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Holocaust
The genocide of approximately 6 million European Jews during World War II planned by Adolf Hitler.
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What group of people did Hitler try to genocide?
There was more than one group that the Nazi's tried to exterminate and they are:
- Jews
- Jehowah Witness's
- Gypsy's
- Homosexual's
- Handicapped
- Mentally ill
Which group was the primary target in the Holocaust?
The primary target in the Holocaust were the Jews. However, the gypsies, properly called "Romani" were hit hard. Other groups included:
-Homosexuals
-Bible Students (Now called Jehovah's Witnesses)
-'Enemies of the Reich', or ones who were politically opposed to Nazism
-Persons with mental or physical disabilities
-Resistors in conquered territories
As an aside, the Romani peoples in today's world suffer from discrimination, especially in Eastern Europe.
Did the Germans resist the Holocaust?
No. There were some Germans who helped Jews to escape and some who hid Jews; there were some who refused to commit murder, but there was no resistance to the Holocaust as such. Obviously, one needs to bear in mind that the Nazi regime did all it could to keep the Holocaust secret.
How did Jewish people cooperate with the Nazis goals?
The Nazis bullied and deceived some Jews into cooperating with their own destruction. For example, in most areas there were Nazi appointed 'Jewish councils'. They were told that they would be allowed to run their own affairs. Obviously, in the ghettos that the Nazis established in Poland and elsewhere, the propect of having Jews, rather than the SS policing the area had superficial attractions. They also thought - mistakenly - that these 'Jewish Councils' would be able to negotiate with the Nazis.
In fact, the 'Jewish Councils' had to do the Nazis' bidding - even to the point of drawing up lists of people for deportation to the extermination camps.
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When is the Holocaust celebrated?
Holocaust Memorial Day is 27 January - as Auschwitz I, II and III were liberated by the Soviet Army on that day in 1945.
Why were the Jews singled out as scapegoats by the Nazis?
if your talking about ww2 then ask Hitler. the Jews have always been scapegoats for the worlds problems. he obviously had some beef with the Jews that only he could understand. Me being only 13 and having to deal with people treating to kill you is sorta sad.
Yes.
And Hitler built on some 1500 years of hatred and anti-semitism propagated by the Christian church.
What was Main occupation of Aryans?
Agriculture was the main occupation for the ARYANS.
Agriculture products were rice, wheat, cotton, oil seeds.
Besides they were engage at weaving, tanning, metallurgy.
Artisans were engage at carpentering, pottery, and ETC.......
Did Adolf Hitler only hate Jews?
Hitler basically hated the Jews because they were the largest non-German ethnic minority in Central Europe at that time.
Hitler wanted a pure Germany (and Europe) without any "parasites".
At that time, there were only few Muslims and Africans living in Germany (unlike today).
But you can be sure that Hitler would have built exactly the same gas chambers when (instead of Jews) millions of Turks, Arabs, Indians and Africans had lived in Germany at that time.
Hitler's basic ideology was not solely anti-semitism, but racism in its most radical extent. The millions of Indian and Arab "fans" of Hitler should always be aware that they would also be on Hitler's "bug spray list" if they had lived in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.
Other answers:
- No, he just hated Jews more than other non-Aryan peoples because Jews were the only foreigners in Germany at that time.
- Hitler did not only hate Jews. He also hated Gypsies and also people with handicaps. All the "non-Aryan minorities" who lived in Germany at that time were regarded as "parasites" or even as enemies.
- No, Hitler didn't only hate the Jews; he hated the gypsies, handy capped, homosexuals, Jehovah's Wittnesses and any one who didn't have a use in his plans for Germany.
- Hitler did hate other people, but he saw the Jews as his biggest enemy. He came to this belief for two important reasons. First anti-semitism was widespread in Germany, so he was influenced by his surroundings. Second, He found (much like populistic politicians nowadays) that scapegoating one group (i.e. the Jews) won him popularity with the German public. So his anti-semitism also had practical reasons.
- Furthermore, what should not be lost out of sight, is that Germans were very happy to blame the holocaust on one evil dead man (Hitler), although historical research seems to contradict this. The holocaust started with the "wild holocaust", whereby einsatzgruppen (ordinary Germans), started shooting Jewish civilians en masse, against explicit orders to do so. In fact, even after Himmler forbade the killing of Jews, this went on because most Germans refused to obey these orders. So, virulent anti-semitism can be denoted as a common trait back in Germany in the days, and in that sense Hitler was just an 'average' German.
