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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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Who were the first people that was murder by the nazi?
jews
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The Communists, Social Democrats and trade union leaders. The Jews were rather lower down the list.
What were the four main groups targeted during the Holocaust?
# Jews # Gypsies # Communists and socialists # Dissidents
What were Jewish jobs and careers before the Holocaust?
The answer varies quite a lot from region to region. In Western Europe, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, it was quite common to find Jews in the professions - for example, in medicine and teaching, also law and journalism. Some were in financial services. Many owned small businesses (often very small). In Poland, Romania and the Balkans there was less scope for Jews in the professions and more were in very small businesses. In Poland, in particular, a number of Jews were factory workers.
What was the Holocaust and Genocide?
The holocaust was when Hitler tried to eliminate the Jews by mass murder and genocide. The cause was antisemitism turned evil.
Why human rights violated during the holocaust?
Basically all of them....
- Free Speech
- Free Press/Radio
- Free Religion (Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses...though later some Catholics were persecuted)
- Free Political Thought/Ideology
- Freedom from Random Searches/Seizures
- Free Assembly
- Freedom of a Fair, Impartial Trial
- etc.
Which country had the most victims in the Holocaust?
Holocaust is defined either as the destruction of approximately six million European Jews, or more broadly as Nazi genocide of various peoples and groups, such as Jews, Slavs, gypsies, people with disabilities, gays, etc.
If you consider only the Holocaust of Jews, the countries with most Jews killed during World War 2 were Poland, USSR, Hungary, Romania, Germany and Austria, the Baltic countries, and many others.
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I suspect that the question means: What countries were victims of Nazi aggression?
What did the Nazis call the Holocaust?
The Nazis referred to it as the Final Solution (of he Jewish Question) - in German, die Endloesung der Judenfrage.
By question they meant problem. Having vaguely considered other, unrealistic plans their 'Final Solution' was to try to murder the lot.
What are some positive outcomes of the Holocaust?
Not to the people who were killed or their families.
I can't believe you are asking this, but yes, I can think of one thing.
We know what evil is and we have an example to point to. When someone tells you "You can't solve any problems with violence" you can say "What about the Holocaust? How do you stop Hitler without violence?"
Hitler thought that the Jews were the reasons that Germany was having problems, so his solution was to discriminate the Jews. Clearly though, the Nazis were wrong and luckily the Jew population didn't die out. The holocaust was a very terrible event.
How long did the Holocaust last in years?
The Holocaust in the sense of the systemtatic extermination (genocide) of the Jews lasted from 1941-45.
Obviously, ever since Hitler came to power in 1933, Jews had been persecuted, first in Germany and then in the various countries annexed and invaded by Germany. Important 'milestones' on the road to the holocaust include the establishment of ghettos where Jews were forced to live in intolerable conditions (Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow).
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The Nazis started putting people in camps as early as 1933. Many people died in those camps before the "Final Solution" was developed. Those earlier years should be included. We should also include other targeted groups such as Gypsies, Slavs, the mentally retarded, and political prisoners.
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Well, if you're going to include 'putting people in camps', then it was plain, ordinary persecution - like in Pinochet's Chile - and the word 'Holocaust' is just a melodramatic redundancy. In other words the last answer is profoundly wrong.
Who were the victims of World War 2?
It is hard to say because you can't say any group of people truly won the war. The Jewish perscution by the Nazis is very well documented. also the Nazi persecution, of
Poles, Romanis(Gypsies), Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people with mental or physical disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other political and religious opponents, which is lesser known to the general public and of course the millions of civilians who died due to starvation, disease, and other war-related actions
When the Holocaust started and ended?
The holocaust began on Dec.8, 1941 in Chelmno and ended on May 9, 1945.
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The Holocaust took place from 1941 to 1945. Under Adolf Hitler. After Hitler's armies began to take over neighboring countries, a "final solution" to the "Jewish question" was formulated. This plan produced the Holocaust in which 6 million Jews were murdered. At death camps, Jews were forced to labor until they had exhausted their strength. Those too old, young, or feeble to work were killed in specially built gas chambers; their bodies were then cremated. ___
The systematic mass murders began in 1941. One can take the Holocaust back to the Kristallnacht, but most historians confine to the "Final Solution". (Until mid 1941 Jews were able to leave Germany and Nazi occupied territory, if they could find somewhere to go to).
1. Regular mass gassings started at Chelmno on 8 December 1941. 2. The Wannsee Conference, which co-ordinated the various agencies involved in the Holocaust - the SS, the German railways, the ordinary police, etc. - took place on 20 January 1942.
How many Jews were killed in World War 2?
Estimates of the Jewish Holocaust toll range from 5 million to 6 million, including 1 and a half million children.
over 6 million Jews wre killed in ww2. Keep in mind that not all of these deaths were executions (firing squads, gas chambers, hanging, etc.). Many died of starvation and disease especially near the end of the war when Germany was being bombed to rubble and any trucks or trains seen moving on the roads would be shot up by American fighter planes.
About 2/3 of European Jewry were killed in the Holocaust, meaning that some 3 million European Jews survived.
What chemical was used to kill the Jews during the Holocaust?
Zyklon-B, an industrial-strength pesticide, was poured through openings in the roofs of the gas chambers. When exposed to air, Zyklon-B gives off a highly toxic gas.
The Allies found millions upon millions of empty Zyklon-B containers when they raided the death camps.
Diesel engine exhausts were also used, either in the "showers" or in gas vans that they transported Jews to the site in.
What groups were killed in the Holocaust?
They were mainly Jewish people, gypsies, lesbian/gay people, black people, or any undesirables that didn't fit Hitler's "perfect race" that were executed during the holocaust. If you go to your local library there will probably be a lot of books and information regarding this topic.
