Jacob Banks Essays (1984 words) - The Holocaust, Racism, Europe

Jacob Banks Jackson U.S 2 5/22/17 The Holocaust and it's effects The discovery of these atrocities scarred the entire world for years to come , and even to this day we still talk about these horrors. The holocaust was known as Hitler's "final solution", his solution being to blame and kill all the European Jews for Germany's problems. And a vast number of the German population followed Hitler because he pulled the German economy out of the dirt , he brought the German army back to its former glory after the defeat of the World War, and he had someone to point at for all the problems the German people faced. Hitler's disgusting round up and slighter of the Jewish populous appalled all those who heard it to the point of disbelief and dismay, the soldiers who discovered the camps couldn't believe what they were looking at when they first discovered the camps. The holocaust was one of, if not the most tragic event to happen in the history of wars. Never has a single population of people been rounded up an d slaughtered for absolutely no reason until Hitler's final solution. From the discovery of the camps to even modern day America the outlook of the Germans has been much less than favorable , and the holocaust is the blame for the Germans demise. The holocaust is said to have killed some 6 million Jews, and that's only the rough estimate of the bodies they were able to count. The holocaust was a brutal endeavor where a man by the name of Adolf Hitler attempted to massacre the entire European Jewish populous because they were supposedly the reason for Germany's demise. The way the Germans would execute their prisoners was inhumane, they would lure them in with the simple promise of something like a shower and slaughter them all in an instant without warning, "You are going to take a nice hot shower. Remove all your clothes, and leave them where you are. You will find them when you return. The unsuspecting prisoners, eager to cleanse themselves after their long cattle car journey, obeyed. They did not know they were going to their deaths. For once they were locked in the "shower" rooms, the Nazis released poison gas, not water, into the chambers. Immediately after the gassing, the dead bodies were hauled to nearby ovens call ed crematoriums. There, they were burned as fast as possible"(Leitner Isabella). All the fire and heat to cremate the piles of bodies left a wretched smell of death and black clouds all over the Jewish concentration camps, "The skies darkened with thick black smoke for miles around, and the smell was awful" (Leitner Isabella). Not only were the prisoners tortured by the smell of their dead, burned, or rotting fellow Jews; but they were also starved, beaten, forced to work, experimented on, and overall just dirty and sick living conditions "The prisoners in my Block had no true beds. Instead, we slept on triple-deck wood shelves called Pritsches . I slept on a top shelf, with my three sisters and ten other girls. The shelf under us also held fourteen girls, and the bottom shelf another fourteen. The shelves often broke, and those on top came tumbling down on the girls below. Screams and shouts filled the night when the Pritsches broke. And nobody slept" (Leitner Isabella). The German s would hold roll calls every single night, those who did not show up or could not stand perfectly still were beaten by the kapos, Jews chosen to police the ghettos, "Counting us took hours, and during this time, we had to stand without moving. The Kapos , who were prisoners themselves, helped the Germans. They beat us if we moved out of line" (Leitner Isabella). The concentration camps were overall a horrid sight to see, and just overly cruel to the Jewish population. They had no clean water, food, or clothes. The weaker were killed off while the strong were beaten into submission until they'd do any work the Germans or the Kapos would ask of them. To this day no one has forgotten the holocaust. It has even been made illegal in the country of Germany