Holocaust

everyone hates the jews but generally because they loaned money and it made them rich. when no one could pay the loans back a depression happened. then hitler said that the jews were the blame for the depression

WARNING: VERY GRAPHIC!!!!!There was a very bad man named Adolf Hitler, he was upset that there were Jewish people in Germany. He thought of them as disgusting and evil. He wanted to get rid of them all. He wanted a complete Aryan race. Aryans are people with blonde hair and blue eyes. He just started rounding up all the Jews and taking them to special concentration camps, work camps where they were starved, mistreated, worked hard, and sometimes shot. Nazis, the cold-hearted German soldiers were like animals. They had no mercy. If one of their prisoners had a baby, either she was shot in pregnancy, or her baby was thrown into the air and shot like a target. But, of course, men and women were separated in the camp, so she had to've come that way. Hitler and his Nasties..oops, I mean Nazis killed over 6 million Jews. Hitler was killed, some say by a lethal pill or shot himself when he was about to be overthrown rather than surrender, either way it was suicidal.

Hitler come to power in many ways. He promised to undo the Versailles Treaty which Germany had to reparation to England and France. He also promised to to restore hope and the deal with the depression. Hitler also blamed the Jews for inflicting tragedy to Germany.

Hermann and Auguste Van Pel not van dan Anne frank only used van dan to cover his identity

They were forced to work in concentration camps with little or no food or water. They lived with hundreds of other people in a small house. They were experimented on by German doctors. They were lined up and shot, they were put into gas chambers and killed.

Barracks are buildings used to house military personnel, such as soldiers. Normally the plural is used exclusively, a "barracks" rather than a "barrack."

The term is used for other similar housing, as in prisons, where joint living units that are not cellblocks may be called barracks or dormitories.

The Holocaust was about "race", not religion. The Nazis were not interested in the Jewish faith and didn't know much about it ...
With very few exceptions, Jews do not believe that they were religious martyrs who "died for their faith".

Obviously, if one takes a very long term view, one can say that the Jews had been demonized over the centuries because of their religion. However, the Holocaust was not about religion.

The number of survivors of Treblinka II (the extermination camp) still alive at the end of World War 2 is given in the Wikipedia article on Treblinka as 40 (forty). (Compare this with the usual estimate of at least 850,000 victims slaughtered). Please see the link below. In addition, there was an older labor camp, Treblinka I, which was mainly intended for non-Jewish Poles who did not "cooperate" with the Nazis. It was a concentration camp (not an extermination camp) and had more survivors. Apparently some prisoners from this camp were drafted for various tasks at Treblinka II, but otherwise the two camps were distinct and separate.

== == The great majority of them (about 90%) were murdered by German soldiers. Initially, many of them were forced to live in appalling conditions in ghettos established by the Nazis. Warsaw, Krakow and Lodz (Litzmannstadt) are among the best known. Late in 1941, Chelmno extermination camp was established for the sole purpose of gassing Jews. Other extermination camps followed: Belzec, the Birkenau section of Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka II and a key section of Majdanek. Just before the start of World War 2, over one-third of all Jews in Europe lived in Poland - about 3.3 million out of about 9.5 million. By the end of the war, 3 million Polish Jews had been killed by the Nazis. (This is based on pre-war frontiers for both figures). Many Jews were saved by Poles who risked their lives doing so. However, after the war, there were pogroms in Poland and a further 600 Jews were killed . The best known of these pogroms took place in Kielce in July 1946. Many Jews fled to the United States, or Israel, when it was established in 1948.

I am assuming you are referring to the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust.

The Jews were the victims of prejudice. They had NOT committed any crime. The leader of Germany at the time of the Holocaust, Adolph Hitler, scapegoated the Jews, among other racial and religious groups, for problems they did not cause. He sent them to live in ghettos, or isolated communities, that were poor and very dirty. Many Jews became ill and died.

He later moved to the Jews and other groups to concentration camps, where they were starved and made to do hard labor. They had no money or posessions in these camps. Sometimes Hitler's followers (Nazis) would, on his orders, conduct cruel, unnecesary and torturous experiments or medical procedures on those in the camps, such as exposing them to water at sub-zero temparatures, causing them to freeze to death.

