The Holocaust, a mass genocide of 600 Jews and 500...

The Holocaust, a mass genocide of 600 Jews and 500 additional undesiables. It happened during World War II (WWII) in Europe. It began with Austrian born Adolf Hitler. He was a World War I (WWI) veteran but faught for Germany. At the end of WWI he was in the hospital and by the time he recovered, Germany had lost the war. Enraged, he attempted to rebel against the German government yet ended up faiilng miserbaly. because of this he was sentanced to five years in prison. While in jail her wrote a book entitled Mein Kapmf. This was an outline of his plan for builing a better Germany. Due to this he only served roughly nine months of his original sentance. Once released from prison he became involved in poltics and rose through the ranks.†¦show more content†¦In his mind only Arian people were worthy of living in Europe. Among the on million of the children killed was Anne Frank. Anne was a Jewish, teenage, girl whos family went into hiding. They stayed hidden for over two years in their Secret Annex. Over the course of these two years, she kept a dairy that has now been published. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl had been translated into over 60 languages and is read and studdied world-wide. She began the dairy at age thirteen and wrote her last entree at age fifteen. The majority of her diary talks about her time spent in the Secret Annex which was the back part of a spice warehouse owned by her father previous to the Neurenburg Race Laws. The Franks lived with another family, the Van Danns, and another man named Dussel. On August 4, 1944 German officers stormed the Annex and arrested all families. They were then taken to a transfer camp called Westerbork. They spent roughly one month there before being moved to Auschwitz, a consentration camp. Once off the train men, women, and childern were all separated. That was the last time Anne saw her Father, Mr. Van Dann, Dussel, or Peter. This is when the dehumanization began. People working the camps strped them of glasses, jewlery, shoes, and anything else that made them a individual. In addition to this the Nazi cut their hair and put them all in uniforms so tthey all looked the same. After anther month of