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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 many Christians died in the Holocaust?
Though there is no way of being positive of the exact number of Christians murdered by the Nazis, there is much speculation. It is estimated that over 660,000 Catholics were killed and approximately 3 million Christians total.
What was the idea behind imperialism?
social darwinsim- strong nations are obliged to domainate weaker nations
The second industrial revolution gave people the capital means and motivation to expand. Buisnesses were looking for new markets and resources, Africa was-as they viewed it-there for the taking. Once it began it turned into a competition if, you were a country worth taking notice of you had a piece of Africa. Money, manifest destiny, and international competition.
What impact did the holocaust have on the Jewish population?
It reduced the population by 70%. it scared the entire Jewish community and it still haunts them today.
What was the German reaction to the Holocaust?
i think that the germans were surprised that hitler was going to go this far with the torture. but most of the germans were brainwashed by the propaganda an started to give the nazi party support. whereas some thought it is not fair for them to be blamed andbe threatened for nothing they have done. there were a few petitions on this subject and debates. mostly the dbaates were done by germans who were friends with a jew.
Why did Adolf Hitler believe people with blond hair and blue eyes were superior?
he believed people with blond hair and blue eyes were superior because he wanted to breed a new race of people that he would be the all leader of everyone.
What is the value of a red and white nazi swastica armband?
i would say about 5 million GBP for Hitlers one but and original one off the German citizens i would 3.5 to 5 thousand GBP as I'm the producer of antique road show.
Who were the major participants in the Holocaust?
Participated is not exactly the term I would have used. The holocaust wasn't a quick game of racketball, but I'll take your question at face value. The quick answer is the Germans (or to be more strictly correct, the German National Socialist or "Nazi" party who, for a variety of reasons, some racial, some financial, and some without reason at all, wanted to remove all Jews from the world in their extermination camps. What is less well known is that before the Jews, the Nazis wanted to rid themselves of all undesirable breeding stock, because their "master plan" was to selectively breed a race of blond-haired, blue-eyed men who looked like the Norselandic Gods that they believed were their ancestors. So like I said, before the Jews, Hitler emptied all the mental asylums and sent the patients off to the camps. Then he rounded up the gypsies, and off they went too. Phil
The Gestapo (contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei; "secret state police") was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Under the overall administration of the SS, it was administrated by the RSHA and was considered a dual organization of the Sicherheitsdienst and also a suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei.
What does the blue triangle mean during the holocaust?
Foreign forced laborers.
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Where was the Nazi trial conducted?
Nuremberg, Germany. That is why they are called "Nuremberg " trials.
At the end of the First World War the German military dictatorship and the monarchy were overthrown, and the new Weimar Republic government signed a humiliating armistice with the allied powers. The militaristic and right-wing elements in Germany soon started claiming they had not really lost the war, but they had been "stabbed in the back" by the leftists/centrists/Jews/politicians etc. As Germany was made to accept the blame for the war, lost territory and had to pay huge war reparations to the allies this meant that parties (such as the Nazis) that were hostile to the Armistice terms and promised to restore Germany gained electoral support.
In 1932 the Nazis became the largest party in the German parliament, but still did not have a majority, in January 1933 Hitler was appointed Chancellor (head of government) in the hope that he could be controlled, but he started acquiring more power than his non-Nazi supporters expected.
Because the parliament still had no clear majority Hitler asked President Hindenburg for new elections for March 1933. In February there was a convenient fire that destroyed the Reichstag (Parliament) - the Nazis blamed the communists, although it is widely believed that the fire was started by the Nazis to discredit the Communists who were arrested in large numbers. The Communists were still allowed to run in the March election (winning 81 seats) although the party was banned the next day meaning 81 votes disappeared from the parliament, giving the Nazis and their allies a majority.
Once the Nazis had gained political control they were quick to ensure they kept it; laws were passed to remove civil liberties and to allow the Nazi-led government to make laws without the parliament - and once they had total control they became a legal dictatorship.
Why did some people tolerate the Holocaust?
Hitler has been named one of the greatest speakers of all time, he had charisma, determination that Germany would prevail and overcome and the skills to bring the excited Germans to the forefront of the super Aryan race he visualized. He wanted a super race of Germans, all Jews exterminated. It was not until the last minute when the allies were appoaching that he realized he had lost,it all, and,in his bunker, shot himself and his dog, with mistress Eva Braun taking poison. This is what led to the expression that "even Hitler loved his dog." Hardly words to describe him. An intelligent psychopath with a vision of a planet inhabited by pure Aayran stock.
What did Hitler think of the Holocaust?
