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Holocaust
The genocide of approximately 6 million European Jews during World War II planned by Adolf Hitler.
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Yes, parts of Auschwitz I and II became a museum in 1947 and are open to the public.
How many people were taken to concentration camps during WW2?
The answer is probably close to about fifteen million, with over six million European Jews, three million Soviet prisoners, three million Polish Catholics, hundreds of thousands of Serbians, a couple of hundred thousand Roma/Senti, tens of thousands of German political prisoners, nearly as many German handicapped or mentally ill, about twelve thousand homosexuals, and a couple of thousand Jehovah's Witnesses actually being included in the death tolls.
What did the Jews do to the Germans to make Germans hate them and kill them?
Nothing forced the Nazis to hate the Jews; they chose to do so. The Nazis willingly and ably served in committing one of the worst massacres of human life in all of history. Additionally, the phrasing of this question would offend numerous people because it assumes that the Jews were guilty of committing some sort of offense and were therefore rightfully castigated. While it is not true to say that Jews were innocent lambs, the Jews did not do half of the negative nonsense that is attributed to them in order to "justify" Anti-Semitism and violence against them. Jews have been punished for being different, unique, and misunderstood and never did anything worth punishing them for in the same way that Africans never did anything to merit enslavement. These actions were taken on account of bigotry and self-supremacy, not based on any system of equitable justice.
In terms of the reasons why the Nazis hated the Jews, those are as simply as possible:
- The Nazis thought that the German Jews were 'alien', 'un-German' and a 'corrupting influence' on Germany and that they were encouraging immorality.
- The Nazis believed that the Jews were Communists (and that Communism was a specifically Jewish ideology).
- There were strange conspiracy theories that claimed that the Jews were trying to achieve 'world domination'.
- The Nazis said that the Jews were enemies of Germany, and that Jews and Germans were locked in a struggle to the death. (This was another of those conspiracy theories that many Nazis took seriously).
- The Nazis believed that the Jews had made Germany lose World War 1.
- The Nazis subscribed to racialist theories that claimed that the Jews were inferior to others.
- However, Nazi propaganda also portrayed them as very clever indeed, very dangerous and close to achieving world domination: the two don't even begin to fit.
- With the start of World War 2 in September 1939 Hitler became obsessed with the idea that 'the Jews' had started the war.
- Earlier, 'religious' hostility to Judaism had often demonized the Jews and painted them as sinister and evil.
Did the Nazis hate the Jews before Hitler?
The answer is pretty much yes... Hitler more or less simply fanned an ember that was already there (and not just in Germany).
Overall, though, German Jews were no more resented in Germany than other countries of the time. In fact, German Jews of the 1900s and 1910s were more integrated (and accepted) into everyday life than was common in other nations of Europe.
The noticably different levels of resentment and anger directed at the Jews (which Adolf Hilter used to feed his rise, and which he radically promoted) did not begin to take shape until the late 1920s, when the worldwide Great Depression hit Germany particularly hard.
Who were the first inmates at dachau?
When they arrived at berkenau (The death camp of aushwitz) They would be sorted into two groups, the left side would be sent to work, the right would be gassed. The man who decided the fate of the people was a nazi general.
Throughout History, Jews (called Israelites in ancient times) have been persecuted by slavery, war, murder, and limited or no rights under the law of the countries they lived in. But the most egregious example of wide-scale extermination of Jews occurred in the 20th Century.
European Jews were sent to concentration camps and tortured. Some were killed in gas chambers, some were starved to death, and others were put to forced hard labor, on starvation rations.
The events affecting the Jews of Europe during the Nazi era were a culmination of centuries of hate and abuse; Jews were often accused of being the source of society's problems; they were the universal scapegoat. Just one example is the writings of Martin Luther from the mid 1500s in Germany, which were often quoted or paraphrased by Hitler in speeches.
Another example were the centuries of pogroms carried out throughout Russia, the Ukraine and many other countries, as illustrated in the movie "The Fiddler on the Roof," when all the Jews of the village were driven out. That depiction was quite mild; in reality pogroms were often characterized by government sanctioned brutality and murder, perpetrated by the Jews' own neighbors and townspeople.
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What was the treatment of prisoners at the Auschwitz camp?
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They were treated like scum, they had to work all day doing pointless things like cleaning batteries. They ate watery soup with different types of bugs in it. They slept in basically cabinet like beds and slept with thousands of other people. Then, they either got poisoned by showers, died of diseases, or died of too much work.
- Most were killed as soon as practical after arrival.
- Some were selected for work as slave labourers and worked to death.
- Some were used for 'medical' experiments.
- Some died when the camps were evacuated on foot (death marches) in January 1945.
- A few survived.
They were all treated appallingly.
Was the Holocaust the first genocide?
To organize the debate those opinions that hold that the Holocaust was a genocide will be shown first and those that hold that it was not will be shown second. This order has no bearing on the correctness of any of the views.
