The Holocaust by Nathan Johnson https://padlet.com/ntjohnson/i1n5m3a50lq6 A brief description of the Holocaust during World War II and what the victims of the Holocaust had to live through. en-us 2017-03-23 17:17:25 UTC 2026-01-28 16:49:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png Causes of the Holocaust ntjohnson https://padlet.com/ntjohnson/i1n5m3a50lq6/wish/162215490 Adolf Hitler had risen to power in Germany and was planting the ideologies of Nazism into the heads of the German people. He was able to rise to power because the Germans before the war were desperate for someone or something that could help them to get out of the extreme economic depression they were in. Hitler took advantage of the people in these hard times and promised them solutions to their problems. He blamed the problems Germany was having on Jewish people, and soon he had a following of people who were only supporting him because he was the first to give them answers. Nazi practices aimed to make the public believe that people of other nationalities and religions were enemies of Germany. Hitler told the people that Jewish people were subhuman and needed to be exterminated. The Germans would spread propaganda to make people believe that the Jews were evil and killing them was justified. However this was not the case and the beliefs of these people led to the worst genocide this planet has ever seen.
]]> 2017-03-23 17:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ntjohnson/i1n5m3a50lq6/wish/162215490 Introduction and Description ntjohnson https://padlet.com/ntjohnson/i1n5m3a50lq6/wish/162215989 The Holocaust was and will forever be an example of one of the largest and most cruel killing of people in history. It all began on January 30th, 1933, when Adolf Hitler was appointed as the Chancellor of Germany. Hitler had very anti-semitic views and he was able to gain followers because of fear, desperation, and propaganda. During his time as Chancellor, Hitler would create a system that would end up killing millions of people. Because Hitler was using them as their scapegoat, the Nazis were especially focused on killing off the Jewish population. He would put anybody he deemed an enemy in concentration camps and would work, starve, or experiment on people until they died. Millions more would cling to life through the war and barely make it out of the torture they had to go through.
]]> 2017-03-23 17:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ntjohnson/i1n5m3a50lq6/wish/162215989 Concentration Camps ntjohnson https://padlet.com/ntjohnson/i1n5m3a50lq6/wish/162216746 The largest factor in this historic mass murder is where the Jews were kept during this time. Hitler’s enemies, including the Jews, were kept in places called Concentration Camps. These camps were not what you would imagine when you think of the word ‘camp’. These camps and the people in charge of them had no regard for legal arrest and imprisonment. The people who were kept in these camps were forced to do physical and laborious jobs for the course of about 14 hours every day. They had to work in even the most extreme conditions, and the jobs they did were often pointless, such as breaking rocks apart and dragging them across fields. They were also only fed about the minimum amount of food that they needed to survive. The prisoners would often die of starvation, exhaustion, disease, or exposure to harsh weather conditions. However, the people in these camps were not only forced to do work. The Nazis established killing centers which were designed to quickly and efficiently kill large amounts of people. They would use their prisoners to experiment with weapons, like what they did with the gas chambers. In total, at the end of the war, eleven million people had fallen victim to the Nazis and their camps, with six million of them being Jewish. This devastating loss of innocent civilians will forever be remembered as one of the largest dark spots in history.


]]> 2017-03-23 17:29:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ntjohnson/i1n5m3a50lq6/wish/162216746 Works Cited ntjohnson https://padlet.com/ntjohnson/i1n5m3a50lq6/wish/162217575 Works Cited
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