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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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How were the murders during the Holocaust accomplished?
Jews and others were rounded up, many on Krystalnacht which was the beginning of the holocaust. They were put into cattle cars, the claim was that they were being moved out until the end of the war or that the German government needed their resources. The cattle cars stopped at concentration camps where the people were told that they would be living in the dorm's until the end of the war or until they could be relocated. Groups of Jews and anyone else that the Germans hated, were told that they were being sent to a disinfecting chamber, which actually turned out to be a gas chamber. The doors were locked and gas was pumped in. Sometimes they were just marched into a field and shot. The Germans were efficient and were given instructions to find the cheapest way to kill the Jews... and they did it, over 2,000,000 times.
What countries did Germany take over during the Holocaust?
Austria, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Greece, Channel Islands, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Poland, Denmark, Hungary and Italy.
How Jews died in the gas chambers?
- Those considered unfit for work - the old, the young and visibly pregnant women - were killed as soon as practical on arrival.
- Those selected for work were gassed when they became too weak to work.
Is the Holocaust still taught in British schools?
No. The Holocaust is today part of every child's formal education in England. In England, by law children are to be taught about the Holocaust as part of the Key Stage 3 History curriculum. This usually occurs in Year 9 (age 13-14).
While academy schools do not have to follow this syllabus, it is assumed that they will deliver Holocaust education as part of a "balanced and broadly based" curriculum. Similarly, although independent schools are not obliged to deliver the National Curriculum, many in fact do.
The Holocaust is not formally part of the national curriculum in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. However, it is widely taught and there is no evidence that it has been removed from textbooks.
Who was on Hitler's side during the Holocaust?
The axis powers and the Aryan Nations (formed by Hitler) where on Hitler's side during the Holocaust. The Aryan Nations consisted of the following Countries: luxemborg
Germany
belgium
the Netherlands
Poland
denmark
Yugoslavia
austria
Switzerland
Italy
Slovakia
Estonia
Lithuania
liechtenstein
Sweden
Norway
Finland
czechrepublic
in the beginning soviet union
pretty much all of eastern Europe (the Baltic coutries)
How were some Jewish children hidden?
They hid in bomb shelters, were shipped out of the country secretly, or were hidden in cellars.
Why do some people deny the Holocaust?
Sometimes, even if it is a very few times, we cannot handle the truth, we cannot stand before it. Then, as a final way of defense to our fragility, we turn to deny it. This is not a justification for such behavior, it is only the acknowledgement of human being limitation.
CommentWith respect, the above comment is wrong. There's a huge difference between being unable to take the horrors of the Holocaust and denying them.
Holocaust denial has nothing whatever to do with inablity to 'handle the truth'. The obvious and best strategy for people who can't bear to hear or read about the horrors of the Holocaust is to keep well away from the subject, not to deny it.
Holocaust deniers, by contrast, obsessively pick over the evidence in their attempts to find flaws, minor inconsistencies and so on. They claim that the Holocaust is a lie, a hoax, a sob-story, deliberately invented by 'the Jews' for their own advantage. That is simply Jew-baiting and usually also an attempt to rehabilitate the perpetrators.
In other words, the key motive is antisemtism.
(In the Middle East, Holocaust denial has become fashionable because there is a widespread belief that the key or even sole reason for the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 was a sense of guilt on the part of the Allies and other key members of the United Nations at the time. During World War 2, the Allies had done nothing specifically to target Nazi genocide).
How many German guards in a concentration camp?
It wasn't the soldiers who were. THEY were on the battle front, fighting us allies. The Nazi GUARDS and SS were the ones that were stationed at each concentration camp to kill and "Supervise" their prisoners. And by supervise, I mostly mean beat without reason and out of sheer cruelty order them around like slaves.
How did racism and intolerance contribute to the Holocaust?
After Germany lost the war, Germany was in an economic depression and needed a political leader, so Hitler became the leader. He was intolerant of the Jews and thought of them as an inferior race, and since he had the power, Hitler started the Holocaust.
