Political party in Germany that proclamied that aryanes were a master race?
Nazi said the Aryans were the master race, but there is NO Aryans race. This is an idea that came out of the head of Hitler and Himmler. An Aryan race has NEVER existed.
How did the Star of David affect the Jews in the Holocaust?
The importance of the Star of David during the Holocaust was that it was used in the Concentration Camps, Ghettos and around Nazi controlled areas to identify certin groups of people. Hitler and the Nazis used the Star on David who they thought either were threat to the Nazi reigm or people who they think that weren't "pure". These were used on people who were prosecuted by the Nazis suchas: Jews, Gypsies Romas, Poles, POWs, Homosexuals, Criminals, mentally ill, disabled and Political prisoners.
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The Star of David was used exclusively by Jewish residents. The Nazis forced them to wear it for identification. Each group of "undesirables" was given a different symbol to wear. They were called Badges of Shame. For instance, Jews wore a yellow Star of David, homosexuals wore a pink triangle, poltical prisoners red triangle, career criminals wore a green triangle, purple for Jehovah's Witness, brown for Roma and black was reserved for the unfit/disabled etc.
What was the number of people killed from each of the groups murdered by Hitler and the Nazis?
The methods of torture and murder of the Jews are gruesome. They shot them, hung them, beat them to death, gassed them, starved them, froze them by not giving them adequate clothing or bedding or heat, dehydrated them, burned them, and did horrendous medical experiments on them and others that often caused their death. There is a lot more but I won't write it here. They worked many to death in the labor camps too.
What was the significance of the Battle of Monte Cassino?
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After driving Axis armies out of North Africa in May of 1943, Allied commanders turned their attention to an invasion of Italy. They believed that by advancing up the Italian peninsula they could knock Italy out of the war and bring about the downfall of the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. The capture of an Axis capital, Rome, would be of enormous symbolic importance. Hitler would be obliged to send large numbers of German troops to Italy-soldiers he might otherwise have used at the Russian front, or in France, which the Allies were preparing to invade.
What is the meaning of if you fail to plan you plan to fail?
The meaning of the phrase "if you fail to plan you plan to fail" simply means if you do not plan out, it is recipe for failing. It means to plan out before you do something, think it out so to speak.
What did the Jews eat in world war 2?
It depends on where they were living and how religious they were.
At the worst end of the scale, Jews on the run from the Nazis could often not even count on any food in a given day and might be lucky to find something to eat in the wilderness every few days. Jews in Labor Camps would be fed roughly 230 calories a day (which is less than two Sausalito cookies). Jews in the Ghettos were not much better off.
On the better end of the scale, Jews in the United States had the same rationing as all other Americans, but were generally able to eat to contentment. There were also kosher butchers in the USA and UK, which allowed the religious community to eat kosher meat, if they were so inclined. However, the majority of the US community was non-religious at the time.
How many Jewish were killed by Hitler?
he killed many by burning them. i dont know how many
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6 million, obviously he didn't kill them, but they were killed under his leadership.
There were a few people killed by burning, but this was incedental, it was not one of the methods employed.
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He killed over 64 millon jews.
How many different types of tanks were used during World War 2?
Naturally, it depends on what is mean by "types" of tanks.
If the question is referring to different models of tanks (similar to different models of cars, e.g. a Chevy Impala, Toyota Corolla, Toyota Camry, etc.), then, excluding specialty modifications (such as the amphibious modifications to certain M4 Shermans):
Most countries in WW2 began the war with a large variety of tank models designed in the 20s and 30s, virtually all of which were obsolete. In practically all cases, no more than 5 or 6 new models (from each country) were designed during the war, and the vast majority of tank production for the entire war centered around no more than 6 different models across all countries.
If the question is asking about the category of tank design (i.e. purpose/mission that the tank was designed to fulfill), then WW2 produced a myriad of different tank missions:
For the Allied powers, pre-war tank doctrine dictated three major categories of tanks:
In addition, the Allied forces produced a wide variety of add-ons and special mission conversions, numbering into the several dozen, including things such as amphibious kits, flamethrowers, mine-clearing, bridge-building, bulldozer, crane, and even rocket-launcher modifications.
As the war progressed, the Soviets were the first to discard this pre-war division, and focus on a more balanced design, combining mobility, good armor protection, and a powerful anti-tank gun. The outstanding medium T-34 and the solid heavy IS tanks were the result. The British eventually came around to this philosophy at the end of the war, producing the medium Cromwell and Comet which were good all-round designs. The Americans never did, however, instead pressing the M4 Sherman (a medium cruiser tank) into the utility roll, one which it was generally ill-suited for. Due to being knocked out early in the war, French tank designs never evolved.
