The Holocaust

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The Holocaust

During the period of 1941 to 1945 mankind was faced with the greatest and most terrible crime in history, the Holocaust. It is believed that about six million Jews died under the Nazi rule and even if this number is just an exaggeration, half of it is still enormous. One could not identify the reasons of the Holocaust and be certain. Historians are on debate up to now as to whether the facts are true or arguable. Some even dispute that it was only that Germany was torn by war and the Jews in the camps died from starvation and disease because the Germans could not even feed themselves. However, only one of those peoples is faced with such a loss. On the issue of the Holocaust the biggest question is not whether it happened or not, but how it could be possible. What could have caused the genocide of so many human beings? Did all these people embrace the same theories or would someone exercise brutality in such an extent just because he was ordered to do so? In the following paragraphs I will identify the reasons for which I believe the Holocaust happened.

The Holocaust happened because Hitler could.

Hitler was a charismatic leader who was able to manipulate his people and persuade them to embrace his insane theories. He shaped the German society into a military monument of his own image. Germans were transformed into a chauvinistic, worshipful, enthusiastic and bound to do his will nation. The common beliefs was one of Hitler's actions for homogeneity of the society.

Hitler's anti-Semitism.

Adolph Hitler's excessive and obsessive hatred of the Jews and also his plans are quite clear in the following paragraph:
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"In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power it was in the first instance only the Jewish race that received my prophecies with laughter when I said that I would one day take over the leadership of the State, and with it that of the whole nation, and that I would then among other things settle the Jewish problem. Their laughter was uproarious, but I think that some time now they have been laughing on the other side ...

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