Holocaust

The country that had the most losses in World war 2 was The Soviet Union with a loss of more than 20 million people. More than 13% of their population. Personally, I don't understand what the big deal is with the Holocaust, with the extremination of more than 6million Jewish people. I'm not racist, I have alot of Jewish friends. But still, Germany should be paying Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and all the other countries that were formley part of the Soviet Union, not Israel.

It was not a routine activity. It became very marked for the first (?) time during the First Crusade (1095-96), but was later condemned by the Church. However, I'm not sure that the motive was avenging the death of Christ. The Jews were seen as 'infidels' rather like the Muslims.

Technically, the Gestapo was under the control of the SS after 1934, so the head was Heinrich Himmler, who was the worst of all Nazis in my opinion, and made Hitler look like a political moderate. Before 1934, Herman Goring, one of the least culpible Nazis was in charge and this led to a rivalry between the P.O.S. Himmler and the World War 1 hero and fighter pilot ace Goring. However, because of their fear of the S.A and its leader, Ernst Rohm, the made a truce and convinced Hitler to get rid of the SA leadership in what became known as the night of the long knives. After that the Gestapo became a branch of the SS under nominal control of Himmler, who appointed Reinhard Heydrich as the figurehead of the orginazation with Heinrich Muller running most of it's day to day operations. It is important to note that the gestapo was more of a security force, comprable to the CIA and KGB, and though some of the lower ranked commisioned officers were no doubt guilty of some horrible instances of war crimes, they were not part of pos Himmlerts roving death squads.

Europe does not hate Jews, at least not today. There has been a long history of aggression towards Jews, not only in Europe but the entire world, by Christians and Muslims. Christians and Muslims are sort of violent (or at least were) in their approach to convert others to their religion. Converting others is not preached in Judaism, which is there are no significant numbers of Jewish people in the world. Anyways, during times such as the ancient times or middle ages, Jews were prosecuted throughout Europe. They were tortured or deported or forced to convert to Christianity. However, significant populations of Jews still survived throughout Europe up until the reign of Hitler. Hitler was an immensely anti-semitic man (one who hates Jews). He came to power under the Nazi Party in Germany during the 1930s and was the reason why World War II broke out. He brought about the deaths of millions of Jews across Europe, which is why the Jewish population is much smaller than it should be today. However, today, Jews have equal rights as do most people throughout Europe, and are treated as fairly as Christians. Muslims, however, are not so lucky, as the opposition towards Jews has now turned towards Muslims.

The atrocious actions that took place while Hitler was in power, the hate that he created and taught others to feel, and his wish to rule the world by whatever means possible are why he is important to history. He reminds us how NOT to behave.

Hitler and his master of propaganda, Josef Goebbels, flooded the minds of Germans that Jews were the source of the economic problem after World War I. Because Hitler and Goebbels were so good at convincing people of this that the Germans began to believe it, so they made sure the Jews wouldn't effect there economy again. The Jews also didn't know they were going to these concentration and death camps, they just thought it was a train ride to a new place. and the new place, Auschwitz, looked very welcoming from the outside, but later they would find they were wrong.

Hitler was brought up a Catholic so he may have blamed the Jews for crucifying Jesus.

He also would have seen prosperous Jewish families as he became an adult and may have been jealous of their wealth.

Whatever the reason, it is always a popular move for a rising right-wing politician to pick on a minority as a scapegoat for problems in the rest of the population.

Wikipedia has a full article about it, just do a Google search and you'll get it. The details are all there but the most important thing to remember is that if Hitler had been killed before his rise to power, that role would have been fulfilled by someone else.

The Germans were angry at the way they were treated by the victorious powers (the "Triple Entente") and if post WW1 Germany was treated respectfully and kindly, instead of robbing it of all it's wealth and treating Germans like second-class people, WW2 would never had happened.

There doesn't seem to be much resistance from the Jews due to their nature of being the "common scapegoat" for centuries - they just naturally assumed the period of persecution would pass quickly. However, there are documented uprisings of the Jews against the Nazis (Notably the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising).

