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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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How did the Nazis dehumanize Jewish people?
In the first six years of Adolf Hitler's dictatorship, Jews felt the effects of more than 400 decrees and regulations on all aspects of their lives. The regulations gradually but systematically took away their rights and property, transforming them from citizens into outcasts. Many of the laws were national ones issued by the German administration, affecting all Jews. State, regional, and municipal officials also issued many decrees in their own communities. As Nazi leaders prepared for war in Europe, antisemitic legislation in Germany and Austria paved the way for more radical persecution of Jews.
How many people were saved in the Holocaust?
There are actually few documented incidences of inmates being burned alive during the Holocaust - most of the time, cremation was just an easy way to save space and dispose of the evidence. However, millions of dead bodies were burned.
How did the Holocaust affect Europe?
His policies affected Jews because of the thoughts of Germans being a better race over Jews. His ideas are what caused him to kill so many Jews in the consentration camps. He also believed that the German's deserved more living space and that the Jews were taking up the space needed. He also blamed the economic hardships on the Jewish bankers and business men. In the 40's many bankers happened to be Jewish and so they were an easy target saying that they were to blame when really it was the loss of World War One.
What single person has killed the most people?
A possible candidate is Harold Shipman, the British doctor who murdered 215-250 of his patients. If we go by numbers of victims Christman Gniperdoliga killed 964 men between the years 1568-1581 after robbing them in the Roman empire area
What was the second country invaded by the Nazis?
That depends on your understanding of history. In the beginning, several countries can be seen as either being invaded or returned to Germany. The Sudetendland part of Czechoslovakia had previously been German as had part of Poland. And Austria for example, was indeed annexed but the vast majority of the population was in favor of it and there was no fighting involved. You may conside clarifying your question.
What human rights were violated in the Holocaust?
ALL human rights were violated - the right to life, liberty and property; the right to due process of law; the right not to be subjected to torture or inhuman and degrading treatment. People were moved around Europe against their will (abduction). These are the main human rights that were violated by the Nazis.
People were ill treated and murdered for what they were, not for anything they had done - for example, for simply being a Jew or 'gypsy'.
Did Hitler kill people that didn't have blonde hair and blue eyes?
i don't think so. Hitler married a blonde woman: her name was Eva bruan. she was blonde and i think she had blue eyes which is mostly common with blonde hair. Hitler had dark hair, he mated up with a blonde girl which wouldn't be fair to others.
lol i just answered this on the top of my head so... :)
What countries did the Nazi's take over in order?
Directly conquered: Poland, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Crimea (if you count portions of the Soviet Union as the separate states that Germany treated them as). Allied to Germany but under her control were, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria. Also you must count Austria, and Czechoslovakia.
Were black people killed in the Holocaust?
No, people of African descent were not killed in the Holocaust. This may seem somewhat strange given that the current neo-Nazi movement is very hostile to black people, but in the early 20th century the Nazis were concerned with ethnic groups who lived in Europe at that time, and there had not yet been any significant African immigration to Europe.
How did Adolf Hitler control mass media?
Most dictatorships try to control the media. It was not specifically Hitlerian.
Who did Hitler hate besides Jewish people?
I am Jewish and I know quite a bit about Hitler and the war. Hitler was an egotistical sociopath with no regard to human life. He didn't care about anyone but himself, but in answer to your question he also hated Egyptians, Americans, Hungarians etc. Aside from the 6 million Jews he killed he killed an additional 9 million of many diffrent backrounds.
Answer #2People not beeing Aryan or beeing in opposition to his ideas were considered as ennemies. "He also hated Hungarians, etc." might be a bit too general - don't forget the Hungarians were fighting on the German side, even if of course they wouldn't be according to his preferred race...Main "hated people" and therefore i.e. detained and killed in concentration camps are Jews, but also political opponents (i.e. communists), gipsy, gay people, handicapped persons (all considered to render effeminate the German aryan race), religious objectors such as Jehovah's Witnesses, people standing for the "Bolshevik race", etc.
Hitler was not self centered and yes i agree the holocaust is a serious matter and horrible thing he did but Hitler based his ideas on Christianity thinks that he was doing God a favor.
What happened to reinhard heydrich's kids?
After Himmler's death in 1945, his wife and daughter were arrested and interrogated by US army. His Daughter Gudrun is alive and active in Neo-Nazi circles. Himmler also had two illegitimate children from a mistress. They lived in Teisendorf with their mother. His daughter became a physician and son had psychological issues and lived with her mother till her death in 1997.
What two groups of people did Hitler hate?
Jews, Homosexuals, Jehovah's witnesses, people with disabilities, soviet prisoners of war, soviet civilians, Romani, ethic poles, and other religious or political opponents
Hitler hated Jewish people, polish people, black people, people of colours, people who didn't have blond hair and blue eyes, gypsies, homosexuals, jehova witnesses, social democrats, communist, partisans, and trade unions.
Why didn't the German people stop the Holocaust?
We sent a few million soldiers to stop him. What more do you think we should have done?
Answer 2Answer 1 is not completely correct. In the first place, "we" didn't know when we sent the first million or two about the extermination camps. Secondly, we were "peddaling as hard as we could" but didn't get to the extermination camps until a month or so before the end of the war. Actually, no one could do anything until Germany was occupied by Allied forces. Not even those German citizens who would have wanted to stop it could have done so until the Nazis were defeated.
Answer 3I would go further and say Ans 1 is not just incorrect, but embarrasingly so. Taking freedoms with the History we're speaking of, for self rightous trumpeting of entirely wrong ideas as facts and reasons, is exactly the way the world got to where it did back then. Shame. (The US actively avoided getting involved with the Nazis and eventually did so really only because the Japanese - who were the really hated enemy of the US people - a dreaded yellow people who attacked us - (not those white, Christian types, in Europe, that were related to and the ancestry of Italian and Germans here), required forming an alliance with other nations. Those nations real concern was of being quickly dominated by the Germans. We, not they were really at all concerned because of what Germany was doing to it's own people back in Europe.)
