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The Undercurrents of World War II: The Holocaust
by Lillian Bonar
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As tensions escalated in Europe until the point of the Second World War, another war raged beneath the surface,
unbeknownst to foreign onlookers. Not only did Hitler and Nazi Germany start an unprovoked war that took the
lives of over 50 million soldiers, they also exterminated millions of innocent people for no other reason than their
religion. The Holocaust began in 1933, reached its peak during the Second World War, and came to an end with
the war in 1945. Hitler used the Holocaust as a mechanism to purge his German state of any lesser people
(especially those of Jewish heritage) that might be of some threat to his superior Aryan race. As a result of the
Holocaust, millions of men, women, and children of various national, ethnic, and social backgrounds died or had
their lives impacted forever.
The word holocaust was originally used to describe the destruction or slaughter on a mass scale (especially cause
by fire), however, this term has been more widely accepted to refer to the genocide orchestrated by Adolf Hitler
from January 30, 1933, when he took over as prime minister of Germany, to May 8, 1945, the end of the war in
Europe. There is controversy over whether or not the term “Holocaust” includes only those murdered of Jewish
decent. Today, it is generally held that the term “Holocaust” refers to all those put to death in the Nazi
concentration camps, ghettos, and murder squads, and the term “Final Solution” is given to refer to the genocide
of the Jewish people (also referred to the as “The Final Solution to the Jewish Question”). There is no way to
determine the exact number of lives taken during the Holocaust, but six millions is the widely accepted death toll
for Jewish victims and five millions is the accepted ...