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World War II was the fight with Hitler on keeping Jews alive. Hitler believed in the perfect race, and I'm not talking about the Amazing Race. I'm talking about human race. He believed that Jews did not fall under the perfect race. So his goal was to kill every Jew. He used ghettos, such as the Warsaw Ghetto to keep Jews locked in to keep track of them. There were death camps where Hitler would torture them, such as Auschwitz. The Holocaust finally came to an end. Hitler lost when he realized it was all over, there was nothing more he could do, so he married his mistress and about two days later, they were both dead.

One event that happened during the Holocaust was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The Warsaw Ghetto was a ghetto that was the largest one in a town called Warsaw, Poland. The Jews heard about other Jews being taken to death camps, so they decided they would fight back and be prepared. They made homemade bombs, got together knives, stole weapons, and took anything they could lay their hands on that could hurt the Germans in some way. Therefore, when the Nazis came to collect the Jews, they had an uprising. The Nazis killed some but most were taken to labor camps but the Jews continued to fight back for four weeks. It ended on May 16, 1939.

The Warsaw ghetto would be a bad place to live. In fact, ghettos in general would be a horrible place to live, with bad living conditions. "Ghetto life was wretched. The ghettos were filthy, with poor sanitation. Extreme overcrowding forced many people to share a room. Disease was rampant. Staying warm was difficult during bitter cold winters without adequate warm clothes and heating fuel. Food was in such short supply that many slowly starved to death. They were only given about one-tenth of the amount of calories that a person needs each day" (http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/ghettos.htm).

Hitler was able to get people to not resist him. How? I'll tell you. He told people untruthfully that Jews should be locked away in a quarantined area because all Jews were carriers of diseases such as typhoid, etc. I think it was wrong of Hitler to try to convince people that Jews belonged there so they wouldn't stop him.

I believe that the Warsaw Ghetto was the worst of all my events because here they were tortured with the thought of knowing that they'll be killed at any time and having know clue as to when, just being tortured with the thought day after day after day. I mean uncertainty of not knowing entirely what is going on would be totally and completely miserable for me.

Auschwitz was a concentration camp (or death camp) in southern Poland. This place was made up of three camps, one for prison, one for extermination, and one for forced labor. This camp was started in 1940.

Auschwitz was where the largest amount of European Jews were murdered from the Holocaust. Here Jews were killed by being shot, gassed, starved, disease, and burning. Jews were murdered here because of the family they were born into. Nevertheless, the question I would ask is if they knew that this would happen would they have chosen to be born into a different family or was it worth it to go through all that pain and suffering? So the the question here is not why them but was it worth it.

Auschwitz was a place of horror for people of all sizes. "So called camp doctors, especially the notorious Josef Mengele, would torture and inflict incredible suffering on Jewish children, Gypsy children and many others. Patients were put into pressure chambers, tested with drugs, castrated, frozen to death, and exposed to various other traumas" (http://Auschwitz.dk/Auschwitz.htm).

In my personal opinion, the Auschwitz death camp is the second worst out of all my topics. I think this because this isn't a place were they are kept just waiting knowing that any day they could be murdered until its there turn to well, die I guess. This is the place were they were actually killed and not just shot but killed in the most awful ways.

Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Holocaust. His goal was basically to kill every Jew that came his way. Most he never saw, just were sent to death camps to be destroyed. Over six million European Jews were killed.

When Adolf Hitler realized he had lost the battle to take over the world, he married his mistress, Eva Braun. They were married for about two days. Then they drank some cyanide. If that wasn't good enough, Hitler shot himself right in the head. There are rumors, though, that say that after the cyanide they killed each other. No one knows how it really went down, though.

Hitler and Eva Braun's dead bodies were found by the Soviet troops. The Soviet troops carried the bodies with them to every camp. They would bury them, then when it was time to go to the next camp, they would take the bodies out of the dirt and rebury them at the next camp. The next place they were buried (Eva Braun and Hitler) was behind Smersh's East German headquarters in Magdeburg, under a yard later owned by a waste-disposal firm.