Persecution started in March-April, 1933. The first large 'round-up' was during the Night of Broken Glass or 'Kristallnacht' (9-10 November 1938). From the summer of 1939 Jews in German cities had to live in designated areas in 'approved appartments blocks'.

The Holocaust started in Germany but spread to other areas that the Germans controlled.

Yes and No. Jews have origins in the Middle East and, therefore, most Jews do not have ancestors who lived in Germany for many centuries, if at all. Those Jews are certainly not Germans. As for the Jews of Germany, they lived in Germany for up to about one thousand years, but they too originally came from the Middle East. German Jews spent much of the 1700s and 1800s fighting for integration with Christian Germany. By the 1930s, they considered themselves and were considered to be Germans. When the Nazis took control of the German government, the distinction between Germans and Jews became apparent once again.

after the "unfair" terms of the Versailles treaty, Hitler used this to manipulate the German people and get himself elected chancellor. in which he of course built up the military and invaded Poland which in turn started WWII

Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass" (so called because the Nazis broke windows in Jewish shops and homes--they also destroyed synagogues) was actually a two-night event. It happened the nights of November 9 and 10, 1938.

Strangely enough, the Berlin Wall opened on November 9, 1989--fifty years to the day after Kristallnacht.

In England, very little. In 1940 you were allowed to spend 1s10d (one shilling and ten pence, twenty pennies, a twelfth of a pound) per person per week on meat. B7 1942 this was down to 1s - a twentieth of a pound. Early in the war, a shilling would buy thre or four pounds of lamb, but prices rose as time went on. It was impossible by 1945 to have meat every day without cheating. Please remember also that rationing did not end with the war; in the UK, meat came off the ration only in 1954.

The Holocaust ended in 1944 and 1945, when the Allies began began to liberate the concentration camps. Another big event that ended The Holocaust was the suicide death of Adolf Hitler. After his death many Nazis retreated and went into hiding for fear of the Allies.

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The Holocaust ended because the American, British, Soviet, and other Allied armies drove into Germany, liberated the concentration camps, and forced Germany to surrender unconditionally. The Allies won the war. Humanity was saved.

A handful of men with power -including Hitler - believed that the Jewish people were beneath them and the only way to maintain that the German race was the only superior race was to remove others. If you watch the History channel there is a documentary that discusses Hitler's past. It is possible that his grandfather on his father's side - who was unknown - may have been Jewish. This may be a personal issue that Hitler's views began with. It also discusses moments he had as a young man where he was not treated well and the establishments were run by Jewish people.

These were the trains that transported prisoners to the concentration camps in Europe during WW2. they were severely overcrowded freight cars and many died as a result of the trip to the camps in them. It is hard to believe that after the documentation available on these conditions people are still being treated this way today.

If you're asking "Why didn't the US take as many refugees in proportion to its size as, say, the UK?" then there are several possible factors, acting in combination. The historian Roberta Feuerlicht claimed in her book"The Fate Of The Jews" that the main reason was lack of support for immigration into the US - or even opposition - by the US Jewish community, who were worried that imigration could create an anti-semitic backlash from which they would suffer. To the extent that anyone was willing to discuss this claim, it was controversial, but even more Feuerlicht, a respected historian and successful writer) complained that her book was deliberately ignored, with for example her publisher cancelling publicity for it. (See e.g. http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/052785/850527003.html)

Other answers often cited: the Depression (not really plausible, as other countries that had less influential Jewish communities and were at least as badly hit took more immigrants per head of population) and anti-semitism in the Roosevelt administration (unlikely, as Jews accounted for 15% of FDR's senior appointments to office, compared to 3% of US population.)

Finally, it must be remembered that at the time the US could have offered German Jews a refuge, Hitler's extermination policy was not yet in place.

There are three states that still use the gas chamber as their method of execution. They are Arizona, Missouri and Wyoming. In Arizona a person sentenced to death after November 15, 1992 can elect gas over injection. In Missouri gas or injection may be used. In Wyoming gas is used if injection is deemed unconstitutional. The last time gas was used was in 2010 during the execution of Walter LaGrand in Arizona.

if an event similar to the Holocaust were to happen, then they would give it it's own name, like they did with the Holocaust.