Holocaust

Introduction

Holocaust is said to be the slaughter or the destruction at a wider scale. Holocaust also occurred when there was German Nazi regime amidst the period of 1941-1945 whereby mass murder of Jews took place.

Discussion

The key principles of the Nazi doctrine, in some respects is similar to Italian fascism who were inspired by the theories that supported a biological and cultural superiority of the Aryan race. Hitler proposed an expansion plan of the national territory, justifying the need to expand the living space for the German people. Other nation that must submit to the Aryan race, by virtue of its overt superiority, was destined to rule the world. Enemies of the Aryans were primarily Jews, responsible for the economic disaster and the spread of liberal and Marxist ideologies (Bard & Mitchell, Pp: 45-65).

As a result of nationalist and racist ideas proclaimed by Hitler in 1925, the Nazi regime from the outset, took steps to systematically conduct discrimination against Jews, which was formalized later in Nuremberg Laws (5 September 1935). According to the ideology of anti-Semitism and racist regime, a jews was anyone that appears to have three or four grandparents observant of the Jewish religion, regardless of its participation in the life of the Jewish community, was half jew who had two grandparents or are married to a Jew; who had only one Jew grandfather was designated as a "mongrel". Both the Jews and the "half-breeds" were not Aryan, and as such subject to discriminatory laws and directives. The stated objective of the Nazi regime before the Second World War was to push the Jews to emigrate. In the year of 1938, the retaliation to the assassination of a diplomat who was German in Paris by a young Jew in Germany lead to the burning of all the synagogues, along with smashing of the windows of shops that are said to be owned by Jewish and arrested thousands of Jews. The so-called Kristallnacht convinced many German and Austrian Jews to leave the country without further ado, hundreds of thousands of people sought refuge abroad, but many found themselves forced or chose to remain. In 1938, the king of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele III ratified anti-Jewish laws, volutes, on the model of the German, by the fascist government of Mussolini. The result was an exodus, quantitatively much more modestly, the Italian citizens of Jewish origin and those who had a spouse Jews (Gutman, pp: 55-78).

At the outbreak of World War II (September 1939), the German army occupied western Poland, which included the two million inhabitants of Jews, who were restricted even more stringent than those in Germany. They were, in fact, physically forced to switch into the ghettos surrounded by walls and barbed wire, and each had its own ghetto Jewish council which was entrusted with the responsibility of housing (overcrowded, with six or seven people per room), health and production. How much was produced in them was trading with coal supplies and food (mainly wheat and vegetables) in a quantity sufficient to ...