Holocaust ... What is it?Apocalypse?Plague hatred of an entire nation?This is the most terrible crimes, "brown plague" against humanity.Sophisticated destruction and extermination of an entire people.This historic event - a common human tragedy.
first "holocaust" as the term was used in the first decade of the XX century.The usage of the word entered the Greek biblical texts means "burnt offering."It was used against the Jewish pogroms to the genocide of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.Later, with the coming to power of Hitler in Germany, was brought to life rassenschande based on the concept of racial hygiene.Its essence was to divide people on the representatives of the master race, and elements of the inferior races.It requires compliance with the selection.He expressed himself in pursuit, for sterilization, destruction of people belonging to the group of "inferior": people with physical and mental disabilities, gypsies, Slavs, Jews, political opponents, homosexuals and other minorities and groups.This bureaucratic methodically organized an operation to exterminate the people called "Holocaust."What is this ideology that affects careful forethought and detailed elaboration of measures aimed primarily at the total destruction of an entire people?
Jewish Holocaust has been described in books by Elie Wiesel, a Jewish writer, passed through the hell of Auschwitz and Buchenwald.After his first book, "The world was silent", published in 1956, the word "holocaust" began to write with a capital letter.
Since the beginning of the regime of Nazi concentration camps were established where to send Jews, Gypsies and other victims of racial and ethnic hatred.To control the situation created by forced labor camps and ghettos for the Jewish population.For further deportation of people to act transit camps.A huge number of them operated throughout Germany and the occupied territories.
in 1938 shocked the world event "Kristallnacht."It was coordinated pogrom of Jews, many of which are or were maimed killed, thousands were sent to concentration camps.
During the war, a special death squads, the so-called Einsatzgruppen, followed the army to conduct operations on the mass destruction of the lower groups, including Jews and Gypsies.In the occupied territories, hundreds of thousands of people shot, sent to ghettos and death camps.
At the end of the war the SS in order to prevent the liberation by Allied forces huge number of prisoners moved their foot marches and trains.These were the so-called "death marches."Until 7 May 1945 went like the Holocaust.What is it?It was the deliberate destruction of the Jews, which is divided into three stages.By 1940, it was planned to solve the Jewish question by the mass eviction from Germany and other occupied regions of it.The second step was the beginning of the concentration of all Jews in the ghetto, which opened in Poland and other eastern areas occupied by Germany.This continued until 1942.The third stage involves the final solution of the Jewish question, the essence of which is in the systematic physical destruction of the people.
people were killed, the local culture of the Jews, destroyed the memory of this unique part of the culture of Eastern Europe.In a sense, the Nazis successfully managed to solve the Jewish question.
Can I somehow understand the Holocaust?What is it?Anti-Semitism, at the time inherent in the mass consciousness of the German or malignant destructiveness inherent in the human race?If the thirties, the Jewish population was about 8 million by the end of the period of "burnt offerings," she barely reached 2 million.Together with the Jewish people, "brown plague" buried and representatives of other nationalities.There were starved, tortured, and killed more than 31 million Slavs and 500 thousand Roma.
biggest death camps were located in Poland.One of the most high from the standpoint of technology extermination camp was Auschwitz, and Auschwitz (in German).Here one day in the crematoria and gas chambers killed 12 thousand people.
January 27 one of the largest concentration camps of death was released.This day in January became synonymous with the terrible crime against humanity in history, and subsequently was declared a day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust.
In 2005 in Berlin, opened a huge monument to Holocaust victims in the form of a stone labyrinth, created from more than 2,700 concrete slabs of varying heights.Passing between them, notice that it is rather difficult to find a way out.This idea P. Eisenman, the American architect, clearly causes bewilderment and anxiety.That they experienced during the war, the Jews - they had nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.
People are surrounded by other people and made an unprecedented large-scale destruction of people - the Holocaust.What is it?How is this possible?Where that line, for which you can not go, for which people cease to be human?
Holocaust - a terrible example of misanthropic views of the Nazis.But how, after he had even deportations, repression and direct genocide.Is it possible to change something?Human indifference, reluctance or inability to have compassion, indifference to cruelty, to the pain of others, or infringement of human rights of an entire people can again lead to disaster.It is said that you can change the world by changing ourselves.