- No one can know for sure the thoughts of Hitler. For sure, Hitler didn't plant the seed of hatred in the mind of Germans. The hatred was present for many years, and was exacerbated by the effects of the treaty of Versailles. Whether Hitler had a true hatred of Jews, or was just using the German's hatred of Jews as a tool in his quest for power, is very debatable. Perhaps the better question is, "did the GERMANS hate only Jews?"
- Hitler's propaganda helped seed of hatred grow within the Germans. Central to the his propaganda was a promotion of racial purity, just as in Italy. This campaign was successful: the German people began to feel that racial purity was necessary for the survival of their nation. Whether or not there was a hatred of those outside the German race, or if it was just simply actions based not on hate, but by false logic, is another matter up for debate.
The exterminations that took place certainly were not only conducted on Jews. Gypsies were exterminated; retarded people, mentally ill, and homosexuals were routinely exterminated. Generally, all people that were considered inferior were exterminated. Polish people were among the first to be exterminated.
So, while it cannot be said for sure that there was a true "hate", it is certain that whatever it was, it was not focused only on the Jews; the fact that they received the vast majority of the attention of the holocaust is attributable mainly to their greater presence in Germany.
Not only did Hitler hate Jews, Gypsies, and handi-caps, he hated Catholics (although he couldn't really act on this due to the large numbers of Catholics within his ranks) and Slavs (as the tens of millions of Russian deaths during the war and horrid conditions in Russian POW camps can attest to) as well.
How many Jews were sent to concentration camps as a result of the Kristallnacht?
On 9-10 November 1938, about 400 Jews killed and a further 30,000 were seized and sent to concentration camps. Of these, 2,000 were dead within six weeks. Note. The number of Jews killed that night was for a long time given as 91. This was the official figure given some days later by the Nazi regime. More recently, research (cited in the German language Wikipedia article on the subject) has carefully examined the available evidence and concluded that the real figure was about 400). == ==
There was a desperate stampede to get out of Germany and Austria. Have a look at this question: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_Kristallnacht_and_why_is_it_a_significant_event
Why were political prisoners persecuted in the Holocaust?
Tbh even Hitlers former political Nazi friends were put in the camp if they betrayed or dis-obeyed orders, but others that were his rivals were also put in the camps so that Hitler could continue what he was doing, and that was getting rid of all the Jews, taking over Europe, and finally the entire world at one point.
no, but they were not seen as being in danger as they were not targeted in the same way.
How many Jewish kids survived in World War 2?
The figure for the number of Jews who were killed in the Holocaust (or perished from starvation and disease in ghettos and camps) is agreed by most serious historians of the period and of the Holocaust as somewhere in the range 5.7 milllion to 6.0 million (or even slightly higher).
The figure of six million was originally given by SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer Hoettl in evidence to the Nuremberg Tribunal in 1946. Hoettl had worked closely with Eichmann and was well placed to give an informed estimate.
Later, figures were worked out by comparing pre and post Holocaust figures for the Jewish populations of the relevant countries (Germany, German-occupied countries and Germany's allies), making allowance for survivors, refugees and the small number who managed to hide successfully.
The figures have been checked again and again, and there is little disagreement about the overall total.
1. Many Jews perished in the severely overcrowded ghettos (walled in Jewish areas) established by the Nazis in Polish cities and elsewhere.
2. Many were worked to death on inadequate food.
3. Others were massacred in large-scale open air shootings.
4. Large numbers were gassed in extermination camps.
5. Especially in 1944-1945, many died from killer diseases, such as typhus, that swept through the hopelessly overcrowded camps that Jews were forced to live in.
Those Jews who were used as forced labour were registered by the Nazis, but generally no records were kept of those who were killed by gassing on or soon after arrival or of those massacred. For this reason it is difficult to be completely precise about numbers.
How were the Jews treated in the Warsaw Ghetto?
people in the Warsaw ghetto got beaten bad and killed by being shot it was a horrible sight for there family's
they wernt allowed to leave and were all cramped into 1 ghetto ... the largest held up to 450,000 jews
Why did Nazis not kill christians in Holocaust?
