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Holocaust
The genocide of approximately 6 million European Jews during World War II planned by Adolf Hitler.
11,094 Questions
Why did Hitler believe that Jews and other ''sub humans''had to be exterminated?
First of all, there is no such thing as "subhumans" he believed that the Jews were the cause of all the problems and troubles in Europe,sos he exterminated most Jews, gypsies and homosexuals,in his sick mind he wanted a pure race and a world that would last a 1000years
What were some of the names of the nazi?
Nazi, Fascist, Jerry and there are some more just don't remember them.
Did the Nazis fight a war against the Jews?
No. That is a misunderstanding that one sometimes encounters. What the Nazis did was try to kill (exterminate, wipe out) all views within the areas that they controlled. That is mass murder (genocide), not war.
Why were the Non-Jewish Europeans scared to help the Jews during the Holocaust?
The non-Jews if they helped the Jews then then would be arrested and tormented and even killed.
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It would depend where, when and what kind of help:
for example giving some bread to a Jew whilst they were on a Death March, though unlikely to get you killed in the first instance, could easily lead to death if one repeated the offence.
giving bread to a Jew in France or Holland might not even have been discouraged.
What did the tattoos that prisoners had in concentration camps look like?
Usually on the underside of the forearm.
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Initially they had the number tattooed on the chest, but towards the end it was changed to the arm, of course most of the survivors were later arrivals, so the tattooing on the arm is more notorious
What two ways were most popular for killing the Jews?
The Nazis killed the Jews with Gas Chambers where they said to the Jews they were going to have a shower but then when they got in the big room, the Nazis locked the door and poured in gas pellets. Then they had these things called crematorium. They were like big fireplaces they would put corpses on a big tray and slide them into the fire and they burnt them. Or they just easly shot them.
What did the Jews have to do to survive in the concentration camps?
They had do eat whatever they could. I could imagine it would be bugs, or lint. But at the most, It was whatever the Nazis gave them. Stale bread with some thick soup. But they never gave that every day.
When did Europeans started to hate the Jews?
Almost as long as Europeans have known that Jews existed, there have been problems.
After Alexander the Great conquered the Middle East, the Greek "Successor" kingdoms ruled Judea. The Seleucid kingdom eventually kept control but had problems with the Jews, mainly due to religious differences. The Jews were able to briefly break away and form their own kingdom.
Around 60 BC, the Roman Republic took control of Judea and had problems with the Jews as well. There were three major revolts between 65 and 135 AD, all of which were costly wars for both the Romans and the Jews. The Great Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed at the end of the first war. At the end of the third war, the Roman Emperor Hadrian forbade Jews from being in Judea, and Judea was renamed "Syria Palaestina", after the Philistines, an ancient enemy of the Jews.
Jews in the classical and middle ages had cultural and religious differences that set them apart from the rest of Europe. They a tendency to live together in certain parts of towns, away from the rest of the population; and they had a tendency to resist conversion to Christianity, which was (and still is) the major religion of Europe. So they were seen as being some sort of different people, who were considered untrustworthy. Additionally, some Christians accused ancient Jews of having participated in the execution of Jesus. So stories circulated like that Jews were responsible for crops dying or people becoming sick (Jews were often targeted during the Black Death); even worse stories were the infamous "blood libel", that Jews would kill Christian children to perform satanic rituals with their blood.
Another consideration was that during the Middle Ages, there were laws that affected Christians but did not affect Jews. The major example is that, at one point, the Pope issued a proclamation that charging interest on loans was a sin, so Christians were forbidden from doing it. But Jews could. Charging interest is how loan agents (like banks) make money- so Jewish run banks could make a profit and survive while Christian ones had difficulty. Some unscrupulous European kings would take out large loans from Jews and then encourage the population to attack and kill those Jews, thus freeing the king from having to repay that loan.
This all continued for over a thousand years. It culminated in major slaughtering of the Jews in the 1800-1900's, such as the Russian pogroms and Nazi Germany's Holocaust.
How did Holocaust survivors feel after surviving the Holocaust?
Killing is the word which most of the civilized human beings would like to omit from their minds and dictionaries. But in the case mentioned, the Nazi regime was so much obsessed by the idea that the Aryan race was being contaminated by the Jewish blood that they took it as their duty to take to eradication of the Jew from the country and the other parts of the world. It was a fanatic belief and they had been so much brainwashed by the fiery rhetoric of Hitler that they believed that by killing the Jews they were indulging in an act which was at least philanthropic in the contemporary German society.
They must have felt highly jubilant after each killing, thus adding to the dark and lamentable catalog of deplorable part of human history.
What they wore in the concentration camps?
