What was it like for the Jews during the Holocaust?
The camp, named for the nearby town, now part of Poland, was not a pleasant place. However conditions varied widely from one part to another. The 'camp' was really a huge complex of workshops, factories, railyards, barracks, crematoriums, and kitchens. It was selected for various reasons including relative remoteness (for security) and close proximity to rail lines.
It is of course, most famous as a death camp where about 1.1-1.4 million persons died of various causes. Most of these were gassed. Huge numbers died of diseases (always rampant in any confined area that is not under strict hygiene control) such as typhus. Food was short due to the Nazis offering low rations and also, especially late in the war, due to a collapse of Germany's transportation system.
Some prisoners worked in workshops making various items, mostly for the war effort. Some had to work in mines, quarries and munitions factories. Others kept records, raised food, organized warehouses, etc. Some prisoners survived several years here. Others, many who arrived in poor condition, died shortly after getting to the camp.
A large number of new arrivals were murdered as soon as practical.
All sorts of prisoners were kept here although it is most famous as a camp for Jews. Others kept here included homosexuals, gypsies, Russian POWs, various criminal types and others. A majority were men but a large number of women also went to these camps.
How did Hitlers antisemitism affect the Jewish people in Germany?
it affected them by the nazi starting the holocaust
Why did the Nazis kill old people?
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Do not listen to that, it is just bigoted tripe.
I can think of no Policy that Hitler introduced that had anything against the elderly. The euthanasia programme was not aimed at the elderly, it was aimed at those of a feeble mind, the mentally ill, those who had an illness that meant that they would need a carer, who were a drain on society. True this may have included some of the elderly, but they were not targeted because they were old.
He certainly did not think that children were useless, he gave mothers medals for bearing many children.
What the unfortunate above is referring to is no doubt his fantasy about what happened at the death camps. Hitler neither knew nor cared about the details.
What were Nazi propagand and how was it used?
Nazi Propaganda were advertisements so to speak about how the German people were the best and they also had propaganda about the Jewish people and that they should be annilated from earth in order to save the world from destruction.
What language did people use during the Holocaust?
Generally, Jews from Western and Central Europe spoke the languages of the countries they lived in (such as German in the case of German and Austrian Jews, French in the case of French Jews), and many East European Jews spoke Yiddish.
Wartime fears led to the mistreatment and persecution of this immigrant group in the US?
African Americans
Where there any Nazis that didn't want to kill Jews but were forced to?
Of course Nazi Germany had a choice. The Jews were harmless and the Nazis could have let them be.
There were several ideas. Hitler originally wanted all the Jews to live and work in sewers underground.
Another plan was to deport all the Jews. It was held at a conference, the closest two candidates were Australia and Palestine (now Israel). Palestine would have been a very popular choice considering it already had about half a million Jews. Australia said that it didn't have religious tension in its country and after how the Germans portrayed the Jews, they were not thrilled about the idea. Palestine fell through because the Muslims didn't like it.
Other plans involved sterilising the Jews (Wannassee Conference) so that they couldn't have any more children and would eventually die off.
At the end of the day, marginalising Jews was a huge distraction for Hitler from conquering Europe and we should all be grateful to the Jews for that they suffered.
Why did hitler hate other races?
Answer 1
Hitler did not "hate" the African race as a whole. He respected races that settled within the confines of their own countries (ex: africans in Africa, Germans in Germany, Russians in russia and so on). It was multiculturalism that Hitler despised. If an African lived on German soil, then Hitler would deport the party to their own country.
Answer 2
Adolf Hitler hated the blacks. He considered them sub-human and that's why he called them beasts. He hated homosexuals and anything else he considered unnatural under the sun. He hated gypsies because they were believed to commit incest. He hated the Jews because of his mother (his mother was very ill and she went to see a Jewish doctor and was turned away because she wasn't Jewish herself) and when he got turned away from a school he wanted to be in because he loved to draw and paint.
Answer 3
According to J. A. Rogers, Adolph Hitler declares in Mein Kampf Negroes are "half-apes." This is far from being the opinion of pre-Hitler Germany if one is to judge by the various monuments and pictures of Negroes in German museums and other public places...
...There were from 20,000 to 24,000 Africans in German from 1933-1945. Many of these Africans married German women and sired half African and half German children. They were called "Rhineland Bastards," others sired what they called "Illegitimate children," with German women, also called Rhineland Bastards. Many of these Africans sufferer the same fate as the Jews did during the Holocaust. Many African Americans serving as soldiers in world war II became POW's sufferer the same fate, as well as Africans from Senegal and other colonized French countries. So you can see brothers and sisters why I am angry as hell, everybody takes advantage of us and use us at their convenient. For more information, there is a book titled "German's Black Holocaust, by Firpo W. Carr, Ph.D.
The sterilization programs of Blacks were instituted by Germany's most senior Nazi geneticist, Doctor Eugen Fischer, who developed his racial theories in German South West Africa (now Namibia) long before World War I. In Namibia, Fischer claimed there were genetic dangers arising from race mixing between German colonists and African women.
