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Kayla, Kahla, & Kacey  THE HOLOCAUST

The word Holocaust has been in use since the 18th century, to refer to the violent deaths of a large number of people. The words official meaning, is "sacrafice by fire." Since the 1950s the word usage has been increasingly restricted, and many people will only use the word to describe the death of people in World War Two.

Many people don't know that before Hitler came into power and the swastika became known as a symbol of hatred and pain, it was a Japanese symbol meaning peace, love and joy.

__Who?:__ Adolf Hitler, and the Nazi Party tried to wipe out mainly Jewish people. However, there were many other groups of people that he also tried to hurt in number, including the Roma (gypsies), the disabled, homosexual men, communists, and more. He would kill anybody if they were Jewish. Hitler and the Nazi party, are thought to have killed between nine and eleven million people, including 6 million Jews.

__What?:__ No one knows the exact reason why Adolf Hitler thought that it would be necessary to wipe out the Jews, and hurt other political, and religious groups in number. No one knows exactly how one man could have so much hatred towards so many people. Some people believe that most of his hatred came from him not being accetped into art school.

__When?:__ The Holocaust planning started much before the war had even began. The planning began around 1933. The actual act, took place from the late 1930's until 1945. http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html __Where?:__ The salughter was systematically conducted in virtually all areas of Nazi controlled territory, which is now 35 seperate European countries. http://shea05.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/map2.jpg

__Why?:__ No one can say why Hitler wanted to exterminate all of the Jews. People have ideas, but no one can ever be sure exactly. He called his famous Holocaust, the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question", which shows that the only thing he wanted to accomplish was to kill the Jewish religion in his country. __Medical Experiments__:
 * The doctors of Germany, also liked to preform medical experiments on the people in the concentration camps
 * One of the most famous physicians, was Dr. Josef Mengele, who worked in Auschwitz
 * He seemed particulary fond of working with Romani children
 * He would bring them sweets and toys, and then personally take them to the gas chamber
 * His experiments included placing subjects in pressure chambers, testing drugs on them, freezing them, attempting to change eye color by injecting chemicals into children's eyes, and various amputations and other brutal surgeries.
 * The full extent of his work, will never truly be known. All of his records were sent by the truck load, and later destroyed.
 * His patients were almost always killed after the experiment, if they survived, and disected shortly afterwards.
 * Medical experiments were also carried out in Dachau, Buchenwald, Ravensbruk, Sachsenhausen, and Natzweiler concentration camps

ANNE FRANK: Anne Frank was jewish girl living in germany during WWII. She and her family hid from the Nazi in an attic for the majority of the Holocaust time. In about 1944, they were betrayed by a German man and were turned into the Nazi, who found them and took them to concentration camps immediatly. She was separated from her famliy, who later died without her knowing. It was one month before her specific camp was liberated by the Allies that she died. The only member of her famliy that lived was her father, who later went back to the annex and found her diary, in which she kept all her secrets and thoughts.. http://www.annefrank.org/content.asp?pid=1&lid=2

HOLOCAUST PICTURES: http://www.auschwitz.dk/id17.htm 