"A few days before blowing out his brains in his underground bunker in Berlin in April 1945, Adolf Hitler said to Albert Speer, in charge of production of armaments, 'I've given orders that I be cremated. Fraeulein Braun wants to depart this life with me and I'll shoot Blondi {my dog} beforehand. Believe me, Speer; it is easy for me to end my life. A brief moment and I'm freed of everything, liberated from this painful existence.'" (Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich. Memoris. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1970, pp. 479-80.)

This topic is the one I feel to be the least horrible in terms of there really only being two people who died as opposed to millions. In fact in a way I sort of think of it as a good thing because it was the death of a horrible man and a woman who was actually just as evil because she was capable of loving that monstrosity of a man.

These are just three events of many involved in the Holocaust. I feel that these three events represent all the horrible things that happen in your life. You hear people complalning about their lives. Heck, I do it all the time. But if you know about the way people had to live back then, then you know you haven't really experienced hardship, not like them. I'm not a Jew, but I'm still glad I was born in a different time.

Bibliography
Bibliography
Event #1: Warsaw Ghetto

Author unknown (2008). The Warshaw Ghetto Uprising. Aish.com, retrieved Februrary 3, 2008 from http://www.aish.com/holocaust/overview/he05n27.htm

This guide provides information about the Warsaw Ghetto.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. (2007, Oct.). Warsaw. Ushmm.org, retrieved February 3, 2008 from http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005069

This guide provides information about the Warsaw Ghetto.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. (2007, Oct.).
Deportations to and from the Warsaw Ghetto, Ushmm.org., retrieved February 3, 2008 from http://www.ushmm.or/wlc/aricle.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005413

This guide provides information about the Warsaw Ghetto.

Author unknown. (2007). The Warsaw Ghetto. Warsaw-Life.com. Retrieved February 3, 2008 from http://www.warsaw-life.com/poland/warsaw-ghetto

This guide provides information about the Warsaw Ghetto.

Event #2: Auschwitz

Bulow, L. (2008). Auschwitz. Gate to Hell. Reviewed February 4, 2008 from http://auschwitz.dk/Auschwitz.htm

This guide provides information about the Holocaust.


Farlex, Inc. (2008). Aushwitz. The Free Dictionary. Retrieved February 4, 2008 from http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Auschwitz.htm

This guide provides a description of Aushwitz.


Florida Center for Instructional Technology. College of Education, University of South Florida (2005). The Ghettos. A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust. Retrieved February 3, 2008 from http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/ghettos.htm

This guide provides information on the Holocaust.


Rosenberg, J. (2008). Auschwitz. About.com: 20th Century History. Retrieved February 4, 2008 from http://history1900s.about.com/od/auschwitz/a/auschwitz.htm

This guide provides information about Auschwitz.

Wikipedia (2008). Aushwitz. Answers.com, retrieved February 4, 2008 from http://www.answers.com/topic/Auswitz

This guide provides information about Aushwitz.


Event #3: Hitler's Suicide

Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich. Memoirs.New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1970, pp. 479-80.


Rosenberg, J. (2008). Adolf Hitler. About.com: 20th Century History. Retrieved February 4, 2008 from http://history1900s.about.com/cs/hitleradolf/p/hitler.htm

This guide provides information about Hitler.

Bulow, L. (2008). The Suicide. Eva Braun, retrieved February 4, 2008 from http:www.evabraun.dk/evabraun4.htm

This guide provides information about Hitler's death.

Jackson, Guy. (2005, April.) Last Witness Remembers Hitler's Suicide. Mail & Guardian Online. Retrieved February 4, 2008 from http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=236728&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news

This guide provides information about Hitler's death.

Bulow, L. (2008). Suicide. Adolf Hitler. Retrieved February 4, 2008 from http://www.shoah.dk/Hitler/new_page_16.htm

This guide provides information about Adolf Hitler.

May 2, 2008 | 12:32 PM Comments  1 comments

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joscarjr55 Joseph
May 22, 2008 | 5:24 AM
Lost the point
I cant see where you got so traumatised. I mean you have just repeated all that has been showing on western media about hitler and his crazy ways since the holocaust. I would presume that one would desensibilise himself from the event at some point. but that's relative to everyone.
Nice to tell history as it has been told but I see more the extent to which a bulk of individuals are able to be drawn by this mad yet in control character. In the absurdity of those times I think it was till a certain extent inevitable for some extreme right party to emerge. just happened the guy like many others was obsessed about the jews.
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