There is photographic evidence of German genocidal tendencies in Africa. In 1904 the Herero tribe revolted against their German colonial masters in a quest to keep their land. It was a rebellion that lasted four years and led to the death of 60 000 Herero people - 80% of their population. The survivors were imprisoned in concentration camps or used as guinea pigs for medical experiments, a foretaste of things to come.
Hitler's Forgotten Victims shows that Germany's 24,000-strong black community were the number-one target for Hitler's sterilisation programme. Hitler's view on racial superiority did not develop in a vacuum. He was influenced by the work of the 19th century German zoologist Ernst Haeckel, whose views were based on distorted versions of Darwinism. He wrote of woolly-haired Negroes incapable of higher mental development.
The Nazis' obsession with racial purity and eugenics was provoked and intensified in 1918, following Germany's defeat in World War I. Under the terms of the peace treaty signed at Versailles, Germany was stripped of its African colonies and forced to submit to the occupation of the Rhineland. The deployment of African troops from the French colonies to police the territory incensed many Germans.
To many it was the final humiliation that began with their 1918 defeat in the World War I. Germans complained bitterly in newspapers and propaganda films about African soldiers from the French colonial army having relations with their women. As soon as Hitler reoccupied the Rhineland in 1936, he retaliated by targeting black people living there. At least 400 mixed-race children were forcibly sterilized in the area by the end of 1937, while 400 others disappeared into camps.
Stewart, M. Hitler & the Negro. 30 Mar. 2009 .
Hitler does not just hate black people but also anyone who is not the perfect race-(blond hair blue eyes)-Aryan race. Hitler believed that this race was the perfect human race although not having blond heir blue eyes himself...before world war 2 Hitler offered Briton to join his alliance because the British where seen as Aryan race to!
What city were Jews taken to death camps?
Just about every city on the planet.
Given the category, I think you're talking about Auschwitz.
What are all non-Jewish people called?
In ancient times, there was no special terminology for non-jewish people. In modern times, they could be called Gentiles or simply non-jews.
In Hebrew, the term goy was used since the Middle Ages. It was a non-offensive term that referred to (other) nations. In Modern English, the term "goy" was borrowed from Hebrew, but in English it has a slightly negative connotation.
How did Hitler treat Jews before the Final Solution?
As far as I know, before Hitler came to power, most German Jews assumed that his anti-semitism was mainly a matter of rhetoric, and they didn't expect the Nazis to introduce anti-semitic decrees or laws. (Many Germans expected the Nazis to calm down once they had government posts). By all accounts, when the first anti-semitic decrees were issued in April 1933, most German Jews had immense difficulty coming to terms with and even understanding what was happening to them. This non-comprehension continued for perhaps a couple of years or so. In some cases there seems to have been a certain paralysis, numbness and despair. Obviously, the Jews loathed Hitler. On the other hand, those German Jews who were active Socialists or Communists had few illusions and generally had a much better grasp of what was going on. However, they were only a small minority of the German Jews. Attitudes among Jews outside Germany were broadly in line with those in Germany. After all, the country had a reputation for being highly civilized. Joncey
Why didn't the Jews do more to resist the Holocaust?
The answer to that would be a question; to defend themselves from what? The victims were often not exposed to the face of their persecutor until they were under armed guard and it was too late.
Having said that; there were some conditions under which the Jews were forewarned enough to mount some resistance, like the uprisings. But most of these had to occur once the victims were already incarcerated.
How did hitler make war on the jews?
He made them register, wear yellow stars, put them behind walls in ghettos, took away homes and businesses, arrested people, shot them in the streets, killed whole towns by having them dig their own graves and mass shooting them, put them in cattle cars and locked them in to be taken to concentration camps, built gas chambers killing 6 million people, and working/starving them to death.
What city did anne frank hide in during the Holocaust?
Anne Frank went hiding in Amsterdam. This is a photo of the place she lived in ( the middle one)...
Did all Jews suppoert hitlers plan for the persecution of the Jews?
Ordinary Germans were never asked about that. In fact, they weren't even told about the 'Final Solution' (Holocaust). It was supposed to be top secret, but various stories got out ... This suggests that the Nazi regime thought the Holocaust didn't enjoy mass support.
What did the Nazis do to force the Jews to leave Germany?
The Nazis relocated (removed them from Germany) and sent them to Concentration Camps where they either got sent to freedom or you got killed by going into a bath house where instead of water coming out of the spout, there was Mustard Gas and you got poisoned.
How many black people died in the Holocaust?
Precisely how many Afro-Germans died in Nazi concentration camps is not known, but estimates put the figure at between 25,000 and 50,000. The relatively low numbers of blacks in Germany, their wide dispersal across the country, and the fact that the Nazis concentrated on the Jews were some factors that made it possible for many Afro-Germans to survive the war
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AnswerThe fate of black people from 1933 to 1945 in Nazi Germany and in German-occupied territories ranged from isolation to persecution, sterilization, medical experimentation, incarceration, brutality, and murder. However, there was no systematic program for their elimination as there was for Jews and other groups.
