also known as The Night of the Broken Glass. The Nazis unleashed a reign of destruction. Gangs of Nazi youth rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods burning schools and synagogues. They broke store windows, looted the contents and burnt whatever remained. That night 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed and 35,000 Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps. The concentration camps are one of the most noted atrocities when speaking of ... the Holocaust. These camps were seats of horror and torture for those unfortunately scorned by the Nazi regime. The camps usually consisted of...

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7. Hitler and the Holocaust

... Hitler's true objective: the holocaust. There were thirteen main concentration camps: Dachau, Ravensbruck, Bergen-Belsen, Neuengamme, Sashenhousen, Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen, Theresienstadt, Flossenburg, Natzweiler-Struthof, Mauthausen, Stutthof and Dora/Nordhausen.# Each time Germany would invade a nation, all the Jews they could find would be rounded up and shipped in box cars, like cattle to slaughter, to these camps. Many did not even survive the trip, dying of ... a diet that guaranteed death in sixty days. Some were killed before they starved to death; the Nazis became quite inventi...

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8. Kristallnacht - Acts of Horror and Violence

... On November 9, 1938, Jewish people in Germany and German-controlled territories were beaten, arrested and killed. "In the earlier stages Jews were attacked and beaten. gradually some 15000 arrested Jews were assembled at police station. Some were released during the day. Tonight arrests were continuing. Many of those arrested were sent to prisons or concentration camps in buses" (All Vienna's Synagogues Attacked.) ... to fight back. "In their panic and misery about fifty Jews, men and women, were reported to have attempted suicide; about twenty succeeded." (All Vienna's Synagogues Atta...

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9. Totalitarianism and the Holocaust

... a spontaneous demonstration of anger against Jews. In more that half a day, the Nazis destroyed 7,500 Jewish owned stores and shops, and burned over 275 synagogues, and beat Jews on the streets and in their homes. As a result, the Nazis called their rampage the Kristallnacht. During the "Kristallnacht." The ones, who were not victims of such crisis, were sent to concentration camps or death camps where huge prisons held them. At ... at last realized that they were losing the war. At this time the Russian troops had reached concentration camps in Poland, the Russians were ordered to bring ...

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10. Hitler And Concentration Camps

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