German tank doctrine was different, generally delegating the infantry-support roll to the assault gun design, and assuming that tanks would be both mobile, and powerful enough to fight other tanks. While starting out with the generally weak Panzer I, II, and III models, the good Panzer IV was followed by the Tiger heavy tank, then the stellar Panther, followed by several increasingly ludicrous super-heavy designs (of which only the Tiger II saw any real action). Partially due to a change in war fortunes, German tank designs focused on producing increasingly powerful designs, intended to be able to beat any opponent in a 1-on-1 fight.
For both German and Allied designs, the light tank effectively disappeared after about 1942, as it was found extremely deficient in terms of protection (being vulnerable to even infantry-carried weapons) and not presenting enough firepower to be useful.
Frankly, neither the Italian nor Japanese tank forces developed effective tank doctrines, and neither really made much effort to develop new tank designs (or, for that matter, even manufacture many tanks).
What is Rudolf Hess famous for?
Rudolph Hess was an SS General and Hitler's number three man until he was captured when he bailed out of his plane on a flight to Scotland in 1941. He was supposedly attempting to initiate peace talks with Britain so that Germany could devote their full attention to invading Russia. There are a number of good historical pieces on Hess that can be found on the internet. Try this one for a starter: http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/biographies/hess-bio.htm
What did soviet union call world war two?
The Soviet Union, officially founded in the 1920s when Joseph Stalin became General Secretary of the Communist Party, underwent two decades of economic disaster, war, and then rise to a superpower status. Before the Soviet Union there was Bolshevik or Soviet Russia which had emerged as communist as a result of the takeover of Russia during WWI by the communist Bolsheviks from the Provisional Kerensky Government in 1917 along with civil war. The Civil War pitted the non-communist, pro-Czarist whites against those of Lenin and Trotsky. Because of Trotsky's buildup of the Red Army, the whites were all but destroyed, either fleeing or being ruthlessly executed. Around the same time the civil war was dying down, Soviet Russia was threatened by the newly independent country of Poland to the West, having before the war belonged to the Austria-Hungarian, German, and Russian Empires. After the German surrender in World War I, Poland was granted independence. The Soviet-Polish War in the late 1910s culminated in a stalemate between the Bolsheviks and the Poles, although both sides claim victory. A result of the war forced Bolshevik Russia to acknowledge the newly-founded country of Poland. The USSR was founded in the 1920s, around the same time Mussolini became "virtual" fascist dictator of Italy. The USSR posed a threat to the Eastern, new states of Central Europe. Fearing communist power, some states, such as Austria, adopted dictatorial-presidential regimes having lacked experience in democracy. In the early Soviet Union, Lenin, who was aging at the time, called for the enactment of the New Economic Policy (NEP) which called for a short period of capitalism and private property before it plunged into a long era of communism. The New Economic Policy was supposed to inspire short-termed prosperity in the Soviet Union so as to not bring it wholly unprepared into an era of ultimate Marxist-Leninism. After the New Economic Policy, Vladimir Lenin died in the mid-1920s. Lenin initially wanted Trotsky to become his successor, rather than Stalin. However, Stalin's management of the Communist Party managed to exalt him to power in the Soviet Union along with working with other members of the Communist Party. Trotsky was soon looked at as being too "bourgeois" and the complete contrast of a "proletariat," having originated from a wealthy Jewish family. Stalin was looked at as a low-class peasant whose father and mother were both formely serfs. (Serfdom was present in Russia until the 1860s when Czar Alexander II abolished it.) It was decided that Stalin would make a better and more efficient leader than Trotsky. Stalin's USSR followed the New Economic Policy. Stalin initiated fear into the hearts of nearly every soul in the Soviet Union. His secret police force, the NKVD, would make sure to erase any "troublemaker" in Stalin's USSR. Freedom of speech was virtually eradicated as Stalin claimed it was impractical to the common good. In fact, nearly every human right was eradicated in the USSR. The USSR was the first country in the world at the time to legalize abortion and was the first country in the world to adopt the teachings of Marx. The USSR saw the death of tens of millions of people, all of who were land-owning peasants (kulaks), undesirables, Ukrainians, and people sent to labor camps. Stalin enacted the Five Years Plan in the 1930s in order to boost Soviet production in food. The Five Years Plan called for the deaths of millions of Ukrainians and kulaks. The kulaks, or land-owning peasants, were targeted by Stalin as anti-communist and against the terms of the Five Years Plan. He had millions of them annilihated. During the Five Years Plan, people were forced to work on collective farms for the state so as to harvest food for the state itself. The policy of the Five Years Plan was collectivization, or the harvesting of resources for the state. The Ukrainians, as a result of the Five Years Plan and heavy collectivization, plunged itself into an era of famine which Stalin or the Soviet Union could not help. Nearly 20 million Ukrainians perished from the famine. To the West of