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Help with holocaust paper due tomorrow! Please!?

I have this report due tomorrow and I've really been behind on it becuase I haven't been able to find a lot of information on my topic- the Aryan race. It is for the Holocaust unit in 8th grade honors english and I really have no idea what I'm doing. I need 4 different sources cited in each paragraph with a total of at least 7 sources. There needs to be an intro, 4 body paragraphs, and a conclusion. It needs to be 4 pages long. This is what I have so far. Can anyone help me add a little to it or anything? I really need help. Thanks!

“If the breed was everything and the individual was nothing, then human life was ultimately worthless” (Stewart, Racism in the Third Reich). In Hitler’s perfect world, a master race that he called Aryan would rule, while lowly other races would become extinct through cruel processes.

Although Hitler’s ideal “Aryan race” did not actually exist, there is a long history of how this fictional race came to be. Starting in ancient times, the word “Aryan” seems to trace back to a linguistic group in the Indian Peninsula. It loosely translates to “noble”. Hitler’s propaganda suggested that Aryans were light-skinned, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, and tall. That is not logical because the ancient people who spoke Indo-Aryan languages lived in an area where dark eyes, hair, and skin were most commonly seen. However, when the Nazis came to power, many Germans fitting the former description were led to believe that they were superior because of their looks.

Although the main target of the Aryan myth was to make “Aryan” people feel superior, this myth was also meant to help convince people that “non-Aryans” were to be destroyed. Who exactly were these “non-Aryans”? Hitler and his followers believed that people who would contaminate the Aryan race should be exterminated or sterilized so they could not bring imperfections to their descendants.

Many experiments were led to determine how to make this “master race” the most dominant race in the world. Dr. Josef Mengele was a leader in these experiments, and used thousands of people in hopes of finding a way to perfect the Aryan race.

The myth of an Aryan race affected path of the Holocaust in many ways. Many people made choices they might not have made before they had been told that they needed to protect their “master race”. Without the idea of a race to protect, it would have been difficult to convince people to destroy an entire race.

Even though the debates still occur to this day about the definition of an Aryan, there is no doubt that it played a role in the Holocaust.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I don't have anything to add but there was a lot of information on google on this subject when you go to the Google page click on more type in Aryan and holocaust then where it says more click on scholar this will take you to other essays and scholarly journals on your subject

  • 5 years ago

    the Holocaust is the term frequently used to describe the genocide of roughly six million eu Jews in the time of international conflict II, a application of systematic state-backed extermination via Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, and its collaborators. some scholars safeguard that the definition of the Holocaust additionally should contain the Nazis' systematic homicide of hundreds of thousands of folk in different communities, which include ethnic Poles, the Romani, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of conflict, those with disabilities, gay adult males, and political and non secular warring parties, which might carry the full style of Holocaust victims to between 11 million and 17 million human beings. the persecution and genocide have been executed in ranges. law to eliminate the Jews from civil society became enacted years earlier the outbreak of worldwide conflict II. concentration camps have been everyday wherein inmates have been used as slave hard paintings till they died of exhaustion or ailment. the place the 0.33 Reich conquered new territory in jap Europe, particularly professional instruments pronounced as Einsatzgruppen murdered Jews and political warring parties in mass shootings. Jews and Romani have been crammed into ghettos earlier being transported via freight practice to extermination camps the place, in the event that they survived the journey, the typical public of them have been killed in gasoline chambers. each and every arm of Nazi Germany's forms became in contact in the logistics of the mass homicide, turning the rustic into what one Holocaust pupil has pronounced as "a genocidal state".

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    what????

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