How Does Dr. Seuss Publicize The Holocaust?

The Holocaust was a systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi’s from 1933 to 1945. The Germans believed they were “racially superior” and that Jews were “inferior”, they were a treat to the German racial community. Gypsies, people with mental and physical disabilities, and poles were also targeted or decimation for racial, ethnic, or national reasons.

Theodor Geisel, who drew editorial cartoons under the pen name “Dr. Seuss,” was outraged by the news from France and decided to use his cartooning skills to help publicize the plight of the Jews. Dr. Seuss’s wartime cartoon showed discrimination against Jews and called attention to the early stages of the Holocaust. Seuss became one of the first cartoonist to suggest the intensity of the Holocaust

They have them hanging on top of a hill, in the woods to keep them out of the public eye. Hitler didn’t want the rest of the world to know the awful things he’s done. The existence of concentration camps was known by most of the European governments long before the beginning of the World War 2. It was known that the inmates in the camps were beaten, tortured and shot. Hundreds of political refugees tried to warn the governments about these camps and ask them to do something, no one reacted because they refused to believe this information. I could never image the pain and suffering the Jewish people went through. They were separated from their families, beaten, starved, and most were killed. Many Jews simply could not believe that Hitler really meant to kill them all, I can’t believe it either. But once the Nazis had complete control and the Jews were being relocated to ghettos, rations were reduced, conditions were horrible and the Jews did not have the strength, physically, emotionally, or militarily, to resist. There were uprisings in the camps, but it was incredibly difficult and rarely