Just found this crap I wrote for history 12 on my old laptop

>>3314664
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The Sonderkommando, for instance, were groups of specially chosen prisoners tasked with disposing bodies. Literally translating to “special unit”, Sonderkommando groups consisted of Jews, coerced under threat of death to carry out horrifying labors. Inmates who belonged to the Sonderkommando were expected to remain able-bodied and capable of doing their duties. As a result, they were spared the arbitrary beatings and killings that regular inmates endured daily. Consequently, the Sonderkommando often provided longevity for its members, although there were very few survivors by the war’s end. Because the Final Solution was to remain covert, Sonderkommando units were destroyed and replaced every few months to insure secrecy. Sonderkommandos had an intimate knowledge of The Holocaust, and as a result, were driven to revolt in a number of Nazi death camps. An uprising at Auschwitz left 3 guards dead and part of the crematorium destroyed. Over 400 Sonderkommandos would be executed as a result. It’s important to note that many (although still a low minority) of Germans disagreed with Hitler’s view of Jews, but were unable to oppose the regime without serious repercussions to themselves. German industrialist and businessman, Oskar Schindler, for example, is credited with preserving the lives of over 1,200 Jews by employing them at his enamelware and ammunitions factories. The film Schindler’s List dramatizes Oskar Schindler’s evolution from a profit-motivated Nazi to a dedicated Jewish sympathizer. As time went on, Schindler would shield his Jewish employees without regard for profit, often bribing party officials to keep them safe. He was named Righteous among Nations by Israel in 1963, and died in 1974.

>>3314671
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Some Nazis even experienced oppression by the regime they supported. For instance Emil Nolde, a Danish-German Nazi, had over 1000 of his paintings seized by Nazi agents despite his close affiliation with Joseph Goebbels. The regime rejected his idea of art as degenerative. The Nazis believed that only classical romanticism was true art. Nolde was prohibited from creating anymore paintings, but continued to illustrate hundreds of impressionist “unpainted” pieces which he hid in his home.
The perpetrators of the holocaust are difficult to establish. The most universally accepted culprit is obviously Adolf Hitler himself, but party members throughout the administration also have blood on their hands. Eichmann, Himmler and Goebbels are just a few of the plethora of Nazi officials that made the destruction of six millions Jews run like clockwork. Deep in his seat at the office of Jewish Immigration sits Adolf Eichmann. With the quick frolic of his pen, he would facilitate the mass deportation of countless Jews to concentration camps. His role in Hitler’s administration was unique and was never held by anyone else. If Eichmann’s job was to get the Jews there, Himmler’s job was to deal with them upon arrival. Heinrich Himmler was supreme commander of the SS. He executed the final solution within his jurisdiction of concentration camps. Under Hitler’s orders, Himmler created extermination camps and paramilitary death-squads. He was one of the most powerful men in the Reich, and is widely blamed for the holocaust. Joseph Goebbels was Hitler’s right-hand man. He oversaw the distribution of propaganda in Nazi Germany, including heavily anti-Semitic posters and writings that served to desensitize the population to the Final Solution and to prepare German citizens for an aggressive war.

>>3314675
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A sound argument could be made that the Holocaust could not be made possible without the collaboration of these individuals – even just one. A single perpetrator can never be named for the murder of six-million Jews. It was a grotesque trickle-down effect, stretching from the dizzying heights of Hitler’s command, to the terrifying jackboot of the average deathcamp guard.
The very uttering of “Holocaust” stirs emotions like no other word. “Never again” said the world. And yet, since 1945, major genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur have occurred. Is it willful ignorance? Are the leaders of developed nations more inclined to turn a blind eye to potential genocides simply because it’s easier than intervening? It seems so.

holocaust deniers BTFO