A frequently quoted figure is 11 million dead overall, of whom 6 million were Jews.
Most were killed. Others were shipped to concentration camps...then killed.
Many historians estimate that between 5.6 and 5.9 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust by Nazi Germany.___Obviously, most of the victims were killed in Poland, not Germany, and the majority was not German Jews. The number of German Jews killed is probably around 165,000.
The German Wikipedia article on Buchenwald gives the total number of prisoners killed at Buchenwald as 56,000 - of whom 11,000 were Jews. (Note that Buchenwald not an extermination camp and was not specifically for Jews).
He killed himself, then Germany surrendered.
Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals, political prisoners.
Over 6,000,000 Jews were killed during WW2, but not everyone sent to a concentration camp died
POW from world war II...then it turned into a concentration camp, they killed lots of jews and russian prisoners there.
the Jews came from Poland, austrial and Germany. they were taken and gased or killed.
Yes, of course. German Jews were among the first victims.
Not many Jews were killed between this time period in Germany. Is wasn't until 1939 that 300,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.
It wasn't only the Jews. It was anyone who didn't fit into Hitler's idea of a ideal person. Others killed were the Gypsys, handicapped, and political prisoners. About 5 million non-Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
The number of Jews killed in the holocaust was between 11 million to 17 million people.