Dehumanization Of The Holocaust
Bradis McGriff
War and Violence
December 5, 2005
Mitra Rokni
What Kind of People Are We?
The Holocaust is one of the most horrendous crimes against civilization. In January of 1941, Adolf Hitler and his top officials decided to make their final solution a reality. Their goal was to eliminate the Jews and the impure from the entire population. The impure included gypsies, homosexuals, lesbians, and the mentally ill. Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp that carried out Hitler's ‘final solution' in greater numbers than any other. In the following essay I am going to inform you of the Auschwitz death camp, which was the most terrifying of all the camps as well as the dehumanization and the erosion of moral identity and humanity during the holocaust.
The first concentration camps were set up in 1933. Hitler established the camps when he came into power for the purpose of isolating and killing anyone suspected of disagreeing against his government. In the early......
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