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**__ The Holocaust. __**  When you here the word Holocaust or people talking about the Holocaust what do you think of, do you even know what it means. Some people have no idea well in truth the Holocaust is not a great topic to talk about, it’s such a horrific topic. The truth about the Holocaust is it was the worst acts of genocide in are history started by Adolf Hitler during the Nazi rule, at the same time as the Second World War. The figure of 11 million people dead is often given but it is completely unclear where this figure comes from, and how it is calculated, it’s far too low. One also encounters the range 11-17 million. 6 Million of these were Jewish (close to two thirds of Europe's Jewish population) and about one quarter of these were children under 15. Up to 270,000 were Roma/Sinti (Gypsies). There were survivors of the Holocaust but not many and they didn’t want to talk about what they had been through some not ever, but some did later in life take about there traumatic experience the survived. One of the survivors Abel Herzberg has said: "There were not six million Jews murdered; there was one murder, six million times." It was a bad part in history; there were few that survived it.

The ideas and emotions that were behind the Holocaust were not new. The Nazis were the heirs of a centuries-old tradition of Jew-hatred, rooted in religious rivalry and found in all European countries. When the Nazis came to carry out their genocide plan, they found collaborators in all the countries they dominated, including governments that enjoyed considerable public support. Most people drew the line at mass murder, but relatively few could be found to oppose it actively or to help the Jews. Imprisoned Jews could buy freedom if they promised to leave the country, abandoning their assets. By the outbreak of war in September 1939, half of Germany's 500,000 Jews had fled. Organised killing began when the war started in September 1939, but the first victims were not Jews. The Nazis set about killing people with physical and mental disabilities, whom they regarded as a burden on the state and a threat to the nation's 'racial hygiene'. About 170,000 people were killed under this so-called Euthanasia programme, which also pioneered techniques and employed many of the people later used to kill Jews.

The Nazis were laying plans for an overall 'solution to the Jewish question'. Death camp operations began in December 1941 at Semlin in Serbia and Chelmno in Poland, where people were killed by exhaust fumes in specially modified vans, which were then driven to nearby sites where the bodies were plundered and burnt. 250,000 Jews were killed this way at Chelmno and 15,000 at Semlin. More camps opened in the spring and summer of 1942, when the Nazis began systematically clearing the ghettos in Poland and rounding up Jews in western Europe for 'deportation to the East'. The killing of the Polish Jews, code-named 'Project Reinhardt', was carried out in three camps: Treblinka, near Warsaw (850,000 victims); Belzec, in south-eastern Poland (650,000 victims); and Sobibor, in east-central Poland (250,000 victims). Some Jews from Western Europe were sometimes taken to these camps as well, but most were killed at the biggest and most advanced of the death camps, Auschwitz.

Auschwitz was greatly expanded in 1941 with the addition of a much larger camp at nearby Birkenau. In all, Auschwitz-Birkenau and its sub-camps held 400,000 registered prisoners including 205,000 Jews, 137,000 Poles, 21,000 Gypsies, 12,000 Soviet POWs and 25,000 others (including a few British POWs). In this largest and worst of all the Nazi concentration camps, 210,000 prisoners died of starvation and abuse. It was not only a concentration camp in spring 1943 gas chambers were built at Birkenau and mass transport of Jews started to arrive. The mass of ordinary Germans did know about the evolving terror of Hitler's Holocaust, according to a new research study. They knew concentration camps were full of Jewish people who were cauterized as sub-human and race-defilers. They knew that these, like other groups and minorities, were being killed out of hand.

Personally the most important thing I learned was what happened to the people. What people will do to others it awful and we should learn form the mistakes from history and never let something that awful happen again. It’s upsetting to learn about the things people did to others and how we can act and treat other people, just how some people think so poorly of others when truth is we are not all that different we are all humans and live on this earth. **__ LINKS. __** []

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Different people may see the Holocaust one way or another but in truth the Holocaust was the worst act of genocide started by Adolf Hitler during the Nazi rule, at the same time as the Second World War, starting in the year of 1942. The figure of 11 million people dead is often given but it is completely unclear where this figure comes from, and how it is calculated. It is far too low. One also encounters the range 11-17 million. 6 Million of these were Jewish (close to two thirds of Europe's Jewish population) and about one quarter of these were children under 15. Up to 270,000 were Roma/Sinti (Gypsies). ======

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The Holocaust survivor Abel Herzberg has said: "There were not six million Jews murdered; there was one murder, six million times." It was a bad part in history; there were few that survived it. It’s upsetting to learn about the things people did to others and how we can act and treat other people, just how some people think so poorly of others when truth is we are not all that different we are all humans and live on this world. ======