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THESIS **STATEMENT** despite the many signs rising from Europe the the UNITED STATES. wrongfully ignored the attempted genocide of the Jewish peopl

November 23, 2009 HOLOCAUST

Millions of Jewish men, woman, and children were taken from there homes and lives, then held hostage in concentration camps, ghettos and even gruesomely experimented on and murdered. Not only were the Jewish people contained they were under-fed and some disease-ridden. Through-out World War Two these casualties were fueled and inflicted by Adolf Hitler and his hate for the Jewish religion. At the onset of the war, the United States simply watched the atrocities happen from afar. Despite the many signs rising from Europe, the United States wrongfully ignored the attempted genocide of the Jewish people.

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Introduction Millions of Jewish men, woman, and children were taken from there homes and lives, then held hostage in concentration/death camps, ghettos and even gruesomely experimented on and murdered. Not only were the Jewish people contained they were under-fed and some disease-ridden. Through-out World War Two these casualties were fueled and inflicted by Hitler and his hate for the Jewish religion. At the onset of the war, the United States simply watched the atrocities happen from afar. Despite the many signs rising from Europe, the United States wrongfully ignored the attempted genocide of the Jewish people, because of an isolationist approach to foreign policy during the holocaust happened through the duration of the Holocaust forced from homes, valuables taken confined to concentration camps underfed, forced labor, inhumane living conditions shot, beaten to death, gas chamber, incinerated hitler Hitler’s hate for the jewish religion (anti-semitism) handle hitler had on the Nazi parry Hitler's want for a pure race Hitler’s rise to power Hitler’s economic reconstruction of germany how the treaty of versailles helped Hitler to power Hitler's plan when he assumed power Hitler's speaking ability Hitler's prison sentences IIV. th 

Rowley HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND WRITING November 23, 2009 Hittler’s Holocaust There was a time when millions of Jewish men, woman, and children were taken from there homes. Their lives were destroyed when they were held hostage in concentration/death camps, ghettos. Many Jewish people were even gruesomely experimented on and murdered. Not only were they wrongfully contained; they were underfed and disease-ridden. Throughout World War ll these casualties were fueled and inflicted by Hitler and his hate for the Jewish religion. At the onset of the war, many countries try the keep them selfs out of harms way and simply watch the atrocities happen from afar for as long as was possible before interference. In spite of his misguided views, Hitler rose to power riding a wave of hatred of jews because the conditions in germany allowed this demagogue. Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in the country of Austria. Adolf was one of five children but only he, and his younger sister Paula, lived until adulthood. Throughout the duration of Adolf’s childhood his father beat him profusely for punishment for wrong doing. Hitler made great strides and accomplishments in the time he spent in primary school. Although Adolf’s academic out look was strong he was not top of his class and he was hostel toward his fellow classmates. After showing the hostility he was not well accepted and with his “need to lead” that made it harder for him, therefore, he spent more time with younger classmates.
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Adolph was also very religious and he ponder about being a monk. He also had a vast interest in battles and battle techniques. Instead of joining the civil service, as his dad did, Adolf had other plans for himself. Although he was still young, there was much conflict between Adolf and his father Alois Hitler. Adolf always enjoyed the fine arts. Not long after Adolf had made his decision to go to art school, his father died. After his death, there was no financial impact because of the fact that his father was well off in the financial department. At the age of fifteen, Klara Hitler, Adolf’s mother, allowed him to discontinue school. When Hitler was eighteen he used the inheritance from his dads death to relocate closer to the art school that he liked. Unfortunately, he soon found out that he did not get accepted so he applied to another school. However, because he did not finish school, he still was not accepted. In 1908, Klara Hitler died. Hitler was eighteen at the time of his mothers death this caused more hardship then when his father died. He seemed to have a stronger bond with his mother then he had with his father. With both of Adolf Hitler’s parents being deceased, he now collected his fathers civil service money. With the amount of income he had, he did not need to go get a job. In 1909 when many were enlisting in the Austrian Army, Hilter rejected his call up papers. He did not feel the need to serve the military, so he went into hiding. In 1914 the Austrian authorities found Hitler and they listed him too weak for military duties. That privileged Hitler with a new start and decided to volunteer in the German army. After he was enlisted, he found out that he liked being apart of a productive of Germany military. Risking his life seem like a small price to pay for the experience he got for fighting. While in the service, Hitler degraded jews and marxist people. He thought jews and Marxists down sized the impact of the war. His peers said he was odd and mostly isolated. Adolf made great achievements earning an iron cross along with other assorted metals. Although he only made the rank of a corporal in 1918, Hitler was blinded by a mustered gas while in battle with the british. After he spent time in the hospital, his sight was restored. Hitler's hospital stay made him very depressed. There were times that he cried profusely. He did not speak to anyone. After his recovery, Hitler was based in Munich the capital of Bavaria. Not long after, Bavaria was declared a socialist republic. Hitler was highly against the socialist based morals. He thought of socialism as a devious Jewish led plot, because of the amount jewish leaders behind socialism. To name a few; Kurt Eisner, Rose Luxemburg, Ernst Toller Leon Trotsky Eugen Levlne. In May 1919, the German army banished the socialism from Bavaria. German was forced to sight the treaty of Versailles and pay all the damages caused by Germany. This treaty also caused them to lose a lot of land, population, factories, and natural resources. Hitler began to be more public with his views. In his speeches, instead of sudden outburst, he hailed lectures to his fellow soldiers. He lectured about how the soldiers were not accountable for the failure of the war that they had been betrayed by jews and marxist because of their want for revolution and there lack of belief in the wars cause. In 1919 Hitler was sent to spy at a German Worker’s Party meeting to see if the party was trying to promote communism. It was at this time he begin to understand the that their views of were close to his owe.

