0
Holocaust
The genocide of approximately 6 million European Jews during World War II planned by Adolf Hitler.
11,094 Questions
How were the Jews baked in ovens?
I hope this was asked in jest (even though it is not terribly funny), since this particular question, and questions in general about "how many Jews can fit in a small space," are quite offensive to many Jews who see it as an attempt at Holocaust mathematics (i.e. trying to prove that the Holocaust couldn't have happened because too few Jews could fit in a space), or devaluing Jewish lives by counting them in degrading situations.
Strictly speaking, Jews are of average European height, weight, and girth so the count should be the same between Jews and Europeans trying to fit (or be placed) in a given space.
If you are attempting to ask the serious question of how efficiently the Nazis cremated the Jews whom they slaughtered and annihilated in the death camps, the crematoria were not very large (when compared to the gas chambers, which could kill very quickly). As a result, the crematoria ran 24/7 to accommodate the constant in-flow of murdered individuals.
Who got sent to concentration camps?
The first concentration camp, Dachau, opened on March 22, 1933. The camp's first inmates were primarily political prisoners (e.g. Communists or Social Democrats); habitual criminals; homosexuals; Jehovah's Witnesses; and "anti-socials" (beggars, vagrants, hawkers). Others considered problematic by the Nazis (e.g. Jewish writers and journalists, lawyers, unpopular industrialists, and political officials) were also included.
What were some rules that hitler made to control the Jews?
Rules for Germans, was mainly dobb in whoever was Jewish in your family, or neighbourhood, he also made it illegal to be married to Jews and whoever had a Jewish background were considered a jew, therefore had the same punishments.
Germans weren't allowed to shop in Jew businesses, if they were caught doing so, they'd be killed on the spot.
Which of the Nazi Concentration Camps was the worst?
Auschwitz, of course!
Approximately 1.15 million people died there, about 85% of them Jews.
The Auschwitz Concentration Camp was the largest but...
The three most vicious of these camps were (in order): Treblinka (Poland), Belzec (Poland) & Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland). These rankings are determined by the approximate average number of murders per day of camp operation. This is freaking scary:
Treblinka = 1682.5 people killed each day (roughly 17 months of operation)
Belzec = 1315 people killed each day (15 months of operation)
Auschwitz-Birkenau = 850 people killed each day (58 months of operation).
_____
Auschwitz was in operation from May 1940 till January 1945, but only became an extermination camp in March 1942.
-----------------
Systematic gassing started in Auschwitz in December 1941 and ended in November 1944, they started with the small Krematoria I, expanded with bunkers I and II in Birkenau in early 1942 when Krematoria stopped, Krematorias II, III, IV and V opened over the spring on 1943 when the bunkers were shut down, bunker II was re-opened in the summer of 1944 at the peak of Auschwitz's operation.
___
All the Nazi extermination and concentration camps were appalling. Maly Trostinets near Minsk in Belarus had no known survivors and an estimated 50,000 killed. Belzec (not to be confused with Bergen-Belsen) killed 434,508 Jews - this was the Nazis' own figure - and had only two known survivors. At Majdanek the SS guards sometimes went on killing sprees and clubbed prisoners to death, just to amuse themselves ...
Attack on jewish businesses homes and synagogues?
There have been so many. For facts on any single one, the question needs to be more specific.
_____
The best known single attack on the Jews by the Nazis was the Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), 9-10 November 1938. Please see the related question.
What was Adolf Hitler's impact on World War 2?
The impact Hitler coming into power is when he sat down on the toilet and started to take a poo. he had to push real hard because it got stuck. it hurt coming out but once he was finished he felt amazing. then he decided to rule with an empty stomach. then he met a good friend named the Reaper and they hung out like all the time. they would play together and they will also rule together. Hitler ruled Germany and the reaper ruled reaper the dead. that is why the sky is blue and not brown.
If you have any questions don't ask just accept the information i have given you. now that you are very knowledgeable tell all your friends why the sky is blue ad not brown.
Fun Facts:
Garbage smells bad if u put it up your nose.
clocks tell time
and people have opposable thumbs and dolphins don't
in the year 2756 the human race will have two thumbs and no pinkies.