the Soviet Union, were the fascist states of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Stalin, like other leaders of Europe at the time, feared Hitler and his Germany and would engage in acts of appeasement in order to satisfy Hitler's demands. Hitler despised the communists to a lesser or similar degree of his hatred for Jews. (Karl Marx, the founder of modern communism in the 19th Century, was originally a Jew himself.) In 1936, the Spanish Army rebelled against the Spanish Republic in Northern Africa. The Spanish Army, led by the fascist general Franco, was transported to the Spanish mainland from German planes. For three years straight, Spain engaged in a civil war that pitted the nationalist Spainards against those of the Popular Front Republic. The French and British decided to not intervene in the Spanish Civil War but the Soviet Union did by sending supplies and weapons to the Popular Front Republic. However, the Nationalists under Franco possessed more weapons and support from the fascist regimes of Hitler and Mussolini and so managed to topple the Popular Front Republic, replacing it with a fascist-like government. (Despite receiving aid from Hitler during the Spanish Civil War, Franco decided it was best if his war-torn country not get involved in World War II.) In 1939, Hitler dominated all of Germany, Czechslovakia, and Austria and was ready to invade Poland. However, invading Poland would trigger a possible war with the Soviets, which Hitler felt was unnecessary at the time. So, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact, which basically partioned Poland into a western, German side and an eastern, Soviet side. On September 1, 1939, the Nazi Gestapo, or secret police, claimed that Polish soldiers had attacked Germany and so, in defense, Germany attacked Poland. Soviet soldiers entered Eastern Poland several days later. Great Britain and France both declared war on Germany in Poland's defense but were unable to do anything to stop the tide from turning against Poland. Poland was all but defeated as a country by the Germans and Soviets by the end of September. The period following the annexation of Poland in accordance with the Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact was known as Sitzkrieg, or "Phony War," since no major German or Allied confrontations occurred for the rest of 1939 in Western Europe. In order to mobilize his country even more, Stalin ordered the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia to put down their arms and provide the Soviets with military bases in their countries. However, when Stalin tried to do the same with Finland, the Finns resisted in a short, but costly conflict known as the "Winter War." Finnish soldiers rode on skies armed with submachine guns while the Soviets were slower. The guerrilla-inspired attacks from the Winter War inspired Soviet citizens to do the same to the invading Germans. Finland was defeated although it had put up a tough fight against the Soviets. In 1940, Hitler's Germany had mobilized efficiently enough to attack the Allies. Starting in 1940, Hitler's armies made their way first through Norway, Scandinavia (except Sweden which was neutral), the Benelux Countries (the Netherlands and Belgium), and France. The British and French had expected the war with the Germans to be another "Great War" or World War I in which millions of soldiers fought in a trench stalemate. However, this wasn't so. In order to combat the possibilities of a trench stalemate, the German military engineered the plan of Blitzkrieg, or "Lightning War," in which tanks and planes were used simulataneously to inflict maximum damage on the enemy. This plan managed to work as Norway and the Benelux Countries were all but defeated and annexed by the Third German Reich. France finally collapsed to the German onslaught when Paris was captured. In Britain, which was perhaps the only Allied country left to withstand the Germans, Prime Minister Chamberlain, who was the key figure in the appeasement movement, was replaced by the firebrand and patriot Winston Churchill who decided that Britain was the only country left to stand and face totalitarianism. The United States, at the time, was neutral, deep within an isolationalist stance at the time. Its president, however, was Franklin D. Roosevelt, a man of hope and inspiration that led America through the Great Depression through his left-wing "New Deal" movement. However, the time of the Great Depression was up and replaced with an era of war. FDR secretly wanted to get his country involved in the war but the American public's response to the German annexations were mostly uncaring and unconcerning. When the United States entered WWI in 1917, the nation that perhaps many European countries thought lacked the military to defeat the Germans let alone any other Central Power (Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire). However, the nation gradually mobilized in the name of war and defense, manufacturing millions of guns and putting millions of men in uniform. Soon, millions of Americans were serving on the trenches on the Western Front by 1918. It was the American isolationists that decided that after the war, the United States would return to the pre-WWI status quo. An isolationalist president, Warren G. Harding, spearheaded the movement of isolationism for his successors, namely Calvin Coolidge who replaced him after his death in office along with the philanthropist Herbert Hoover. Beginning in the end of 1940, Hitler hoped to invade Britain and annex it for the Greater German Reich in a military operation referred to as "Operation Sealion." However, it would be very costly to launch a campaign into a country of firebrands and patriots that had not been invaded