Holocaust

Well Hitler became a bit jealous of the Jews and so he decided to capture them and kill them for all their resources because he knew that compared to Israel, they hardly had anything. Yeah, so he killed them all, took their stuff and made Germany richer.

Hitler was an awful man who collected Jews and sent them to refugee camps to have them either shot or killed in a gas room. The people would take off their clothes and would be sent inside the gas room and would suffocate them in the room and die because the gas would fill their lungs. Also Hitler would send them to

ghettos, concentration camps , and death camps.

Wiki says 78% but then it also says between 60-75% of European Jewry was annihilated. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/history.html says two thirds of European Jewry. This is a number I have heard before in college so I'm guessing it's more or less accurate. Of course without knowing the exact numbers of Jews who died in the Holocaust it is difficult to say for sure.

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe.

Concentration camps were extermination camps to exterminate all those of non-Aryan race.

Hitler made up the Aryan race but they were supposedly the most "pure of blood" than anyone else on the world. The ideal Aryan was pale and had blond hair and blue eyes.

The concentration camps had gas-chambers, people being shot(for no apparent reason), people digging there own grave(a mass grave in which thousands of people shared) and being shot into it, or you could be transported in a cattle car crammed with no space to spare to one of the other concentration camps.

The antisemitism during the Holocaust was just an exaggerated form of pre-Holocaust antisemitism.

The Nazis operated concentration camps from March 1933 till May 1945.

He was head of the Nazi Luftwaffe, appointed by Adolf Hitler. He commited suicide by cyanide pill in a prison before he was to be tried after the war had ended.

Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893-1946), whose last name was also spelled Goering, was a German field marshal and commander in chief of the German air force. Next to Adolf Hitler, he was the most powerful leader of Nazi Germany. He was sentenced to death by hanging following WW2, but poisoned himself on October 15, 1946, hours before his scheduled execution.

Among the occupied countries only Denmark actively resistd.

Yad Vashem is the Holocaust memorial museum situated in Jerusalem, Israel. It is also known as The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority.

http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=yad+vashem&gwp=13

The simplest answer is "scape-goating".

But that's not really a sufficient answer. Anti-semitism has been around for a very long time. Hitler and the Nazis didn't invent it. Not by a longshot. It's been around through medieval times, and even during Ancient Rome. There's alot of 'justifications', but they are all some variation of 'Jews are different, so it's easy to project my fears and insecurities on them.'

Hitler himself had many reasons why he hated Jews and it's something historians have studied for years. His father (whom he hated) was part Jewish. He was turned down for art school and blamed Jews.

But the most potent was that Hitler, like alot of Germans, blamed Jews (unjustly) for their loss in World War 1. The government of the Kaiser kept telling the German people they were winning the war. So when Germany surrendered, it was a major shock to them. And Hitler was a soldier in WW1. It was, by his own description, the best time of his life because he thrived on the comraderie with fellow soldiers.

To Hitler and those like him, the only explanation for how they went from being in a winning position to suddenly surrendering was sabotage. And Hitler blamed Communism and Jews. Which in his mind, were basically the same because he viewed Communism as a Jewish plot.

Hitler and other German anti-semites (and it's important to acknowledge not all were) blamed Jews for the struggles imposed by Versailles and everything else that went wrong.

These death camps (also called concentration camps) had numerous ways of killing the people there. Most of the people who went there were Jewish people. Common ways they would die were the showers or disease. the Nazi soldiers would have people line up to take "showers". however they never really did take showers. when they went in a shower it would release a toxic gas eventually killing whoever was inside. Some people would also die from starvation and exhaustion from labor. if a woman would enter with her baby the soldiers would take the baby throw up in the air, let it drop and let their dogs tear the baby apart right in front of the mother.

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racism was the whole cause of the holocaust! Hitler was a egomaniac who believed Germans were the best and hated Jews so he basically tried to eliminate them. and by eliminate them i mean cruelly kill them all just because they believed something different than he did!!!

Nothing happened exactly hitler hated not only the jews reasons being he beleived they were a burden to the advancement of the human and what he considered and wanted to create "the perfect race"

in theory everyone who escaped or lived through the Holocaust survived it. There were some countries which surrendered less of their Jews to the Nazis than others. Others managed to escape to neutral or hostile nations and some survived in occupied Europe.

Actually it was all in Hitler's mind. With his speech powers he spread his thoughts to all the military and Germans as well. Hitler spread the word that Jews, in the evolving scale, are next to apes.

Pretty Much anyone who gave off a bad image -

Jews, prostitutes, the disabled, ethnic minorities, gypsies, tramps etc. Mainly the Jews clearly but he seemed to have the view that all Germans should be hardworking and patriotic to the country and should offer the country some for of aid (whether it be financial or otherwise) which he believed none of the above did (regardless of their actual contributions).

The Auschwitz group of camps (which inluded Birkenau) was the largest, and the main camps (Auschwitz I, II and III) were located near the Polish town of Oswiecim. The minimum serious modern scholarly estimate of the number of prisoners killed is about 1.1 million, of whom about 90% were Jews. (These figures were worked out by the Director of the Auschwitz Museum, Franczisek Piper and published in an article in 1989). The next camp in terms of the death-toll was Treblinka II, where an estimated 870,000 victims were slaughtered.

Approximately 6.5 million Jews died under Hitler's regime. Of these, approximately 1,3 million were children. Before WWII about nine million Jews lived in Europe. During WWII almost two-thirds of them were killed.

towards the end of the Holocaust, because the end of the war was coming, some 'housekeeping' was done.

The decision to destroy the Gypsies, rather than keep them for experimants was taken, the gas chambers at Auschwitz were destroyed, actions against the Homosexuals and other criminals and opponents were taken. Death marches were initiated and personel re-assigned.