Holocaust

Yes, hitler put millions of jews in concentratioon camps, along with gay people. The Jews wore an Yellot star of david and the gay people wore a pink tringle and their shirts. They were put together in bad living conditions, then gassed or killed in the hundreds and sometimes even in the Thousands. It's just called the Holocaust not the Jewish Holocaust. Hitler did it when he was ruling germany and we were at war with them along with other countries.

They were used as forced labourers in a wide range of jobs, including: * Quarrying * Coal minining * Chemicals * Armaments industry (construction of V2 rockets, for example) * Textiles Some were used to help with the Holocaust itself! They had to operate the crematoria and/or dig mass graves ...

Death marches were the marching of inmates from one concentration camp to another.

Thats a matter of opinion. It depends on if you think it was the fault of the soldier who pulled the trigger, the officer who gave the order, or the person who had the idea in the first place and decided to follow through with it. In general, all those involved in committing a crime are guilty. The fact that a person was acting under orders doesn't excuse the action. Let's take something less emotive than killing. Consider soldiers robbing a bank under orders in enemy territory. I would have thought all involved were guilty.

On January, 20, 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, Himmler's second in command of the SS, convened the Wannsee Conference in Berlin with 15 top Nazi bureaucrats to coordinate the Final Solution in which the Nazis would attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe, an estimated 11 million persons.

"Europe would be combed of Jews from east to west," Heydrich stated.

The minutes of that meeting have been preserved but were edited by Heydrich substituting the coded language Nazis used when referring to lethal actions to be taken against Jews.

"Instead of emigration, there is now a further possible solution to which the Führer has already signified his consent - namely deportation to the east," Heydrich stated for example when referring to mass deportations of Jews to ghettos in occupied Poland and then on to the soon-opened death camps at Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka.

The following countries admitted significant numbers of Jewish refugees in the period 1933-1941: * The U.S. * Britain (till 1939) * France (till 1939) * The Netherlands (till 1940) * Belgium (till 1940) * Switzerland * Czechoslovakia (till 1938) * Australia (till 1939) * Sweden * Argentina (till 1938) * Soviet Union (Communists only, for the most part) * The British Mandate of Palestine Please note that the above list is not complete. Obviously, in some cases this did not help the refugeess much. For example, France, Belgium and the Netherlands were invaded by Germany in 1940 ... and refugees found themselves once more under Nazi control. All countries had restrictive immigration policies, which made entry difficult.

The Holocaust From Dictionary.com: hol·o·caust 3. (usually initial capital letter) the systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II (usually prec. by the). Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

They were forced to do it under Nazi law and there were penalties for not doing so. The point was to make them easily identifiable as members the hated minority.

The yellow Star od David, inscribed with the word "Jude," has become a symbol of Nazi persecution, possibly even the "icon #1" of the Holocaust. It abounds upon Holocaust literature and materials - book covers, movie posters and the like. But the Jewish badge was not instituted in 1933 when Hitler came to power. It was not instituted in 1935 when the Nuremberg Laws stripped Jews of their citizenship. It was still not implemented by Kristallnacht in 1938. The public labeling of the Jews by use of the Jewish badge did not begin until after the start of the Second World War. And even then, it began as local laws rather than as a unified Nazi policy.

Crematoria and pits.

It affected the outcome in several ways. With regards to Germany, it affected their ability to fight (soldiers, especially from the SS) were diverted away from front line combat to run the concentration camps, and resources were spent by companies such as IG Farben on creating new methods of mass extermination. From the Allied point of view, since they were fighting a morally justified war the anti semitic actions of Germany contributed to their basis for war, and often made soldiers more willing to fight. Anti semitism also affected the outcome of the war as the German workforce was adversely affected and thus were not able to work to their full capacity.

I think the first concentration camp was established in Germany, if was used first to hold Germans who disobeyed the Nazi laws, or who said the wrong thing, so it was first used to retrain the Germans, that was before WW2, then they got a new purpose afterwards, as killing chambers.

The Jewish response was obviously varied by country. The countries directly affected by the Nazi attacks were unanimous in condemning them, but had little impact on the media since that was Nazi-controlled. The Jews in countries outside Nazi territory were mostly in the U.S., where they were divided into two groups: the Orthodox, who wanted to save Jewish lives at any price, and the Reform led by Rabbi Stephen Wise, who felt that the lives lost were only secondary to supporting American interests in fighting the axis. Thus Orthodox Rabbis (most famously Rabbi Eliezer Silver of Cincinnati)and congregations lobbied Washington and had mass meetings (most famous at Madison square Garden), while the reform urged the president to ignore the orthodox. The orthodox set up the Vaad Hatzala, which in addition to lobbying sent money to Europe and to other countries where Jews ahdh escaped to, such as Japan, China, Cuba, etc. Jews in Israel (Palestine at that time) were involved and sent troops in the form of Jewish volunteers to the British Army, where many got the training they later used on their return to help in the new Israeli army formed after independance in 1948. One famous story was the parachuting of Jweish trops into Hungary, led by Hannah Senesh, who was captured and killed. There are books about her story. There are many books presenting this topic as their major theme, esp. those by Dr, David Kranzler and some published by Artscroll pub. in their Holocaust Diaries series.