since 1066 when the Normans invaded it. They decided to bomb out Britain through their German Air Force, or Luftwaffe, of which was at the forefront of the world's airforces at the time. The British responded to a nation-wide air battle across Britain known as the Battle of Britain. The German Air Force was soon defeated and from then on, it began to deterioate to nothingness. The Soviets, in the East, had not mobilized effectively enough to withstand a spontaneous German attack. Stalin knew it was a matter of time until the Soviets and Germans themselves were fighting since the communists and fascists despised each other. But his country did not mobilize in the time of Germany's war with the Allies. Rather, it was attacked by Hitler after he was humiliated by the Battle of Britain. The German military launched Operation Barbarossa against the Soviets, which was the largest and most massive land invasion to date. When German forces entered countries oppressed by Soviet authority, they were greeted as liberators but these "liberators" soon began killing off their Jewish, homosexual, handicapped, and undesirable populations. When Yugoslavia was invaded by the Germans, the communist leader Tito led communist guerillas against the Germans. The same was in other countries of Slavic origin, since the Germans considered the Slavs inferior and unhuman. The Soviets were being pushed back and defeated; Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Empire itself, was being fought over itself. The Soviets managed to make a gradual turning point at the Battle of Stalingrad (present day Volgograd) in 1943 when the presumably best German Army surrendered to the Soviets. The tide was turned against the Germans again when the German Afrikakorps under General Erwin Rommel were defeated and Sicily was occupied. In 1944, thousands of Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, France in order to liberate that country that had been oppressed by German occupation for four years. In the East, the Soviets soon ousted the Germans from their soil and started heading for Poland and Central Europe. Soon, Austria, Yugoslavia, and other nations were soon liberated by the Reds. Seeing how the Soviets were approaching Warsaw, the Polish Home Guard iniated a short period of resistance and rebellion against the occupying Germans in Warsaw. However, Stalin did not see a future Poland in which the Home Guard was to be present in. So, he ordered troops to stay outside of the city until the rebellion was suppressed, which it was brutally. Then the Soviets occupied Warsaw and took Poland. The Americans and British were approaching Berlin as well as were the Sovies. However, the Soviets were permitted to take the city and its casualities, which mounted to about hundreds of thousands. The Fuhrer himself, Adolf Hitler, committed suicide while the Soviets were in his city. In April 1945, the last Nazi government officials surrendered, ending six years of bloody and gory conflict. While much of the West refers to World War II as the Second World War, present-day Russia and the Soviet Union refer and referred to it as the Great Patriot War (1941-1945) which began when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union.
What does the month November mean?
Thanksgiving has spiritual significance to Americans as well as hitorical and patriotic significance. With regard to historic Christianity, November is the beginning of Advent.
Some of the assumptions made in the question are inaccurate. In particular, Christians as such were not 'classified as enemies of the Third Reich'. Some Christians resisted government interference in church life and therefore became unpopular with the regime. A few of these were sent to concentration camps, but very few were killed. SomeChristians also spoke out against various Nazi policies, especially the killing of incurables. Very few Christians spoke out against the persecution and genocide of the Jews, however. Nobody was killed by the Nazis for simply 'being a Christian'. The Nazi treated non-Jewish Poles very badly and oppressively, and the main religion in Poland was (and still is) Roman Catholicism. However, Poles who did not co-operate with the Nazis or who resisted the Nazis were punished and killed for that - not for being Roman Catholic. The Pope at the time, Pius XII, has been severely criticized for failing to denounce Hitler clearly in public. On the other hand two Roman Catholic bishops in Germany spoke out against the Nazi policy of killing off the mentally ill and incurables. At all stages, the Nazi regime was cautious in most of its dealings with churches. In the case of the Jews, and to a lesser extent the gypsies, the Nazis made a point, from about October 1941, of trying to murder all of them - on 'ethnic' ('racial') grounds. The difference is enormous. The Jews were the only group singled out for total systematic annihilation by the Nazis. To escape the death sentence imposed by the Nazis, the Jews could only leave Nazi-controlled Europe. Every single Jew in Europe was to be killed according to the Nazis' plan. In the case of other criminals or enemies of the Third Reich, their families were usually not held accountable. Thus, if a person were executed or sent to a concentration camp, it did not mean that each member of his family would meet the same fate. Moreover, in most situations the Nazis' enemies were classified as such because of their actions or political affiliation (actions and/or opinions which could be revised). In the case of the Jews, it was because of their racial origin, which could never be changed. In the case of the other groups the aim was generally less extreme. Even the genocide of the Roma/Sinti (gypsies) was carried out much less thoroughly.
