Double Chunky Paragraph: The Nazis

     The Nazis, or the National Socialist German Workers’ Party was an organization that promoted the custom of an Aryan “master race” and blamed Jews and Marxists for Germany’s problems. They opposed the Treaty of Versailles; a rule that stated Germany couldn’t have an army and has to pay the people they attacked in WWI. The Nazis wanted to restore Germany to a greater power and nation. As they grew in popularity, the Nazis started winning elections. When the Nazis started taking over the government, they shut down other political parties and became very apparent in daily German life. With their power, they started opening concentration camps to eradicate every person who seemed unfit for the new Germany, such as artists, Gypsies, homosexuals, and Jews. The Nazis started to rebuild their army, and prepared to take over land and start wars with other nations. They plotted to take over Europe while having mass genocide of Jews. Nazis had a good motive, but evil and inhumane policies for others that aren’t in the German master race. 

     As for the reasoning and motivation behind the Nazis’ actions, it’s hard for us to even begin to justify the means for their actions. Though it may be unclear as to why they targeted certain ethnic groups, one thing is clear- they were ruthless. Its estimated that 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust, six million of these exterminated were Jews. With a number of death this large, it was a committed plan of evil that brought the success in the extermination of Jews. Beyond the whys and hows, the horrible incident of mass murder would last an eternity on history. And almost just as shocking as the event itself, was the effort behind this ordeal. For over 10 years, the Nazis had established concentration and death camps that had the sole purpose of eradicating those of “lower life value”. These camps were factories of death and pain, built to destroy a whole people. It took an unimaginable hate that ran threw their veins for the Nazis to go through so much work in trying to rid of the Jews, and we see this through the acts they committed.