During WWII the Nazi’s murdered over 6 million Jews, this period was called “The Holocaust” The Holocaust in general was one of the worst crimes anyone has ever committed. There were many events occurring during this period. I’m going to explain three events, which were very important to this period.

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On 16 July 1941, Hitler addressed a meeting of ministers, including Reich’s Marshall Hermann Goring, which discussed the administration of the occupied Soviet territories. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the largest Jewish revolt in the holocaust period. On Jan 18, 1943 the Jewish resistance revolted against the Nazi leaders in the camp. Dachau concentration camp was the very first concentration camp to open in Germany. On April 29, 1945 American soldiers liberated this camp capturing around 50,000 prisoners. These three events were very important to the holocaust timeline.

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The Wannsee Conference had no violence or crimes against humanity, but the ideas proposed by Heydrich were evil and were the start to the crimes the Nazi’s made later. The Wannsee Conference was to discuss “The Jewish Question”, or how to remove Jews from German territory. Heydrich thought of a plan for the deportation of the Jewish population of Europe to German-occupied areas of the Soviet Union or the Jews of German-occupied Europe were sent to extermination or concentration camps, or killed where they lived. This would be one of the worst crimes you can commit in the U.S today.

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The Wannsee Conference on lasted for about 90 minutes, but it had a huge impact of the thinking style of Germans towards Jews. In preparation for the conference, Eichmann had prepared a list, by nation, of the numbers of Jews liable to be killed there was about 11 million Jews put on the list. The Wannsee Conference had to find a solution to get all of the Jews on German soil along with the other 11 million. So, Heydrich brought up many ideas of deportation, and the rest was is followed by excessive amounts of bloodshed of Jews. General Heydrich said, “\\\"the main purposes of the conference were, firstly, to establish the overall control of the deportation program by the RSHA over a number of important Reich authorities and thereby, secondly, to make the top representatives of the ministerial bureaucracy into accomplices and accessories to, and co-responsible for, the plan he was pursuing.”

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On Jan. 18, 1943 a Jewish resistance formed in the Warsaw Ghetto and Jews revolted. This camp had killed 300,000 Jews before the deportation and revolt. The Warsaw revolt was overpowered by the Nazi’s and about 13,000 people died. Before the revolt thousands were dieing, but the main crime was the surprise deportation to the extermination camp. The sickest thing about it was that the Jews thought they were all going to a working camp, instead of meeting their death.

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On January 18, 1943, the Germans began their second deportation of the Jews, which led to the first instance of armed revolt within the ghetto. While Jewish families hid in their bunkers, Germans and fighters engaged in two different fights. As a consequence, the deportation was halted within a few days, and only 5,000 Jews were removed instead of the planned 8,000. Finally, the SS came in and seduced the Jewish resistance. The Warsaw Ghetto had the largest revolt in Jewish history. The revolt was not successful but it was sort of a sign to the Nazi’s that the Jews can fight back.

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The Dachau Camp was probably the worst crime against humanity in my three topics because it was the very first concentration camp in Germany and took about 20,000 prisoners not all Jew though. This camp was very large and symbolized Nazi camps along side Auschwitz camp. Heydrich’s idea from the Wannsee Conference finally came into place here until it liberated by American troops on April 25, 1945. This was a good up for Americans in the War. After the liberation some American troops shot the camp’s guards because the conditions were so horrendous.

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The Holocaust was one of the worst crimes committed against humanity ever. I really believe that The Dachau Camp was the worst crime against humanity out of the 3 subjects. The world should take what we learned from this period of time and take it into good thought. Is killing innocent people the way to solve problems? The Holocaust has luckily ended though, and we all hope this will never happen again.


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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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American Troops Liberate Dachau;
Mussolini Shot by Italian Partisans

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