Holocaust Essay

The Holocaust, a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler 's Nazi regime. The Holocaust did not happen overnight instead it occurred through years of discrimination, segregation, and violence against the Jews in Germany. Hitler first wanted the Jews to emigrate, then they were put into Ghettos, then Concentration camps, and last Extermination camps. The U.S. did very little in regards to the aiding of the Jews and other groups being persecuted by Nazi Germany.

During the Great Depression America had instigated many new regulations on immigration. When World War 2 happened it help get the U.S. out of the depression but the new immigration laws stayed in tack. With the increase of Jewish immigrants more regulations where implemented to keep them out. In a State Department memo it said, “We could do this [stop immigrants] by simply advising our consuls, to put every obstacle in the way and to require additional evidence and to resort to various

The U.S. refused put the liberating of the concentration and death camps in the forefront of their priorities and instead refused to help at all. When the War Refugee Board asked the Secretary of War to help the camps by bombing the gas chambers, crematoria or even the railway to the camps, the U.S. came up with an excuse that “such [a] doubtful efficacy would not warrant the use of our resources”. The U.S. did not help not because they didn’t have the resources but because they didn’t get any gain from trying to save thousands of lives.

The Holocaust is considered one of the worst mass crimes in human history. The U.S. should have done so much more in an effort to try and stop the atrocities that where happening and yet they did not. In the future maybe the U.S. can learn from this and take a greater care to try and save