Nazi Germany and The Holocaust
by A research paper dealing with the concentration camps of WWII and their effects on the Jewish society. This is in MLA format with all of the works cited.
The concentration camps created a scar in the German society that society remembers today. This is evident when Jackson states, “You will have difficulty, as I have, to look into the faces of the defendants and believe that in this Twentieth Century human beings could inflict such sufferings as will be proved here on their own countrymen as well as upon their so-called inferior enemies.” This anti-Semitism that the Nazis practiced has proved prevalent throughout the history of Europe, and is still much too common around the world (“Victims”). With the Holocaust being the single biggest war crime in all of history, and the death for millions of innocent Jews, it left many parts of Europe without many Jews. Most Jews will nowadays live in different areas of the world because their families moved or were relocated due to the Holocaust. The killings of Jews in the camps around Germany were so severe in the later years of Hitler’s reign, in 1942, only twenty percent of the people who died in the Holocaust were dead. Fourteen months later, an astonishing eighty percent of the people to be killed were already dead (Fiedman and Berenbaum). In 1933 alone, the Nazi party killed over 500,000 Jewish people (Jackson). The extensive killings and racism by Nazis against the Jews left a major effect on the Jewish society, where the fear of anti-Semitism is excessive. The Jewish people will always hold the Nazis and the country Germany responsible for the atrocities they did to their people.
The society of the Jewish people was affected severely by the concentration camps used to exterminate Jews during World War II. The concentration camps destroyed a society and culture of Jewish people throughout Germany. The pogroms and boycotts of Jewish people were also prevalent in making a lasting effect on the society. Even the citizens of Germany, who had no idea of the camps, created sorrow, because the Jews felt that they could have helped them. The Jewish society could have been much less affected by these happenings if someone had taken a step forward and attempted to prevent them before they were able to kill millions of Jews.
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