Why was the Warsaw ghetto made?
The Warsaw ghetto was the largest Jewish community in Europe at the time.
How did the Jews influence Hitler?
Hitler did not understand the Jews or know any Jews, so he was terrified of the Jews, which caused him to hate them and scapegoat them for all of the problems in the word.
How many Jews survived the krakow plaszow concentration camp?
none sadly, they all died because Hitler didn't care for them and didn't feed them and they all died, some had diseses because Hitler beet the heck out of them they had hurting skin disease, and other killed themselves, it was a VERY sad time and very crying ful, you should see the whole movie of *the boy in the strped pajamas* very very good movie but the end is just, horrible! HOPE I HELPED! God bless you :)
What motivated the Germans to conduct the Holocaust?
Also could be: He exploited German anti-Semitism to enable his genocidal plans.
Did the people in the Holocaust have showers?
They had showers, but they did not get to take a bath every day. No not generally. The only shower some poor souls had was their last shower. The Jews thinking they were getting a refreshing shower were locked into showers and Cyanide was blown in through the shower heads to kill them. Some didn't die immediately.
Did Ireland work with the Nazis during World War 2?
The Irish Free State had only achieved independence from Britain 18 years before the outbreak of WWII, and only after a vicious guerrilla war between Irish rebel forces and the police and army of the Crown.
Many of Ireland's leading politicians at the time of the outbreak of WWII had been involved in the Irish War of Independence, including the then Taoiseach (prime minister) Eamon De Valera, who had once been under sentence of death by the British for his actions.
There was also the contentious issue of Britain's retention of the six Irish counties of Northern Ireland, to which the Irish Free State's constitution laid specific claim. Consequently, there were many people in Ireland, including those at the highest level, who viewed Britain as a traditional enemy and one with whom serious grievances remained.
Many extremists, including former colleagues of members of the then Irish government, believed in continuing the struggle against Britain and regarded the Free State authorities as traitors for having sold out their vision of an independent all-island republic.
These people, the IRA, continued a bombing campaign in Britain during the war and sought help from Britain's enemies. In one of the bombing raids the future author Brendan Behan was captured and imprisoned in a juvenile prison for his crimes, an experience he recounted in his book Borstal Boy.
However, although the Irish Free State was still a member of the British Commonwealth, it asserted its right to remain neutral in the wider conflict and clung tenaciously to that policy throughout the war. It would not let British or American forces use its territory for antisubmarine activity and protested when US soldiers were based in Northern Ireland.
Even when British prime minister Winston Churchill appeared to offer a re-united Ireland in return for the Free State entering the war, De Valera declined the invitation.
Many thousand men from the Free State served in the British forces during the war, but although there was no punishment for serving in a foreign army, active recruitment in Ireland was not allowed and soldiers on leave were not allowed to wear their British Army uniforms in public.
The Free State government clamped down hard on dissident activity at home during the war years, interning known IRA men without trial and executing several who were deemed to have committed crimes. They also dealt firmly with the perfunctory efforts of the German government to infiltrate agents into Ireland to support the IRA.
Opinion in modern Ireland on the matter is mixed. Some are ashamed that Ireland did not play an active role in defeating Nazism. However the issue of neutrality is for many others an important one and they feel that the country should not ally itself with any major power in its wars with others.
How many Jews died each day in the Holocaust?
Obviously, it is possible to average out the total number of deaths (about six million) over the period of the genocide as a whole. That would give an average of about 4,300 a day, but such a figure doesn't really mean much.
What is the Term for Germany's murder of Jews and other innocent people during the war?
The Germans called their campaign to eliminate the Jews and all other undesirables "The Final Solution". They called the killing part, "extermination".
How and Why did Adolf Hitler try to change German society?
He tried to create a national conscience 'volksgemeinschaft' where the whole country would pull together. He did this by giving the people something to unite behind, like the 'volkswagen' or the hatred of Jews.
How many Jews were taken to concentration camps?
About 4-4.5 million Jews were sent to different concentration camps in World War 2. Most were gassed or shot soon after arrival. A further 1.5 million Jews were killed in other ways in the Holocaust.
