Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust.

1. Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust. By: Gary Marbury

2. Facts about Adolf Hitler. • Hitler did not want to be seen without his coat on no matter how warm. • Hitler never wore cologne. • Hitler was in a relationship with his niece. • Hitler did not want to be seen naked or bathing by anyone. • Hitler had feminine handwriting and was proud of it. • Hitler had a fetish for hands of celebrities. • Hitler was a vegetarian. • Hitler loved the circus. • Hitler was a non-smoker and gave a gold watch to anyone of his workers that quit smoking. • Hitler’s first love was a Jewish woman. • Hitler thought his mustache would become famous while he was in power. • Hitler’s mother wanted to get an abortion, but the doctor talked her out of it. • Hitler sent flowers to the women who performed at the circus and worried about them and their families. • He was the commander of the Third Reich.

3. Holocaust Facts. • The Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and ended in 1945 when the Nazis were defeated by the Allied powers. • The term "Holocaust," originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire," refers to the Nazi's persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people. The Hebrew word "Shoah," which means "devastation, ruin, or waste," is also used for this genocide. • The Nazis used the term "the Final Solution" to refer to their plan to murder the Jewish people. • The term "Nazi" is an acronym for "Nationalsozialistishe Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" ("National Socialist German Worker's Party"). • It is estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. Six million of these were Jews. • The Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe.

4. What was the purpose of the Holocaust. To rid Europe of Jews, who were seen by many as the cause of all its problems. Nobody would take them all in, so what to do? If you are a homicidal maniac, the answer is to kill them, of course. Note that the holocaust was mostly successful, sadly enough.

5. Concentration Camps today. Most of the concentration camps during the Holocaust are now museums and are showed to the German public to let them understand what happened during the Holocaust. Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp before and after liberation. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest concentration camp built during the Holocaust and the deadliest. Auschwitz had the biggest death-toll out of all the 10000 concentration camps in Germany. To go to Auschwitz could have been expressed by going into a pit full of poisoness snakes. The Jews of Germany were convinced that they could have freedom at the concentration camps alongside their children.

6. Type of tortures used in the Holocaust. At concentration camps they would do horrible things to torture the victims. • They would submerge the head of the victim in water and force them to breathe in chemicals, urine, filthy water, and excrements. • They smash the victims fingers and genetalia with blunt objects such as, hammers, clubs, the butt of a rifle, or their bare hands. • Also they would whip the victims with things like bamboo sticks, a whip of course and common household items.

7. Final Solution. Hitler wanted to make the master race called Aryan be the only race in Germany. The Requirements for being Aryan is to have Blonde hair, blue eyes, fairly pale skin, and be of German or Nordic descent. Although Hitler himself didn’t meet the requirements he was accepted into the Master race because he lived in Northern Germany.

8. Holocaust Malnutrition. People who were in the ghettos in the holocaust were so underfed their skin was about as thin as a sheet of paper. Most people were executed, raped, or abused directly in from of their family in a form of humility.