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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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Did Hitler kill his mother?

No. Hitler's family was Catholic, and Catholics are against abortion.

In the book 'Night' why did the soup taste like corpses after the young boy was hanged?

Obviously because he had seen many people dying just before he got his ration. Food doesn't taste good if you just saw someone being killed.

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The answer above is not correct. It is not correct because earlier in the story after other men were hung he said "I remember on that evening, the soup tasted better than ever...", because they were so hungry. The actual reason the soup tasted like corpses when the young boy was hung is because children symbolize innocence, and the boy being hung showed a loss of innocence.

How did people help refugees escape the Nazis?

Once Jews were actually in concentration camps, escape was almost impossible. At Sobibor there was an uprising and a few hundred prisoners managed to break out, but only about 200 prisoners managed to avoid recapture. * Auschwitz - About 300 prisoners (over the whole period 1940-45) escaped successfully (out of a total of at least 1.3 million who entered the Auschwitz group of camps). * Treblinka - There was a revolt in 1943 and some prisoners managed to escape, but only about 40 were still alive at the end of the war. * Sobibor - See above.

How often did they shower at the concentration camps?

The Jews kept at these camps had lice and the diseases that came with them. At the begining they had access to cold water showers but when the camps began to be liberated, the guards left and the water was shut off. I highly doubt there were showers. Many who weren't gassed died from disease. One of those diseases was Typhus (not exactly sure if spelling is right). This disease was developed from POOR HYGIENE. Anne Frank died from this disease, along with her sister, Margot.

What did Hitler do to single out Jews?

There are many ways in which Hitler discriminated the Jews. 1. They were forced to wear yellow star "pins" with the word "JUDE" on it, meaning Jew 2. Jewish Children were forced to sit in the back of the classroom 3. It was ill-advised to go into a store that was owned by a Jew 4. Jews were only allowed to do a certain amount of things, they were no longer to go to the movies, or other popular activities of that time 5. He sent them to concecration camps against their will There are many more reasons, but those are just examples of how Hitler discriminated.

How was Russia during the Holocaust?

Russia (or the U.S.S.R. as it was known then) was under the rule of Stalin, a cruel dictator, and was communist at the time. Stalin was in the process of murdering his peasants at a rapid rate at the time, and actually killed more than the estimated 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews that Hitler killed. Plus, the Soviet Union of course joined in WWII, and was the Allied country with the most casualties during the war.

What was the Kritallnacht?

Kristallnacht ("the Night of Broken Glass") was one of the worst anti-Semitic pogroms to happen in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century, and is usually considered to be one of the major precursors to the Holocaust. It happened on November 9 through 10, 1938.

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Are there still death camps?

Sadly yes. The Nazi death camps have all been closed, but wherever there is a war being fought, you can pretty much rest assured that there is quite a lot of killing going on, even when those being killed are unarmed. Prisoner of war camps especially can quickly turn into death camps. But especially in racially/ethnically motivated wars there is a high chance of one group trying to exterminate the other and many people will employ very organized and sophisticated tactics to achieve this goal. Examples are the death camps of Po Pot in Cambodia, of the NVA during the Vietnam War, and one could argue that Rwanda became just one huge death camp during the Hutu massacre of the Tutsis. Not to mention any number of political camps run by dictators and tyrants all over the world that we have no idea about. Myanamr (Burma), for example, has one of the vilest dictatorships on the face of the earth.

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The answer is off topic. The Nazi death camps have been destroyed or, in a few cases, turned into museums.

How can a boycott hurt a business?

Economic boycotts, if there are enough countries that join it, can greatly diminish a countryâ??s economy by limiting itâ??s exports. Depending upon the amount of exports that make up their GDP, this form of boycott can be economically devastating.

Why did the Nazis build ghettos?

To flush-out or kill all remaining Jews who were hiding from deportation to the camps

Why did the Nazis write Arbeit Macht Frei on the gate?

All the major Nazi concentration camps except Buchenwald had the slogan 'Arbeit macht frei' over at least the main entrance.

At Buchenwald the slogan was 'Jedem das Seine', which means 'to each according to his/her merits'. (It is often mistranslated as 'Each to his own').

Neither slogan was new. 'Arbeit macht frei' had been used by the Weimar government when advertising its public works programme, and 'Jedem das Seine' is much older. It is the German translation of a classical Latin saying ('Suum cuique'). The German translation had been the motto of the Prussian Order of the Black Eagle since its foundation in 1701 and before that had appeared in Latin on some Brandenburg coins.

Why was Hitler so against Jews?

He thought that the Jews were to blame for the Germans losing WW1.
Hitler grew up poor and all the stores and business's were owned by jews and over the years he grew hateful and it grew year after year.

Was the US to blame for the final solution?

Yes, the United States knew about the final solution but they didn't believe it was possible and thought they were receiving a steaming load of crap

What were the working conditions in the Holocaust?

terrbile. many people died from the horrible working conditions in the concentration camps

What terms descibe hitler's attitudes toward the jews?

During and also prior to World War II, Hitler's attitude (and actions) toward the Jews of Germany, Europe, and the world as a whole can be described with many negative terms. The most important include the following: prejudiced, discriminatory, hateful, violent, vengeful, and (perhaps most importantly) irrational.

Why did The U.S. not help the Jews in the Holocaust until 1944?

The German front lines needed to be pushed back before the people could be helped. A good question is why didnt more of the German public get involved and try to help hide those that Hitler and his Nazi forces were putting into those camps. Some did do what they could but there were not enough of them to truly make an impact on the number of camp deaths.

Why is the final solution important?

The final solution was the Holocaust....Hitler believed that the Jews caused Germany to lose WWI and his answer to fix that was to eliminate all of the Jews, along with the gays and the gypsies. anyone who wasn't of "pure, strong blood"

When were jews free from the Holocaust?

Those who were in the Holocaust will never be freed from the Holocaust.

If you are asking when the persecution stopped, then the answer would be 1945, May. But people continued to die because of the the Holocaust for some time afterwards.

Why did Hitler blame World War I on the Jews?

Simply because he could. Many people viewed Germany's surrender at the end of WWI as unnecessary, that Germany could have won and the surrender was negotiated by Jewish politicians and bureaucrats and was a betrayal of those fighting.

How did concentration camps stop operating?

When it became obvious to the members of the German High Command that the war was lost, they began to order all prisoners marched out of the camps, and mass-marched in the direction awayfrom the advancing armies. The camp, if ti was a work camp, was then abandoned, or if it was a death camp, it was destroyed, as best as they could. At least, that was the plan. But the Allies from every direction were advancing too fast, and many of the camps - including death camps - were captured intact, with prisoners still there.

What happened to Jews at babi yar and when did it happen?

On September 29-30, 1941, the German Einsantzgruppen (a military division tasked with murdering Jews) killed 33,771 Jews in the third largest single massacre of Jews in the Holocaust. There were other "smaller" Einstazgruppen attacks on Jews in the same area as well.

Why did hilter want to bulid extermination camps?

To make the extermination process more efficient. Executing the Jews at source on an individual basis was proving problematic, it was more efficient to have camps where the victims could be sent for processing.

Was Einstein in a concentration camp?

No. He was outside Germany when the Nazis came to power and never returned.