What kind of camps did they have during the Holocaust?
* Transit camps, where prisoners were held till they were moved to other kinds of camps. * Concentration Camps, Grade I - for example, Dachau. * Concentration Camps, Grade II - for example, Buchenwald. (These were harsher than Grade I camps and there was less food than at Grade I camps). * Concentration Camps, Grade III - for example, Auschwitz I and III. (Harsher and with less food than in Grade II camps - very high death rates). * Extermination camps - most of Auschwitz II (Birkenau), Treblinka II, Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, Maly Trostenets and one section of Majdanek. These camps were designed as killing centres and nothing else. In addition, there were also concentration camps for 'difficult children' (!) aged 12+ and later even 2+ ...
Why did the Germans let their government kill the Jews?
The question is puzzling. In the early 1930s Jews accounted for at most 1.4% of the population of Germany. (This figure includes people with only one Jewish grandparent and various other groups who did not regard themselves as Jews in any meaningful sense).
The Jews inside and outside Germany had very little power or influence (contrary to what Nazi propaganda claimed).
It is worth adding that none of the groups persecuted by the Nazis in Germany challenged his rule directly.
Why should you remember the Holocaust?
It's important to remember atrocities like the Holocaust for several reasons:
- To honor the victims and keep their memory alive through stories of their lives.
- To be aware.
- To learn about our history...where we've been influences where we are today and where we are headed.
- To keep such a thing from happening again. When we learn about it, we learn about the problem of intolerance.
World impact, maybe? The holocaust is a historical tragedy that affected the entire globe. There are still people alive today who suffered and survived the holocaust - they lost everything - their families, homes and cultural histories have been demolished. If that does not merit "remembering" a devastating part of history I don't know what does. How can anyone forget?
'He who does not learn from history, is doomed to repeat it.'
George Santayana
Because it was a major event in history when millions of Jews and others were murdered. We need to remember the Holocaust so that we remember the horrors that innocent people were put through.
However, I do think the main reason it should still be taught and thought about is to remind us of why it should never happen again. Even more so because the world we live in today is far more complex, which would make it even easier to build such mass killing machines. Our history can help us learn from our past and live for a better future.
I everyone should have the opportunity to learn and discover about the holocaust because it is the biggest known genocide ever. We should not forget about the innocent people who were murdered because Hitler didn't agree with them. People should always learn from mistakes, and it makes things a lot less painful if they are not your own.
We need to remember the Holocaust so that we remember the horrors that innocent people were put through, and so this can't happen again.
we should remember the holocaust so we can make sure that nothing like this will ever happen again. if this would happen again we would know what to do because the holocaust educated us on this major events in history. we all always keep in memory all those Jews and non Jews that were murdered.
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Why? Many reasons... Wwe should do it out of the respect of the millions of innocent men woman and children who were killed together in the most evil way you can ever imagine. They died a long death, often watching the ones they loved most suffer. Each and every single one of these people had friends, family, etc. They were ordinary people. Why were they killed? Simply because they were Jews. Another reason why is that it can be passed on to the future generations about the true horrors of rasism so something as terrible may never, ever happen again.
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I don't accept that remembering the Holocaust prevents genocide. In fact, the Rwanda Genocide of 1994 - in which about 800,000 Tutsis were massacred by the Hutu militia in roughly 100 days - means that something very similar has already happened again. As with the Holocaust, most of the world didn't want to do anything about it till it was over ... Then the international hand-wringing began.
Who were the Jewish bankers who funded Hitler?
Hitler began his political career in 1919 and did not become Chancellor until fourteen years later in 1933. During this time it took a tremendous sum of money to support the Nazi Party. Where it came from, who provided it is hard to determine. The funding of Hitler and the Nazi movement has yet to be explored in exhaustive depth.
