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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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Why did Hitler hate the Jews before World War 1?
Hitler didnt just try to kill the jews he succeeded,Hitler's bid for territorial conquest and racial subjugation caused the deaths of tens of millions of people, including the systematic genocide of an estimated six million Jews, not including various additional "undesirable" populations, in what is known as the Holocaust. Hitler claimed that Jews were enemies of the Aryan race. He held them responsible for Austria's crisis. He also identified certain forms of Socialism and Bolshevism, which had many Jewish leaders, as Jewish movements, merging his anti-Semitism with anti-Marxism. Later, blaming Germany's military defeat on the 1918 revolutions, he considered Jews the culprit of Imperial Germany's downfall and subsequent economic problems as well.
What happened to people during the Holocaust?
1. Germany of course lost almost its entire Jewish population, which had played a key role in its cultural, academic and scientific life before 1933. 2. For younger Germans in particular, coming to terms with the fact that they are members of the nation that committed this appalling act of genocide (and that unleashed WWII in Europe) has made it very difficult for them to be proud of their nationality in any ordinary sense.
Who are some of the major Holocaust deniers?
The major holocaust deniers, such as Germar Rudolf, say that the gas chambers were really morgues where dead bodies were stored before cremation, or shower rooms where crematory workers washed after handling dead bodies. The large amount of Zyklon-B poison gas that was found in the camps, or mentioned on delivery documents, was used to kill lice in the clothing in an attempt to prevent typhus; Zyklon-B was not used to kill the Jews.
The major holocaust deniers say that most of the deaths in the camps were due to typhus epidemics because the Nazis did not have a typhus vaccine or DDT to stop an epidemic. Other deaths in the camps were due to lack of food because the German transportation system had been destroyed by Allied bombs.
The major holocaust deniers say that the prisoners who were not registered at Auschwitz or Dachau were really sent to sub-camps after taking a shower; they were not sent to gas chambers disguised as shower rooms.
The major holocaust deniers say that the Operation Reinhard camps (Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor) were transit camps where Jews were brought to take a shower and put on prison uniforms before being transported farther east into Russia.
The major holocaust deniers say that the Einsatzgruppen mainly killed Communist Commissars, including Jews who were Communist Commissars, although they also killed women and children because they did not want the children to grow up and get revenge on the Germans.
The major holocaust deniers say that Hitler and the Nazis had no plan to kill all the Jews. Their plan was to send all the Jews to camps, starting in February 1942, and after the war, the Jews would be relocated someplace outside of Europe. ___ "A German court sentenced Holocaust denier Germar Rudolf to two and a half years in prison for inciting racial hatred in publications and Web sites which "systematically" called into question the Nazi genocide." "German Holocaust Denier Imprisoned for Inciting Racial Hatred", Deutsche Welle, February 16, 2007". Source: Wikipedia, 'Germar Rudolf', footnote 1. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germar_Rudolf), accessed 18 May 2009. There's no such thing as 'major' or 'minor' Holocaust deniers. They are all hate-mongers.
Why were the Germans discriminated against when they came to America?
German immigrants began to migrate to the New World in 1717, but the eruption of immigration did not start until later in the 18th century, around the year 1756.
There was terrible overpopulation in Germany because emigration was illegal. The overpopulation wrecked the economy; the Germans were willing to work for for less than appropriate standards.
However, those who were paid little for the labor were lucky. Most of the Germanic population were serfs, those who belonged to a lord, much like slaves. The lords crammed their serfs into little buildings under terrible conditions.
What made the situation even worse was that the rest of Europe had ideas of Mercantilism, the idea that whoever had the most money was the most powerful and influential. All the tactics to achieve higher financial standards failed and only caused terrible diseases, which lead German's economy into a spiraling downfall.
If the economy and the terrible conditions were not good enough reasons to emigrate, there was a religious aspect as well. Most of the Immigrants who came to America were Catholic and the spread of Protestant beliefs were rampant.
With nowhere else to run, the German emigrants came to the New World, to the English Colonies, where they thought they would find a safe-haven from all the turmoil that was happening in Europe.
They were wrong.
What does the paper clip project have to do with the Holocaust?
When Hitler invaded Norway, he prohibited the people from wearing any symbol representing their king. To protest this and Hitler's treatment of the Jews, Norwegians began wearing the paper clip on their lapels, the paper clip having been invented by a Norwegian Jew. It was very brave of them as the punishment for doing so could be imprisonment, deportation, or execution. But they did it anyway.
Where did Adolf Hitler's hatred for the Jews come from?
Hitler's Mother had breast cancer and the doctor she went to was Jewish. The doctor had a surgery that might have been able to cure her. The surgery was fatal and she did die in excruciating pain. another reason for his hatered is that two of his brothers died young and he may have just been releasing the anger that he held in for so long. as a child his father beat him daily. he had to move alot, so he never realy had a chance to settle down and learn to understand a single inviroment. there is more, into his pain, but most of his hatered came from his belief that only pure blood Germans deserve the right to live on this planet, but what i wana know is what led him to believe this horiffic idea.
