The Holocaust (Answers major questions under sub-headings)
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Holocaust
Holocaust: great or wholesale destruction of life, esp. by fire. (The Macquarie Dictionary).
Where and when did the holocaust occur?
There is quite a bit of controversy over exactly when the Holocaust began, some historians date the beginning of the Holocaust to September 1939 when the German army invaded Poland. While others date the beginning of this prolific time to invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Yet many others have many other dates that they claim are the beginning on the Holocaust. The Holocaust occurred in many areas around German Occupied Territory, there were Ghettos in many major cities and towns, and also there were many of the infamous labour and death camps scattered throughout the territory. The holocaust ended when the war ended in 1948, when news of their defeat, the Germans guards deserted, yet many captives died before American soldiers and Aid Workers reached them to help them with food and release them from their prisons.
Who was Adolf Hitler?
Adolf Hitler was born on the 20th of April, 1889 and was the third child for an Austrian Customs Official. Adolf was never a very academic student, but he excelled in the arts, and thus wanted to be an artist. It was after school during his young adulthood when he was struggling to make money from his passion he began to feel a deep-set resentment towards the Jewish, he saw them as being well off and believed that they were depriving him of wealth as they came into this country only a short time ago and seemed to be well off quickly, while he struggled. He moved to Germany in 1913 and joined the army, this is where Hitler’s patriotism mushroomed, he felt betrayed by his country after their surrender to the allied forces in World War One. Because of his feelings of betrayal he joined the Nationalist Socialist (Nazi) Party, where he quickly rose to become the leader. In 1924 he was sentenced to a five year prison term for attempting a coup. He only served 9 months of this prison sentence, during which he wrote his book, Mein Kampf. In 1933 the Nazis were ahead in the election polls and when they came to power, as their leader, he almost instantly formed the country into a dictatorship, outlawing any other political party than his own and suppressing any opposition. Hitler died in his bunker in 1948 as...