The Holocaust
Injustice towards people who were Jewish has always been around, but Adolf Hitler, who became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, took the dislike of the Jewish people to a whole other level. That is when the Holocaust had began. It first started with laws that practically left the Jews with no rights whatsoever and also no protection from the injustices that could and would be done to them by anyone who wished to harm them. Their citizenship was taken away, and also their freedom once concentration camps and ghettos started popping up around Europe.
Ghettos were small areas where the Germans forced the Jews to live. They were too small to accommodate the large number of Jews living there and people were constantly dying from lack of food, water, or they were killed if they tried to escape them. Most who lived in ghettos were often shipped off to concentration camps. Concentration camps were basically prisons for a massive amount of people, mostly Jews, that went against Hitler's ideas, or simply people Hitler didn't like. The purpose for the camps was in the end to destroy the people contained within them either by working them to death, or simply killing them with either poisonous gas, ovens, or simple brutality. Sometimes they were even experimented on and most of the time the procedures were very painful and very unethical.
Jewish people were also being killed in their own towns by being trapped and shot, or forced into building that were shortly after set on fire. The mass killing of the Jewish people was really getting out of hand. Once the 1940's came and the Allies were winning battles against Germany the camps were found and were liberated since most camps were abandoned by the Germans before the Allies reached them. Afterwards several Nazi officers were either given the death penalty or spent their lives in jail for the injustices done by Hitler, who committed suicide, and all other Nazis and persons who did injustices to the Jewish people of Europe.
Ghettos were small areas where the Germans forced the Jews to live. They were too small to accommodate the large number of Jews living there and people were constantly dying from lack of food, water, or they were killed if they tried to escape them. Most who lived in ghettos were often shipped off to concentration camps. Concentration camps were basically prisons for a massive amount of people, mostly Jews, that went against Hitler's ideas, or simply people Hitler didn't like. The purpose for the camps was in the end to destroy the people contained within them either by working them to death, or simply killing them with either poisonous gas, ovens, or simple brutality. Sometimes they were even experimented on and most of the time the procedures were very painful and very unethical.
Jewish people were also being killed in their own towns by being trapped and shot, or forced into building that were shortly after set on fire. The mass killing of the Jewish people was really getting out of hand. Once the 1940's came and the Allies were winning battles against Germany the camps were found and were liberated since most camps were abandoned by the Germans before the Allies reached them. Afterwards several Nazi officers were either given the death penalty or spent their lives in jail for the injustices done by Hitler, who committed suicide, and all other Nazis and persons who did injustices to the Jewish people of Europe.