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Holocaust. According to Webster's New World Dictionary the word Holocaust means
a conflagargration; a great raging fire that consumes everything in its path. ...
Holocaust not holocaust. Holocaust not holocaust A sixth grade student writes,
"The Holocaust is not just a word used to describe something anymore. ...
holocaust remembrance. It is said that “history repeats itself”. ... This was based off
the theory of social Darwinism (The Holocaust Library: The Nazis. ...
holocaust. In the Holocaust, discrimination was a big thing. It was not
the only big thing, there was also prejudice and violence ...
The Holocaust. The Holocaust refers to the period from January 30th,1933, when Adolf
Hitler became chancellor of the Germany. ... The Holocaust Overview. ...
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"Was there any excrement, any shamelessness in any form, above all in cultural life, in which at least one Jew would not have been involved? As soon as one even carefully cut into such an abscess, one found, like maggots in a decaying body, often blinded by the sudden light, a kike." 1 Adolf Hitler
It is important to study the past because information is the opposite of mis-information. Those that want us to hate – us, average every-day people – convince us through ignorance.
Hatred was the beginning of the mass destruction of millions of people. Adolf Hitler's hatred of the Jewish people is well-documented. When Adolf Hitler became Germany's head of state, he introduced anti-Semitic laws which discriminated against Jewish people living in the areas he controlled. He saw Jews as a problem that needed to be removed.
Millions of people were murdered in horrific ways. It is estimated that 5.1 million Jews died during the Holocaust. This figure includes over 800,000 who died from "Ghettoization and general privation;" 1,400,000 who were killed in "Open-air shootings"; and "up to 2,900,000" who perished in camps. Hilberg estimates the death toll in Poland at "up to 3,000,000".2
How could the hatred of one man lead to the unhindered destruction of so many people in a democratic country? First, Hitler, a capable orator and a person who understood the value of propaganda, was able to gain the support of large business and the working class population. Propaganda was central to the persecution and genocide. "The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it," stated Herman Goebbels, Minister of Enlightenment3.
As Minister of Enlightenment, Goebbels had two main tasks: to ensure nobody in Germany could read or see anything that was hostile or damaging to the Nazi Party and to ensure that the views of the Nazis were put...
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