Beruflich Dokumente
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Ryan Morris
College English
Mr. Neuburger
Date 9-9-08
Research Paper
The big mistake started on January 30, of 1933 when Germany appointed Adolph Hitler
as chancellor of Germany. Shortly after Hitler assumed the role as chancellor, the wheels began
churning in motion to begin a terrible tragedy. The tragedy, known as “The Holocaust,” targeted
a variety of people, primarily the Jewish race, killing them in several different ways. According
to the research of University of South Florida, approximately eleven million people died during
this disaster. This terrible tragedy brought death upon enough people to consider it a mass killing.
The types of people targeted in this disaster were the Jewish, gypsies, African Americans,
homosexuals, socialist, political enemies, communist, and the mentally disabled. (Par 1). Hitler
and his staff developed many different ways to kill many people, and in the end perfected
everything. Many people do not really grasp the concept or reasoning of the Holocaust. In order
for one to truly understand the Holocaust, one must understand the Nazi’s motivations, the lack
of resistance to the Nazi regime, and the Germans’ innovations for killing a mass number of
Jews. However, one thing many people should realize is that the mastermind behind it all was a
Hitler’s tirade began when he was a younger child. At the age of nine, he became very
served in World War one. While he was lying in a hospital bed after he had been temporarily
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been blinded by a gas attack, he found out that Germany surrendered. There in the bed Hitler felt
endless emotions. He felt baffled, betrayed, and even crushed that the Germans would surrender.
He couldn’t believe that they would do such thing. He was terribly devastated. Many people
close to Hitler as a young child described him as a “strict” young man. Some said that he was
also very polite. Then every thing just exploded. After he became chancellor of Germany he
cleared out over six million Jewish people. Hitler took over a nation with only five hundred and
sixty six thousand Jewish people in it. Many may ask what Hitler had against the Jewish people,
and the most common response known is that Hitler wanted to build a perfect race. Hitler’s
perfect race consisted of Aryan people. So to end this imperfect race Hitler felt it necessary to
eradicate or exterminate all imperfect people. To Hitler, the Jewish were not the only imperfect
people. He also felt that homosexual, disabled, Gypsies, and obviously the Jewish people were
imperfect as well.
Hitler and his crew had to try and find out how to exterminate all of these imperfect
people. They had killed quite a few of people, but none compared to the Final Solution. The idea
of the Final Solution was discussed at the Wannsee Conference. The Wannsee Conference was
held in Berlin Germany. At the Wannsee Conference Hitler met with 15 of his highest staff
members. At this meeting they discussed how they were going to rid Germany of all of these
imperfect people. That’s where Hitler and his staff created the Final solution. The Final Solution
came up with many different ideas on how to exterminate all of the Jewish people that they had
missed. This meeting by far set up Germany for success. This meeting was held on January 20,
1942. The goal of this conference was too simple; they had to find out a ways to rid Germany of
all of these so called imperfect people. So they had to try and come up with ways to exterminate
all of the Jewish, homosexual, disabled, and gypsies out of Germany. As Reinhard Heydrick said
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‘Europe would be combed of Jews from the east to the west.’ As history place goes on further to
state that Heydrick, who lead the conference, had every single step and every single minute
The first topic at the Wannsee conference was concerning the Final Solution, and the
Jewish question. They began conversation by explaining why the conference had been called.
Secondly they discussed if they were to make the Jewish people flee, where exactly they would
go. They had no where to go. Anyplace that they would have to flee to would create many
problems. Any other countries could not afford to take on such mass number of people. Many
dictators would throw a fit. There economy would just simply not hold up. Demand for certain
items, would not be available. They had no idea what they were going to do. One idea was to
evacuate all Jewish people to the Far East, but with to many obstacles, that was simply not an
option any longer. They just could not find out what they were going to do.
Then later in a meeting that day, one someone had an idea to extend the idea of work
camps and create more of them. This way the Jewish people would not be doing anything except
working like slaves. All fifteen of Hitler’s staff members loved the idea of Concentration camps.
After later discussion they had begun to wonder why they couldn’t create death camps. In these
camps they would trick the Jewish people to think that they were going to go to concentration
camps. The Jewish people would not resist going to concentration camps because they knew that
if they would do that they would get killed. Also, many Jewish people would rather have stayed
alive and work than be killed. These concentration camps were essential in Hitler’s tirade. This
killed the majority of the people, and some that may have lived barley escaped and to this day
There is still one major question up in the air. Why would Hitler do such terrible things,
and how could his mind bare doing all of these. Well Hitler as a young boy had a very rough
life. He was beaten as a child by his father. A lot of his siblings died. He was dropped out of
school because he missed so much school and got behind. To cap it all of he fought his heart out
in war, shortly after he couldn’t fight anymore, he heard that Germany surrendered. He was a
very depressed man. So one should realize what happen in his life before they try and make
sense of anything that happen. It is not an excuse for his terrible actions, but may explain why
he did what he did. This terrible tragedy has many things many people do not understand, for