Hitler did in fact have some disagreements. He made a speech to show his feelings on the subject. Anton Drexler was eager about Hitlers speaking abilities, and asked him to join the GWP. He agreed. Hitler quickly made his way up the ranks and became propaganda manager. He then recruited members of the army including a commanding officer that had access to the political money and was able to bring money into the organization. They used this money to help them establish themselves into society to make people aware of there existence. Hitler was an exquisitely equipped skilled speaker and he did most of the public speaking. Anton Drexler soon knew that without Hitler’s speeches the organizations would parish and that hitler knew his importance to the party which gave him much power over the GWP. Most of the new people joining the organizations were there because of Hitler. Hitler tried to stay away from paparazzi after making his speeches he would leave as fast as he could avoiding personal conversation with people. On February 24th 1920 the GWP, which was now known as the Nazi party, held a rally 2,000 people attended the rally that was a major increase in population in the party. When Hitler entered the party there was only a population of 24 people. In 1921 Hitler became leader of the Nazi party. In September he was sent to prison for 3 months for assault. When Adolf was free he formed a personal army who were known as “storm troopers” or “brownshirts”. This army was mostly used for protecting Hitler and violence against his enemies. Hitler would also use the brownshirts for advertising. He would walk the streets of Munich with his army and speak about his stand against the other races and religion. He would entice people to join him in his acts of violence. Bavarian government did not stand in the Nazi party’s way however the national government of Berlin passed laws in hopes it would keep their republic protected from any of Hitler’s shenanigans. Hitler set up a rally to share his plan of overthrowing the German government and to lead the 40,000 people. They were there to hear the speech and these that would join them. 1923 Germany’s economic stability had crumbled People became mad at the government and most betrayed the government. One of the many of the new members of the Nazi party was Joseph Goebbels. He was an old friend of hitlers that he met in 1925. Joseph wrote a passage in the his diary: "Shakes my hand. Like an old friend. And those big blue eyes. Like stars. He is glad to see me. I am in heaven. That man has everything to be king." By the 1930 nazi party was the next biggest party in germany other then the German Social Democrat Party Franz von Papen was the chancellor May 1932, Franz von Papen abolished the ban on the SA Nazis and the Communists started fighting in the streets one of the fight caused 86 deaths July 1932 election the Nazi party did a lot better then there had in any other election with 230 seats. the Nazis changed in to much more violent then they ever had been before. In January 1933 Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany and the nazi party had taken over. Hitler's first move as the dictator over germany was to make all other party’s illegal and any who tried to from an alliance against the nazi party would be sent to concentration camps. Anyone that tried to leave the camps where murdered. In 1934 he had control over most every thing in Germany. On the 13th of August a new chancellor, Gustav Stresemann, was sworn in. Hitler still was not satisfied. He was under the impression that he could do a better job at being the Chancellor of Germany. Eric Ludendorff was the leading officer of the German army. During part of the first world war Eric endorsed and supported Hitler and Hitler made it clearer to Eric that when he was chancellor of Germany he would make him the leader of the German army. Once again Hitler was going to attempted to bring down the national government. But the national government was alerted about Hitlers strike. The government ordered for the attempt to be silenced. Hitler and 3,000 armed troops tried to march through Munich but found that it was blocked Hitler would not back down against the Munich police and a riot broke out in the street. Twenty-one people were brutally murdered. Hitler was arrested and could have faced the death penalty. During the time Hitler was in prison he slipped back in to a state of depression and mentioned taking his own life. Hitler was sentenced to 5 years. This sentence was not a harsh one. Hitler was able to have visitors, read books and other things that most inmates could not do. They were lenient with him. During the time he spent in prison he wrote a book, Mein Kampf, which meant “My Struggle”. Mein Kampf expressed the way he feels politically and he showed some light on the things he learned in the history books he had read. He wrote things about how he thought the Jews were lethargic and had not done a lot for the human race and civilization. Hitler blamed every thing he despised on the Jews. He thought they were part of a communist scandal to take over the world. Hitler was let out of prison on December, 20th 1924. He only spent one year of the 5 he was sentenced to. Hitler noticed right away that Germany was on it’s way to economic stability. When it was almost stable again Hitler moved to Berchtesgaden and in that part of his life he spent time soul-searching and discovering his lust for woman. Though he did not like dominant woman or woman that spoke about politics. Hitler stated a relationship with Geil Raubal. She was Hitler’s