Holocaust Essay Research Paper The Holocaust A

Holocaust Essay, Research Paper

The Holocaust. A subject most people would like to forget but shouldn’t.

People must find out as much as possible about it so history won’t repeat

itself. Millions of Jewish men, women, and children , of all strata were

persecuted because of what. Nothing besides the fact that they were Jewish.

Most Jews living in Germany, Austria, Poland, France or practically

anywhere else in Europe were sent to concentration camps. There they were

either tortured or killed. In The book Devil in Vienna, by Doris Orgel, Inge a

young, intelligent Jewish girl is faced with the same types of problems. Being

Jewish at that time was no small problem. Instead of worrying what to wear

the next day, she would have to worry about whether or not her family would

be safe or taken to a concentration camp. Inge not only had to face the

problem of keeping her family together, she had to find a way to maintain a

friendship with her best friend Lieselotte. Lieselotte.s father was a Nazi and

forbade her to keep any contact with Inge, but the two girls would always

find a way to see or write to each other even when things were rough. Inges

father also began to disprove of their friendship and pretty soon if either one

were to mention the other.s name she would be punished. Yet the girls

refused to forget each other. One day Inge received the news. She was to

move away to Yugoslavia to escape Hitler.s regime. The girls promised to

never forget each other and they never did; even long after the war was over.

I think Doris Orgel did a wonderful job in portraying these girls as people

who would forget their differences and what others said in order to maintain a

close bond. I think She did this well because she lived in Austria at that same

time and had to leave several of her friends when she escaped to Yugoslavia.

If one were to look through the pages of a few holocaust books, they would

be sickened and would have to force themselves to continue. Horrorful

accounts of genocide, abuse, starvation, and death fill the pages of these

books telling stories about the suffering of Jews in concentration camps.

Concentration camps were setup throughout Europe for one single purpose:

to get rid of Jews. Many of these camps were kept secret in order to keep

people from acting against them. The people who did know about the

existence of these camps most likely were not aware of the number of killings

and the horrible living conditions. Jews who were sent to concentration

camps did not know what was coming to them. Camp living conditions were

atrocious. People sent to the camps were fed the very bare minimum, never

bathed, were frequently beaten, given the worst sleeping quarters, and killed

in mass numbers by carbon monoxide gassing, shooting and being cremated

alive. The people in charge of the camps were allowed to do anything they

pleased, no matter how violent and abusive. Often they would make Jews do

embarrassing and painful things just out of pure hatred, such as walk around

naked, dig their own grave before being shot, and work until they would die.

It may not seem true, but it is all too real, and it was caused almost

single-handedly by Hitler. Adolf Hitler, the man who was ultimately

responsible for having thousands of Jews executed, was born on April 20,

1889 in Austria-Hungary, one of five children from his father’s third marriage

(three died during childhood). He grew up in what we now call a “broken

home”. His father was a violent ill-tempered man who would frequently resort

to beatings to silence his children. His mother spoiled him with material

goods, maybe out of maternal anxiety. Although Hitler was never encouraged

to try his best, he was punished when he did not do well. This may explain

why he acted the way he did when he grew up. Hitler did not do much better

at school than he did at home. He was a poor student, not because he wasn’t

intelligent but rather because he never applied himself. His teachers often

complained that he was lazy and disrespectful. In 1905, two years after the

death of his father, as his situation at home worsened, Hitler dropped out of

school. After leaving school Hitler would spend his days roaming around the

streets and drawing anything which sparked his interest. Eventually he met

Kubizek, the man who would end up being his only true friend. Kubizek

recalled Hitler as a very disturbed young man with a gentle caring side. Hitler

finally decided to apply to art school, but when he was not accepted there he

fell into a deep depression an began to plot revenge against anyone who had

done any wrong to him. He would go to anti-Semitic meetings in abandoned

taverns and basements and eventually became the president of one of those

organizations. Anti-Semitic organizations grew larger with time and before

long Hitler got to run most

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