What was the phrase used by Nazi's to describe the extermination of the Jews?
A general term used was liquidation.
The term used for the large-scale killing of the Jews was the Final Solution - short for the Final Solution of Jewish Question.
How many Jews were in Europe before the Holocaust?
When the Nazis came to power in 1933 there were about 500,000 Jews in Germany in the sense of members of a Jewish congregation. There were also about a further 300,000 people who were part Jewish. By 1939 the overall number had fallen to about 550,000 as a result of emigration.
Who were the people who started the Holocaust?
Hitler, who was obsessed with the 'Jewish Question'. In fact it was a problem entirely of his own making. He chose to create a problem by persecuting harmless people.
As far as the actual organization of the Holocaust is concerned, the key figures were:
- Himmler
- Heydrich
- Globocnik
- Eichmann
Why did Adolf Hitler get so mad and try to take over Europe?
Hitler got so mad because his wife Eva Braun had just died and he also wanted to beat the race of getting the most land before the war ended, so he was under a lot of pressure and he had to also win the war so he got very mad and angry and it built up his patenice to the limit and he also wanted to rule the world. But that was later after he was done with Europe.
That isn't true at all.
Eva Braun died in the same bunker room at the same time as Hitler using cyanide and a pistol.
Hitler hated the Jewish people as the Catholics have perpetually blamed them for killing Jesus and have persecuted them ever since. Hitler was a Fascist and a Nationalist. He wanted a pure Aryan race and found the presence of the Jewish people intolerable. People with Personality Disorders like Hitler (Paranoid Personality Disorder) always have to blame someone for their own hatred. With Hitler, it was an all consuming misplaced hatred of the Jewish.
Who ruled Germany during the Holocaust?
There were threee main powers.... Hitler was the leader of Germany, Mussolini was the leader of Italy and HiroHito was the leader of Japan --- Please don't treat World War 2 and the Holocaust as the same thing! The Holocaust took place during World War 2, but there was much more to World War 2 than the Holocaust. Japan, for example, was not involved in the Holocaust at all ...
What is the total number of Jehovah Witnesses that died in the Holocaust?
There are many different types of migraines, and each different type has different causes. The scientific explanation of a migraine is the swelling of a blood vessel, which releases extra chemicals. Several causes of migraines are allergic reactions, alcohol, and stress.
What were some major events of the Holocaust?
Other important landmarks (dates, events) include:
September 1935: The Nuremberg Laws defined 'Jew', degrees of 'Jewishness' and formally made the German Jews second class citizens; they also forbade marriage (and sex) between Jews and non-Jews.
November 9-10, 1938: Night of Borken Glass (Kristallnacht)
Jewish owned shops and some Jewish homes, and every synagogue in Greater Germany was vandalized by stormtroopers acting on orders in
a co-ordinated campaign. Also, 30,000 Jews were sent to concentration camps and by Christmas 1938 two thousand of them were dead.
September 1939: With the start of World War 2 further, severe restrictions were placed on Jews.
For a more detailed list of German anti-Jewish measures in the years 1933-39 please see the related question below.
B. GhettoizationIn many large German cities the Jews were ordered to move into designated Jewish apartment blocks.The invasion of Poland greatly increased the number of Jews living under Nazi rule. The Jews in Poland were forced (starting in October 1939) to move into ghettos - in other words, into specified Jewish districts, which were (to somewhat varying degrees) cut off from the surrounding areas. (Most were surrounded by high walls and barbed wire). The Nazis controlled the supply of food and medication to these ghettos ... The death rate began to rise.
C. Routine mass shootingsOn 22 June 1941 the Germans invaded the Soviet Union (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, etc.). The German armies were followed by the Einsatzgruppen - the mobile killing units (death squads). Assisted by local volunteers, they first went into action in Kaunas, Lithuania on 25 June 1941 in a massive killing spree. In town after town they systematically murdered the Jews. The biggest single massacre was that of 33,771 Jews at Babi Yar outside Kiev (29-30 September 1941).D. DeportationsThe SS and SD, which was responsible for carrying the Holocaust, gradually came to the conclusion that it was simpler to transport the victims to the killers instead of sending the killers in pursuit of the victims. On 15 October 1941 the first routine deportations from Berlin (followed soon afterwards by other German cities) began. Some of the Jews were dumped in the already overcrowded ghettos in Lodz and Warsaw, but most were sent to Riga, in Latvia, and to Minsk, Belarus where ghettos were established in these cities and killing fields just outside. E. Routine gassings - extermination campsAt this stage the Nazis had yet invented the extermination camp. In September 1941 experimental gassings were carried out at Auschwitz. On 8 December 1941 the first routine mass gassing began at Chelmno using mobile vans with the exhaust directed into the vans.By now the Holocaust was under way ...
Further, large extermination camps were established in the next few months at: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka and Auschwitz II (Birkenau), and Majdanek was used as a 'back-up' extermination camp.
What were some of the main causes of the Holocaust?
Hitler brainwashed thousands of people to work for him in his attempt to create the perfect race. This meant eliminating Jews and people with physical defects. I'm pretty sure Hitler had this specfic thing against Jews, but I can't remember why.
How did Nazis keep death camps secret?
* The death camps were all located in Poland (plus one in Belarus). * With the exception of Majdanek, which was in a suburb of Lublin, they were all in remote places. * The whole operation was classified as Top Secret (Geheime Reichssache). * Some of the death camps were destroyed in 1943 (Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec). * The other death camps were destroyed as the Soviet Army approached. * On various levels and in various ways, most people didn't want to know.
