Holocaust

The real one that you won't hear is the Europeans genocide of over 100 million Natives, but it occurred over a long period of time. Here are the 3 largest genocides from 1900-2000:

Mao Tse-Tung (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) - 49 to 78 million

Josef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39) - 23 million (the purges plus Ukraine's famine)

Adolf Hitler (Germany, 1939-1945) - 11 to 17 million (concentration camps with Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, Soviet POW's, and in some cases other innocent German civilians)

Hitler was rejected from the Vienna art school twice. He believed that this was due to a conspiracy against him by the Jews who sat on the admissions panel. Truthfully, it was because he was not very talented.

The first recorded use of the word holocaust in the sense of genocide dates from 1942 but it was rarely used. It is said that Elie Wiesel popularized the word in its modern sense in the late 1950s. However, it didn't become widely used till the late 1970s following the first broadcast of the TV miniseries entitled Holocaust.

Hitler didnt use an oven to kill people.

Hitler used Zyklon B, a poisonous gas, to mass-kill everyone, the pyscho. Victims were usually first killed with poison gas in gas-chambers and the corpses were then cremated (burnt) in crematoria (ovens).

Zyklon B is a pesticide. Once exposed to air, Zyklon B releases cyanide; which kills people.

The Nazis in 1941 to 1945 were against Jewish people because that is how their leader, Adolf Hitler, told them to be. Adolf Hitler believed that the Jewish people were inferior to himself and therefore should not be allowed to live.

The purpose of the Soviet Nazi Non Aggression Pact would be to benefit both counties. The Pact put down in writing how Germany and the Soviet Union would divide up eastern Europe. Stalin did not want Hitler as an enemy and this Pact gave him assurance that he and Hitler could cooperate and satisfy the goals of each regime.

they forced people to.

When Hitler gained he enforced strict laws on Jews that just kept getting harsher and harsher. Ghettos were usally a sectioned of area in a major city suronded by barbed wire fences and gaurded by Nazis. Ghettos were the place were all the Jews and other undesireables being persecuted by Hitler were sent. These places were impoverished and filthy. People lived and worked in the ghettos but many were forced to do cruel jobs ebforced by the Nazis. When the ghettos got to full the Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps.

Before the Jews were sent to the concentration camps they were sent to transit camps. Transit camps were where Jews stayed until they were sent to the concentration camp. It was sort of a sorting ground like some may have been sent to Auschwitz well others were sent to Birkenau. Transit camps were similar to concentration camps but the conditions were significanty better.

To learn more about this topic and the holocaust I encourage you to visit United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at USHMM.org

Hannah Goslar married Walter Pick and they had 3 children.

So many good answers here. Thanks to all who posted. I would just like to add one more thing that might help us understand this hatred of the Jews. In those days people read the child rearing books of ministers and Doctors who believe that children were born �with the devil in them�. We all know the old phrase �beat the devil out of them� but for the Germans and some other eastern European countries it was literally true. They beat their children until they were unconscious (this happened to Hitler on a regular basis). Children were to be OBEDIENT and obey ALL authority figures and adults. After Hitlers father died you would think he would be free from beatings but no, his school teachers took over, knowing the boy had no father, they beat him just for the sake of keeping him Disciplined. This was how it was for most of the children of Germany and perhaps eastern Europe too. Generation after generation of beatings were given to children in order to make the OBEDIENT. What they did then would be considered �child abuse� by today�s standards. Children were not allow to feel any anger or to rebel towards their parents or adults who beat them. They were told as adults that those beating were �for their own good� therefore they should do the same to their children before �the devil� takes them over and they become Undisciplined. So along comes Hitler and his anger and hated (which he does not understand) so he puts it all on the Jews. It�s convenient and he can intellectualize it. The result of this sick way of child rearing resulted in adults who lacked �empathy�. An American Psychologist at the Neurenburg trials noted that none of the SS on trial showed any �empathy�. They felt no remorse. If hatred of the Jews was because they owned factories and banks etc then how would you explain an SS officer taking a Jewish infant by the ankles, swinging him in the air and smashing his head into a brick wall - then laughing. This is not a result of propaganda but �a lack of conscience� as found in Sociopaths. When day was done these men went home to their families feeling they had done their jobs to the Fatherland and without any remorse! Bottom line: Hitler and his propaganda gave the ordinary Germans permission to kill, beat, torture any Jew, Gypsy, homosexual or child born with birth defects (so called feebleminded German children). This is how we can account for the mass killings of Jews in Poland as well. In village after village where Jews and Poles lived together Jews were ruthlessly slaughtered by Poles after the Germans occupied their territories and gave them permission to do as they pleased. What kind of person take pleasure in this kind of slaughter except one who is sick and has no feeling for other humans. There are many good books written about this subject by ALICE MILLER. Among them is �For Their Own Good�. It�s the only writings I�ve read to date that fully explain how seeming ordinary citizens could take pleasure in manslaughter. What hard evidence is there that child-rearing in Germany and Austria in the later 1800s was so different from elsewhere? After all, these weren't remote countries but were frequently visited by foreigners. German (and Austrian) schools and universities were admired abroad. The German language was, probably, more widely known then than now in Britain and America. IF savage child-rearing had been widespread one would have expected comment on this at the time. Moreover, routine child abuse would have produced a whole host of problems much earlier. One needs to be very careful indeed about "psycho-history", otherwise one can end up attributing the whole Third Reich to the number of testicles that one thinks Hitler had. Yes, I've heard and read about the Adorno theory of the authoritarian personality. It was fashionable in the 1960s (and also quite amusing) but I don't find it very convincing. There's a useful golden rule when trying to find answers to complex questions: beware monocausal explanations, that is, explanations that ascribe everything to one single cause. After all, in New England and in France, too, discipline in the home was often very stern in the period c. 1870-1900. I'm aware that Alice Miller writes with passion and conviction, but that doesn't make her right. I know she's convinced it was those beatings that did it ... This kind of stuff is likely to appeal to people who yearn for simple explanations, for example, those amusingly classic authoritarian personalities, supposedly stuck at the 'anal' stage of developement. To cap it all, the only evidence that Hitler was beaten by his father is from remarks made many years later to his secretary, as later told by her. That's what courts call hearsay.

