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Germany in WW2
The Germans were a member of the Axis forces and the primary belligerent in the European Theater of war.
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Why didn't Italy support Hitler's policies?
Italy joined the Entente Powers as opposed to it's allies (the Triple Alliance powers: Germany and Austria-Hungary, the third being Italy istelf) because it had been promised territory in the Treaty of London. As WWI was a war that found its roots in territorial ambition, it was only natural that Italy would join on the side that would promise it land.
What did other countries do to help toward the holocaust?
Other countries, especially America, did absolutely nothing!
Should ordinary Germans be blamed for the Holocaust?
This is a difficult question. Very few Germans disagree that their country as a whole bears some responsibility for the Holocaust - the question is how much.
One of the shocking things about the Holocaust was that, although it was the initiative of the Nazi leadership, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, went along with idea with little or no complaint. There were relatively few acts of disobedience or resistance by ordinary Germans in relation to the Holocaust - they certainly took place, but there weren't very many. If there were more, 6 million Jews would not have died.
When you say "punishing", it depends on what you mean. Accepting responsibility for something, like the way that the current German government has apologised to Holocaust victims, paying reparations to Israel, etc. - these things are arguably not punishment at all, just an act of responsibility.
I don't think anyone would argue that this is appropriate. More extreme measures might not be appropriate.
There are some Germans who believe that their country has been forced to do too much in relation to making amends for the Holocaust. They are a minority however.
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I'm not sure I understand the question properly. Do you mean punishment now, in 2009? If so, my answer would be a resounding no. Germans under the age of about 64 weren't even alive then, Germans under about 75-80 now were too young to be responsible. One of the things the Allies, quite rightly, criticized the Nazis for severely was collective punishment ...
There's a point in first answer that I find problematical. It reads:
'One of the shocking things about the Holocaust was that, although it was the initiative of the Nazi leadership, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, went along with idea with little or no complaint'
The Nazi regime went to great lengths to try to keep the Holocaust secret, precisely because it feared it did not have the support of many Germans. The above seems to assume that ordinary Germans (1) knew exactly what was happening and (2) actively 'went along' with that. The assessment by the historian Helga Grebing, writing in 1959, much closer to the time, strikes me as much more plausible, namely that the prevailing attitude was one of 'hear no evil, see no evil'. In other words, many Germans had some idea of what was going happening to Jewish neighours but made a point of trying not to find out more.
Obviously, one can argue that that was dishonourable, but punishable? Surely not!
As for making amends, there is something significant not mentioned above. Since 1990 Jews have been allowed to settle in Germany with very few questions asked, and over 100,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union have taken up the offer.
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Punishing the Germans for the Holocaust would make as much sense as punishing the white population of the US for massacring Native Americans. Please use a little common sense.
Was there anyway that the Korean war could have been avoided?
There is always a way to avoid war, but sometimes events overwhelm people. It can be argued that if the Potsdam Conference and the Yalta Conference had not included an agreement between the US and the Soviet Union to split the Korean Peninsula, the war never would have happened. It can also be said that if Secretary of State Dean Atchison had included South Korea in his statement about the US Pacific Defense, the communist North Koreans may not have thought they could win, thereby avoiding the war. Possibly, if World War 2 had ended with a conditional surrender of the Japanese, granting them rights to Korea, the war would not have happened. There are many ways the war could have been avoided, just as many things, through hind-sight, could be avoided.
What happened to Berlin when the Nazis were defeated?
Berlin was not strongly affected by World War I per se. The only exception to this was the riots in Berlin in 1918 that resulted with the abdication of the Prussian monarchy and the rise of the Weimar Republic, which is the government which sued for peace at Versailles. Under the Weimar government, Berlin became a very racy and progressive city. It had one of the highest prostitution levels in Europe and was host to a number of artists, dancers, and liberal scholars. Berlin was particularly famous as a center for swing dancing, so much so that when the Nazis came to power in the 1930s and completely changed Berlin into an ultraconservative den, they consider swing dancers as perverse as the Jews and would execute them for the crime of "dancing profanely".
How did the climate Affect Napoleon's invasion of Russia?