PART 1: YES - It was a genocide or genocides
Answer 1
Of course the Holocaust is considered genocide! From 1941 onwards the Nazis tried to kill every Jew that they could find. The fact that others, in addition to the main taget were included, doesn't alter the fact. What more, the word genocide was specifically created in 1944 to describe what the Nazis were doing to the Jews.
Answer 2
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PART 2: NO - It was not a genocide or genocides
Answer 1
No because Hitler wanted to eliminate the Jews, Gypsies, and people suffering from mental or physical disorders or handicaps, and the definition of Genocide is the mass killing of a certain race or ethnicity.
Answer 2
Of course the Holocaust is not considered genocide! Though the Jews that the Nazis could find were made up of a dozen different kinds of Jews, there was no possibility or intention to eliminate the entire group as there were parts of those groups in countries that the Nazis could not extradite them from. Though the word genocide was created to describe what the Nazis did, language and that word has evolved since then.
This issue and many others in relation to the Holocaust are a matter of personal opinion, though one school may be adamant that one interpretation is accurate, another school may be equally convinced of the opposite.
[Further discussion of this view is in the Discussion Section.]
If the non-Jews fought back for the Jews the non-Jews that helped them would be sent to a concentration camps with the Jews.
There was also an incredibly larger segment of the population that actually believed that the removal of the Jewish population was a positive or did not care enough to involve themselves.
What happend to the Jews that got rescued?
The great majority of Jews in areas under Nazi rule were slaughtered - about 6 million of them. The number "rescued" was very small. Every one knows the story of Schindler, 1100 rescued Jews...
But Bulgaria (a Nazi ally) saved 50 000! If there is gratitude, maybe the country Bulgaria will be one day the paradise to live it deserves to be, and not only the natural paradise it is now ;) ... Hoping for the best of humanity!
A man be the name of Oscar Shindler was a Nazi who started by using the Jews for workers ended up having strong feelings for the Jews's in his factories, he ended up saving over 1100 Jews at the end of the war.
Watch movie "Shindlers List"
Who was brought to concentration camps besides Jewish people?
They were either considered to be political enemies or they were considered to be inferior. Either they were considered to have a racial influence not supporting the aryan race... i.e. eastern europeans (russia, serbia, etc.), gipsy... and considered as dangerous influence like handicapped people and gay people having negative influence... this means they were persecuted due to their family heritance or behavior... or they were opponents not supporting his "leader and rescuer" idea, i.e. communists or rigorous christian groups not accepting the "new saviour" replacing Jesus.
How is the Holocaust and the Rwanda genocide similar?
They are similar in some ways for example they were both separated and lots of people were killed. Another similar thing is that the Germans were made superior and when the Belgians came they separated the Hutu's from the Tutsi and made the Tutsi superior and also they used propaganda. There are also many differences
What did the Jews have to do in World War 2?
During World War Two, Adolf Hitler (Head of the German Army, and basically the person who caused WW2) almost made the Jewish religion extinct - or, at least, he tried to.
Hitler believed that everyone should be 'pure' - white skinned, and looking like a German.
It is believed that Hitler was scared of the Jews - and that's why the Holocaust probably happened.
The Holocaust was a massive rampage through Europe and other parts of the world. Hitler's soldiers caught Jews, and they were put in concentration camps.
Concentration camps were horrible, torturous places. Most of the time, people would be steamed - gassed until they died.
If you want to experience the Holocaust, and the concentrations camps, Boy In The Striped Pajamas is probably one of the best books to read, as it gives a boys POV of what happened (obviously, not true, but still, it gives a good insight).
The Jews didn't do anything. They were brutally killed by Nazis under the power of a delusional man called Adolf Hitler.
Some Jews were worked to death and were whipped and punished if they did not work quickly.
Which camps were both labor and death camps?
In this answer the term death camp is taken to mean extermination camp, and not simply a concentration camp with a high death toll.
All extermination camps used some inmates as labourers to help with corpse disposal and some other tasks.
There were two dual camps of this kind:
Auschwitz - A part of Auschwitz-Birkenau (also referred to as Auschwitz II) was an extermination camp, while Auschwitz I, III and the satellite camps were extremely harsh concentration camps.
Majdanek - This camp was one of the very worst camps. It was both a very harsh concentration and it alsohad a section that was used for extermination.
Whene did the Jews get food supplies in the Holocaust?
they were fed only a small amount little bits of bread but it depends on the camp
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the official amounts were between 100 and 200 calories per day, but they never received the amount that they were allocated, there were many greedy hands along the way
What did Oskar Schindler do to save Jewish people?
== == "Oscar Schindler did what no other German or human being for that matter, at that time,was willing to do to protect a people and save a nation from mass genocide and religious and ethnic persecution."-Karen Gibbs. 1. He bought Jewish owned factories.
2. He negotiated the salvation of 1300 Jews, using the Germans' own ways of operating,through bribes, extortion,lies,black marketeering...
