Holocaust Research Paper

The Holocaust In 1993, there were more than 10 million Jews in Europe, but by 1945, 6 million had been murdered. out of the 6 million, over 1.1 million children died during the Holocaust. Approximately 13 million Jews live throughout the world today. What happened during the Holocaust was the Nazi Party killed a mass amount of Jews driven by the desire to create “a pure race” of people. “A pure race is blonde haired, blue eyed Germans, who one day rule Europe . Only then would the Nazis Party’s work be done. While it is impossible to ascertain the exact number of Jewish victims, statistics indicate that the total was over 5,860,000. 6 million is the round figure accepted by most authorities. The type of people killed in the Holocaust was Jewish people in Europe. The Nazi Party wanted to get rid of the Jews because they were “unpure” to them. It is fairly certain that the Nazis had no operative plan for the systematic annihilation of the Jews before 1941.

Despite the difficult conditions to which Jews were subjected in Nazi-occupied Europe, many engaged in armed resistance against the Nazis. This resistance can be divided into three basic types of armed

It remains uncertain as to when the Nazi leadership decided to implement the “final solution,” the plan to annihilate the Jews of Europe. The genocide of the Jews was the culmination of a decade of german policy under Nazi rule and the realization of a core goal of the Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler. The details of the “Final Solution” were worked out at the Wannsee Conference. All Jews in Germany and the occupied countries were deported to sealed ghettos as a holding area. Many were then shipped in cattle cars to labor camps where they lived under brutally inhuman conditions. Hundreds of thousands were sent directly to the gas chambers in death camps. As the Allies advanced on the camps, death marches further depleted the ranks of potential camp