The Holocaust :: European Europe History

The HolocaustThe Holocaust was the extermination of the Jews and other state whom Hitler considered inferior. It took place from 1933 to 1945. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany led this effort. About 12 million people were murdered, half of them being Jews. When Hitler took over control of Germany, everything changed. Hitler had a very strong prejudice against the Jews. He wanted to create the pure(a) race of blonde haired blue eyed Germans. His followers, who were the soldiers in the camps, were c in alled Nazis. They enforced all cleanup spot that Hitler wanted done. Also, there were many other people multiform in this massive genocide. Different people were leading the killing and different groups of people were being killed, not only Jews. For instance, there were many doctors who ran tests on people, but didnt c are if the patients were hurt or even killed, which they usually were. all told surgeries were performed without any anesthetic. These are just a couple g eneral things that happened during the Holocaust. on that point are so many things that happened in this time period that are impossible to imagine or just are too alarming to think about. The things about the Holocaust that I find the most faze are the torture and pain they put the Jews and other groups through. The two main(prenominal) topics I feel are most serious or decisive are the medical experiments and their results and reactions on the patients. Also, the different camps, their strong points and general methods for killing used there. There are three camps that are familiar to me and I hear mentioned the most. They are Dachau, Treblinka, and of course, Auschwitz. The doctor who was most infamous for carrying out abominable experiments was Mengele. Dachau, Treblinka, and Auschwitz were three of the six concentration camps that were used for execution of Jews and other groups considered inferior. At Treblinka, 700,000 to over 1,000,000 people were killed. The gassings at Dachau never went past the experimental stage. They were in no way used as the gas chambers in Auschwitz were. Also, at Dachau, they performed Intense Cooling experiments. A summary of what they did was theyd dress the display case in certain clothes and either put their whole body, to let in the brain stem, or only up to the brain stem in water which was from 2.5 to 12 degrees Centigrade. Fatalities only occurred when the brain stem and back of boss were also chilled.