Religious Intolerance Profile
Event: Holocaust
Time Period: 1933 to 1945
Type of Intolerance: Secular Group to Religion

           The nations of Europe were in a tight spot during the 1930's and 40's; Adolf Hitler and his Nazi followers were tearing through Europe at a fevorish pace, dominating each nation that they encountered in battle and harming many of their citizens.

           The problems with Germany started in the 1930's whe Hitler's 'war machine' first started building momentum. Their primary goal of world domination was accompanied by the secondary goal of elimination the Jewish community. What then started near the beginning of World War II as an order by Hitler himself to exterminate and captured person of the Jewish population deemed to be "incurably handicapped' spread over the course of the war to include a much larger chunk of the global community (thinkquest). One of the most graphic occurences of violence toward the Jewish population happened in Kiev, Ukraine at a place called Babi Yar. Here is is estimated that over 33,000 European Jews were led in groups to a ravine overlooked groups of machine gunners and systematically slaughtered (Rosenburg). The war came to an end in 1945, but over the seven years of American involvement and the time shortly proceeding it is estimated that the Jewish death toll due to the actions of Hitler and the Nazis stood near six million. Without the involvement of the allied powers (Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States) the death toll would have probably been much higher.

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Babi Yar
This collection of information created by Jennifer Rosenburg of About.com investigates more deeply the slaughter of some 33,000 Jews at Babi Yar in the Ukraine. A very informational website for those wanting a deeper look at some of the worlds most gruesome examples of religious intolerance.

The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy (1939-1945)
Complete with a glossary of German terms and locations, this depiction of the Nazi German concentration camps is more of a historical listing than an argument for religious tolerance. This fact means almost nothing in terms of determining its importance however, as it still contains a wealth of knowledge about the living conditions.

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