Holocaust

It all happened on November 9, 1938 when violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager but the fact was that German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis carefully organized the pogroms. The morning after, German Jewish men were arrested for the crime of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps.

From September 1935, yes. Please see the related question.

Genocide, as a general rule, means the destruction of a particular group, this would usually include a lot of prejudice as the reasons would label all people of that group without taking any individual cases into account.

because it was a gradual thing and it was hard to know at what point to protest, by the time people had realised where it was all leading to the Jews were already in the ghettos.

the actions that were taken in the Holocaust were constantly adapting. For example when it was realised that people behaved better and were less likely to try to escape if they traveled in family groups, then the system that had men separated from women and children changed.

Approaching Allied forces discovered the camps throughout Poland after hasty retreats by German camp officers and guards.

They discovered:

.Emaciated prisoners

.Desperate survivors

.Mass graves as well as dead bodies lying in the open

People were sent to Auschwitz to be killed there - either by being worked to death on grossly insufficient food or by gassing.

The victims were mainly Jews. Also, gypsies were sent, homosexuals, some Soviet prisoners of war and Communists as Nazi Germany was a Fascist country. They were all sent there to be killed.

Other groups such a homosexuals, political opponents and those with disabilities were sent as well.

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The various groups of people sent to Auschwitz changed over time. Please see the related question.

Israel - but the idea that it was created 'in response to the holocaust' needs very careful scrutiny.

It wasn't only the Jews. It was anyone who didn't fit into Hitler's idea of a ideal person. Others killed were the Gypsys, handicapped, and political prisoners. About 5 million non-Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

* today there are 14 executive departments in the world. There actually are 15.

Proof: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101303.html

At least one school of thought dates them to Nazi Germany in WWII where actual extermination camps existed however the Boer War is an alternative starting point where the term itself originated. Lord Kitchner certainly never intended them to fall into the horrible state of filth, starvation and depravity that the decendants of those times insist existed. It is true that death was rampant and conditions were deplorable but the British did not put ground glass in the mealies. While very early civilized societies may have used this practice that we either don't know about or at least do not acknowledge, the first known and established historical concentration camp was called Oklahoma in the United States of America. A place where Native Americans were isolated simply because of their ethnicity. It was a ghetto of the first order, guarded, exploited and de-humanized. The blame for this problem may be very ancient but Historically the concentration camp's birthplace is Oklahoma. but idk what im talkin about becuz i havent even wrote done da actuall answa yett

* Mass open air shootings. (These account for most of the Jews slaughtered in the Soviet Union - about 1.5 million). * Forcing them to perform hard manual work, such as quarrying and coalmining on insufficient food. * Herding Jews into ghettos, which were deliberately overcrowded, and then allowing insufficient food and no medication. Many died of starvation and disease. (Ghettos were common in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and parts of Belarus and Ukraine. A figure of 800,000 is often given for the total number who died of malnutrition and "general privation"). . shooting just born children . saving gas and just thorwing people into ovens or fire pits they would also create lamp shades from peoples head and bodies to keep the Nazis warm.

During the actual Holocaust (1941-1945) Jews in Germany and other areas under German control were not allowed to go anywhere - except to the death camps. Until 1940 German Jews were allowed to emigrate to any country that would accept them.

Prisoners of German and Japanese Concentration Camps were usually on starvation diets and were worked, generally to death. Many prisoners deemed "unfit to survive" were shot, hung, gassed and then buried in mass graves or cremated and then the ashes spread to the winds.

Other camps, such as the Star Camp and Hungarian Camp, the inmates were treated decently.

It was actually ethnicist, not racist. Racist qualifies a person's looks (skin color). Ethnicist qualifies a person's beliefs and/or ideas. Hitler indeed killed Jews under his ethnicisity. He hated them almost too much to be at least somewhat sane. (though he proved himself to be eventually completely psychotic (psycho)).

The first concentration camp opened in Germany was the Dachau camp, which was near Munich. It opened on March 22, 1933, early in Adolf Hitler's reign. It was originally intended to act as a sort of prison for Communists who had been arrested after the Reichstag fire.

There is no age limit; a new born can go if you want.

During WWII there was still no age limit but babies and elders where killed right away.

1945-46, Nuremberg, Germany. As a result of the trials members of Gestapo and SS were declared criminals and charged with war crimes. The first trials were for 24 senior Nazis.There were four indictments: Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for crime against peace; initiating and waging war; war crimes;crimes against humanity. The charged people were: Martin Bormann, Karl Dönitz, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Hans Fritzsche, Walter Funk, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Kietel, Gustav Krupp, Robert Ley, Konstantin Neurath, Franz von Papen, Joachim Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenburg, Fritz Sauckel, Hjamar Schacht, Baldur von Schirach, Arthur Seyess-Inquart, Albert Speer, Julius Streicher.12 of them were sentenced to death.

The camp was originally established in May 1940 as a large and harsh concentration camp for: 1. Poles who did not co-operate with the Germans. 2. Educated Poles, who might preserve Polish culture and traditions. In 1941-42 the camp was expanded till it became a vast forced labour and killing centre.

They encouraged the boycotting and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses. They passed laws prohibiting Jews from engaging in large areas of German professional life. They forced Jews into ghettos and concentration camps, where many died of disease or direct extermination.

They persecuted Jews in every way they possibly could. What started out as harrassment turned into vicious treatment by the media and became an all-out hate campaign. Unfair laws were then passed, making it increasingly difficult, and later impossible for Jewish people to live normal lives or even earn a living. Then began the forced deportations to ghettos, and later, death camps in the East. In between all of this was untold murder, imprisonment, torture, theft and destruction of property.

Have a look at the related questions for more detail.

Conditions at a death camp were as it sounds in the title "death camp". There was mass starvation and gas chambers were killing thousands every week. And disease such as typhoid fever, malaria, and other infections were standard for most people. inside barracks where hundreds of people slept, there was long rows of bunk beds with no mattress but sometimes hay, and two or more people shared one bunk with one blanket per person. guards did not need reason or permission to kill Jews. Escape attempts were punished by death from either torture or the gas chamber.

The food during the Holocaust consisted of hot water, or broth. The soup sometimes had a few vegetables, or meat. A little bit of bread was provided, also.They got as little as 300 calories a day

It was started in May 1940 by the SS. At that stage it was not an extermination camp. Please see the related question.