How long did the concentration camps stay in existence?
Auschwitz (or to be more precise, the Auschwitz complex of camps) lasted from May 1940 till January 1945. However, its function changed during that time. Initially, it was a very harsh concentration camp, but in 1942 it became an extermination camp, too. In addition there were about 45 further sub-camps.
Was Josef Mengele ever captured?
No, he hid with his distant relatives and 1day they persuaded him into going swimming, and he did, which is where he had a stroke and drowned. They pulled him out of the water but it was too late......THE FAMOUS DOCTOR MENGELE WAS DEAD.
What happened to people after World War 2?
However, Axis prisoners in Allied hands had to wait. For example, the Soviet Union held on to some German prisoners of war till 1955.
There were, of course, also those who were deprived of their homes. An estimated 11.7 million Germans were expelled from Poland, Czechoslovakia and various east European countries and many perished in the process.
Some Ukrainians (and some other Soviet troops) had thrown in their lot with the Nazis and were very keen to avoid being sent home ... Some of them were allowed to settle in Canada and some other Western countries.
Jewish Holocaust survivors in some East European countries - above all Poland - faced further massacres after going home, and many emigrated to Israel.
Then there were those Nazis were went to Argentina ...
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On arrival at camps like Auschwitz they were divided into those fit for work (as slave labourers) and those who were 'unfit' for work. The second group was gassed as soon as was practical.
Did people with blond hair and blue eyes were put in a concentration camp?
All Jews were forced in a concentration camp but most likely Jews didn't have blonde hair and blue eyes.Jews mostly had dark hair and brown eyes.But if a Jew did have blue eyes and blonde hair they would be sent to a Concentration camp.
What was the Christians response to the holocaust?
There were differing reactions. Considering that antisemitism stems from Christian teaching it was hard for Christians to object. In fact the number of high ranking Christians who openly objected was very small, but they include people like George Bell, and Mathew Parks who had previously warned that something like the Holocaust would happen if the Church continued in the way that it did (and was condemned for it). Roman Catholic Christians had trouble objecting as the Pope himself refused to object.
What did the Nazis do when doing genetic experiments on Jews?
That depends on your definition of success. Every experiment produced data about the human response to such things as poisons, infections and extreme conditions. Experiments involving hypothermia produced some useful results. However, the majority of the experiments could have been studied using less cruel methods or animal testing.
What did Nuremberg race laws do?
It mainly determined who was Jewish or German. It forbade marriage between Jews and Germans. Use wikipedia for more details.
Why are the German soldiers to blame for the Holocaust?
Theres not really in an explaination for the Germans but the majority responsibilty for the holocaust was by Adolf Hitler himself. He planned this idea and wanted all the people he didnt except to be gone but the Germans were with him because they wanted more land like he planned he to.
the point is that the Germans were not really responsible for the cause of the death camps but were with Hitler
What terms Jewish refer holocaust?
The genocide of Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, and 6 million Jewish people. Jews refer to the Holocaust as "Shoah".
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There are, however, two competing definitions. When used by professional historians it refers to the Nazi genocide of the Jews.
"The standard work by the distinguished Canadian historian Michael Marrus, TheHolocaust in History, focused on, to use his own words, 'the Holocaust, the systematic mass murder of European Jewry by the Nazis'. Similarly, Sir Martin Gilbert, in his documentary compilation, The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy( London, 1986), concurred in referring to 'the systematic attempt to destroy all European Jewry - an attempt now known as the Holocaust'. Another author, Ronnie S. Landau, put forward a similar definition in his book, The Nazi Holocaust: 'The Holocaust involved the deliberate, systematic murder of approximately 6 million Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe between 1941 and 1945."
Richard J. Evans, Telling Lies About Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial, Verso, London and New York, 2002, pp. 113-4.
More popularly, especially in the US, it is extended to all people killed by the Nazis on the basis of their group membership.
Yet a third view is gaining ground - namely, the the Germans fought a 'war of annihilation' (mainly on the Eastern Front) and that this attempt to reduce the population of Eastern Europe by about 30 million was the core of the Holocaust, though it included some other groups.
Why was Jews the only ones that Hitler hated?
Hitler hated many, many people and races, for instance, gypsies, Jews, Gays, most any one who was not of pure birth, this is why he was trying to create a 'pure ayrian race" lol the man was an absolute psychopath.
