Holocaust

it was pretty much a fully walled/fenced holding mini camp for the jews during the holocaust

Today, it's mostly a dirty, ran-down, type of neighborhood with abandoned buildings

When the war was over some were arrested and did time in prison. Some got hanged (see Nuremberg trails). Others went off through the "nazi underground" system and ended up in places like South America and began new lives...and were never brought to justice. Some simply got forgotten or overlooked in the post-WW2 chaos. Europe was in a huge mess for many years after the war.Many followed after Hitler and commited suicide Some got taken prisoner and ended up in Russia. Some the allied intelligence services etc grabbed because they had special knowledge and they ended up spying for the US and Britain. In war, not all offenders get brought to justice.

Dr. mengele would cut out peoples eyes and try to switch them to see if they still had sight. unfortunately most of them could see

Edit: Mengele did many things to his "patients." Preferring to have fresh corpses, he would have each of his research subjects killed in the same way and then he would dissect them. He would often would inject or drop chemicals into the eyes of his patients in order to create the appearance of blue eyes. This was known to cause temporary, or sometimes permanent, blindness. In order to examine the effects of a disease, one twin would be injected with a disease such as typhus. Once the first twin died, the other would be killed and autopsied so he could see the before and after effects on them. Surgeries were performed on twins with no anesthesia, including organ removals and amputations. As the person above stated, he also interchanged people's eyes to see if they would retain their sight.

The biggest camps had about 16,000 inmates at any one time. As people were worked to death they were replaced by new arrivals. At the extermination camps, such as Treblinka II and the Birkenau section of Auschwitz, most newly arrived Jews were gassed as quickly as possible after arrival. From about mid to late 1944 onwards many prisoners were moved from the camps in Poland to camps in Germany itself, which then experienced a huge increase in numbers.

Hitler, like many Germans of the time, blamed the Jews for the loss of World War 1. The success of many Jews in Government and as business owners only added fuel to the fire.

During World War II the Nazis persecuted and killed millions of Jews, Polish, Slavic and Romani people, the mentally and physically disabled, the deaf and blind, homosexuals, and political adversaries like communists, socialists, and social democrats.

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The most important event was the invasion of the Soviet Union.

Others could be; - the euthenasia of the disabled.

- the exclusion of Jews from society.

And if you want to speculate into distant origins, the Joining of the German Worker's Party by Hitler.

Kristallnacht marked the beginning of the Holocaust.

The Nazis used Kristallnacht as a test; a test to see the world's reaction. The scariest thing about the Nazis was how they experimented and learned from their mistakes. Kristallnacht was an experiment to see the world's and the German people's reaction. If they fought Hitler and imposed severe measures to stop him, he wouldn't have started the Holocaust. People complained about it, but no one actually did anything major about Kristallnacht. This basically gave Hitler the green light to go ahead with his plan to quarantine and eliminate the Jews.

they used to line them up and shoot them through the heads mainly to get their number of collaterals up so they can bost about it to everyone. or theyd have them dig their own graves and then theyd shoot them into them. basically they always shoot them but in several brutal gory ways. eventually it became to traumatic for some of the soldiers and they started to commint suicide. so they switched to the gas chambers, that way theyd just send them in there in large groups to kill them without the soldiers not having much to do with it.

1933 Within only a few weeks of coming to power, Hitler's campaign announced new legislation set to exclude Jews from the life of Germany. Laws were passed banning Jews from working in professional capacities; schools were established exclusively for Jewish children and quotas limited their entry into Universities. They could neither join the army nor participate in the artistic life of the country. On the 10th May, 1933, Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, organised a public burning of all non-German literature. Any book written by a Jew, by those seen to be opponents to the Nazi ideology, were consigned to the flames. Whilst this legal process developed, the SS and SA were on the streets, persuading the German public not to shop at Jewish establishments. 1935 This slow process increased in tempo in 1935. Following a gigantic rally of the Nazi Party in Nuremberg, laws were passed which removed the right of Jews to be citizens of Germany. They had effectively become non-people. 1938 Jewish shops were attacked, destroyed and burnt down and Jews were beaten and murdered. Ninety Jews were killed and thousands put into concentration camps. Also the Jews were made to pay for the damagae which had been caused to their houses and shops. The night, November 9/10 November 1938, became known as Kristallnacht - the night of the shattered glass.

The Holocaust has many effects on us today. It hurts to look back and see what had happened so long ago. And these effects let us know that this should have never happened, and that we can learn from our mistakes to prevent something so tragic to occur once again.

Indeed. Jews were in ghettos.

12,000 after the houlocaust 6,000

It wasn't the last train to Clarksville....and no one at the station...

Hitler and the Nazis were responsible for what later came to be called the "Holocaust" (a term not in common use when the mass murders were taking place). During the Holocaust, there was mass extermination of Jews (as well as, to a lesser but still important degree, Gypsies, people with disabilities, and political dissenters). This was what Hitler called the "Final Solution," since he believed (and many Germans went along with his belief) that all of Germany's problems should be blamed on the Jews, who only made up perhaps 5% of Germany. Among the places where Jews were murdered were gas chambers and concentration camps. These included Auschwitz-Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka. Six million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis: men, women, children, infants--just because they were Jews.

While many of us find it is amazing that such a question could be asked today, it is sad to note that in some parts of the world (especially in some Muslim countries), it is typically taught that the Holocaust never happened, even though there is a massive amount of documentation for what the Nazis did. There are also some Americans who persist in believing the Holocaust never happened. Such people are called "Revisionists" or "Holocaust Deniers."

The Nazi regime was aware that its anti-Jewish policies were widely viewed with disgust abroad; and the 1936 Olympics drew large numbers of foreigners to Germany.

To keep Jews there...for instance they were kept in ghettos..later they were sent to camps

The Nazis were rabidly, frantically, frenetically anti-Communist.

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During the early 1930s both the Nazis and the Commies had gangs of 'street fighters', this was because the bad economic climate bred extremism, until the Nazis achieved political dominance these were quite equal, but as soon as the Nazis were in power they put the Communists in gaol or concentration camps.

Of course the Communists were equally rabidly, etc anti-National Socialist.