How many children did Adolf Hitler's parents have?
His father Alois had 8 children (two by his first wife, Alois Jr. and Angela). His mother had six children (those including and following Gustav): * Alois Matzelsberger, later legitimised to Alois Hitler, Jr * Angela Hitler * Gustav Hitler * Ida Hitler * Otto Hitler * Adolf Hitler * Edmund Hitler * Paula Hitler
What was Germanys battleship called?
It was the BISMARCK battleship, which sank Britain's HOOD in 1941 and was sunk itself a few days later in the Atlantic Ocean close to Brest, France.
NO it wasn't. It was the Tirpitz which hid in a Norwegian fjord and was bombed and sunk Tirpitz was 2 metres longer overall and 1200 tons heavier (basic displacement) Tirpitz never fought and so most people think the Bismarck was larger, it was only a similar ship. The Bismarck and Tirpitz were sisterships, but the Tirpitz was a bit larger. Bismarck inflicted severe damage on the British battleship Prince of Wales at the Battle of Denmark Strait, but it was probably the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen which sank the British battle cruiser Hood. The Tirpitz did venture into the Atlantic, but without the success of other German warships.
What were the fascists doing to the Jews in budapest?
In Budapest during World War II, particularly from 1944 onwards, fascist groups, notably the Arrow Cross Party, carried out violent persecution against the Jewish population. They implemented measures such as forced labor, confiscation of property, and mass deportations to concentration camps, where many Jews were murdered. The Arrow Cross regime also conducted street roundups, leading to killings and the establishment of ghettos. This brutal campaign contributed to the significant loss of Jewish life in Hungary during the Holocaust.
What are the laws that Hitler created to persecute Jews?
He created laws in such a way that Jews struggled to live, and work and earn a living. He made the: protection of the Reich- which allowed the opposition to be shot and beaten with out fear of punishment. laws that Jews had to identify themselves with the star of david, he made boycott laws of Jewish business' and shops. He burnt books that were un-German.
How many men died on the battleship Bismarck when it sank?
The German battleship Bismarck was sunk on May 27, 1941 by a British fleet off Brest, France.
One account lists only 115 survivors and 1,995 killed of Bismarck's crew. It is unknown how many were lost after the ship was scuttled, because neither British nor German ships reached most of the men in the water.
The dead included the captain and almost all senior officers, killed on the bridge by a 14-inch shell fired by the British battleships.
What was perceived as being equivalent to declaring economic was against the axis powers?
In March 1941, Congress approved the Lend-Lease Act. It authorized Roosevelt to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government any defense article" whenever Roosevelt thought it was "necessary in the interests of the defense of the United States." By 1945, the United States had sent more than $40 billion of Lend-Lease aid to the Allies, including the Soviet Union. The Lend-Lease Act was nothing less than an economic declaration of war against Germany and the Axis Powers.
What happened to the fat Jewish people in the Holocaust?
The Nazis did not make any exceptions for famous Jews.
Obviously, really famous people like Einstein were better placed to find refuge in countries like the U.S. than ordinary refugees.
Why did the Soviet Union view the formation of a west German state and nafo as a threat?
In the eyes of the government of the Soviet Union, every nation that it couldn't influence or conquer was a threat. In fact the Soviet Union was a very real threat to every non-communist nation on the planet, and a real threat to Communist China.
What cause the rise of fascist governments in Italy and Germany?
There are so factors that led to the rise of Fascism in Italy
1. The impacts of the ww1 of 1914.
2. The weakeness of en existing government.
3. the role played by Benito Musolini.
4. Speading of communism in the world.
What countries did Hitler become chancellor of?
Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, and that was it.