Informative Essay On The Holocaust

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Sarah Penny
Miss Childs
English 10
17 October 2014
The Holocaust
The Holocaust started on January 30th, 1933 and ended on May 8th, 1945. The Holocaust was a major event in history that was between two groups of people, the Nazis and the Jews. The Holocaust started when Adolf Hitler had become chancellor of Germany. This was a time that all Jews were put on a train and shipped to concentration camps. Concentration camps were camps that held large numbers of people (mostly Jews) were taken to so they could basically be imprisoned. So therefore the period of time known as the Holocaust actually happened, and it was not fictional. (When Did the Holocaust Start – The Rise of Nazi Power)
The Holocaust was a time that the Nazis showed their hatred …show more content…
Some people’s denial of the Holocaust is based on the fact that most people did not believe that the “deaths in the concentration camps were a result of disease and starvation” (Holocaust Denial and Distortion). Another thing that many people believed is that “Anne Frank’s diary” was a forgery. “In an effort to put these rumors to rest, the documents were analyzed for handwriting, glue and binding methods, and the types of ink and paper. Nothing was found that would even remotely point to the diary being a fake” (10 Things to Know About Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl). There is also a third reason that many people have denial is that they think that the figure of six million Jewish deaths is and exaggeration. “First of all: in the answer to this question, they claim to have "extensive evidence" to prove that something did not happen. Yet Holocaust-deniers often claim that they do not have to prove anything because, as they say, "it is impossible to prove a negative." Greg Raven has said this at least twice: once implicitly, and once explicitly: We also note in passing that they ask me to prove a negative, which is impossible” (How to Refute Holocaust
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