They wore old German prisoner uniforms, old rags, and sometimes they didn't wear anything. The clothing was usually thin cloth. They didn't wear underclothing.
Is the star of David a Christian symbol?
The Star of David (Magen David) has origins in Judaism and Judean culture that predate the Freemasons and their organization as a movement. Therefore, the Star of David is not an endemic Masonic Symbol in the way that the Trowel is an endemic Masonic Symbol. However, while the Star of David has a very clear meaning in Judaism and very clear origins in Judaism, the origins and applications of the Star of David in Masonic circles are shrouded in mystery.
Why did nobody stop Hitler from killing the Jews?
- When the systematic, large-scale killings (genocide, Holocaust) started, most of the world was at war, and the places were the genocide was being carried out were inaccessible to the Allies.
- When the Allies received the first reports about systematic gassings, they were very skeptical about their accuracy. To put it bluntly, they didn't believe them.
Stopping the killings was not simple and there was no easy way of doing so.
Why were some Jews in concentration camps killed and not others?
Hitler made the Jews the scapegoat for everything that was wrong in Germany and convinced enough people that they were taking up space that would be better used by his "Master Race" of Aryans; or if you really mean why it was done in the camps instead of somewhere else, that was more or less a business decision - mass executions were more efficient. It also hid the truth to some extent. People knew that their neighbors had been taken away to a "camp" but in the beginning very few people knew the true purpose of these camps.
Slaughtering Jews publicly, in the streets, in full view of the public, might have aroused sympathy. It would also have been a form of public disorder - something the Nazi leadership disliked. This happened in Bucharest, the capital of Nazi Germany's ally, Romania, the Nazis ordered a halt to public killings. After all, it made everything just a little too obvious.
Why were the Jews not accepted in other countries after the holocaust?
By the time WW2 in Europe had started (1939) it was rather late as international transport routes were disrupted.
Despite the difficulties, the U.S., Sweden and the USSR still took in handful. (In the case of the USSR it was 'strictly Communists only').
As for other suggestions sometimes made, bombing Auschwitz wasn't practical.
Some countries took in very few Jews before the start of WW2 - Turkey and New Zealand took in fewer than 1,000 Jews each, for example. Anti-semitism (in the sense of prejudice and dislike not in the sense of wanting to murder Jews) was widespread at the time. Moreover, as a result of the Great Depression, jobs were scarce everywhere. What's more a lot of people just didn't care.
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Because governments were busy trying to help their own citizens to survive and did not want more people to take care of.
Why were Jews specifically chosen in the holocaust?
Answer 1
because Hitler belved that the Jews were the reason Germany lost WW 1 and when he came in power he wanted to "unite" Germany again and by saying that he meant most of the Jews and many others.
Answer 2
After World War 1, when Hitler was rising to power, people began to go against the Government for all the problems after Germany was forced to surrender, therefore Hitler beleived it was mainly Jewish soldiers fault for them losing the war. After this he began to have views on what he wanted Germany to be like...
Answer 3
cause hitler wanted to gain control of the world!
How Anne Frank was involved in the Holocaust?
yes Anne frank lived in the time of the holocost with her family. the natiz tried to kill all Jews and Anne was one she hid in an office with her family and three other family's the stayed there for almost two years until some one told on them that they were hiding in the office.
Did America hesitate to rescue the Jews?
America did help the Jews in the second world war. In WWII in Europe 406,000 were killed 600,000 Wounded; 5,600 American civilians where killed.
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You question assumes hindsight. The purpose of the concentration camps was not even understood until the final months of the second world war, let alone the conditions or their function there.
You could argue that Europe wasn't even America's fight, they could have limited their action to the Pacific ocean and not been involved in Europe at all. It was only the alliance with the Allied countries of Europe which they (The American forces) honoured that gave them a duty to assist in the liberation of Europe. [Steady on. Nazi Germany declared war on the US ...]
Amongst other things, the American forces were amongst the first to liberate the concentration camps. After the liberation the local Germans from surrounding towns near the camps were paraded through the camps because not even they know what was going on in them. If people a few miles away didn't realise the extent of the NAZI's so called final solution, how do you expect a photograph at 20,000 ft to tell military intelligence what was going on?
Finally it's worth noting that they stayed in those camps and provided aid and medicine to the prisoners, and after the war many Jews were permitted to emigrate to America. This formed a relationship with Israel which exists to this day.
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Actually, the Holocaust was known and reported on in both the U.S. and Britain from 1942 onwards. Most of it the information came from the Polish Home Army (Underground). There was press coverage - even an article in the Readers' Digest in February 1943. The first major camp liberated was Majdanek, which was taken by the Soviet Army on 22 July 1944. Journalists from other Allied countries visited the camp and Life Magazine had a full-page article on it on 18 September 1944.