They ate one slice of bread a day. If lucky, they got turnip soup which was turnips in water

France has the largest population of Jews in Europe, and the second largest in the world (after the US), with about half a million Jews. The following European countries also have large Jewish populations:

United Kingdom (300,000)

Russia (225,000)

Germany (150,000)

Ukraine (80,000)

Hungary (50,000)

Belgium (35,000)

Netherlands (30,000)

Italy (30,000)

* At Auschwitz (from early 1942 on) the Jews were separated into fit for work and not fit for work. The latter were gassed as soon as possible, the former had to work as slave labourers. * At othe extermination camps, such as Sobibor and Treblinka, a small number of new arrivals were selected to help dispose of the corpses. * At ordinary concentration camps the newly arrived prisoners were sent off to work - as slave labour. * At some ordinary concentration camps, especially in the early days, there were 'initiation ceremonies', including severe beatings, for new arrivals.

They never actually did anything until 1945 and that was when most of the camps had killed all the Jews.

Because he wouldn't let that information leave the country or out of the circle of people who were doing his dirty work. They were taught to simply trust him, that they were doing the right thing so many of them didn't talk about what was going on either.

The British government was informed by the Polish resistance in December 1941 but didn't want to know about it. Over the next twelve months or so more information reached the Allies, but didn't receive that much publicity.

ONE PERSON THAT WAS A RESISTANCE FIGHTER IN NAZI GERMANY WAS A 17 YEAR OLD BOY NAMED HELMUTH HUBENER. HE ALSO HAD 2 OTHER FRIENDS HELPING HIM NAMED RUDDI WOBBE 16 AND KARL- HEINZ SHNIBBE 18 HELMUTH TYPED UP FLYERS TITELD HITLER THE MURDERER AND MANY MORE, ON THE FLYERS HE WROTE THIS IS A CHAIN LETTER SO PASS IT ON! HELMUTH WAS AND HIS TWO YOUNG FRIENDS WERE ARESTED. THEY WERE THE YOUNGEST PEOPLE TO BE TRIED AT THE "BLOOD COURT" IN BERLIN HELMUTH WAS SENTENSED TO DEATH. WHEN HE HEARD THIS NEWS HE SAID"NOW I MUST DIE FOR COMITING NO CRIME AT ALL, BUT YOURE TIME WILL COME." RUDDI WAS SENTANCED TO YEARS IN PRISON AND KARL, 5 YEARS, BUT KARL WAS DRAFTED INTO THE GERMAN ARMY AND SPENT TIME IN CAMPS AS A PRISONER OF WAR AND A POLITACAL PRISONER OF WAR. HELMUTH WAS DECAPATATED ON OCTOBER 27 1942 AY ONLY 17. HIS FRIENDS AND HIM WERE BRAVE BOYS WHO STOOD UP FOR WHT THEY BELIVED IN. RUDDI DIED FROM A HEART ATACK IN THE UNITED STATES, HE IMAGRATED TO UTAH AFTER THE WAR WITH HIS WIFE. KARL_HEINZ IMAGRATED AS WELL TO UTAH WERE IS STILL LIVES TODAY WITH HIS FAMILY.