6 million jews, 3 million non- Jewish Poles, 3.3 million Soviet Prisoners of War, 250,000 Gypsies and 560,000 were made up of European (Non Soviet) Communists and socialists.

The Jews did not make the Holocaust. Six million Jews were killed IN the Holocaust. The Holocaust was created by Hitler, Himmler, and those in their political realm, not by Jews. The Jews were innocent. They were not guilty of anything

Reports came out of Europe during WWII but some in the news media and some politicians did everything that they could to keep the U.S. from entering the war.

Of course, the moral thing to do would have been to stop the advance of Hitler's Germany before so many people died. But politics affected the lives of so many innocent people. Almost nothing was done until American armies started liberating the camps in 1944 and 1945.

The rescue of Jews from the Nazis was not a priority in the United States due in part to anti-semitism, xenophobia and isolationism. A lack of commitment on the part of Americans and the lack of any military plan or means to stop the Nazis from their planned extermination of the Jews allowed the atrocities to continue for years.

The US State Department held secret the news about the planned murder of Jews as early as 1942. The wartime refugee problem was addressed in 1944 and by that time most of the Jews who would become victims of the Nazis were already dead.

You can read the tragic timeline of the persecution and extermination of the Jews at the related link.

There may be a misunderstanding here. The Allied armies entered Germany in order to defeat the country militarily, not in order in liberate people from concentration camps: that was, so to speak, an added bonus.

You could use: "Visiting the holocaust museum was a great way to get a hands-on learning experience about the era."

--if that's even what you were trying to ask... :]

Nordhausen was liberated beginning on 11 April 1945 by US troops and the first of the camps established under the Nazi's at Dachau was liberated on 29 April 1945. They were not all closed at that time. Some were used to hold German POW's awaiting release.

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Many of the camps further east were liberated earlier, including Majdanek on 22 July 1944 and Auschwitz (I, II and III) on 27 January 1945. These camps were liberated by the Soviet Army.

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The buildings of some concentration camps were used for Displaced Persons' camps.

Albert Einstein is the famous Jewish scientist who moved to the United States from Germany to escape Nazi persecution. It has been proven that despite rumors Albert Einstein was not left handed. Samples of his writing have shown that he was right handed.

This question is more of a question of Theology and the study of how God intervenes in human life than a History question.

If you ask did any good come out of the Holocaust, the answer is that the Jews formed a Jewish nation of Israel which was a fulfillment of scriptural prophecy. The Jews were so weak that they went to the gas chambers without questioning or fighting back. The only exceptions were the revolts in the ghettos.

As a result the Jews seemed to realize that they were not accepted anywhere so they had to form their own country and were willing to fight England and the Palestenians to get it.

Did God do that? The reforming of the nation of Israel is considered by theologians as a fulfillment of God's prophecy of the events that will be a sign of the end of times. My personal belief is that this would NOT have happened if it had not been for the persecution of the Jews during WW2.

Most likely, it was a further step in dehumanizing the "inferior races" to make it easier for the guards to view the prisoners as animals, thus giving them no conscience about killing them so inhumanely. Another possible answer could be that they thought that only the "Aryan" races had the right to look "normal". Most likely, it was a further step in dehumanizing the "inferior races" to make it easier for the guards to view the prisoners as animals, thus giving them no conscience about killing them so inhumanely. Another possible answer could be that they thought that only the "Aryan" races had the right to look "normal".

you'll have no idea, because the boats they're on doesn't have anything like radio navigation. they dunno where they are going to, all they wish is to get to a safe country. on these boats, u might want to go to china but went to India instead, you never know

The Franks and Van Daans (Van Pels) lived a somewhat normal life, though they had to be completely silent until the workers left. Margot, Anne, and Peter studied and read books. They also cooked food, told stories, and many other things they would have done in a normal life. However, food and supplies had to be sneaked in by helpers, and they had to live cautiously, as they could be discovered at any time.

Including all civilian casualties from all countries involved in the war about 50-60 million.