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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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Transit camps were places to hold people until they could be shipped off to other camps such as execution or forced-labor camps. Well known transit camps include Westerbork (Netherlands) and Breendonk (Belgium).
The Frankfurt war crimes trials, the UN charter on human rights.
Where did the camp prisoners sleep during the holocaust days?
Under houses, anywhere where the Natzi soldiers, germans, or Adolff Hitler would have looked. I am positive!
Why does Akiba Drumer lose the will to live?
Akiba Drummer loses his will to live because he lost his faith in god; during the Holocaust, one of the only things a Jew had to live for was his faith that God would save them.
Hope this helps!
(P.S. I am currently answering this question.)
What is the name of the man who killed the Jews?
Many people throughout history have tried to annihilate the Jews but I assume you are referring to Adolf Hitler.
Describe how the Jews were transported to the death camps?
Most were transported by cattle trucks and trains.
He commited suicide with his newly wed partner, Eva Braun, by shooting himself in the head in his "Fuhrer Bunker" in Berlin as Russian troops marched into the German capital.
Why didnt the prisoners of the holocaust rebel?
They didn't do anything because they were to afraid to so they didn't have a bigger chance to die or get punished evenmore then they already were.
Were other people killed along side the Jewish people in Europe?
Absolutely. The genocidal policies of the Nazis resulted in the deaths of about as many Polish Gentiles as Polish Jews, thus making them co-victims in a Forgotten Holocaust. This Holocaust has been largely ignored because historians who have written on the subject of the Holocaust have chosen to interpret the tragedy in exclusivistic terms--namely, as the most tragic period in the history of the Jewish Diaspora. To them, the Holocaust was unique to the Jews, and they therefore have had little or nothing to say about the nine million Gentiles, including three million Poles, who also perished in the greatest tragedy the world has ever known. Little wonder that many people who experienced these events share the feeling of Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz, who anxious when the meaning of the word Holocaust undergoes gradual modifications, so that the word begins to belong to the history of the Jews exclusively, as if among the victims there were not also millions of Poles, Russians, Ukrainians, and prisoners of other nationalities. -- Richard C. Lukas, preface to The Forgotten Holocaust: The Poles under German Occupation 1939-1944
What were the consequences if people did not follow Hitler?
This is an excerpt from The Holocaust Historical Society. I have included a link from their web site for your education about the Hitler Youth.
By 1939 the Hitler Youth became the largest youth organization in the world with over 7.3 million strong within its ranks. A new law was issued on March 25, 1939, conscripting any remaining holdouts into the organization amid warnings to parents that unless their children were enrolled they would be forcibly removed and placed in the custody of state run orphanages.
What was the first solution to the Jewish problems and why wasn't Hitler satisfied?
Hitler's thoughts and motivations are still the subject of debate today. At first the Jewish population of Germany and German-occupied countries had their property confiscated and were deported to concentration camps; to be killed by various means, experimented upon, or worked and starved to death, but secretly from the German population and the rest of the world. Why he adopted the "Final Solution" later instead of sooner is unclear, but I think he had reached the point where he no longer cared about world opinion. For example, Hitler made no attempt to destroy the Jews in Denmark or Warsaw until 1943, by which time Germany was losing and his decisions had become most erratic.
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The "first solution" was supposed to be a "territorial solution", that is, the Nazis hoped to: (1) bully all German and Austrian Jews into leaving Greater Germany and (2) ship all the Jews they could find to some remote place, and they briefly (in 1940) earmarked Madagascar for this. However, this solution was based on the assumption that Germany would win the war easily and quickly. It was never a practical "solution". (Even the first "solution" was not practical in view of the severe restrictions on migration at the time).
Moreover, the war itself greatly increased Nazi Germany's self-inflicted "Jewish problem". As the Germans gained more and more territory in Eastern Europe, the number of Jews under Nazi rule increased.
What two other groups were targeted during the holocaust?
Many minority groups were targeted. People like homosexuals, gypsies, and etc. were targeted.
What is the difference between death camps and labor camps?
Although the British are said to have invented and used concentration camps in the Boer War, such camps are mainly associated with Nazi Germany.
The Nazis had four main types of camp:
The Stalags: prisoner-of-war camps
Labour camps: where slave labourers were housed
Concentration camps: interim holding camps
Extermination camps; where prisoners were murdered soon after arrival.
Some concentration camps also has extermination facilities such as gas chambers and incinerators.
British and Allied POWs were treated relatively well.
Russian and East European POWs were treated very badly, often being starved or murdered.
Slave labourers were treated sufficiently well to keep them useful to the Nazi state, but such workers did not last long before they became infirm and were shipped off for extermination.
In concentration camps, conditions were hell on earth.
In extermination camps, the poor victims did not have long to suffer before they were killed.
Hitler determined to crush anyone who didn't fully support him.
Like:
- Gypsies
- Slavs (such as Russians)
- Black People
- Disabled
- Mentally impaired
- And mostly Jews
Hitler's main focus of hatred was the Jewish population of Europe. He hated them so much that he and his henchmen were responsible for the extermination of over six million (yes, six million) Jews in the extermination camps he set up throughout mainland Europe where they were shot or gassed and their bodies either buried in huge communal graves or burned to hide evidence. As well as Jews, he also had major problems with gypsies, homosexuals, mentally handicappped people and disabled people. He wished that Germany would rise as the 'super-race' - a race of people who were blue-eyed, blonde and German through and through who would rule the world. Any trace of foreign blood in you - and especially Jewish blood - would mean that you would be exterminated too, alongside the Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, disabled people, mentally handicapped and so on. Thanks to the Allied forces of the UK, USA, Canada, Russia, Australia and many other nations the German army was defeated and Hitler was hounded into an underground bunker (chamber) in Berlin where he shot himself and one of his officers burned his body until nothing remained. He hated Jews, among others.
