e harder it became to continue. I learned that not only Jewish people were sent to concentration camps, but also Gypsies, Blacks or anyone else who opposed the Government or Hitler. These people were not treated as poorly as Jews were, but still received beatings and were faced with partial starvation.Many people would hide Jewish families in their homes, churches and businesses. Those who did were wonderful people because by doing this they put their own lives and families in danger. Anyone who was caught hiding a Jewish person from the Nazis faced serious consequences. They were either sent to jail or killed.The most interesting thing I learned was that although Aldof Hitler was an antisemitist, his father and other relatives were Jewish . Therefore, Hitler had a lot of Jewish blood.( He was almost one half Jewish.) He also had brown hair and brown eyes. This does not comply with his belief that the model German has blonde hair and blue eyes. His belief in this was so strong that he even had people killed only solely based on the fact that they did not meet "German Standards". He was a very confusing man and very few people understood his reasoning, but for some reason no one seemed to argue when he decided to eliminate Jewish people from German society by sending millions of them to concentration camps.The book, Hitler's Willing Executioners, had very detailed accounts of the horrendous acts committed upon Jewish people by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Chapter by chapter was filled with facts and real life accounts of Jews and Germans during that time period. It was very formally written and a bit hard to comprehend, but it was also very informative.Chapter five spoke of different ways of deceiving Jews into death. The camp officers would use such tactics as claiming the Jews were to go into a room in which to shower in when in fact those rooms were gassing chambers. Once in the chambers, the Jews were exposed to toxic amounts of...
