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Holocaust: it can happen again

The Holocaust 's Revival

In this , I will show that the Holocaust is happening again , or maybe even continuing , in the light of the abuses in human medical experimentation happening in the present . To be able to do this , I will first give an overview of the Holocaust afterwards , I will show how the Holocaust is continuing via the present abuses in human medical experimentation

The Holocaust

The Holocaust could easily be the 20th century 's most infamous man-made disaster . Killing an estimate of 5 to 6 million Jews plus other

br unwanted individuals ' like the Poles , the Serbs , Russian prisoners of war , the mentally and physically disabled , homosexuals , blacks Jehovah 's Witnesses , trade unionists , freemasons , etcetera ( The Holocaust ' par . 3 . The basic ideology of the Holocaust could be intuited from the etymology of the word . Basically , the word came from two Greek words , holos and kaustos . Holos means completely ' while kaustos means burnt ' Holocaust would then mean the complete burning of something , and in this case , the almost complete eradication of a race considered to be inferior . This roots from the Nazi Party 's chief ideologue , i .e , Alfred Rosenberg . Rosenberg is known for the belief that racism is justified since human beings are stratified . At the top of the scale are the Aryans , specifically the Nordic People (i .e people from Germany , the Scandinavians , the Dutch , and the British . At the extreme end , i .e , those at the bottom of the ladder would be the blacks , the Jews , and other Semitic People ( Alfred Rosenberg ' par 3 . This was the basic ideology of the Nazi , exemplified by Adolf Hitler , from which all the gruesome evils against humanity are rooted

The Holocaust is known for many things . Just to name a few , there was the mass euthanasia of the mentally and physically disabled Jews . Child or old , Hitler ed the gathering of records from health institutions for the names of patients who were disabled and were non-Aryan . The children were sent to be killed via lethal injection , while the older ones were sent to die in gas chambers . Family members were sent memos that they could not visit their disabled relatives in special treatment ' centers (which were in reality just death camps ) due to the war . Later on , they were sent false death certificates stating that their relatives died due to some probable illness , along with random ashes (since cremation was en masse . Aside from mass euthanasia , there was also the creation of Jewish ghettos where Jews were initially confined and later on brought to death camps . Those who were still strong and were 12 years and older were brought to labor camps to do forced labor . Now , the Holocaust is also known , not only because of these death and labor camps but most importantly because of the large-scale human experimentation that happened

Medicine as it is now known owes some of its findings from the human medical experimentations done to the Jews . What characterizes these experiments would be the...

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