Sunday, June 5, 2011

The end of it all.

In 1944, the liberation of these terrible prisons began. By this time however, about 6 million Jews had been murdered. Here's a video about the liberation of the camps:



With evidence like this, how can you deny the Holocaust happening?

The death camps.

In 1939, the leader of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, implemented the Final Solution. The Final Solution was genocide, and the SS was in charge of carrying it out. Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the SS's Security Service created the Einsatzgruppen. The Einsatzgruppen put the Jews into the ghettos and executed them. About 1 million Jews were killed by the Einsatzgruppen alone. However, the process was too slow for Hitler, so the death/concetration camps were created.

Beginning in 1942, Jews from all countries occupied by Germany were rounded up, packed into freight trains, and shipped to Poland. There were six extermination centers,
- Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Belzec
- Chelmno
- Majdanek
- Sobibor
- Treblinka II


There were also several concentration camps, where the goal was to make the prisoners work to death, where they would die of manual labor and malnutrition.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

The ghettos.

Once Hitler had everyone thinking the way he did, he began the persecution of Jews, Gypsies, Roman Catholics, and others. Particularly, the Jews. They didn't start in the famous death camps however. They started in Jewish ghettos. The ghettos were only the beginning of the Final Solution. They were a place where the Germans knew the Jews would be and easy to move about. These ghettos were too small for the amount of people living there, and not sanitary enough to keep its occupants healthy. Many people died before it was decided that they would be sent to the death camps.
        

The man behind it all: Adolf Hitler.

Name: Adolf Hitler
Birthday: April 20, 1889

Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria by the parents of  Alois Schickelgruber Hitler and Klara Poelzl. As a youth, Adolf resented the strictness of his father, which drew him closer to his hardworking mother. When she died of cancer early in Adolf's life, it really effected him as a person. At the age of 16, Adolf had dreams of becoming a painter. In 1907, he left for Vienna in the hopes of enrolling in the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't accepted, so he spent five years in a state of depression. This is said to have helped trigger his hatred for Jews, Marxists, and liberalism.

In 1913, Hitler joined the army - the Sixteenth Bavarian Infantry Regiment, where he performed as a dispatch runner. After witnessing the humiliation of the war first hand, he decided that it was up to him to save Germany from their embarassment. In 1919 he joined a small party called the Germans' Worker Party and changed the name to National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) and by 1921, he was the chairman. It was during this time that Hitler created the swastika and his greeting, "heil." In 1923, Hitler was convinced that the Weimar Republic was too weak to continue, and that with the help of General Ludendorff and other nationalitst groups, they could physically overthrow the government. They were wrong, and Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison. He was released after only 9 months, but during his time in jail, he wrote "Mein Kampf" (My Struggle) to his loyal followers. In this book, Hitler talked about primitive Social Darwinism, racial myth, anti-Semitism and lebensraum fantasy. This book became the so-called bible for the Nazi Party.

In January 1925, the ban that was placed on the Nazi party was removed, and Hitler began his rise to taking over Germany. In 1933, he became the chancellor and soon after, the dictator of Germany.

Once Hitler became the dictator of Germany, he could convince everyone to think the way he did. His main goal - eliminate everyone who wasn't of the Aryan race. With that being said, the genocide was soon to begin.

Here's a video about Hitler:

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

It happened people...

This blog is about the Holocaust, the genocide of the Jewish people as well as others, during WWII. There's too much information and documentation for anyone to deny the cruel things that took place. I'm here to inform the public, and to make sure that everyone knows about these horrible crimes.