Where can you find names of people killed in the Holocaust?
See the related links below.
There are some amazing pictures of the Holocaust in the book called A Pictorial History of the Holocaust
Did the Nuremberg Laws require Jews to wear the yellow Star of David?
No. The Vichy French Regime did not impose wearing the Yellow Star of David during World War II, even though Occupied France imposed it and the Nazi Leadership pushed for it. The Vichy Regime did, however, enact numerous other pieces of Anti-Semitic legislation was complicit in the Holocaust.
What were the Holocaust transportation conditions like?
The SS and Nazi administrators sent Jews and others to the concentration camps by train, loaded into boxcars and cattle cars.
Conditions were horrific. Hygiene was horrible. Marion Schreiber writes in her book The Twentieth Train that there was a bucket in one corner of the cattle car that all the Jews had to use as a toilet.
A Star of David can be as large or small as a person wants. There are no "exact" proportions of the star, but all sides of the central hexagon should be equal as should the triangles be.
Why did the Nazis decide to follow the final solution?
I think the final solution waned to kill the Jewish people because they didn't really like Jewish and they may think the Jewish did something do with them or they did something to them really bad my name is jessica renea tilley
Example of an event like the Holocaust that has happened since world war 2?
Yes - Rwanda 1994 - 800,000 Tutsis slaughtered by Hutus on racial grounds. Their weapon of choice: the machete, a type of sword that is curved, and wider at the end.
There was also a genocide of millions of Armenians after World War I, in Turkey, by fanatical Moslem turks, inspired by radical Islamist imams [clerics]. When General Ataturk came into power, he ordered the massacres to stop, but almost none of the clerics stopped preaching hatred of the Armenians. He jailed all of them, and had many executed. After that, the massacres stopped. He then put in place a secular form of government, and banned the clerics from holding political office. Only recently have Moslems clerics been allowed to have any formal say in the government in Turkey. However, an increase in persecution and attacks toward Christians and Jews has come in with allowing imams to make statements at government meetings.
What does this have to do with the Holocaust in WWII Germany? Numerous German officers had stayed in Turkey after WWI. They were on hand to observe how the Turks went about turning the citizenry against the christian Armenians [and Jews]: gradually. First, thru inflammatory preaching in the Mosques; then, thru propaganda; until there were gangs of thugs, running thru the streets with machetes, killing any Armenian they could find.
When these officers returned to Germany, they applied propaganda techniques to rid themselves of those most likely to disagree with their socialist political ideology, called Nazism: Jews, and the christians who dared to hide and defend them.
What is the history of the Star of David?
1) The true origin of the Star of David, more properly called "the Shield of David" is unknown, though there are many legends.
2) In all honesty, the Star of David is little more than a simple hexagram made from 2 equilateral triangles of the same size yet pointed in opposite directions. It is most probable that hundreds, if not thousands,, of different people were merrily decorating their homes and possessions with this very symbol long before David and the 12 tribes of Israel ever existed. Because of this, no one will ever know for sure which prehistoric human being 'created' this naturally occurring geometric figure (snowflakes, white lilies, and pomegranates) but it most certainly was NOT King David.
So, the legends surrounding the so-called 'Star of David' have basically nothing to do with the identity of who invented this six-pointed hexagram. It is assumed that many different groups of people scattered throughout the world were already familiar with the symbol long before a young King David chose it to be his personal insignia (and then later as his royal family Coat of Arms).
With all this in mind, it would be safe to say that no one knows who 'created' the basic form of the hexagram and its distant origins will always remain shrouded in mystery. But when it comes to the fairly specific history of just one specific hexagram known as the the 'Star of David', one may state with confidence that it was none other than King David himself, which was then carried on by his son Solomon (Seal of Solomon) and so forth.
When did Hitler start planning the Holocaust?
He spelled it out in 1925 and 1926 in Mein Kampf, his two volume book meaning "My Struggle."
___
In fact, the passage generally quoted does not call for genocide and is not a plan or even the start of a plan. Most historians now think the Holocaust was planned in 1941, probably in September-October.
Please see the related question below.
See also Christopher Browning, The Origins of the Holocaust ...
