Today we talked about the Holocaust and Hitler's strategy in how he would "cleansing the gene pool" Holocaust in Greek means "whole" (holo) and "burned" (caustos). Originally it meant a religious sacrament, when you would burn something for God. Instead the Nazis would create places called ghettos where they would make a lot of Jews go to live, this was a part of Hitler's plan. They lives in uncomfortable, crowded places that had little resources so they would starve to death and there would be lots of disease. This strategy was taking to long for Hitler and he decided to change it later so when they moved all the people in the ghettos out, they burned down the buildings to make sure that no one was hiding in the building. Hitler is very ruthless and for him to think that its taking to long for someone to due us so terrible. Either you would surrender and go in line with the others to get relocated, or you burned to death. The reason that the Nazis and Hitler hated the Jews so much was because of diaspora, where Jews emigrated lots of places all throughout history. Another reason being that they didn't like their religious views and thought Jews only cared about God and themselves. The last main reason of why the Nazis hated the Jews so much was the Great Depression, often Jews had more money during that time because most of them had jobs dealing with money and they were good business people. Hitler said it was because they were stealing money though and that they must take it back, which is a false claim.
Feeling of anti-semitic was happening even before, there was lots with Catholics and Jews because Jews didn't believe Jesus was the Son of God so there was lots of disagreement on that already. Hitler was very anti-semitic and he didn't believe that races should mix in a society, and if they did the country would surely fail, which is why he thought America would be so easy to take over. Hitler believed the perfect Aryan race would be a white person with Nordic looks, long head, tall body, blonde hair, and blue eyes. He thought that there had been too many years of people mixing genes and that it was ruining the Aryan race. Aryan isn't even a race though, it is a language group. Hitler's plan to cleanse the pool was to kill all undesirables (anyone with any type of physical or mental disability), or anyone who was Jewish. First he tried to do this by deporting them, but that wouldn't completely get rid of them, that is just moving them somewhere else. Hitler then sterilized them in a very gruesome way which was very inhumane. Then he tried to ghettos I explained earlier. After that wasn't working fast enough they would do mobile killing units which would go into a town and tell everyone they would be relocated but instead were brought somewhere to be shot into a pit they dig themselves, then more people would be killed on top and then you were buried all together. This was costing too much money and bullets for Hitler so that when he turned to concentration camps and the Final Solution.
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