3. He got in touch with remaining wealthy Jews and had them invest in his company exchanging their money for their protecting, by having them work in his factories as skilled or essential labourers. He then paid of Nazis so they would allow the Jews to stay in Krakow.
4. He set up a branch of the Plaszow concentration camp for 900 Jewish workers in his factory and made a list of the workers he would need.
5. He saved most of the workers by moving his factory to Brunnlitz in October 1944. sorry was that more than three!! LOL ^_^
Why did Hitler discriminate against the Jews?
Although no one knows for sure why Hitler did these things to the Jews, there are several suggestions and theories. Some of which he blamed them for Germany's loss in World War 1, they were evil, that Hitler wanted to be an artist, so he applied to an art school run by Jews but they turned him down. he was so upset by that as his ambition was to be an artist. Also his mother had breast cancer and she was treated by a Jewish doctor, and Hitler thinks he was the one to blame for his mothers death a theory could be Hitler just wanted to create a "perfect race".
What are some people that died in concentration camps during the Holocaust?
There was a distinction in Nazi Germany beyween extermantion camps and concentration camps. Concentration camps held Jews, political prisoners, criminals, homosexuals, gypsies and the mentally ill who were forced to undertake labour. Many of these prisoners died due to poor treatment, from disease, starvation and overwork, or were executed as unfit for labour.
The extermination camps were created to allow murder to occur on an industrial scale. The vast majority of these victims were Jews but also included the handicapped, and those with criminal records.
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How did the Germans treat the Jews during the Holocaust?
In the Holocaust Jews were treated extremely badly and killed.
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From 1941 on the Nazis' aim was to kill all the Jews they could find. The main methods used were:
1. Mass open air shootings (especially in Russia, the Ukraine, Belarus and Latvia).
2. Working them to death in concentration camps on grossly inadequate food.
3. Gassing them (at extermination camps, such as the Birkenau section of Auschwitz, Treblinka, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor and the death camp section of Majdanek).
Before they were sent to camps, many Jews were herded into ghettos, especially in Poland, such as the Warsaw Ghetto. Further Jews were regularly crammed in from surrounding areas. The overcrowding - in the Warsaw Ghetto people had to live 9 to a room - the inadequate food and lack of medication meant that the ghettos suffered from frequent outbreaks of fatal diseases.
The overall Jewish death toll in the Holocaust was about 5.7-6 million.
AnswerThey were rounded up by Nazi police and collaborators and put on to train for 3 days and 2 nights. When the train got to the camps, people were hearded over to the entrance. Not only Jews were in the camps, but gays, Christians, and gypsies too. People were split up into two lines, one to go into the gas chamber, and the other to be worked to death, literally. Families were split up.
AnswerJews were starved to death, they died of many diseases and were spilt apart from their families. Most children were killed when they arrived at the camp. All the Jews' belongings were taken from them and the Nazis lied and said they would get their things back later. Jews were completey shaved; some were sexually harrased by Nazis. They were forced to wear the Star of David. Hitler was a bad man. He killed the Jews because he wanted a race that only had blonde hair and blue eyes, though he wasn't even blonde and didn't have blue eyes himself.
AnswerJews were considered lower than the dirt that German soldiers had on their steeled-toed jackboots and they were treated accordingly.
AnswerThey were put in concentration camps, tortured, worked to death, killed in gas chambers, gunned down, raped... Nazis considered them inferior and felt that it was their right to do anything they wanted to the Jews and above all to kill them.
Nazi policies included "Lebensraum", or view that German speaking people needed more living space (thus, justifying their thirst for conquest of neighboring lands). Also, Aryanism was practiced, with the central belief being that blue-eyed, blonde-haired, fair-skinned northern European Christians were to be prized above all others. Central control by the state, with dictatorial leadership was also viewed as more efficient than any other form of government. Propaganda was also viewed as essential to keeping the populace under control.
Who was the only member of the Secret Annex to survive the concentration camps?
Otto Frank was the only survivor from that group.
What did Germans have against the Jewish people?
In the case of those German Jews who had lived in Germany for a long time, the only real difference was religion or origin. (Quite a number did not practise any religion or were atheists or had converted to Christianity). Most of the German Jews, especially adherents of Reform Judaism were highly assimilated and integrated in German society. Culturally, they were German. In the early stages of the Holocaust (late 1941), when Jews were transported from Berlin to Latvia for mass open air shootings, even a few middle-ranking Nazi administators and SS men complained that they found it very unpleasant to shoot 'fellow Germans'.
Why did the Germans set up concentration camps?
To exterminate those people that were deemed imperfect. The Nazi view of perfection was blond, blue eyed muscular types and most people in the world are far from that. Also experimentation of chemical warfare and also to inspire fear and terror in those that stood against them. Atrocities is always a good way to frighten people, unfortunatly for the Nazis it also inspired people to stand against them
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The Nazis were opposed to chemical warfare as they did not want to risk harming their own people. It did not frighten or inspire as it did not exist.
They sent millions to the death camps because they wanted to live in a place without those types of people, killing them was the most efficient way of doing this.
