Racism Holocaust Adolf Hitler Jews Concentration Camps Summary

During World War 2,Germany blamed all Their problems such as low income,

financial crisis and low employment rates on the Jews because they were so successful. So when Adolf Hitler got the place as dictator he wanted to make Germany powerful and the only way he could do that was by eliminating people such as communists, disabled people, gypsies and especially Jews. The hatred of Jews was know as Anti-Semitic.

All Jews were forced to wear an armband with a yellow star on it. Hitler gave all Jews a chance to get out of Germany before taking maters into his own hands. If they still remained at home he would evict them and then sent them to concentration camps. Around six million Jews were killed then. That period of time is known as Holocaust

Adolf Hitler 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945. Born in Austria. Adolf’s father used to beat him a lot, so when his father died he felt no remorse what so ever in fact he was quite happy. So Adolf was brought up by his mum. All the hatred and pain he had suffered was in side him so he wanted to hurt people to, but he went over board a began killing people like Jews and he called this ‘The Final Solution.’

When Adolf won the election, he became dictator of Germany and this gave him the power to make decisions for Germany. He kept pestering the Jews, so in the end some people ended up emigrating to different countries. So for the people that did not go Hitler stormed their houses and they were taken to the concentration camps in were they died of starvation, disease, shooting or getting gassed.

The Jews were a race of people who covered most of Germany. Jews were successful so many Germans envied them. Most Germans agreed with Hitler that the Jews were getting all the good jobs in the country, so the Germans decided to eliminate them. Just because they were different they were disliked by everybody. The Jews had to wear an armband with a yellow star on it. Then the Jewish children were sent out of school and adults were fired from their jobs.

There were about 20 main concentration camps around Europe. These camps were set up to kill Jews and the other races of people disliked. They were either gassed, starved to death, worked to death or shot. The soldiers were so brutal they even made them dig their own graves and then they had to stand at the edge and shoot them .They later decided it was just a waste of time and bullets. So they started to put a group of Jews in a sealed chamber and gassed them. They were also stripped of their clothes and their hair was shaved off.

Also their shoes were taken away from them. The camps were very low in quality. The residents had to sleep on triple bunk beds. These were made of wood and they were not comfortable at all. The weather was very cold and their blankets were extremely thin and very lousy. The people were forced to dig holes all day from morning till night. They were hardly fed anything at all. If a person died they would burn their body or take it away.

In conclusion Adolf Hitler purposely started WW2 because he hated Jews and he wanted to eliminate the. Concentration camps were set up to kill them. About 6 million Jews died and this is known as The Holocaust remembrance day and is still celebrated on the 9 of April.