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The only published examination of Hitler's personal finances is an article by Oron James Hale, "Adolph Hitler: Taxpayer, which records Adolph's, brushes with the German tax authorities before he became Reichskanzler. Unfortunately, the original records used by Hale do not yield the source of Hitler's income, loans, or credit, and German law "did not require self-employed or professional persons to disclose in detail the sources of income or the nature of services rendered.
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Maybe the newly created German democracy was more vulnerable than most free societies. In Germany from 1919 to 1933, political parties were little more than tools for powerful interest groups. Hitler was quick to recognize this and turn his formidable and nefarious talents to the talk of fund raising. Hitler received money from Austria, Britain, Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Italy, Holland, Hungary, Switzerland, Sweden, and the United States. It is true that some money came from Germans living in these countries, but most of it came from prominent foreign citizens.
Did religion keep the people together during the Holocaust?
yes many of the army/ss/police units had pastors with them to help them through it
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The German armed forces in the Nazi period did not have chaplains or pastors.
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er, yes they did. Granted not all units did, but then again religion was discouraged.
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'... religion was discouraged', but they had armu chaplains? That doesn't make sense - or at the very least calls for an explalation.
What year did the Holocaust finish?
D-Day was the 6 June 1944, the killing in the Extermination Camps ended as each one liberated by The Allies. Germany sign surrender 7 May 1945 and operations stopped 0001hrs on the 8 May 1945.
Things that prove that the Holocaust was real?
Not really , there might be some testimonials from nazi officers explaining their will to exterminate the Jews ... but no real proof that 6 million died , don't let anyone fool you . if you ask me about it , i'd say it didn't happen ... but only god knows ..
How many Jews did Stalin kill?
Stalin was notoriously anti-Semitic.
1) During the Great Purge, many Jews were killed (though they weren't singled out; others were killed too). How many were killed is not exactly known. Stalin had nearly a million of his own citizens (Jews and non-Jews) executed, while millions more died from forced labor, deportation, massacres, and detention and interrogation.
2) He forcibly transferred tens of thousands of Jews to southeastern Siberia (the Birobidzhan region).
3) Stalin promised the Nazis (Ribbentrop) to purge the Soviet Foreign Ministry of any Jewish employees, and did so (1939).
4) After the foundation of Israel in May 1948, and its alignment with the USA in the Cold War, the 2 million Soviet Jews were portrayed by the Stalinist regime as disloyal.
5) In November 1948, Soviet authorities launched a campaign to liquidate what was left of Jewish culture.
6) A campaign to remove Jews from positions of authority within the state security services was carried out in 1952-1953.
7) In 1953, a plan was hatched by Stalin to send all of the Jews to Siberia. Only Stalin's death the same year relieved the fear.
What did the people who survived the holocaust do next?
It is hard to determine what the people who survived the holocaust did next. It is safe to assume that many returned home to rebuild their lives. Many others probably immigrated to new lands to begin life with a fresh start.
What was the reason for experiments during the Holocaust?
to advance medical science
Added by Flappy6001: Also to torture them. Hitler when he was younger had sour feelings for Jews because two Jews had treated him badly. Like they say one person can ruin it for everyone. If those two Jews hadn't treated him badly we would have never had Jews almost be wiped off the face of the earth.
When did the Nazis begin to deport Jews for extermination?
1. Early deportations to killing fields
Regular deportations from Berlin to the killing fields near Minsk, Belarus and Riga, Latvia began on 15 October 1941. (A year earlier, the Nazi party bosses in Baden and the Rhineland-Palatine had the Jews in their districts deported to Gurs in the south of France, but this seems to have been a regional initiative without authorization from the central government).
2. First deportations to extermination camps
Chelmno is generally regarded as the first extermination camp, and it began routine mass gassings on 8 December 1941. The first victims were Jews from the Lodz Ghetto, deported there the previous day.
