The Beginning

"Of the relevance and importance of the Holocaust, there is no question. The Nazi persecution policies and the eventual annihilation of two thirds of European Jewry was a cataclysmic event in Europe's history and although mainland Britain was not occupied, it was nonetheless touched by what happened in a number of ways. Britain was a place of refuge for some 50,000 people fleeing from the Nazis. The trauma which befell occupied Europe might easily have befallen us too. Britain's response to the news from Poland and elsewhere provides an insight into the perils of scepticism in the face of unbelievable reports -- `however bad the news is, it may be true'. "

-Suzanne Bardgett

The Holocaust was systematic mass murdering of about six million jews. The word Holocaust is greek meaning "sacrifice by fire." In 1933, the Nazis, came into power in Germany.  Hitler believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, were insignificant and were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. Adolf Hitler was fully responsible for the central plan of the genocide. "Adolf Hitler's contempt for traditional German law had been manifest from his earliest days as leader of the National Socialist German Workers' Party" (Pearson) First he got National Socialist to establish the a place where they could contain the Jews. Then SS and police officials were sent out to incarcerate the Jews, and other ethnic and racial hatred people for these concentration camps. They monitored the Jewish population later the Germans and their collaborators move them to the forced-labor camps for Jews. This was only the beginning.



ADOLF HITLER

Bardgett, Suzanne. "EXHIBITING HATRED." History Today 50.6 (2000): 18. Gale World History In Context. Web. 29 July 2011.

Pearson, Clive. "Hitler and the law, 1920-1945: Clive Pearson explains the process by which Hitler's will became the law in Nazi Germany." History Review 60 (2008): 28+. Gale World History In Context. Web. 29 July 2011.

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Intro

Why I chose this blog topic?
I am majoring in history and I would like to become a history teacher. That is one of the reasons why I chose the Holocaust. Another reason why is because I would like to learn more about it and also I feel like it is a part of history that shouldn't be taken lightly. I would like to educate people on it more. What happened in the past is a huge part of what is happening now. Even though it isn't part of America's history. It still affects us. It affects all of us every day whether we like it or not, whether we agree or disagree with the decisions that have been made in the past.