The Jews were tricked by the Nazi Germans. The Jews and the general populace of Germany bought all the lies the Nazi Germans fed them about the Jews and the concentration camps. Most Germans believed the death camps were work camps and war manufacturing places - they are the ones who lived in denial because they feared for their lives and rightly so. They knew they were not labor camps. You could smell the stink of death from more than a mile a way. They knew.
Many Jews escaped or fled to the forests in various countries. Some managed to make it to the US and the presidential cabinet heard the horrid truth about the concentration camps.
All over Europe.
The Nazis killed mainly Jews in the holocaust but also people who were 'feeble minded', 'crippled', and even POWs.
The Nazis believed many, often contradictory, things about the Jews. One of the Nazis' favourite themes was that the Jews and the Germans were locked in some mysterious struggle for domination of Germany, Europe, even the world!
He didn't do what the other Nazis were doing, killing the Jews. Instead he saved them and the other Nazis did not like him for that. After he saved the Jews he was hunted by the Nazis because of his betrayal.
the plan to annihilate the Jews of Europe.
1) The Jews of Europe were civilians, unarmed and untrained in combat. The Nazis brought a significant amount of military power to bear against the Jews. 2) The Nazis used a tactic of deception, right up to and including the last few minutes in the gas chambers, which were presented as showers. Very few people were aware of what the Nazis were perpetrating. What was happening was unprecedented and inconceivable even as it was going on. 3) The Nazis would punish any resistance with disproportionate retaliation. People hoped that they could avoid this by doing as they were told.
Jews hid in order to avoid deportation to death camps in Eastern Europe.
Neo-Nazis will attack Muslims across Europe as revenge attacks. Muslims and Islamic Extremists are SCARED to bomb Neo-Nazis in Europe. Muslim Immigration to Europe will stop. Muslims are praising Hitler while insulting Neo-Nazis. Neo-Nazis will do to the Muslims what they did to the Jews.
1) The Jews of Europe were civilians, unarmed and untrained in combat. The Nazis brought a significant amount of military power to bear against the Jews.2) The Nazis used a tactic of deception, right up to and including the last few minutes in the gas chambers, which were presented as showers. Very few people were aware of what the Nazis were perpetrating. What was happening was unprecedented and inconceivable even as it was going on.3) The Nazis would punish any resistance with disproportionate retaliation. People hoped that they could avoid this by doing as they were told.See also:Why didn't the Jews leave Europe before the Holocaust?
There was some resistance such as the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943, but in most cases the answer is No. 1) The Jews of Europe were civilians, unarmed and untrained in combat. The Nazis brought a significant amount of military power to bear against the Jews.2) The Nazis used a tactic of deception, right up to and including the last few minutes in the gas chambers, which were presented as showers. Very few people were aware of what the Nazis were perpetrating. What was happening was unprecedented and inconceivable even as it was going on.3) The Nazis would punish any resistance with disproportionate retaliation. People hoped that they could avoid this by doing as they were told.See also:Why didn't the Jews leave Europe before the Holocaust?
The Nazis killed the Jews for Hitler. In addition, there were many other anti-Semites in occupied Europe who were happy to help in the Holocaust.
Jews were forced by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe to wear a yellow star of David so that they can be instantly reconised as Jews.