half niece. Throughout the 2 year relationship Hitler was manipulative and possessive over Geil and that became an problem between them. On September 8, 1931 Hitler left Geil and went to Hamburg. Not long after that he heard news of Geil shooting herself in the heart with a revolver. Hitler was seeing Eva Braun a little after Geils death but Hitler also spent time with other women. He liked film stars and actresses and other women of that stature. Renate Mueller violently took her own life after having an relationship with Hitler. Eva was highly jealous and despised Hitler's other girlfriends. In 1932 Eva attempted to take her own life as well, however she was saved by doctors at a local hospital. These brought Eva to Hitler's attention and he stared seeing more of her and less of other women. He kept his relationship private and was not seen in public with any women. In this speeches he pledged to stay unwed. Anti-Semitic was was increasing and the more it did the more hitler spoke about it in his speeches public places were put up flyer that ether bands jews were hostel towards them. hitler also endorse people not to have anything to do with jews to just isolate them from society completely. The Nuremberg Laws took the rights for jews to be a Citizen germany in 1935. Germany was flushing jews out of germany many jews left to seek Citizenship where they could be excepted for there religion and life style. Many Jewish stores were mangled and synagogues were burned to the ground. Ninety-one jews were viciously beaten or shot to death. Thousands were captured by the nazi’s and brought to concentration camps between the years of 1933 and 1939. The Jews also had a heard time getting into other countries. Hitler was aware of the power that the British had over Europe. He knew that if he did not form an alliance with the British he would have little to no successes in his plan. The Treaty of Versailles also got in Hitler's way. Hitler felt that the German army was to weak and the other countries were avoiding war. He sent troops to the French border which was restricted, to see just how much that he could get away with. Hitler wanted to make Austria part of Germany so he made an alliance with Austria and became one union. In September 1938 British prime minister Neville Chamberlain and Hitler met. He made it clear that if the British did not support Germany in the takeover of Sudetenland that he would just order troops to storm the place. Hitler was made to promised not to make any other land issues which worried him. If he did not stop invading innocent countries then British would intervene. Germany was now in alliance with the Soviet Union. On the 1st of September, 1939, Germanys army was sent to invade Poland. Neville Chamberlain was sick of Hitler pushing his luck and declared war on Germany. Hitler invaded four other countries and defeated them all in very quick time. Germany used the blitzkrieg (lightning war) tactics to bring about a swift victory against the British. Though Hitler wanted Britain in his alliance he would not back down under almost any circumstances. He was determined to have a German empire. He did not want to waste any time after defeating France. He wanted to make an attack on the British but after consulting with his generals he made the decision to delay the intrusion due to the strength advantage that the British air forces had over Germany’s army. By August 12, 1940 Germany had established a durable air force and began surprise bombing of the British. October 12, 1940 Hitler had not fully ended his attacks on Britain but slowed them. After Hitler had full control of Poland three and a half million Jews had been captured. And the numbers where vastly increasing after being captured. They where confined in concentration camps in Poland and other various countries that Hitler and his Nazi army had taken over. As Hitler gained more power and trust over Germany he got more hostile against the Jews. When Jews where sentenced to go to the concentration camps, ghettos and other death traps these places were very small quarters for the amount of people in them. This made them vulnerable to deadly disease which cause a lot of casualties in itself. Their few belongings that they had been able to salvage from their homes before they had been taken from their lives was taken away when they entered these places. They then had nothing left of value from their former life but their memories which they desperately held on to. The lucky ones still had hope to see the time where they'd be freed from the hell they where enduring. They would be beaten, degraded, under fed, forced to do hard endless labor. Some were gruesomely experimented on and millions of Jews were murdered in gory, intense manners which where extremely inhumane. All of this was single-handedly done under Hitler's command. As time went on things only got more unbearably unlivable for the Jewish race in Nazi Germany. Some Jews got the opportunity to go into hiding. Some Germans still had conflict with Hitler’s determined genocide of the Jew’s and allowed Jewish families to hide in their home even though that could result in their own death if Jews were found. Nazi troops would just intrude without a second thought into people’s homes, carelessly leaving destruction in their path. Adolf Hitler was an exquisitely skilled mass- manipulator who was a demented, demanding, delusional sociopath. He had no compassion toward other human beings. Hitler was driven by hate and would not stop till Jewish blood had spilled.

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