How was Genocide used in WW2?
Website #1: Genocide
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Genocide was used greatly in WW2. Mostly by the Germans and their hatred for any Jewish race of any kind. This horrible time in history was led by German leader, Adolf Hitler and his hatred for Jews for reasons unknown. "The Nazis targeted many groups for extermination, including Gypsies, Slavs, the disabled and homosexuals, all of whom were labelled as ‘undesirables’ with no future in the Nazi state"(Website #1). Because of Hitlers reasons to his hatred for certain races, when he came into power over Germany, he used cruel and disturbing methods on "getting rid of" the races he did not like. For example... "Polish Jews were rounded up and forced to live in ghettos, where disease and starvation were constant threats" (Website #1). Poland was a big country that was full of Jewish people. Hitler thought it would be a great idea to take it over. Since there are millions of Jewish people living in that country, the Nazi would round them up and tell them that they would be going somewhere to where the war would get to them. Basically saying that they were going to be safe. Little did they know that a work or death camp was awaiting them for reasons they didn't know. "The implementation of ‘Death Camp Operations’ began in December 1941, at Semlin in Serbia and Chelmno in Poland, where a total of over 400,000 Jews were killed by the exhaust fumes of specially adapted vans"(Website #1). All of the genocide that was going on led people into hiding. (Mostly Jews). for example a Jewish family would hid with a friend or a relative that maybe was German so that Hitler's power over the Nazi's wouldn't come find them or kill them. It was a scary situation to be in. "In the aftermath of the Holocaust, many of the leading officials who manned the camps were tried and executed, including Rudolf Hoess, commandant of Auschwitz, hanged in 1947" (Website #1). Many of the people who were doing the killing to the ethnic groups where killed when captured after the war. The Nazis have been defeated but that still would never make up for the damage and physical things they put million upon million of people through and done just for being a different race.
Website #2: Genocide Timeline |
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In 1933 the rise of Adolf Hitler took a huge toll onto reasons why WW2 was the most gruesome wars of all time. It a humongous majority was due to the fact that Adolf Hitler was ruler. "Nazi leadership embarked on a variety of population policies aimed at restructuring the ethnic composition of Europe by force, using mass murder as a tool"(Website #2). They referred to it as a tool, only thinking that it was for the greater good of Germany to get the people who were in their way gone. And by gone, I mean dead, specifically to one race in particular. The Jewish. For Hitler and his hatred for them only caused more on his hands and to the reason Hitler decided to commit suicide after the war so he wouldn't have to put up with the fact that just about everybody on the face of the planet wanted him dead for his cruel ways of showing his hatred for Jewish and other races. "In October, at an international legal conference in Madrid, Raphael Lemkin (who later coined the word “genocide” ) proposed legal measures to protect groups" (Website #2). Groups were created to try and stop this genocide from happening, but many got turned down. "among these policies and involving mass murder were the attempt to murder all European Jews, which we now refer to as the Holocaust, the attempt to murder most of the Gypsy (Roma) population of Europe, and the attempt to physically liquidate the leadership classes of Poland and the former Soviet Union" (Website #2). As people looked into this, they saw that it was not right and decided to form groups that would hopefully help prevent Hitlers ways of showing his hatred. But like before, many were turned down. But by the end of the war, when the Russians finally defeated the Germans and saw what they had done to the Jews, it was over...
Website #3: GENOCIDE HOLOCAUST
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In this website there was very useful information due to all the hyperlinks it gave me... For example after the genocide. "The survivors are taken to camps for Displaced Persons. It will take over five years to find homes for many of them. Some Jews return to Poland, to find their homes occupied by Poles who are unwilling to leave, and to face violence: over 1,000 returning Polish Jews are killed by non-Jewish civilians" (Website #3). After the war, genocide wasn't around as much as it was when Hitler was in power. There were many survivors but it took lots of time for them to get back on their feet. But for some who returned to Poland after the war, were killed by the non-Jewish people who still believed in Hitlers methods and beliefs. "The Commandant of Auschwitz is tried and executed in Warsaw, having been found guilty of overseeing the murder of 4 million Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other Slavs" (Website #3). After the war many non-Jewish people were committed crimes for showing acts of hatred and killing Jewish and for following Hitlers methods of hatred for those certain races. "Several thousand individual Nazi criminals are hunted and tried in courts in Germany or the country of their capture; about 450 are executed. Most are imprisoned; some in Germany are later released before serving their full sentence. Many Nazis flee to hide in South American or Arabian countries. (Between 1945 and 1985 up to 5,000 convicted war criminals are executed and 10,000 imprisoned" (Website #3). Many, many Nazi criminals died in between those years for the crimes they committed against the Jews. They were often killed even if they were completely against it...
In conclusion as to why Genocide took a huge place in WW2 was this... Adolf Hitler. His weird, cruel, disgusting reasons to why he hated Jewish race so much, we may never find out, but I guess it's better left unsaid. There are no words to describe the horrific part of this war. All we can do is move on and hope for history to never repeat itself in this vicious way.