Why were the ghettos made during the holocaust?
The ghettos are important to understanding the holocaust because the death camps weren't the whole story. A lot of people died in the ghettos as they were cut off from everything else and starved of necessities. It was a similar dehumanization that brought out the worst, and occasionally the best, in people.
During the Holocaust why wasn't there more resistance?
In a police state it is extremely difficult to speak out against government policy. The point is not only that it requires courage but that it is very difficult to make oneself heard. Unlike in a democracy there is no forum for discussing such matters. For example, writing to the newspapers is pointless as dissident views are not published, holding protest meeting is usually impossible because the organizers are usually arrested before they can achieve anything, and so on.
The penalties for speaking out were very drastic indeed. Some individuals did speak out in Nazi Germany, but many of them were seized and sent to prison or concentration camps and/or executed. Their "crime" was reported as treason. The media did not report them as having spoken out.
Obviously, people only take such risks if they feel very strongly about things. Certainly, by the time World War 2 had started most Germans had other preoccupations.
What are the positive and negative effects of colonization to Asian countries?
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Why were the non-Jewish victims of the holocaust killed?
The answer to this question depends on what is meant by the "non-Jewish victims during the holocaust". If the term is understood as including all victims of criminal violence for which Nazi Germany or its allies were responsible, the answer to the question may be found in the blog article starting under http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2008/04/5-million-non-jewish-victims.html
How did Hitler educate Germans to be good Nazis?
Education played a very important part in Nazi Germany in trying to cultivate a loyal following for Hitler and the Nazis. The Nazis were aware that education would create loyal Nazis by the time they reached adulthood. The Hitler Youth had been created for post-school activities and schools were to play a critical part in developing a loyal following for Hitler - indoctrination and the use of propaganda were to be a common practice in Nazi schools and the education system.
Enforcing a Nazi curriculum on schools depended on the teachers delivering it. All teachers had to be vetted by local Nazi officials. Any teacher considered disloyal was sacked. Many attended classes during school holidays in which the Nazi curriculum was spelled out and 97% of all teachers joined the Nazi Teachers' Association. All teachers had to be careful about what they said as children were encouraged to inform the authorities if a teacher said something that did not fit in with the Nazi's curriculum for schools.
Subjects underwent a major change in schools. Some of the most affected were History and Biology.
History was based on the glory of Germany - a nationalistic approach was compulsory. The German defeat in 1918 was explained as the work of Jewish and Marxist spies who had weakened the system from within; the Treaty of Versailles was the work of nations jealous of Germany's might and power; the hyperinflation of 1923 was the work of Jewish saboteurs; the national resurgence which started under the leadership of Hitler etc.
Biology became a study of the different races to 'prove' that the Nazi belief in racial superiority was a sound belief. "Racial Instruction" started as the age of 6. Hitler himself had decreed that "no boy or girl should leave school without complete knowledge of the necessity and meaning of blood purity." Pupils were taught about the problems of heredity. Older pupils were taught about the importance of selecting the right "mate" when marrying and producing children. The problems of inter-racial marriage were taught with an explanation that such marriages could only lead to a decline in racial purity.
Geography taught pupils about the land Germany had taken away from her in 1919 and the need for Germany to have living space - lebensraum.
Science had a military-slant to it. The curriculum required that the principles of shooting be studied; military aviation science; bridge building and the impact of poisonous gasses.
Girls had a different curriculum in some regards as they studied domestic science and eugenics - both of which were to prepare young girls to be the prefect mother and wife. In Eugenics, girls were taught about the characteristics to look out for in a perfect husband and father.
Indoctrination became rampant in all subjects.
How many poles wee killed in the Holocaust?
The exact number will never be known. Most estimates put the total number of Poles who died in WW2 at about 5.5 - 5.9 million and of these about 2.9 million were Jews.
Note that the total number of Poles who perished in WW2 is difficult to establish as the Soviet Union tried to minimize its own involvement.
How many Austrian Jews survived the Holocaust?
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What happend to Jews in Germany?
Germany attempted to exterminate them, killing about six million European Jews alive in the areas under Nazi control.
____Hitler tried to wipe out all the Jews in Europe in the "Final Solution", which involved the slaughter of the Jews. And the Nazis burned their body to ashes.In areas under German control the Jews were massacred, mainly in mass open air shootings, and gassed in extermination camps. Others were worked to death in concentration camps.
Before the large-scale killings began in 1941, most Jews were forced to live in intolerable conditions in ghettos (for example, in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus).
