Who were the aggressors in the Holocaust?

Answer 1

Perpetrators were those who did the killing. The legal deffinition is a bit larger, including those who ordered the actions also. The moral deffinition larger still, it includes those who enabled others to kill.

One example is; you have the person who poured the gas into the gas chambers, also the people who ordered him to, from his direct superior, to the camp commander, to the leader of the SS (Himmler), to the leader of the state (Hitler), also those who enabled him to do this, from the guards who put the prisoners into the chambers, to the doctors who obeserved the process.

In addition to this there were many people without whom the actual act of murder could not have happened:

There was the local law enforcment who were responsible for arresting and deporting the Jews. There were the civillians who drove the trains and other transports. There were the contractors who designed and built the gas chambers. There were the people who profited from the surrendered Jewish property and businesses. If any of these groups had refused to do their part, then the story would have been different.
The perpetrators were those who helped make it happen.

People of this period are generally divided into three categories. Victims, perpetrators and bystanders. Some like to add a fourth category of rescuers, they were so few compared to the others that they are generally not counted as a category.

Answer 2

The perpetrators were those who actively helped the destruction of Europe's Jews. These would include those who worked at the camps, those who were involved in transporting Jews to the camps, those who were rounding up the Jews.

It also included those who committed atrocities in the Poland and the Soviet Union, and those who encouraged the local populations to do the same.

Answer 3

There are about four different answers to this. It largely depends upon how wide your deffinition of the Holocaust is.

To put a few individual names for which you could make a case:

Hans Frank

Hermann Goering

Heinrich Himmler.

Karl Brandt

Phillip Bouhler.

Answer 4

Germany started the war in the west and Japan started the war in the east (though through the Mukden incident they claimed that they were forced to invade).

Answer 5

Well Adolf Hitler led the Nazis but all together he was probably most responsible of course he had help but he called for the extermination of Jews

Answer 6

we have no clue