Why did the Nazis want to keep their crimes a secret?
the full range of the Holocaust was kept secret until the end of the war, but the world knew that Germany was killing Jews on a large scale within a year.
The problem was that the world did not want to know (which encouraged the Germans to continue), otherwise they would have had to consider doing something about it.
What was the causes of the diseases in the concentration camp?
the facilities are not as clean, and a lot of the camps are enclosed and are very harsh in condition. as prisoners come from all over, they bring exotic illnesses that others are more prone to.
They got sick by people like Hitler not feeding them and then he put them in little ovens then they were heated alive! I'm glad I wasn't an alive Jewish person! No ofence to Jews.
sometimes they intentionally poisoned them!
How did airplanes affect the American society?
Airplanes affected American society in many ways. It affected American society because if we didn't have to solely rely on cars or or trains then their would be other ways to travel. Airplanes make it possible to go far distances and travel in other states and regions. Airplanes also affected America for warfare. When America discovered the potential planes could have, they went right to working on their own warplanes.
They made it much easier to get to remote places and faster to get across the country.
Why were the bodies of the Jews cremated and not burned?
There's a misunderstanding here. Cremation is the burning of dead bodies.
Why were the Nazis able to harm so many people before being stopped?
because they didn't want to risk wasting men or accidentally killing to Jews
Hitlers vision of a nazi master race ruling europe?
An all Aryan culture with no imperfections, free of racial differences, sexuality and mental retardation.
I.G.FARBEN WAS THE PRIMARY MANUFACTURER BUT THERE WERE OTHERS LIKE THYSSIEN WHICH IS STILL IN BUSSINESS HERE AND IN GERMANY. The Nevada prison system invented the gas chamber in 1924. A man named Gee Jon, who was a member of a Chinese-American crime syndicate, was to be executed for murder at the Nevada State Prison. At the time, they were attempting to find a more humane way to execute criminals in Nevada, and someone came up with the idea of using cyanide gas. They first tried putting a hose in his cell at night and piping in the gas. Gee survived this because the gas escaped through the bars of his cell. (History does not state what happened to the other inmates.) Their next attempt was to put Gee in a closet and pipe the gas into it. This worked fine.
Who became kapos in the holocaust?
The Kapos (Capos) were chosen by the SS guards. The prisoners had no say in the matter.
Who leads the country Germany?
Currently (June, 2010), the Chancellor of Germany is Angela Merkel. She was elected in 2005, the first woman Chancellor of Germany. She was reelected in 2009.
How many Jews were slaughtered in World War 2?
Over six million plus Jews were killed in the concentration camps or other times by the Nazis. More were killed in Russia. There were also 5 million undesirable people killed by the Nazis in camps and medical experiments. They were disabled, mentally ill, communists and some were Jews.
Otto Frank survived the Holocaust and eventually returned back to Amsterdam. Some fellow helpers found Anne's diary and gave it to Mr. Frank. He made copies of the diary. The book (The Dairy of Anne Frank) was published in October of 1947.
Why were they called concentration camps?
The name in German is (Konzentrationslager) that means concentration camp, at first were intended to hold political prisoners and opponents of the Nazi empire but after the WW2 began Hitler use the first six concentration camps to hold and exterminate jews, homosexuals, gypsies but later he find out he could use those people for work so he created various types of concentration camps: Labour camps: concentration camps where interned inmates had to do hard physical labour under inhuman conditions and cruel treatment. Some of these camps were sub-camps of bigger camps, or "operational camps", established for a temporary need. Transit and collection camps: camps where inmates were collected and routed to main camps, or temporarily held. POW camps: concentration camps where prisoners of war were held after capture. These POW's endured torture and liquidation in a big scale. Hostage camps: camps where hostages were held and killed as reprisals. Extermination camps: These camps differed from the rest, since not all of them were also concentration-camps. Although none of the categories is independent, and each camp could be classified as a mixture of several of the above, and all camps had some of the elements of an extermination camp, still systematic extermination of new-arrivals occured in very specific camps. Of these, three were extermination camps, where all new-arrivals were simply killed -- The "Reinhardt Aktion" camps. Three others were concentration and extermination camps altogether. Others were at times classified as "minor extermination camps."
Was there only Jews at Dachau?
No, Nazi's also send to concentration camps: communists, homosexuals, disabled, Russian prisoner's of war, gypsies, partisans. From 12 millions victims of Holocaust, 6 millions were Jews, 3 millions Russian prisoners of war, 3 million others.