Holocaust

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The Holocaust happened during World War 2. It was a mass killing of the Jews and the people who helped protect them. The Nazi's put all of these people in concentration camps where they were put to work until they were of no use and then killed

Hitler
Hitler was the founder and leader of the Nazi Party. Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889. He had always been moody, of unstable temperament and hostile especially towards his parents. While Hitler was in Vienna in learned about politics and picked up the stereotype that certain kinds of people are bad for society. One of the groups of people that were being stereotyped where the Jews. Hitler felt it was his job to rid the world of these people and started a group called the Nazi's to do the job. These Nazi's slowly moved into society and cut the Jews off from everything. They couldn't go to work or school, they had to close their businesses, and they had restrictions on how much stuff they could own. Then at some point the Nazi's would come to there house and take them to a place that they told them would help them. What the Jews didn't know was that they were actually being taken to concentration camps were more than half of them would die.

What Are They?
Concentration Camps are where the Nazis took the Jews that they had captured. Some of the camps were for working and some of them were for killing. Neither of these were good places to be, obviously. The camps that were meant for working was considered by some, worse than teh death camps. The people that were sent here were forced to work no matter if they were sick, injured or tired. Here the Nazis worked their prisoners, quite literally, until they dropped. At the death camps, however, the people there were killed within a few days usually. Most of the people sent here were women, children, and old sick people. Also if you had any kind of birth defect that deemed you unable to work this is were you were sent. These camps had gas chambers that people went into usually under the inpression that they would be taking a shower. The Nazis would also get a group together in an open public place and just shot at the people in front of them until there were no more standing. Another way they killed these inocent people was by burning, they burnt bodies even if they were still alive. In all 5,730,000 jews were killed in Death (concentration) Camps.

Auschwitz
Auschwitz is the most well known death camps. This is were the largest amount of life was lost. An estimated three million people died here, nine out of ten of those people were Jews. Kids brough to Auschwitz were usually killed upon arrival and babies born at the camp were killed on the spot. At auschwitz you could not cry or show sadness for your losses, because if you cried you died. The "doctors" at Auschiwtz only added more pain to the sick and injured by preforming various inhuman experiments on them. The expreiments preformed on these people are far to disturbing to discribe on this wiki. If any one protested the death of a loved one, you died too. Auschwitz is refered to as "The Gate to Hell'.

Ghettos
The Jewish Ghettos were where the Nazis kept the Jews before they were sent to consentration camps. They were like small neighborhoods in the middle of a city. They were usually gated, to keep the Jews from leaveing. The ghettos were dirty, cramped and lacking in food. The largest ghetto, Warsaw, had 400,000 people crowed into an area about 1.3 square miles big. In these Ghettos it was illgeal to smuggle food, medicine, weapons or information across the walls. In some ghettos paper and pens were eventually band too. The Nazis in charge of the ghettos were permitted to shoot any one they thought was doing something wrong or not preforming their best or a person they just didn't like. Another way of putting this is, they were allowed to shoot anyone they didn't like the looks of.

The End of the Holocaust
On April 30,1944, Hitler went into a bunker he'd desinged and had built for his safety, and refused to come out. And he never came out alive again. Hitler shot himself in the head and died. Under his own orders he was burried right outside of the bunker. When Hitler died the Nazi Germany died too. The Nazis left Berlin and the concentration camps were destroyed. All the Jews were released, and some, who servived the Concentration Camps are still alive to tell their sad story today.