A disgusting act which isn't discussed enough. Everyone knows 6 million Jews died, but I've never heard anyone discuss the 5 million others who did as well. Communists, POW's, gypsies, homosexuals, mentally and physically handicapped... 11 million died in the Holocaust, kind of a sad fact that it just goes to show no one cares about the minorities... which is why the event happened in the first place.
I think it was very sad. I can't believe human beings would do this to one another. I don't like to talk about it because it makes me very sad. My grandpa was a Jew during the Holocaust, but luckily he lived in Canada.
1. The Holocaust was real and resulted in the death of millions of people just like you,
2. It was horrible, horrible, horrible, and generated from sick, insane minds. Hitler was demonstrably psychotic.
Yes, it was real . . . the Germans by their very natures were fanatic keepers of records and diaries of all their activities. Thier own records prove the fact.
How many people in total died because of the Holocaust?
Holocaust deaths
The word holocaust generally refers to the deaths of Jews, but other victims of Nazi Germany are often also included. (The word holocaust is also often used to describe the genocide of the Armenians in 1915-1917 by the Ottoman Turkish regime).
Although the exact figure will never be known, here are estimates:
- The figure of 11 million people dead is often given but it is completely unclear where this figure comes from, and how it is calculated. It is far too low. One also encounters the range 11-17 million.
- 6 million of these were Jewish (close to two thirds of Europe's Jewish population) and about one quarter of these were children under 15.
- Up to 270,000 were Roma/Sinti (Gypsies).
In addition, Hitler targeted homosexuals, Communists and other political dissidents, most Slavs, Jehovah's Witnesses, dissidents, some Protestant pastors and Catholic priests, black people, the mentally and physically disabled, and others. The figures include the camps as well as the mass graves in the countryside, killings in the street, organized mass shootings (such as Babi Yar, etc.) and basically, any person singled out for their race, religion, political beliefs, or their sexual orientation.
There are approximately 250 Holocaust museums and centers around the world where you can learn more, as well as extensive information elsewhere on the Internet.
- Jews- 5.9 million
- Soviet POW's- 3.3 million
- Non-Jewish Poles- 1.8-2 million
- Romanis ('gypsies')- 220,000- 270,000 (but even the higher figure may be too low)
- Disabled- 200,000 - 250,000
- Homosexuals- 5,000 - 15,000
- Jehovah's Witnesses- 2,500 - 5,000
7,000,000
What countries were invaded by the Nazis during the Holocaust and in what order given dates?
Austrian Anschluss in 1936, the Sudetenland in 1938, followed by Czechoslovakia, Poland in 1939, Denmark, & Norway in 1940 followed by Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, & France. Yugoslavia & Greece in 1941 followed by the invasion of Russia including the Baltic states. Aso the war in North Africa.
Should the Holocaust be taught about in schools?
I do not see a problem, provided the horror is not stressed unduly.
Hitler's Master Plan didn't work. He wanted to push forward the Master Race, conquer the world, and exterminate all of the Jews. All parts of his Master Plan failed due to the Allied Forces. However, he made remarkable strides towards his goal, battering Europe, killing an estimated 6 million Jews, and establishing a type of racial separation that the Afrikaners of South Africa later used for their Apartheid.
Why was the Holocaust so difficult?
it wasn't, if u don't like Jews
that is so mean to say, Jews are people too. It was so bad because it took away the Jews freedoms and made them seem like alien freaks who don't belong. It was a very bad thing
Why did Hitler believe the Jews and other subhumans had to be exterminated?
To protect racial purity - not only eliminate the Jews but also other races, nationalities.
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Initially, Hitler believed that people he regarded as 'subhuman' needed to be out of Greater Germany and the 'living space'. There was a plan put in place for the use of the french colony of Madagascar to be used as a homeland for the Jews. It wasn't until Hitler and his henchmen realised how much it would cost and the fact that communism needed to be defeated that Hitler and his people came up with the 'final solution' of extermination.
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First of all, there is no such thing as "subhumans" he believed that the Jews were the cause of all the problems and troubles in Europe, so he exterminated most Jews, gypsies and homosexuals. In his sick mind he wanted a pure race and a world that would last a 1000 years.
What did the US do to stop the holocaust?
The United States didn't technically 'stay out of the Holocaust' The States and the allies really didn't know what was going on in Europe. The Holocaust was very organized and kept under wraps until news of what was happening in Auschwitz, Treblinka etc.. broke out. No country really knew what was happening until they liberated the camps. Also, I believe that the US was busy with their own war: Japan. The atomic bomb, the attack on Pearl Harbour. The United States never entered the war until Pear Harbour was bombed. They always came in late in wars (WW1 and WW2). I believe some have said that is why their economy is so strong now. Not spending a lot of money compared to other countries on warfare because they weren't in the war as long as Britain or Canada for example.