Napoleon's troops were not equipped for winter traveling and the soldiers faced frostbite and starvation
How long was Hitler in prison?
Hitler was Sentenced on April 1 1924 for High Treason and was released in December of the same year
If Hitler was Jewish then why did he kill Jews?
Hitler wasn't Jewish.
If Hitler was Jewish, it wouldn't make any sense for him to kill all the Jews.
If i went to Germany and saluted Hitler what would happen?
If you were doing this in an area where no problem was being caused or no one was complaining, you would most likely be told to go about your business. But if the authorities were receiving complaints, and warned you to stop the behavior, and you did not do so, you could be arrested for causing a public nuisance.
What were the crematorium like during the Holocaust?
A crematorium is an 'oven' (most often the heating ovens [boiler rooms] of the building housing the people) where the dead bodies where burned into ash or "cremated", these 'ovens' ran 24 hours a day during 1937-'39 and still couldn't keep up with the amount of people being murdered. A gas chamber was either an enclosed room, or a tour bus which had the exhaust piped into the rear compartment where they loaded the Jewish and handicapped people for 'joy rides' around the German towns which actually poisoned the people and they died viciously.
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Cremators are never called "ovens". The crematoria in the Nazis' extermination camps used purpose-built cremators, not heating-boilers, but the combination of gas-chambers and crematoria did not come into use until later, during the War itself, and continued until liberation by the various Allied nations' armies converging on Germany from East and West in 1944. The earlier mass-murders were generally by shooting and to a lesser extent gassing in vehicles.
What was the most dangerous camp to go to in the Holocaust?
If you are looking for a 'record' of sorts, at Belzec 434,508 Jews and an unknown number of gypsies were slaughtered, and there were only two (!) known survivors at the end of the war - Rudolf Reger who emigrated to Canada and Chaim Hirszman, who was murdered by Polish nationalists in 1946.
There was also Maly Trostinents, near Minsk, Belarus. It is virtually unknown, except among specialists on the Holocaust. The main reason is said to be that there are no known survivors at all out of about 50,000 victims taken there.
How were germany treated after world war 2?
Germany was split into 4 segments, but 3 (French, British, and American) were combined into the country pf West Germany. The Russian section was made into East Germany. Japan was completely occupied by the US, other allied countries played a smaller role in Japan. Russia was specifically excluded from any occupation of Japan because of American perception of the Russians as the 'new enemy' at the end of WW2. Neither was allowed to have a significant military after WW2, so the US took the idiotic role of protector of both of them.
Why do people believe Hitler gained so many followers and attached such power?
Momey was circulated in million mark denominations. the country was in a shambles. The p-ublic was ready for anything,
What influence did Hitler have?
Hitler's influence was... well how he really rose to power... despite the rejections he received in his life... And making Germans believe that they were the pure race of Germany or something of the sort...
How and why did Hitler and nazi supporters use Jews as scapegoats?
The nazis used jews and poles and homosexuals and disabled people as scapegoats because they considered these group of people unfit to be on the face of earth and viewed them as weakening the gene pool of the Germans.
What were the means of torture or death of perpetators of Holocaust Holocaust?
Gas chambers, testing (on twins), starvation,shooting,disease (caused the death of many but not directly caused by the nazis) and stabbing (infants) were some
Who was the leader of Russia in 1919?
If one goes by the Julian calendar then in use in Russia, Vladimir Lenin and his Bolsheviks were leading Russia in March 1917.
If one goes by the Gregorian calendar then in use by the western world, the Provisional Government under Alexander Kerensky was leading Russia in the beginning of March 1917 then Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks did.
Why did Adolf Hitler start the hollacost?
He wanted to purge the Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, gypsies, people with mental or physical disabilities, homosexuals, and other non-Aryan's from Germany.
And he almost succeeded.
Thank God for the Allies.
Which political party supported states rights in the 1790's?
Democratic-Republican Party formed by Thomas Jefferson
Adolfo hitlers popularity was aided by a?
Hitler was popular in his opposition to what Germans saw as inequitable terms of the Versailles Treaty. He also appealed to German nationalism. He blamed many of Germany's problems on the "lesser races" such as the Jews.