They killed and tortured people because Hitler told them that they were not Aryan or part of an Aryan race.
If you read Hitler's book Mein Kamph you will understand fully. Specifically in the case of the Jews, the book strongly implies that Germany can never succeed at anything it attempts as long as there is a single Jew alive in the world. The book also repeatedly comments that the Jewish, Gypsy, Slavic, Black, etc. races are analogous to sewer rats and other vermin.
What was the importance of the yellow star during the Holocaust?
the "yellow star" was the star of David - a Jewish symbol and since the Germans wanted to "keep tabs" on all the Jews they where ultimatly trying to kill off they had all the Jews where the "yellow star" or the star of David sewn on their clothing with the word "Jude" inprinted beneath it which was the German word for "Jew". hope that helps you :)
It also let the Nazis no who were Jews and who were not so they could stop them from doing different things
How do you feel about the holocaust?
After the Holocaust jews return to their normal lifes and got jobs, Eithen though they was in concnetration camps, the allies allowed all Jews to work, Any criminal charges from their placement in the camps to when they was liberated was blanked from the criinal files by the allies because the Jews done nothing which was illegal in the Ally laws before and the new german laws after the war.
Where did the Jews think they were going when they were taken into the death camps?
Many thought they were being re-settled in the east. This is why Auschwitz has a massive collection of pots and pans and household items on display; because the victims thought that they would need them in their new houses.
How did the Nazis tell if they were Jews are not?
Because Jews are not just a religion they are a race of people, and you can tell the difference. just like you can tell the difference between Asians and whites.
Why did anne frank need a secret annex?
In World War Two, Jews were being jailed and killed in the camps. Many families did the exact thing as Anne family, accept them in a false room offered by a German family.
What concentration camp did Otto Frank live in?
Otto Frank was sent to Aushwitz, the biggest camp, in August 1944. He got out on the Aushwitz death march, and went back to Amsterdam in about January 1945. :)
Which Jewish communities suffered losses in the Holocaust?
Mainly the ones under the Nazi yoke, but also many in the territories of the the Nazis' allies.
The biggest losses were in Poland, the countries of the former Soviet Union, especially Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine - also Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Romania ... the Netherlands, France.
Why did other countries support a Jewish homeland in 1948?
Answer 1
Actually, many people opposed that idea, before ww2 a fight between Arabs and Jews broke out because Arabs opposed the Jews from allowing Palestine to be Jewish homeland.
Answer 2
There are several reasons why non-Jews around the world supported the creation of a Jewish Homeland in Israel. For the Jewish arguments see the Related Question below.
1) Be Gone & Good Riddance: (written by someone else) Many nations looked on with favor and relief, assuming that all Jews would eventually migrate there, and the nations would finally be rid of them. But even that fond hope was not enough for most Muslim nations, who bitterly opposed the creation of Israel, and after 64 years, still do.
2) Holocaust Pity: The Holocaust bore out two major truths as concerned the Jewish people. The first was that without a government loyal to their interests, they could easily be targeted against and brutally murdered. The second major truth was that such an event was no longer a hypothetical since 6 million Jews were intentionally mass-murdered by what had previously been seen as one of the most progressive modern countries: Germany.
3) Middle East Control: Although it seems odd to say it today, both the United States and the Soviet Union believed that Israel could be converted to "their side" in the Cold War. Given that any Jewish State in the Arab World would be isolated, it would be natural for such a state to create a strategic relationship with one of the major powers. Additionally, a Jewish State might be able to influence neighboring Arab states and make them more pliant as concerns oil shipments. Both the USA and USSR supported the Creation of the State of Israel for these strategic reasons.
4) Solidarity with the Oppressed: Many nations in Latin America supported Israel because they sympathized with the oppressed Jewish people and saw the Independence of Israel as akin to their wars against Spain/Portugal and the internal fights for more indigenous equality.
5) Because It's the Right Thing to Do: There was certainly support for a Jewish State because some just saw it as the proper thing to return Palestine to the Jews. Churchill, who was no longer Prime Minister, held many pro-Zionist views out of respect for the Jews and their contribution to that region of the world.
6) Diplomatic Pressure: Both the United States and Soviet Union pressured their allies and third world countries to support the United Nations Resolution. This does not make the vote any less valid, but is worth noting.
