How Was The Holocaust Happen - 1082 Words

How was the Holocaust aloud to happen? World War 2 was fought between the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) and the Allied Powers (Britain, United States, Soviet Union, France). Most of the countries in the world were involved in some way. It was the deadliest war in all of human history with around 70 million people killed. World War 2 started in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Great Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany. The war in Europe ended with Germany s surrender on May 7, 1945. The war in the Pacific ended when Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945. But how was the Holocaust aloud to happen? Jewish people were impacted immensely during World War 2. Jews were dismissed from employment, especially those in†¦show more content†¦They measured skull size and nose length and recorded features to determine whether students belonged to the true Aryan race. During history lessons whilst the class was taught about World War 1, Jews would be branded and ridiculed as traitors in front of their classmates. In concentration camps they were forced to stand completely still, often for hours at a time, exposed to the elements in the cold, rain, or snow and to the terror of sudden violence by SS men or guards. The camp routine was composed of a long list of orders and instructions, usually given to all but sometimes aimed at individual prisoners, the majority of which were familiar yet some came unexpected. All of one’s strength had to be enlisted to overcome the daily routine: an early wake up, arranging the bed’s straw, the line-up, marching to labour, forced labo ur, the waiting period for the meager daily meal, usually consisting of a watery vegetable soup and half a piece of bread which was insufficient for people working at hard labour, the return to the camp, and another line-up, before retiring to the barracks. But from all of these bad things that have happened to Jewish people what led people to believe Jewish people were so bad? People thought the solution to all these problems was to banish the Jews from society. With this political message and the promise