Holocaust

Originally Hitler came from Braunau am Inn - a small town in Austria, very close to the German border... Later he moved to Linz and then to Vienna. Hitler relocated to Munich in 1913 ... but Austria and Germany fought together during ww1. And... the fact Hitler was Austrian doesn't say anything about their attitude... austrians are very sympathic.

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The victims were transported to the camps by rail, usually in enclosed cattle wagons. There were no breaks for food or water or any other essentials. Often the journey (for example, from Western Europe or Greece) took 3-5 days on those slow goods trains, and a fair number died during the journey.

Moreover, the trains didn't necessarily run straight from, say the Netherlands to Auschwitz. They often made a detour in order to drop some victims off at a couple of other extermination camps.

In 1936-37: none. (In 1936 they remilitarized the Rhineland, but as the area had remained German there was no take over). The first area that the Nazis took over was Austria in 1938.

When referring to the Nazi genocide of the Jews it is called the Holocaust with the definite article and a capital H. If the word is used to refer to something else, then use a small (lower-case) h.

Running for cover, they were occupied by Germany and under German law. They did have an aggressive underground movement against the Germans where they did sabotage. They also had their share of collaborators; they met their end at the end of the war to the underground and allies. The population as a whole suffered greatly because of the war.

Kristallnacht (November 1938) was one of the biggest pre-war attacks on the Jews from the Nazis.

Kristallnacht was blamed on the Jews by the Nazis and the Jewish Community was fined a billion marks for the damage caused, despite it all being caused by the Nazis. The Nazis used Kristallnacht as an excuse to send Jews to Concentration Camps - at this point they were not extermination camps. Jews Were also moved into ghettos in 1939 if they didn't leave the country.

Many of the Nazi attacks on the Jews and other minority groups before the war had the aim of forcing them out of the country in order to make Hitlers 'master' race of 'pure' Germans.

Margot Frank got captured on 4 August 1944 along with everyone else in the secret annex. They lived in the attic on top of her dad's building for 2 years and a month (or 25 months) and almost made it to the big day. However, on the morning of 4 August 1944, a German police stormed into the secret annex after following a tip from an unknown informer. All 8 residents in the secret annex were captured and only Otto Frank survived.

In most cases it was extremely difficult. Most ghettos were surrounded by high walls and the outside was patrolled.

Even if they managed to get out, Jews then had to avoid recapture and had to survive ...

Yes, all the camps in Poland and other Eastern European were liberated by the Soviet Army.

Sweden was not invaded by the Nazis, so Swedish Jews were safe.

Pure insane race hatred. Hitler believed that Germans were inherently superior beings who were supposed to rule all other peoples. He believed that the Jews had, for many centuries, been involved in a great conspiracy to rob the German people of their rightful place in the world and he was going to put a stop to it. Michael Montagne

Soon after invading Poland in 1939 the Nazis established ghettos - that is, walled-off designated Jewish area - in the larger Polish cities. The largest ghettos in Poland were those in Warsaw, Lublin, Lodz and Krakow. Jews from other parts of these cities and also from surrounding areas were transported to these ghettos, which became desperately overcrowded. The Jews were cut off from the outside world and were completely dependent on the Nazis for food. Many Jews died of malnutrition and disease in the ghettos. Later the surviving Jews were taken to death camps and gassed.

* Dachau - Near Munich, Bavaria. * Auschwitz I - Near Oswiemcim, about 40 miles SW of Krakow, Poland (then under Nazi occupation). * Birkenau was Auschwitz II and about 1 mile from Auschwitz I (see above). * Buchenwald was near Weimar, Thuringia. Dachau, Auschwitz I and Buchenwald also had several sub-camps, some of which was far away from the main camp.

Almost none, the crematoria at Dachau were not designed with any space for executions. Dachau itself was not an execution centre.

Dachau was in Bavaria, in Germany and held mainly Gentiles, the death camps were in Poland.

Yes. Without long-standing prejudices against the Jews it would have been virtually impossible to demonize them in way that the Nazis did and to try to exterminate them. From a social and political point of view, one cannot simply pick on any group and exterminate it. It has often been said that antisemitism is as irrational as hating people with red hair, but of course 'redheads' have not been demonized and persecuted.

Nazi Germany unveiled the concept of the concentration camp in 1934. Heinrich Himmler said that they would be used for "concentrating enemies of the Reich." And that's what they did - kept all the enemies of Hitler's 3rd Reich in one place where the Nazis could keep an eye on them.

Before long, systematic extermination of these "enemies" took place. After a worker (probably a Jewish one) had outlived his usefulness, he would be offered a "shower" by the guards. They would take him to a large chamber with a group of other prisoners, who were also expecting a shower. They would strip off their clothes and enter the chamber, where the doors would be locked and the lights would be turned off. A guard on the roof would then pour Zyklon-B - an industrial rat poison that becomes deadly when exposed to air - into precut openings in the ceiling. The gas would enter the chamber, and everyone inside would be dead within 20 minutes.

then there would b no Jews in the world mayb only half Jews

Yes. The Holocaust took place from 1941-1945 during World War 2 (1939-1945). The Nazis had started persecuting the Jews almost immediately on coming to power in 1933. However, the systematic gassings didn't start till 1941.

no there weren't Jews they were all white American Women...

The restrictions include; exercising, reading, and listening to music, the group of people hiding in the Annex were able to survive these tough restrictions, and were even able to lead a surprisingly normal life considering the political and social parameters of that time.

Himmler and Heydrich were the supremos. A few rungs down the ladder was Eichmann. Many of the German administrators in occupied Poland were also heavily involved, such as Odilo Globocnik.