Holocaust

Blacks, Native Americans, and Jews. And there are many more groups that could be listed.

Yes they were, because of the fact that young men and older men up to their late 40's were used as workers for Hitler before he ended up sending them to the gas chambers, young girls and women younger then the age of 20 were seen as the "useless" ones and they were sent to the gas chambers right away. Hitler separated the men from the boys, the young from the old and he ripped families part by gender so he could find effective ways of killing them off.

very very cold!!!!!!!

it was very cold during the war so people got colds and flu's from other deceases

genocide has been taking place all over the world since as early as 6oo B.C. when the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem and razing the Great Temple to the ground or maybe in 70 A.D. when the Roman emperor Titus slaughtered the 600,000 Jews that were living in Jerusalem, and only the Jews.

The Holocaust began in the 1930s when Hitler started controlling and discriminating against Jews, Romanies and several other ethnic groups. It intensified after the outbreak of the war in 1939.

It was stopped in 1945 when the Allies moved through Germany and Poland at the end of World War II.

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It is generally accepted that the Holocaust was the intentional destruction (extermination) of Europe's Jews.

This did not start until 1941. But yes, the Holocaust did happen during World War Two.

Hitler successfully pinned all of post-WWI Germany's economic problems on the Jews, falsely, and labelled them as public threats. This justified quarantining them in labor and internment camps. As far as why he chose such flavourful ways of putting them to death (his mental imbalance made it difficult for him to know when to stop), that's not entirely clear.

The only races targeted for complete destruction were the Jews and the 'gypsies'.

Many other groups were also targeted, but either were not ethnic groups (races) or were not targeted for completed destruction.

Yes, he did. During World War II, Adolf Hitler was hatching a secret plan to develop a nuclear bomb that could have changed the outcome of the war. There were rumors that a plant Norway was making "heavy water" for the Nazis. This form of water is used in the making of nuclear bombs. But Europe's Allies smuggled a bomb on the ship carrying the heavy water to the plant in Norway, and the ship, along with the heavy water, was sunk, ending Germany's nuclear program.

Jewish life in pre Nazi Germany was fairly easy. Although Jews were persecuted for so many centuries back then and even now, they made a living in every country they settled in. They made good money, started families, etc. Then after Hitler came along, life for Jews just took a whole new turn.

The Danes knew how to hide the Jews VERY well. Though many Jews hid in the underground to fight for the Persians, while still others hid in the forests and made ambushes against he Nazis and turned to Guerrilla tactics.

Judenrat is German for Jewish council. These were administrative bodies that the Germans required Jews to form in the occupied territories of Poland and the Soviet Union and also in some other areas. Obviously, the role of these Jewish council (which were appointed by the Nazis) was difficult, and they were - or were regarded as - collaborators.

The holocaust is relevant because it shows how insidiously modern people can be taken in a manupulated by their leaders into performing unspeakable crimes. We should be vigilent abut this in our own society and make sure the checks and balances and our rights and freedoms aren't being eroded.

yes, he did. he thought that it was the pure "German race" he thought that all Germans should have these features. which would never happen. i have blonde hair and blue eyes, and am German, but very few people are actually like that.

Well! that is purely crazy, im blonde and im half polish!

Hitler wanted to wipe the Jewish race of the face of the Earth by killing them. He had his soldiers take them away to starve them and burn them and shoot them. If a Jew was to sick to work and they stayed home they would be fired and if you didn't work then you'd die. They had no rights. Many died from starvation because of no food. When the Jews got to the concentration camps men would separate from women and if you looked sick you would be killed. The guards would put you in huge rooms that looked like showers but they were gas chambers and you would choke to death. HE WAS A HORRIBLE PERSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, Adolf Hitler was the main persecutor wasn't he? and part of the non-jewish German public... err... ???

There are too many ways to put down. Gas chambers, for one was very popular, although this wasn't really torture so much as a convenient way to kill large amounts of people. This is also called a Jewish shower. For torture mentally, Hitler was always ordering people to be shot in the street, some people were thrown out windows or killed other ways so as to frighten others around them. For any small misdemeanor, whippings, beatings with clubs and things like that were not uncommon. Nazis would publicly humiliate Jews by making them do embarrassing and crazy things in front of crowds of people. For actual painful torture, there were things like putting them in tiny boxes completely made of nails or barbed wire, and then left them there for a few days, so they had to either stay in that extremely awkward and uncomfortable position, or get cut severely. Most times, the prisoners would pass out and get sliced up by their cage anyways. Another way of torture was to pull out finger nails one at a time, slowly and painfully. Or, limbs would get cut of by sharp wire that was put around say, an ankle, then tightened slowly so that it cut deeper and deeper, eventually cutting of the foot completely. People were often starved to death, or beaten to death as well. If you were a Jew who was caught and on the way to concentration camp, you were shoved into a trailer so full of other Jews that you could barely even breath. Because they were denied food or drink, many Jews died the trailers, and so the survivors were stuck in a room with dead people leaning against them. Sometimes, these dead on their feet, extremely sick and weak Jews would have to get out and march through the streets, most of the time being whipped for not going fast enough, a public spectacle being made of them. There were other ways of torture, but hopefully this is good enough to answer your question for now. :)

unarmed, armed, passive, and aggressive resistance.

Yes. The Holocaust was responsible for the deaths of 11 million civilians. Additionally, World War II in Europe killed untold civilians and soldiers, all of whom died due to Hitler's choice to declare war and expand his empire.

The Holocaust began with the Kristallnacht in 1938 and continued until the Allied victory in 1945.

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Various dates can be given for the start. Please see the related questions.

they were most likely killed ___ They were given insufficent food and usually no medication in the ghettos. Most of the ghettos were also hopelessly overcrowded and disease spread easily. Moreover, from December 1941 on the inhabitants of the ghettos were taken to extermination camps and killed there.

Please note that the cover up lasted for the entire period 1941-45.

The victims weren't told they were being sent to death camps, simply that they were being "relocated". In the early stages, they sometimes had to send postcards to any next of kin still at home to say that they had arrived safely.

Incidentally, the extermination camps were located in Poland; they weren't just down the road from Germany as it were.

Towards the end, they hid the camps by burying the bodies, planting trees, etc.