Holocaust

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s voted by the German people into his position, chancellor of Germany. On October 7, 1916 Hitler had received a leg wound, and was dismissed from the military temporarily in order to recover. When Hitler took leave to facilitate recuperation he had gone to Berlin, Germany. It was the apathetic German people in Berlin that began to fuel Hitler’s hatred for the Jewish people. Hitler witnessed the lack of support the Germans had for their country fighting in World War I, and began to blame the Jewish people. After World War I and the fall of Germany, Hitler embarked on his new political goals. On January 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany, and began instilling the Nazi ideals into the German public. “In 1933 Nazi rabib anti-Semitism went public.”(Franic) Hitler had begun efforts towards his “Final Solution”. The “Final Solution” plan was the preparation to completely obliterate Jewish tradition and belief from European society.
Mass murder, the use of concentration camps, and the persecution of different races have been in history for centuries. During the height of the Roman Empire, Romans conquered most of the known world and took slaves. During the great Egyptian Empire Egyptians bore slaves. The United States, most of Western Europe, and South American colonies were slave owning countries at one point. However, the Holocaust is considered to be unique. The first reason for its uniqueness is that the Nazi party sought to eradicate the entire race of the Jewish people through the use of a strong bureaucratic government. The second reason for the Holocaust’s uniqueness is that the Nazi party attempted to convince the German people that they would benefit through the elimination of the Jewish population would be beneficial to them. Also, one must remember that Jews were not the only people the Nazis and Hitler were trying to eliminate. Germans suffering from mental/physical handicaps w...