WW2 would have ended much as it did irrespective of Hitler committing suicide or not: The important factor is that the death of Hitler did release the Germans from their oath of allegiance to him.

Nobody has counted the earlier cases of genocide. One of the best known was the killing of about 1.2 million Armenians in 1915-17 and 1920-22 by the Turkish government. It had some features in common with the later Jewish Holocaust. I don't wish to offend Americans, but it's surely also the case that there was widespread genocide in much of North American against the Native Indian population - and also against many native tribes by the Spaniards in Latin America, too. I'd also add the appalling slaughter of an estimated 5 million natives in the Congo between about 1885 and 1908, when the so-called "Congo Free State" was the personal property of the king of Belgium. After the Belgian parliament took it away from him and turned it into regular colony there was an improvement in conditions. A distinctive feature of the Jewish and Armenian holocausts was their frenzied impatience and their utter relenentlessness.

Actually, yes there were some that were burned alive. Read "Children of the Fire" About the "Twins" of Auschwitz. Auschwitz was one of the worst concentration camps. A doctor named Josef Mengele would save twins just so he could experiment on them. So not only were THOUSANDS gassed every day, there were others lined up at the crematories that went in but never came out, according to the Auschwitz survivors. In the book it talks about how the survivors would see the crematories burning night and day and after the war when they sould see fire coming out of stack houses it would bring back horrific memories. They also said how they would see the SS soldiers pick up bodies to throw in it, and some of the people were still alive, and very sick. The children who were twins were experimented on by having surgeries without any medications, eyes probed with needles, castrations, and many horrific things that no human should ever endure.

I read a thing about some young girl who was supposed to take a "shower", but ended up being sent into the ovens alive. I doubt it is the only time it happened, and I know that some people that survived the "shower" and were not dead afterwards did not get a second chance in the gas chambers. There was also this place called Jedwabne in Poland where, on June 10, 1941, over 1600 people were burned alive. I also heard about some of the experiments where people got burned, both on purpose and by accident. There was also another thing I read where some mother and her children (a toddler and a baby) were burned alive. This is all I know, I'm sure much more happened. I know that other than fire burns, some other people were burned with mustard gas and others received chemical, radiation, and phosphorus burns.

Not JUST Jews, anyone who wasn't a pure cenral European Aryan. The Jews were his most frequent target, since they were easily identified and who were perceived as "different" because of their practices. Hitler killed the Jews to fund his war, but he also wanted to take over Europe to allow Aryans to expand.

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On the nights of November 9 and 10, gangs of Nazi youth roamed through Jewish neighborhoods breaking windows of Jewish businesses and homes, burning synagogues and looting. In all 101 synagogues were destroyed and almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed. 26,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps, Jews were physically attacked and beaten and 91 died.

About 78% of the Jews in the occupied or war impacted parts of Europe were killed in the Holocaust (also called The Shoa). In some countries, such as Poland and Lithuania, 90% of the Jews died or were killed.

Westerbork was a transit camp, and the Nazis didn't kill there. They tried to lull the prisoners into a false sense of security so they would not resist when loaded on to the trains bound for Asuchwitz and Sobibor. Please see the link.

Initially, it was cited that the Jews were responsible for the spread of disease and sickness, and as the propaganda took root, the establishment of the ghettos were accepted by the general public as a means to separate them form the unclean, and keep them safe! This of course, was false! The Nazis simply wanted to segregate, control and persecute the Jewish population. Initially, the plan was to eventually deport the Jews and resettle them in Madagascar, however, this plan failed due to the presence of the British fleet, and with the additional 4 million or so Jews under Nazi control due to the movement into Russia, the final solution was agreed, where millions of mainland european Jews would be exterminated.

HITLER ONLY MARRIED AT THE END OF HIS LIFE TO HIS MISTRESS EVA BRAUN IN THEIR BERLIN BUNKER ON APRIL 30TH-HE NEVER HAD ANY CHILDREN ALWAYS BELIEVING THAT HIS DESTINY AND PURPOSE WAS TO RULE GERMANY WITHOUT ANY DISTRACTIONS LIKE HAVING A FAMILY.

Those considered unfit for work (the old, the young, pregnant women) were gassed; the others were forced to do heavy manual labour on inadequate food. The young (under 14), the old and others considered unable to do hard manual work were gassed, then cremated. Those considered fit for work had to work.

The Nazi's wanted to wipe out the entire Jewish population. But, the problem was that they didn't have anywhere to bury the dead bodies. So, they came up with a final solution. They final solution was after they killed somebody they would burn them in the oven. After that they would take the ashes and dump them somewhere such as a nearby river.