Writings of Innocence

Here is a written narration I did for my mom.

World War Two by Doviegirl

After the Peace of Versailles and the great depression, Germany was as poor and as desperate as ever. Adolf Hitler thought he could change that. Adolf was born in Austria but thought as himself as a German. He decided that it was the Jews fault that Germany was this way. He started Making speeches saying what he thought about Jews and Germany. The people were so desperate, that they eagerly took up his ideas. Soon he was made the leader of the National Socialists nicknamed “Nazis” for short. He said he could make Germany great and get rid of the troublesome Jews if the people would vote for him.

Sure enough, he won the election and now was the most powerful man in the country. For five years Hitler preached that he could take control of Europe, and in the march of 1938 he started by claiming Austria for Germany. He also made Italy sign an alliance with him so Italy’s army would do do whatever Germany wanted them to do. Well Hitler was doing these things he was secretly disobeying the peace of Versailles by enlarging his army so he now had almost a million soldiers in it. Then with his army he took Czechoslovakia and Poland. Japan joined the Axis powers (which was Hitlers side) as an excuse to take Asian colonies, and the U.S.A. Joined the Allies as a result of Japan bombing Pearl Harbor.

While all this was happening, Hitler was running the Holocaust. Jews were killed if not put in concentration camps and then killed. One one night, afterwards called “Kristallnacht” or “night of broken glass”, Jewish houses were broken into and burned, windows broken and that is how November 9th,1938 got it’s name. Jews had to wear a yellow star called The Star of David on their clothing all the time. Jews were forced to move to other neighborhoods if they were not put in concentration camps. Jews could not hold jobs, run companies, or go to any public place. Other countries heard about the Holocaust but thought the story was very exaggerated. When soldiers went in to Germany six million Jews had been killed and they found heaps of shoes, hats, jewelery, bones, even bodies in the camps. The Holocaust was a great shame to Germany, but the shame was shared by the countries who knew what was happening, but did nothing about it.

By 1941 the war was going badly for the allies. Germany now had Austria Czechoslovakia, and part of Poland. As the French tried to get across the English Channel to safety in England, German gunners showered torpedoes and bombs on them. The gunners had been told to aim for hospital ships which were marked with huge red crosses on them. The “Dunkirk Evacuation” as it was called, forced France to sign a peace treaty with Germany in 1940.

June 6th, 1944, nicknamed D-Day, would be the biggest assault on German forces ever. The plan was to land as many men as possible on French beaches, in as short a time as possible. At the end of the day at least five thousand men were dead. But the Allied forces had managed to capture the beaches. On august 25th,1944, the Allies marched into Paris. That night the street lights in Paris were turned on for the first time since September 1st,1939. On April 30th,1945, Adolf Hitler shot himself. On May 8th, 1945, known as V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day) Germany officially surrendered. World War Two was over. The Allies had won. But thousands of men had died and the cities of London, Coventry, Brussels, Dresden, and Berlin had been bombed. Europe was in ruins.

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