Why did Hitler hate the
Jews?
Holocaust happened because Hitler and the Nazis were racist. They
believed the German people were a 'master race', who were superior
to others. They even created a league table of 'races' with the Aryans
at the top and with Jews, Gypsies and black people at the bottom.
These 'inferior' people were seen as a threat to the purity and strength
of the German nation. When the Nazis came to power they persecuted these
people, took away their human rights and eventually decided that they
should be exterminated.
How did the
Nazis carry our their policy of genocide?
In the late 1930's the Nazis killed thousands of handicapped Germans by
lethal injection and poisonous gas. After the German invasion of the
Soviet Union in June 1941, mobile killing units following in the wake of
the German Army began shooting massive numbers of Jews and Gypsies in
open fields and ravines on the outskirts of conquered cities and towns.
Eventually the Nazis created a more secluded and organized method of
killing. Six extermination centers were established in occupied Poland
where large-scale murder by gas and body disposal through cremation were
conducted systematically. Victims were deported to these centers from
Western Europe and from the ghettos in Eastern Europe which the Nazis
had established. In addition, millions died in the ghettos and
concentration camps as a result of forced labor, starvation, exposure,
brutality, disease, and execution.
Louis Bülow ©2009-11
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