After World War I, the Allies stripped Germany of its African colonies. The German military stationed in Africa(Schutztruppen), as well as missionaries, colonial bureaucrats, and settlers, returned to Germany and took with them their racist attitudes. Separation of whites and blacks was mandated by the Reichstag (German parliament), which enacted a law against mixed marriages in the African colonies.
The Nazis, at the time a small political movement, viewed them as a threat to the purity of the Germanic race. In Mein Kampf (My Struggle), Hitler charged that �the Jews had brought the Negroes into the Rhineland with the clear aim of ruining the hated white race by the necessarily-resulting bastardization.�
African German mulatto children were marginalized in German society, isolated socially and economically, and not allowed to attend university. Racial discrimination prohibited them from seeking most jobs, including service in the military.
Hilarius (Lari) Gilges, a dancer by profession, was murdered by the SS in 1933, probably because he was black. Gilges' German wife later received restitution from a postwar German government for his murder by the Nazis.
Some African Americans, caught in German-occupied Europe during World War II, also became victims of the Nazi regime. Many, like female jazz artist Valaida Snow, were imprisoned in Axis internment camps for alien nationals. The artist Josef Nassy, living in Belgium, was arrested as an enemy alien and held for seven months in the Beverloo transit camp in German-occupied Belgium. He was later transferred to Germany, where he spent the rest of the war in the Laufen internment camp and its subcamp, Tittmoning, both in Upper Bavaria.
European and American blacks were also interned in the Nazi concentration camp system. Lionel Romney, a sailor in the U.S. Merchant Marine, was imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp. Jean Marcel Nicolas, a Haitian national, was incarcerated in the Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau concentration camps in Germany. Jean Voste, an African Belgian, was incarcerated in the Dachau concentration camp. Bayume Mohamed Hussein from Tanganyika (today Tanzania) died in the Sachsenhausen camp, near Berlin.
Black prisoners of war faced illegal incarceration and mistreatment at the hands of the Nazis, who did not uphold the regulations imposed by the Geneva Convention (international agreement on the conduct of war and the treatment of wounded and captured soldiers). Lieutenant Darwin Nichols, an African American pilot, was incarcerated in a Gestapo prison in Butzbach. Black soldiers of the American, French, and British armies were worked to death on construction projects or died as a result of mistreatment in concentration or prisoner-of-war camps. Others were never even incarcerated, but were instead immediately killed by the SS or Gestapo.
Some African American members of the U.S. Armed forces were liberators and witnesses to Nazi atrocities. The 761st Tank Battalion (an all-African American tank unit), attached to the 71st Infantry Division, U.S. Third Army, under the command of General George Patton, participated in the liberation of Gunskirchen, a subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp, in May 1945.
Nazi concentration camp in Poland?
It had a dual function: it was a concentration and extermination camp. The first means that the inmates were forced to work (often to death), the latter means that parts of it were built to kill the Jews (gas chambers, crematoria). It was also the place where medical experiments were carried out on humans with the leadership of J. Mengele. He experimented on twins and dwarfs.About one and a half million Jews were killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau.More than 20,000 people could be killed with the equipment they had in a single day.
When did the Nazis start putting people in concentration camps?
In March 1933. Before the first permanent concentration camp opened as Dachau on 22 March 1933, the Nazis rounded up Communists and some others and put them in temporary concentration camps. They imprisoned people simply on the gounds that they were a 'threat to the government'.
What did Jewish men and women have to wear?
This depends on the society that the Jews lived in. In Nazi Germany and most occupied countries, the Jews were required to wear a Yellow Star of David with the word "Jew" in the local language affixed to the breast of their jackets and shirts. In the Ottoman Empire, Jewish males were required to wear yellow turbans.
Why did the allies hold the trial at Nuremberg?
because previously it has been the spiritual capital of Nazism.
What food were Jews given in concentration camps?
They got a thin soup made from the scraps of the German soilders soup. The soup was usually just watery. Rotton spots would not be peeled off and the cabbage would be sandy. They would take the peilings from the potatoes and put carrots in as well. If they were lucky; meat would find its way into their bowl. They also got a thin serving of bread, they put saw dust on it to make it look more than it really was. Most of the times people would steal others soup and bread and leave them to starve.
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What groups of people were mistreated in the Holocaust?
Jews were the main target of the Nazis, other targets of the Nazis (though not part of the Holocaust) include Poles, Jehovah Witnesses, Gypsies, pastors, priests, and clergymen, homosexuals, the disabled (mentally and physically, even those from pure Aryan families), anyone of Negroid descent, and all conscientious objectors were targeted for death (generally through work).
What happened during the uprising in ghettos?
there was a violent rebellion in the Warsaw Ghetto.
in other ghettos there was industrial action (strikes).
simply disobeying the rules can be seen as rebelling (for example using the black market).
What year did the franck family leave Germany and where do they go?
the franks left germany to aviod being herrased because of there religion and they stayed in the seceret annex in Amsterdam , holland