help with holocaust paper due tomorrow please!?

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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.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

You really should write your own paper. There should be no shortcuts on the Holocaust.

Anonymous · Answer

the Holocaust is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, and its collaborators. some scholars maintain that the definition of the Holocaust should also include the Nazis' systematic murder of millions of people in other groups, including ethnic Poles, the Romani, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, gay men, and political and religious opponents, which would bring the total number of Holocaust victims to between 11 million and 17 million people.

the persecution and genocide were carried out in stages. legislation to remove the Jews from civil society was enacted years before the outbreak of World War II. concentration camps were established in which inmates were used as slave labor until they died of exhaustion or disease. where the Third Reich conquered new territory in eastern Europe, specialized units called Einsatzgruppen murdered Jews and political opponents in mass shootings. Jews and Romani were crammed into ghettos before being transported by freight train to extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, the majority of them were killed in gas chambers. every arm of Nazi Germany's bureaucracy was involved in the logistics of the mass murder, turning the country into what one Holocaust scholar has called "a genocidal state".

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WHO SAID THAT THE ARYANS WERE WHITE-BLOND-BLUE EYED?
THATS WHAT HITLER SAID WITHOUT ANY SCIENTIFIC PROOFS AND WE STILL BELIVE IT LIKE IDIOTS!
HE EVEN TOO THE SWASTIKA FROM INDIA,HINDUISM!

THANKS TO THE WESTER HISTORIANS AND INDOLOGISTS WE HAVE A WRONG IMAGE OF THE ARYANS!

A SIMPLE QUESTION: IF ARYANS INVADED/MIGRATED, WHY ISNT ANYTHING SIMILAR TO THE INDUS CULTURE ELSEWHERE???


ITS NOT ABOUT A RACE RATHER ABOUT CULTURE... THE INDUS-SARASWATI CULTURE.
THE WORD ARYAN HAS ITS ORIGIN IN SANSKRIT, MAX MÜLLER TOOK THE WORD FROM THE VEDAS, THE AUTHORS OF THE VEDAS CALLED THEMSELVES "ARYA" WHICH MEANS "NOBLE". THEY LIVE IN THE AREA WHICH MAKES TODAYS INDIA, IRAN,AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN. 

DEFINITION:
the authoritative Sanskrit lexicon (c. 450 AD), the famous Amarakosa gives the following definition:
     mahakula kulinarya sabhya sajjana sadhavah
    An Arya is one who hails from a noble family, of gentle behavior and demeanor, good-natured and of righteous conduct

And the great epic Ramayana has a singularly eloquent expression describing Lord Rama as:
    arya sarva samascaiva sadaiva priyadarsanah
    Arya, who worked for the equality of all and was dear to everyone.

The Rigveda also uses the word Arya something like thirty six times, but never to mean a race. 
    
DOES THESE DEFENTIONS REFLECT THE SO CALLED "ARYANS " FROM THE WEST?
THEY WERE NO BARBARIANS AS THE WESTERN "ARYANS" SAY... SEE ALL THOSE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE ARYANS AND THEIR SUCCESSORS IN SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, ASTRONOMY, MEDICINE ETC... CAN THAT BE FROM BARBARIANS?
I MEAN ARYABHATTA, SUSRUTHA, CHARAKA ETC...
THERE ARE STILL NO SCIENTIFIC PROOFS FOR ALL THOSE "ARYAN THEORIES" OF THE WEST...

WE SHOULD STOP MISUSING AND INSULTING THE NAME OF THE ANCESTORS OF THOSE NATION.

to ARYAN-DRAVIDIAN theory which the british used during the colonial era:
Recent studies of the distribution of alleles on the Y chromosome microsatellite DNA, and mitochondrial DNA in India have cast overwhelmingly strong doubt for a biological Dravidian "race" distinct from non-Dravidians in the Indian subcontinent. The only distinct ethnic groups present in South Asia, according to genetic analysis, are the Balochi, Brahui, Burusho, Hazara, Kalash, Pathan and Sindhi peoples, the vast majority of whom are found in today's Pakistan.

ACCORDING TO THE LATEST SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE THE FORFATHERS OF THE HOMO SAPIENS (US HUMANS), THE HOMO ERECTUS ORIGINATED IN AFRICA!
SO WE ALL ARE ACTUALLY AFRICANS... BUT NOT BLACK!?!
AND SADLY THE CURRENT CONDITION OF OUR "HOMELAND" IS A HUMANITARIAN DISASTER!

help with holocaust paper due tomorrow please!?

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