Elimation all together

 Authors note:

This is a topic I feel very strongly about and I know that everyone has an opinion about it. Please look for my astonishing use of vocabulary.

“The prisoners’ overseers beat them mercilessly, kicked them, and clubbed them. They would fall to the ground. It was a macabre scene. I had never in my life seen anything like it. Neither did I later on, even though I remained in the camp for a long time after.” – Jerzy Bieleki

What the Nazis did to a lot of people is further pain than discrimination; it hurt them a lot more. Because of the Nazis all Jews lived in horror. They lived hiding in small, dark, and cramped places. Their lives were filled with walking quietly and no fresh air because of fear that they would be killed if they were seen.  In the novel Anne Frank by Mirjam Pressler the author shows how the Nazis ruined the lives of not only the Jews, but also the lives of people from other races as well; they were not only discriminating against these races, but trying eliminating them altogether.

Discrimination isn't necessarily a bad thing.  According to Webster's New College Dictionary, the act of discrimination means altering actions against a person because of what they believe in or how they look. You're not allowed to drive until you're sixteen and that discrimination but it's a good thing because the roads are a lot safer.  We discriminate everyday but it isn't always wrong.

What the Nazis did was far worse than discrimination.  When the war started the Nazis would capture Jews and if they learn that they were a Polish politician they would hang them on what is called the hook. Across the wall lies the hook, prisoners get their hands tied behind their backs, then get hung in an uncomfortable position from their hands. Polish politician Jerzy Bielecki who was sent to Auschwitz said this, "He wanted to hang me on the hook. He said “stand up on your toes.” Finally he hooked me and then he kicked the stool away without any warning. I just felt Jesus Mary, oh my God, the terrible pain. My shoulders were braking out of the joints. Both arms were breaking from the joints. I'd been moaning and he just said 'Shut up, you dog. You deserve it.  You have to suffer.”

During all the chaos of the war against the Nazis and the Soviet Union there was still mass murder going on at Auschwitz. This lead to discrimination and elimination towards people of all races. On the sign at the beginning of Auschwitz it said “Arbeit Macht Frei,” which translated to English means “work makes you free.” Later on people were outraged at the Nazis because no matter how hard people worked they by no means were set free.

When the Nazis were discriminating against the Jews and people of other races they were trying to eliminate people who were not like them.  Many people went through a lot of pain and suffering as a result of a strong prejudice toward a particular group of people. To stop this from happening again, our nation needs to understand each others belifis religions, so never again will we have people like the Nazis.