Holocaust

When it was first established in 1940 the conditions were deplorable and wretched. As time went on, more and more people were sent there from other parts of Warsaw and the surrounding areas, and conditions rapidly deteriorated. Famine and disease took their toll, as was the intention of the Nazis.

Disease enters any area where starvation, overcrowding and indequate santitation are prevelant. Typhoid was the most common and widespread disease.

Krakau.

When the Jews were in war camps, he made sure they were malnourished and most of them he had killed! It was like racsim but without the black and white thing! so he mad sure he exploited Jews. Jews were mostly forced to work in bad conditions and beaten up most of the times!

sadly he also put them in huge ovens, burning them to death!

When this started or more likely when it finished it was known as the holocaust

They grew up and took their place in German society. Most have renounced Hitlerism and the Third Reich but many are still convinced that der Fuehrer was right. They just keep it to themselves.

Some concentration camp guards unleashed hungry dogs on the victims.

Triangles were worn by prisoners to denote their 'crimes'. Different colors stood for different crimes. Red meant a political prisoner, green is a criminal, pink is a sexual 'crime' such as being gay, black meant the elements, etc. The triangle shape was chosen because of the shape of the road signs that were used to warn others. There were also two triangles put together forming a star of David, and other forms had a line above the inverted triangle. These triangles could also have letters on them to show which area or country they were from.

Germany used many various types of arm bands in their army and with civilians. The Nazi Party armband was red with a white circle and a black swastika and it signified you were a member of the Nazi party. Not all German civilians nor all German soldiers were members of Nazi party. During the last months of the war, a yellow arm band was worn with "Deutsche Wehrmacht" in black letters for civilians who were armed to defend their city against the Russian invaders.

he hated Jews for many reason, but one his of his own personal reasons was that the 'Jews' did not accept his artwork, however the reason he used to persaude Germany was that back in ww1 the Jews caused the collapse of Germany

It did not end the depression. We did have a lot of people go to work that had been unemployed, but that came from the government spending money on things for war. The funds that the government spent came from taxes paid by citizens. At the end of the war, we were really still in a depression, but we had built up manufacturing capability (to make the tools of war). So when the huge amounts of people all over the world needed to buy goods to rebuild after the war, the US was in a good position to sell them those items - that did solve the depression.

Cuba: The Spanish Army's General Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau aka "The Butcher Weyler" had camps known as reconcentradoserected during 1896 to pen up 500,000 peasants who allegedly supported rebels in an effort and to quell the rebellion in the War of 1895....200,000 died of disease and starvation.

Their heads were shaved, and a "blue number was tatooed on their body to be used as an only mean of identification. In some camps they even had to wear the same clothing, such as the blue striped uniforms of Auschwits prisoners.

In English it is called the Night of Broken (the) Glassand in German it is called Kristallnacht.

The largest ghetto was the Warsaw Ghetto (in Poland). When it was established in 1940 it had about 450,000 inhabitants. The population fell as a result of grossly insufficient food and disease. Then in 1942 the Nazis started regular transports to the extermination camp at Treblinka (and other camps).

In December 1941, when the first reports about routine mass gassings reached London, a Foreign Office official wrote in the margin; 'Bolshevist propaganda?'

The Allies didn't really want to know about it and seem to have seen it as a distraction from the war effort. Beyond announcing that they intended to punish those responsible they did nothing specifically to stop the Holocaust. Please see the related question.

Once in power, Hitler used his position to launch a campaign against the Jews that culminated in the Holocaust.

Hitler blamed the Jews for all the misfortunes that had befallen Germany

the loss of the First World War was the result of a Jewish conspiracy

the Treaty of Versailles was also a Jewish conspiracy designed to bring Germany to her knees

the hyperinflation of 1923 was the result of an international Jewish attempt to destroy Germany

During the time when Weimar Germany was seemingly recovering under Stresseman, what Hitler said about the Jews remained nonsense listened to by only the few - hence his poor showing at elections prior to the 1929 Depression. During the impact of the Great Depression, though, when people became unemployed and all looked helpless, Hitler's search for a scapegoat proved a lot more fruitful.

After January 1933, the Jews became the "Untermenschen" - the sub-humans. Nazi thugs stopped Germans from shopping in Jewish shops. By 1934, all Jewish shops were marked with the yellow Star of David or had the word "Juden" written on the window. SA men stood outside the shops to deter anyone from entering. This was not necessarily a violent approach to the Jews - that was to come later - but it was an attempt to economically bankrupt them and destroy what they had spent years building up.