A source is here. http://tinyurl.com/3yhc2a All numbers are approximate, but the estimate is that about 75,000 Jews were deported from France to death camps. Other estimates are somewhat higher, e.g. 77,000. Some of those deported from France were already refugees from other countries. About 250,000 Jews in France survived the war. Yad Vashem has honored about 2,000 French for protecing Jews from both the Nazis and the far right wing Vichy government. The Vichy regime represented the most virulent strains of anti-semitism in France. The Vichy eagerness to cooperate with the Nazis is sometimes seen as evidence of general French collaboration in gathering deportees. Jewish refugees who fled to Vichy-governed France usually found themselves worse off than in German-occupied areas. None of it was easy. But while many were anti-semitic at different levels, there was resistance in many areas to surrendering French citizens to the Germans, leading people to hide Jews. The deportations shocked some into action. Despite the apathy or anti-semitism of some church leaders, some French bishops bravely preached against the the deportations at a critical time leading to more assistance for those in hiding. Many French Jews were assimilated and not easily identified. The Germans had one million troops in occupied France, a ratio of about 1-40. That was an overwhelming force in military terms,but without greater French cooperation, the move to identify Jews and ship them to death camps was considerable hampered. While it is small consolation, the number of deaths could have been far higher. One of the more moving memorials to the Holocaust is in a park behind Notre Dame cathedral- and it specifically recognizes those who were deported from France. France today is home to the largest Jewish population in Europe, but its Muslim population is far higher still.

Note: This answer is not only about the rise of the Holocaust, but other related things as well. The Holocaust started when Adolf Hitler came to power. Before he came to power, Hitler had an interest in drawing. Most days he had a small stall to sell self-portraits, and postcards with his picture on them. Then Hitler fought as a soldier in World War I, and after the war, he joined a small party called the German Workers' Party. Eventually, he became the leader of the party, and he was causing more and more people to join this once small and unpopular German Workers' Party from his fiery speeches. He became so popular that people actually have to pay in order to listen to him. After that, Hitler changed the party name to the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or the Nazis for short. But Hitler, like other Germans, believed that the Jewish had caused Germany to suffer such huge losses during and after World War I. The Treaty of Versailles was one of the most well known treaties in history, and the consequences of Germany's defeat of World War I includes giving away large amounts of land, money and military equipment. The Treaty also includes banning the Germans to stockpile any military equipment and having a army over the limit written on the Treaty. At the rate the the Nazi party was going, it soon became the largest party in Germany. Several Nazi politicians and businessmen were now trying to persuade the elderly German President, Hindenburg, to appoint Hitler as Chancellor. He did. Now that Hitler is Chancellor, he is granted dictatorial powers. Not long after that, Germany withdraws from the League of Nations, announcing its intention to rebuild its army. From the point he became Chancellor onward, Hitler and his henchmen, Himmler, Göring, and Goebbels, secretly began arming for World War II. But Hitler still hasn't forgotten that the Jews caused them to lose World War I. So he started putting up death camps for the Jews. Of course, the Nazis didn't tell the Jews where they were being taken to, or what was going to happen to them. So the Jews thought that the journey to the death camps were for their own good, and they actually urged their own family members to go on the trains to the camps. By the way, Hitler is a vegetarian and he hated to see animals taken care of brutally. Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, even told the SS (the SS are Hitler's personal bodyguard. At the start of the war, there were only 2,000 SS members. By the end of the war, there were over 20,000.) to wear little bells at night, so that any small animals could hear them and run away, to prevent them being trodden on. But all this didn't stop Hitler using Jews for experiments. He had them shot, gassed, hanged, murdered using guillotine, tied to posts and stoned to death, stabbed and other means of massacre. From a simple life as a artist to being the Führer of Germany, Adolf Hitler is one of the most infamous and well-known historical figures in the history of this world.

you would be executed ___ * Germans were usually given the option of refusing to kill in the Holocaust * Some people who played a front-line role in the killings were deserters from the Soviet Army. Once they had decided to desert they probably did not have much say in how they were used. These deserters do, however, seem to have set about their "work" enthusiastically. * A very small number of German soldiers were forced to do "dirty work" as a punishment.

The Soviet Union

If the question is about prisoners held in the Nazi German Concentration Camps during the Second World War, then anyone of them not fit to work for the Nazis were sent to the Gas Chambers (or other methods) to be killed. Those fit to work, were used as slave labor until they were starved or worked to death.

Nazi's believed the Nordic Race which came to be called the Aryan Race in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, represented a pure white race. The Nazis believed the Aryans formerly dwelt on the lost, mythical continent of Atlantis. The believed other white Europeans like Slavs and Indo-Iranians had blood from non-European ancestors and were therefore inferior.