The whole extermination camp thing was, if not secret, was not mentioned by even people involved and who may have knew...there or here. For many reasons, including just the problem of actually believing that the unbelievable was occurring, as well as having enough troubles of their own, and more. In fact, even after the war ended, the world took years coming to grip with what happened. Still today, many try to deny it..sometimes based on it being so unconsionable that even Nazis wouldn't so such a thing....and others the pityful suggestion that the Jews make it up to get pity.
Much of the world did not find the Nazis as offensive as we do now. England in fact, until very shortly before the war, was in a heated debate about which side to be on. Many there felt additional appeasement or even joining with Germany (to the tune of Parliment votes being in the high 40%) in favor of doing so, was best.
Restrictions and blame on Jews, "imperfects", minorities and basically anyone not like the one speaking, isn't always seen as all that unreasonable and in fact is voiced by many even today.
The discussion about why, later in the war, when the allies (at least those in charge) really propbably did understand what the camps were, didn't they bomb them or such, has many reasonable answers. Including attacking a camp of empoverished civilians especially with no possiblity of rescuing them after, (or knowing what to do with them if you did) is not a clear way to save someone.
Militarilarly, that Germany was using it's resources on the camps rather than on the war, was beneficial to the war effort.
Certainly it isn't fair to say that nobody did anything. Many people did many things. But Germany was a formidable force, politically and milatarilarly. It was not going to be "reasoned" out of continuing it's actions, so the efforts had to be generally trying to save the people who would become victims. Also not easy.
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Agreed that in practical terms there was not that much that the Allies could have done.
However, we are also being told that:
"England in fact, until very shortly before the war, was in a heated debate about which side to be on. Many there felt additional appeasement or even joining with Germany (to the tune of Parliment votes being in the high 40%) in favor of doing so, was best."
This is simply inaccurate, to put it mildly.
There no debate in England 'about which side to on'. The British Parliament never discussed 'joining with Germany' and there was no vote in Parliament on this, either, so where does the figure of 40% come from? Certainly, it does not correspond to any relevant parliamentary vote or to any known survey of public opinion on the question.
The public debate in Britain in the 1930s was about how and whether to avoid going to war again (so soon after World War 1) - which was not such a strange sentiment. The number of people in favour of 'joining with Germany' - against whom, incidentally? - was tiny and, didn't extend much beyond known members of Fascist organizations.
In May 1940 (25-28 May) when France was collapsing, there were discussions in the five-man War Cabinet about a suggestion from Lord Halifax that Britain should explore terms, and for most of this time there was a 3-2 (Churchill, Attlee and Greenwood versus Halifax and Chamberlain) split against the suggestion. In the end, the latter voted with the majority in favour of continuing to fight, and so to the outside world the decision appeared unanimous. There was no suggestion of 'joining with Germany'.
The main reason for mentioning this temporary War Cabinet split is that it looks as if the mysterious figure of 40% may have come from this.
First the people were gassed with Zyklon-B in the gas chambers. Then they were cremated in a crematorium or a cremation pit.
What did Hitler do from 1933 to 1939?
March 1939 - Invaded what was left of Bohemia and Moravia after the Munich agreement.
August 1939 - Agreement with the Soviet Union (Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact).
September 1939 - Invaded Poland.
Was the Holocaust planned or a response to war?
No one person planned it. Racism to the extreme along with crippling unemployement set the stage. Hitler merely capitalized on the feelings of many. ___ The detailed planning and logistics were in the hands of Heydrich, Eichmann and Globocnik, among others. In fact, it was planned quite carefully.
How many other people would killed during the Holocaust?
1. Let's rephrase the Question. The Holocaust was an event, not a place. 2. Behind the whole scheme was the Nazi's, or sometimes refered to as the German Workers' Party. 3. Their Leader was Adolf Hitler 4. In case your refering to the concentration camps, eg. Auschwitz; Many German soldiers, and Lots of Jewish people who were tricked into going there, forced away from family and given little to eat, and at times just gased to death. They all wore striped "pygamas" and also wore a armband with the star of david written on it.
What was the night of the shattered glass?
Kristallnacht or Reichskristallnacht is German for the night when the Nazis attacked Jewish people, property and synagogues. Literally "crystal night" due to the amount of shattered glass left on the ground.
How many Italian Jews were killed in the Holocaust?
The Axis History Forum gives a figure of 6,513 (see link), but some sources give a figure of about 7,600-7,700.
What were the eight stages in the Holocaust?
boycott, Nuremberg laws, kristallnacht, ghettos, camps, deportations, the final solution, liberation
Please see the related question. There are many different ways of dividing the Holocaust into stages ...
Who were the Angels of Death in World War 2?
This nickname was given to Josef Mengele, who peformed experiments on children at Auschwitz and was also used more generally of such doctors.
Did the US help during the holocaust?
The Germans did a fine job of keeping the extermination process a secret until the end of the of course. While the Germans were retreating back to Berlin, they left the concentration camps as is without destroying them. Thus, the US military was able to seek medical help for those Jews who needed and exploit the German plot to the rest of the world.
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The extermination and concentration camps were discovered and liberated by various of the Allied nations, not just the US. The Red Army (Soviet Russia) found many as they advanced from the East. Many of the German guards fled before they could be caught, especially fearing the Russians bent on revenge for the attempted Nazi invasion with its horrendous Siege of Stalingrad (now St. Petersburg).