On buses, trains and park benches, Jews had to sit on seats marked for them. Children at schools were taught specifically anti-Semitic ideas. Jewish school children were openly ridiculed by teachers and the bullying of Jews in the playground by other pupils went unpunished. If the Jewish children responded by not wanting to go to school, then that served a purpose in itself and it also gave the Nazi propagandists a reason to peddle the lie that Jewish children were inherently lazy and could not be bothered to go to school.

In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were passed. The Jews lost their right to be German citizens and marriage between Jews and non-Jews was forbidden. It was after this law that the violence against the Jew really openly started. Those that could pay a fine were allowed to leave the country. Many could not and many shops refused to sell food to those who remained. Medicines were also difficult to get hold of as chemists would not sell to Jews.

The campaign against the Jews stopped for a short duration during the Berlin Olympics - but once the overseas press had gone, it started up again. It reached a pre-war peak in 1938 with Krystalnacht - The Night of the Broken Glass.

In November 1938, a Nazi 'diplomat' was shot dead by a Jew in Paris. Hitler ordered a seven day campaign of terror against the Jews in Germany to be organised by Himmler and the SS. On the 10th November, the campaign started. 10,000 shops owned by Jews were destroyed and their contents stolen. Homes and synagogues were set on fire and left to burn. The fire brigades showed their loyalty to Hitler by assuming that the buildings would burn down anyway, so why try to prevent it? A huge amount of damage was done to Jewish property but the Jewish community was ordered to pay a one billion mark fine to pay for the eventual clear-up. Jews were forced to scrub the streets clean.

As the Soviet Army approached, most of the prisoners were taken on a death march to the camp at Gross-Rosen in the bitter cold. (It was January 1945). The SS tried to cover up what they had done by blowing up the gas chambers and crematoria. On 27 January 1945 the camp was liberated by Soviet troops, and in many countries the day is now Holocaust Memorial Day.

The ghetto was like an animal cage, it contained what was inside it and limited contact with the outside world. This was ordered as part of the final solution to Hitler Jewish question. They were contained and catalogued so they could be easily tracked, produce goods for the German military and could be easily deported. However that couldn't have been the only reason for the ghettos, they spreading suffering, disease and despair. Could have it been used to weaken and kill the Jewish population? Nazis would have just considered it to be the most efficient solution but it is quite clear that the main purpose was to make the Jewish race suffer before they were killed.

The purpose was to murder 6 million Jews of Europe and to remove the disabled, gay, and elderly as well as any dissenting people. In 1933 approximately 9.5 million Jews lived in Europe comprising 1.7% of the total European population. This number represents more than 60% of the World's Jewish population at that time of an estimated 15.3 million. The majority of Jews in prewar Europe lived in Eastern Europe. The largest was Poland with about 3,000,000 Jews. In Central Europe the largest Jewish population was in Germany with about 525,000 people and Western Europe the largest population was in Great Britain with 300,000. Before the Nazi seizure in 1933 Europe had a diverse set of Jewish cultures. In less than a decade two out of every three Jews would be dead.

Chelmno (Kulmhof) The Birkenau section of Auschwitz Treblinka Majdanek Sobibor Belzec

The concentration camp Auschwitz targeted all groups that Hitler wanted to "exterminate" like Jews, gays, gypsies, and many more. basically, anyone that didnt have blond hair and blue eyes.

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Auschwitz did not target anyone, it did not go out looking for people to hold, it just processed those who had already been chosen to be sent there.

Joseph Stalin was the dictator of Russia during WW2 and the Holocaust.

Hitler wanted to be in control because he thought that he could take over Germany and eventualy the rest of the world, in other words he wanted to make a "perfect" world consisting of no Jews, blacks, or gypsis but those are just the main groups.

The first ghetto had been established at the year 1939 in Poland.Due to the invasion of Poland the nazis had recognized that Poland had a lot of jews were living in Poland . Since the nazis had hated Jews and since they found a lot of jews in polish cities like

Warsaw,Krakow,Lublin and Lodz the nazis

decided it wasn't good for Jews to be mixed

with people that respected other religions

so they decided to split the cities apart based on religion.The nazis had called these separated cites Ghettos.Most ghettos were located in eastern Europe but by the end of the war the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had took affect and most ghettos and nazi death camps had been liberated from the Red Army (Soviet union/USSR/Russia).

Hitler's first military act was to annex Austria.