Why did the Nazis get rid of the einzatsgruppen?
They were established in 1942 in the Soviet Union and were divided into 4 units if approximately 600 men: A B C D groups. Once the Germans were finally ousted from the Soviet Union in late 1944, these groups were disbanded because of the chaos and constant retreats. The vast majority of Polish Jews were murdered by 1944-45 for the retreating einsatzgruppen to roundup and murder. Genereal Ohlendorf, who commanded the einsatzgruppen D, was captured and tried as a war criminal at Nuremberg after the war. What makes his case so interesting, is that he was very open and honest about his crimes on the eastern front and accepted his guilt. He was executed by hanging soon after the verdict.
What other group of people did Hitler want to kill?
Jews
Blacks
Gypsies
Romanians
Homosexuals
Anyone mentally or physically handicapped
Communists
And anyone that didnt agree with him
What is an example of Holocaust?
When the Jews were treated really badly by the Germans, and it was so bad it was called The Holocaust.
Hitler is responsible for the Holocaust?
Heinrich Himmler was Reichsführer-SS (Reich SS Leader) and Chief of the German police. In this capacity, he was responsible for the implementation of the Final Solution - the extermination of the Jews - as ordered by the Führer, Adolf Hitler.
He was born in Munich on October 7, 1900. His father was the son of a police president, a former tutor to the princes of the Bavarian court, and a headmaster by profession. Himmler originally intended to be a farmer and in fact acquired a degree in agronomy. He fought in World War I at the every end, and afterwards drifted into one of the many right wing soldier's organizations that were so prevalent at the time. It is here that he came into contact with Hitler. He took part in the Hitler Putsch (the attempt to overthrow the government) of 1923 as a standard-bearer. He married Margret Boden in 1926.
In 1929, Hitler appointed him head of the SS, which at that time numbered about 300 men and served mainly as a bodyguard for Hitler. A superb organizer, he had already expanded the SS to 50,000 men by 1933. 
By 1936, he had consolidated police power in Germany and was named Chief of the German police on June 17 of that year. With all organs of the police, especially the Gestapo (secret state police), now under his control, his power was virtually without limit. In addition to his other responsibilities, he was also responsible for the security services (Sicherheitsdienst) and the concentration camps, which up to that time housed prisoners of the state.
Himmler's men staged the phony border incident that Hitler used to justify the invasion of Poland at the outbreak of World War II. As the war went on, the armored portions of the SS - the Waffen SS - began to rival the Armed Forces for power in the military field, culminating in Himmler's being named Minister of the Interior in 1943 and chief of the Replacement Army in 1944. Right up to the end, he was one of Hitler's most loyal men. Hitler called him "der treue Heinrich" (loyal Heinrich).
When it came time for Hitler to order the annihilation of the Jews, who better to select to carry it out than the man who was at once his most loyal follower and also in control of the apparatus necessary for its execution? And that is what Hitler did. The precise date is not known, but what is known is that Himmler obeyed the order he received with his customary thoroughness and efficiency. Interestingly enough, for a man who has been demonized as the incarnation of evil, Himmler makes it clear in several speeches that he was not particularly antisemitic. He simply blindly obeyed, displaying almost more amorality than immorality.
Whatever misgivings Himmler may have had, he carried out his orders with an efficiency and a zeal that at once astonish and repel. The first murders were carried out by Einsatzgruppen by shooting. As deadly as these shootings were, a more "efficient" method had to be found, one that would accelerate the killing and would at the same time spare the SS men the necessity to murder women and children in cold blood. The decision was made to use poison gases (hydrocyanic acid and carbon monoxide) in both stationary and mobile gas chambers in Poland. It is estimated that around 6 million Jews were killed during the Final Solution, along with as many as another 6 million non-Jews.
At the end of the war, Himmler made attempts to negotiate peace through the World Jewish Congress. Attempting to flee in disguise in May 1945, he was captured by British forces and admitted his identity. When a doctor was ordered to search him to ensure he did not have poison secreted on his person, he bit down on a cyanide capsule hidden in his mouth and was dead in a few minutes. Like Hitler, he chose suicide as his way to exit the world.
At a speech in Poznan on October 4, 1943, Himmler uttered the words that Joachim Fest has described as "one of the most horrifying testaments in the German language": 1
I am talking about the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people. It is one of those things that is easily said. "The Jewish people is being exterminated," every Party member will tell you, "perfectly clear, it's part of our plans, we're eliminating the Jews, exterminating them, a small matter."
Although Jewish law specifies that a child born to Jewish parents is Jewish, if just the father is Jewish and the mother is not, the child is not considered Jewish in any sense. (The Reform movement recognises children born to a Jewish man and non-Jewish woman as Jewish IF they were raised Jewish).