Despite coverage, it seems that the Holocaust didn't 'register' with the public in the Allied countries. In a war, battlefield news is usually more interesting than ongoing processes.
It seems to me that there was not that much that the Allies could have done.
Please see the related question.
How long did it take to build Auschwitz?
It began as a big concentration camp, mainly for Poles and was extended in stages. Auschwitz I used existing buidlings to a large extent and most of it was in use in 1940. Auschwitz II (Birkenau) was built in 1941-42 and Auschwitz III (Monowitz) in 1942.
Several sub-camps (about 35) were added.
What type of prisoners are there in Auschwitz?
Mostly Jews but their was same normal polish civilians who looked jewish
Who are some of the famous women of the Holocaust?
On top of that, Anne Frank was one of the most well-known victim of the Holocaust as she and her family went into hiding when the Nazi Party gained power. They were eventually betrayed and transported to concentration camps where she and her sister, Margot both died from typhus. Anne Frank's Diary is one of the world's most widely read books.
What is hitlers reason for killing all of those people?
Hitler (as were many people of the time) was a Eugenicist and believed that the elimination of the "weak and deformed" would strengthen the Human "breed". As his criteria of "ideal" human characteristics were very narrow it required eliminating many people. However unlike most other Eugenicists of the time who only advocated sterilization to eliminate people from breeding on to the next generation, Hitler and other Nazis went the faster route of killing.
Reading Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" will help you understand his Racist Eugenics better (especially his odd and very extreme view that "as long as there is a Jew alive in the world Germany cannot succeed at anything she attempts", which goes way beyond anything in Eugenics), but it can be quite an incomprehensible read.
SS stands for Schutzstaffel (which literally means 'protective squadron').
It was first formed in 1923 as a unit of the the Nazi paramilitary SA (Sturmabteilung - Stormtroopers) and did not become fully independent till 1934. The original task of the SS was to act as bodyguards for senior Nazis, but in 1925 it became Hitler's personal bodyguard. From 1929 onwards it was headed by Himmler and expanded considerably.
In 1934 the SS assumed sole responsibility for running the concentration camps and it became a central element in the Nazi terror apparatus. It was the SS that organized the Holocaust.
After what was known as the Night of Long Knives that took place on June 30- July 1, 1934, in which major components of the SA had been disovled, the SS basically became a state within a state. There was almost no aspect of German life that the SS did not have its hand in. One of the key figures in the SS rise to power was Reinhard Heydrich who was head of the SD (SS security services) and later became head of the RSHA (Reich Security Main Office). Heydrich was one of the architects of the Holocaust and it was through him that major members of the Nazi party and of the SS met at Wannsee in 1942. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the practical organization of the extermination of the European Jews.
Forerunners of the Waffen SS emerged in the late 1930s. In 1940 this became a kind of a 'second' German army alongside the main army the Wehrmacht (Heer).
The SS considered itself the elite of the Nazi soldiers. Germans who wanted to join the SS had to prove that none of their great-grandparents had ever been Jewish. Officers had to prove their heritage was free of Jewish ancestors even further back then men Enlisted in the SS. In Nazi racial ideology the SS towered high above ordinary ('Aryan') Germans. However, in World War 2 the SS also became a kind of Nazi 'foreign legion', with Ukrainian, Latvian, Bosniak and many more units, as the regular armed forces (Wehrmacht) did not accept foreigners.
Their leader, Heinrich Himmler, was, together with many of his fellow SS, responsible for designing and executing the Holocaust.
The Waffen-SS were the Nazi elite troops, but also included some very poor troops, too. SS men were used to guard concentration camps and some members were turned into Einsatzgruppen, which were used in Eastern Europe to track down and murder Jews.
Schutzstaffel- Protective staff, organization, unit. There were both General ( called Allgemeine- this not a military rank,) SS ( including police crime-lab technicians, photographers, etc, and Waffen-SS men who as the adjective applies were fully armed!
Did Hitler tattoo bar codes on the Jews?
He had people tatoo barcodes on them and that became their new identity. They weren't called by their names anymore they were only referred to as the number on their arms.
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They generally has a letter and number. Note that barcodes hadn't been invented at the time and that the Auschwitz group of camps was the only one to tattoo prisoners.
Do people kill people or do guns kill people?
Guns don't kill people; PEOPLE kill people. A person has to point the gun and pull the trigger. The problem with trying to control guns is that criminals do not follow those kinds of laws.
However...
Guns are a tool that can be used to kill more readily, or to threaten death. Other weapons require some skill, at least, to use.
