Americans and officials engrossed in what was good for them and their country failed to see the great horror that Hitler and his killing machine created. Action was taken far too late to end the needless killing of Jews and other minorities and not until the facts were laid out in front were the machines deadly efficiency and cruelty understood.
             From beginning to end, the ghetto to the mass grave, millions of Jews were overworked and tortured all because Hitler hated minorities, mainly Jews. The horror began when Jewish families and businesses were forced to write the word Jude on their stores and homes, forever ruining their business. Then the nazis proceeded past public humiliation to segregation into the ghetto, a section divided just for Jews. In this area families were crowded into homes of three or four groups to a house. But the road ahead was rougher. Once de-population of the ghetto began the families were broken apart forever. They were forced into loaded boxcars up to a week at a time and transported to the infamous concentration camps where further separation occurred, women's, children's and weak men's life expectancy was merely hours after arriving in a camp. The men selected to work were fed bread equaling to about 300 calories a day and worked hard labor from before dawn to after dark. Then bi-weekly the weak were screened out and replacements filled by the endless arrival of more Jews on the boxcars. Some might say it was better to be killed the first day rather than smell the death pouring from the smokestacks of the crematoriums. Many other forms of death occurred though, gassing, machine gunning and ever more cruel biological tests on humans. Of the most efficient camps nearly two thousand could be killed an hour, name two thousand people you know and label them dead within an hour. Despite all this taking place little was done in the early stages to cease th
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