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Almost from the start of Nazi rule in Germany in 1933, the Jews were hassled and jailed. Things got steadily worse until nearly every last one was deported to the East. After the Germans invaded and occupied Poland in 1939, things started to get very bad. By 1940-1941 Jews, having been forced into ghettos, were then forcibly deported by rail to the death camps in and around Poland. This went on until the collapse of the Eastern front in 1944, when the Soviet Red Army started to push the Germans back toward Germany. There were still some Jews and other condemned prisoners in German Konzentrationzlager "KZ's", (concentration camps) inside of Germany itself that were not liberated until near the very bitter end in 1945 by allied forces.
Were there any people who stood up against the Nazis?
Assuming that you meant were there any Germans that stood up against the NAZIS the answer is Yes, However these were soon forced underground both literally and figuratively as the regime that was formed by Hitler simply killed all opposition.
Why did Hana Brady get killed?
george didnt get killed because he was a plumber and he got out of Auschwitz with that skill
and also at the start it was a random selection the gurads choose who go to stay
and hana unfortunately was not choosen and killed straight away and george didnt get killed because he worked
Luck being on her side she came toHana Brady might well have been forgotten, a blonde-haired, bright-eyed Jewish girl whose life was snuffed out 60 years ago in a Nazi concentration camp, just another of the victims of the Holocaust.
But Today Hana was alive for me. I got to learn about her and her story through my friend she recommended me Hana's Suitcase [thank you].
Hana's Suitcase is a story Of a Jewish girl who had a zest for life and her brother who lived in Czechoslovakia and what happened to them when their country was occupied by the Nazis in 1939. It is also a story of some Japanese children and their teacher who solved the mystery called Hana Brady - whose name was painted on an old suitcase from Auschwitz. The suitcase was the first introduction to Hana but gave no further clues about her and what happened to her.
Fumiko Ishioka [the Japanese teacher ] further went ahead to Terezin the then Theresienstadt , Prague and left no stone unturned to know all about Hana Brady. Luck being on her side she came to know Hana also had a brother George Brady is Hana's older brother, the only member of their immediate family to survive. She further wrote to him about Hana and her suitcase. For him, the reappearance of the suitcase in Japan - 57 years after Hana's death - was absolutely astonishing.
Further we come to know that along with her older brother George, Hana was imprisoned by the German Nazis as a Jew, and sent to the Theresienstadt (Terezin) prison camp. In 1944, she was transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp. While her brother survived imprisonment by working as a laborer, Hana was killed in the gas chambers a few hours after she had arrived in Auschwitz .
Its absolutely heartbreaking to know that about Hana and I had tears all through the read.
Must read guys.
Thank you.
Why did God let the Holocaust to happen?
This Agency has never been taken from mankind, and he uses it to do good or to do evil.
God allows war and genocide so that man might be judged righteously. All those who die are taken back to that god who gave them life.
God will not interfere with the agency of man, though He may at times cause that certain men will die so that a whole nation will not perish in disbelief.
Non-Mormon viewGenocide is defined in the Collins dictionary as " the policy of deliberately killing a nationality or ethnic group. " Death entered the world when man sinned, and the first murderer was Cain when he killed his brother Abel:Gen 4:8 And Cain talked with his brother Abel. And it happened when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.Gen 4:9 And Jehovah said unto Cain, Where is your brother Abel? And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper? [Comment on v9:- Yes: we are supposed to look out for one another, especially family]
Gen 4:10 And He said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to Me from the ground.
Note that Cain did not deny what he had done or say he was not guilty, but also note that God did not 'zap' him on the spot with a mighty bolt of lightning to completely atomize him: Cain had to bear the consequences of his sin:-
Gen 4:11 And now you are cursed more than the ground which opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Gen 4:12 When you till the ground, it will not again give its strength to you. And you shall be a vagabond and a fugitive in the earth.
Gen 4:13 And Cain said to Jehovah, My punishment is greater than I can bear.
Gen 4:14 Behold! You have driven me out from the face of the earth today, and I shall be hidden from Your face. And I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth, and it shall be thatanyone who finds me shall kill me.