Many Jews died in concentration camps by diseases or starvation. They were also placed in gas chambers. Children who were not able to work were the first ones to die.
the jews were treat like slaves. the jews were kill during the ww2
6 million Jews were purposely killed by the Nazi Germans by order of Adolf Hitler to comply with "The Final Solution." This mass killing of the Jews and the murder of 5 million other individuals came to be known as "The Holocaust."
Jews were rounded up by the Nazi Germans and their collaborators. They sent the Jews to places called Ghettos, Concentration Camps and Labor Camps. The systematic killing was cruel, brutal and inhumane. The genocide was conducted all over Europe. At the end of the war a mere several hundred thousand managed to survive the Holocaust. See the link below.
Why did Jews start going to concentration camps?
The longer version:
Civilian Jews went to concentration camps. Combatant Jews were generally held with combatant gentiles in prisoner of war camps. Some exceptions in the Eastern front where often the Jews were separated from other soldiers.
But i think you are meaning the civilian Jews:
Due to the Nuremberg Laws Jew's rights were gradually taken away until the Jews themselves were taken away, for the most part they were taken to 'Jewish Quarters' of some cities, most often called 'Ghettos'.
From the Ghettos MOST were killed. Some, generally the strongest, the fittest, those who could do manual labour, were admitted into camps, where most of these were worked to death.
The reasons as to why, are not agreed upon. The leading theories are:
1). It was part of a 'racial' war, to eliminate Jews from society. (The Intentionalist argument).
2). It was an organic result, that faced with millions of Jews from Poland and the East, and the choice of whether to feed these people, or feed the Army fighting against the Soviets, the Germans were forced into this position. (The Functionalist argument)
What is some impacts of the Holocaust?
A huge event like the holocaust is not easily forgotten, and by remembering this horrific event we learn to not repeat it.
Even though there is still genocide occurring to this day...
The people who were sent to a concentration camp where did they go?
Many different groups of people where sent to the concentration camps such as:
- Jehovahs Witnesses
- Jews
- Homosexuals
- The Disabled
- Catholics
- Politians
And many more. When they were sent to the concentration camp they would of been quickly examined by an SS guard who would of told them to either go to the left or the right.
Old men and women and unhealthy people would go into the gas chambers or sent to another camp to either just be kept their or be sent to another gas chamber.
Some women and children would also have been kept to work in the female side of the camp, and many men would of been kept to do work, such as cleaning horses, and anyone that had a certain craft such as making shoes etc. would of been kept for making shoes.
Hope that's helped :)
How did they kill infants during the Holocaust?
The babie were either slammed agaisnt the wall or floor, or thrown in the air and then shot.
What happens if you die in a gas chamber?
The link below is about a boy who did survive a gas chamber, not once, but SIX times! I am sure surviving a gas chamber would be extremely rare though, even the boy who did survive in the link below talks about watching in horror as everyone else in the gas chamber with him died.
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That source strikes me as unreliable and I just don't believe the story especially as he was at Bergen-Belsen, which didn't even have gas chambers.
You should assume that one does not survive.
Who was the German leader in charge of the Final Solution?
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yes he is crazy because he shot his self in the head and killed many people for no reason
This is an uninformed opinion.
Hitler showed many signs of a sociopath, early life, and psychopath, later life, but was he?
It is known that he had a pretty serious meth problem, and that he had Parkinson's disease. In fact, he sped up his original plans for hostilities because of his declining health. That sound like the thought process of a crazy person?
If you want a real peak inside his mind, try reading Mein Kampf, which is a book wrote by Hitler while imprisoned.
We like to say he was crazy because of what happened to the Jews. We don't like to admit that we were doing some pretty horrible things in this country to people of race. From attempts to sterilize people of color, to just keeping them in poverty, to flat out torturing and killing them. And lets not forget about America's concentration camps full of Japanese people.
Hitler wasn't so different after all.
What forms of transportation were used during the Holocaust?
Mainly rail transport.
They were transported to the death camps in enclosed cattle wagons or "box cars"
What was the roll of the ss during the Final solution?
The majority of SS officers fought in the Waffen-SS. Others, however, were in the Totenkopfverbaende and ran the concentration camps and death camps. Many Waffen-SS units comitted appalling atrocities.
Why did schindler hire Jewish worker instead of Polish workers both were available?
Originally, Schindler sought to profit from the German invasion of Poland in 1939, buying a factory in Krakow at a low price and employing Jews as cheap "slave" labour, which he was able to do under Nazi rule. Schindler initially hid wealthy Jewish investors, possibly for profit, but later he began shielding his workers without regard to cost.
Schindler began actively helping the Jews after witnessing a 1942 raid on the Kraków Ghetto, where soldiers shipped the ghetto inhabitants to the concentration camp at Plaszow. Appalled by the murder of many Jews who had tried to hide, he worked to transfer them to a safer place. He was skilled in persuasive speech and often bribed government officials to avoid being investigated.
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