What was Josef Mengeles' relationship with Hitler?
Yes, he did indeed. Although Hitler never visited an operational concentration camp, he met Hitler and Himmler in Berlin in 1941. He was introduced to Hitler by his boss Verschuer. He met Hitler again during the funeral of Romel.
What percentage of the Jewish population left Germany?
Hitler managed to wipe away 99% of the Jews from Germany. Only 1% survived.
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The above answer is inaccurate. In 1933, when the Nazis came to power in Germany, there were about 525,000 Jews in the sense of registered members of Jewish congregrations. In addition, there were about a further 300,000(?) people regarded by the Nazis as ethnic Jews.
Between 1933 and 1941 the US accepted about 250,000 refugees from Germany (and from 1938 also Austria). Britain accepted 71,000 refugees before the outbreak of war in 1939, and many other countries accepted some refugees. Obviously, by no means all of these refugees were Jews in either of the above senses.
The total number of German Jews killed in the Holocaust is generally given as about 165,000.
'... left Germany' does not necessarily mean 'survived the Holocaust'. German Jews who fled to France, Belgium and the Netherlands did not survive in many cases. In order to avoid double counting, German Jews who went to France and other countries are not included in the figure of 165,000. This figure refers to the death toll of German Jews deported from Germany. (Sorry it's a bit complicated). Neverless, the claim that 99% of German Jews were exterminated is wrong.
According to the Wikipedia article on the Hsitory of the Jews in Germany, "Of the 522,000 Jews living in Germany in January 1933, only 214,000 were left by the eve of World War II". This would suggest that about 308,000 Jews left Germany in this period. However, the birth-rate among the Jewish population in Germany fell sharply after the Nazis came to power.
Why Dr Mengele experimented on people?
He claimed to have done it for the benefit of science, but most people believe that he was simply mad with power. Most of the experiments he did were to improve the German race, like changing the eye color and hair color of the prisoners to become like the aryans (blonde hair blue eyes).
What did the Nazis do to the babies of the Holocaust?
they killed pregnant Jews. To them the baby was just another Jewish person, sent here to curse everyone on the planet with their unperfection....I really dislike Hitler.... We are all people, why can't anyone just see that :)
Many historians believe that Hitler was overconfident of the German Army's abilities. The invasion of Soviet Union was the biggest mistake Hitler made as Britain and the USA were able to 'attack from behind'. Hitler seemed to believe that Germans were somehow endowed with superhuman powers, this misguided belief led him to make strategic errors.
What were name of the people that helped Adolf Hitler who were Jewish?
There were no Jews that helped Adolf Hitler. Not willingly, at least. There may have been some Jewish people who did as they were told, in hopes of survival, but this can hardly be considered 'helping Hitler'.
Why was Adolf Hitler jealous of the Jews?
because he was looking for a way out from the financial problems Germany was having from world war 1. Hitler did not only hate Jews but gyspys, gays ...etc.
In all fairness, it wasn't just Hitler who hated Jews. After the first world war, people blamed Jews for the ruin of Germany and the reason why Germany surrendered ww1. Hitler and many others blamed the Jews for for all the problems in Germany
Why was the Holocaust allowed to happen and would it be allowed to happen in modern day society?
When the Nazis began their anti-Semitic outbursts, many people in the civilized world did not take them seriously...Hitler's ravings were just more political claptrap, and after a few heads were broken, there would be no more rowdyism. Many other people either publicly or privately applauded the anti-Semitic acts.
Jews were often seen as being either money-grubbing capitalists -- the classic caftaned pawnbroker, squeezing a penny -- or as underhanded and conniving Bolsheviks -- the equally classic long-bearded radical, bomb in hand. The upper Christian crust disliked Jews as socialists and Christ-killers. Joseph Kennedy, the pro-Nazi US Ambassador to England, told Ribbentrop that his pals in Boston admired what the Nazis were doing to the Jews, as there were many clubs that had banned Jews for 50 years. He just wished the Nazis would do it more quietly. Lindbergh blamed World War II on the Jews more directly. In fact, opinion polls in America at the time blamed the Jews for the war.
Anti-Semitism was a standard staple. Colleges and businesses had quotas on admissions and hirings, and glass ceilings. Hotels advertised, "No Hebrews or consumptives taken," or "Guests taken to church free of charge." Housing developments had "restrictive covenants." So when Hitler and his cronies began beating up Jews and killing them, many people across the globe reacted by saying, "Good on you, mate. About time, too."
Would it be allowed to happen today? It's going on right now...Bosnia, Rwanda, the Sudan. There is always money and time for hate.
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I don't think it had much to do with the world being more 'uncaring' in the 1930s and 1940s than now. Once the Holocaust proper (the systematic mass murders) had started in 1941, there was the severely practical problem of how the Holocaust could realistically have been stopped by the Allies ... There was no point in the Allies barking out orders to the German government.
Hmmm.... Jews like to oppress people so Hitler launch war on them.
Did the Nazis use tattoos for lampshades?
They didn't, but it is said that they used their skin to make other pieces of furniture, such as couches and rugs.
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No. At the time of the early postwar trials of concentration camp guards some journalists said that a few of the guards had had lampshades made out of the skin of prisoners with erotic tattoos. The strange thing is that these allegations were made only about female guards - the implication being that they were demonically perverted. All this was entertaining stuff for some readers.
It seems to be a popular urban legend.