Gen 4:15 And Jehovah said to him, Therefore whoever kills Cain shall be avenged seven times. And Jehovah set a mark upon Cain so that anyone who found him shouldnot kill him.
Gen 4:16 And Cain went out from the presence of Jehovah and lived in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
God did not intervene but allowed Cain to go ahead and murder Abel. Jesus described him in verse 35 as "righteous Abel" ,so it is not as if Abel was a nasty character who received his just desserts:Mat 23:35 so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Berachiah, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.
However, read the preceding verses to get it all this in context: Jesus was telling the Pharisees, who were more righteous outwardly than we could ever hope to be be, that they were murderers because this attitude was also passed down genetically from father to son, which attitude they originally received from Satan, and that as a result they were destined for hell:-
Mat 23:29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
Mat 23:30 and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Mat 23:31 Therefore you are witnesses to yourselves, thatyou are the sons of those who killed the prophets;
Mat 23:32 and you fill up the measure of your fathers.
Mat 23:33 Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?
Mat 23:34 Therefore, behold, I send prophets and wise men and scribes to you. And you will kill and crucify some of them. And some of them you will scourge in your synagogues and persecute from city to city;
God does not intervene in affairs on earth except for relatively-minute instances. This would include such things as miracles and angelic protection for individuals, but especially for God's nation of Israel. When Haman wanted to commit genocide against the Jews and wipe them out, God intervened and he died instead. In chapter 28 of Deuteronomy God promises blessings for obedience, but curses for disobedience. The curses are designed to drive people to repentance and thus back to God: that was the reason the Jews were taken captive to Babylon, that was the reason for the Diaspora, that was the reason for the Holocaust of the WW2 where one-third died, and that will be the reason for the future holocaust of Israel where two-thirds will die:-
Zec 13:8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Zec 14:1 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
Zec 14:2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
Zec 14:3 Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle [ie the Battle of Jericho!]
If God intervened every time we sinned and if we were never able to do wrong, then we would just be robots or automatons doing what God wants. God wants people who want to follow Him, who will do it willingly, not for what blessings or whatever they can get out of it, but because they love him. God would like everyone to do that, but He is not going to force people to make the right choice: you cannot force someone to love you. It has to be a decision of someone's own free will, so He has given everyone enough rope to hang themselves and suffer the consequences of their sin and the sin of others, or to turn to Him in repentance for forgiveness. Genocide is murder, and murder is a sin: there are no degrees of sin because sin is still sin regardless of the amount of that sin. Because sin is designed to drive people to God, sin will not be removed , and that means God will still permit crimes such as genocide to still occur.
What arm was the number on during the Holocaust?
NUMBERS
Although details are not complete regarding treatment of the holocaust victims, it seems that not all of them had their bodies marked with a number. Also, of all the concentration camps in Nazi Germany, it appears that only the Auschwitz group of camps (e.g. Auschwitz 1, Auschwitz 2 (Birkenau) and Auschwitz 3 (Monowitz) actually implemented prisoner numbering in a systematic way. This began in 1940, and at first the number was sewn onto the prisoner's uniform.
Body marking did not start until 1941. The number was written or tattooed maybe on the chest, the back, or the left forearm; some were marked on the leg. Sometimes the number included a letter prefix to indicate the 'type' of prisoner. For example, the prefix 'AU' was used for Soviet prisoners of war. Those destined for immediate execution were often not marked with a number.
BADGES
Starting with Poland in November 1939, and then spreading to ther countries under Nazi domination, all Jews were legally requierd to wear badges which identified them as belonging to this particular religious/ethnic group. As an example of the seriousness of this law, the Jewish Community Council of Bialystock in 1941 warned the community that "severe punishment -up to, and including death by shooting-, is in store for Jews who do not wear the yellow badge on back and front."
In the concentration camps, other badges with different shapes and different colors were introduced to identify other groups. They were worn on the chest or on the arm, sewn to the fabric of their coats, on the left side.
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