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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 Germans were involved in the Holocaust?
Millions.
It is hard to calculate how many people contributed, also what constitutes a contribution. In many countries the local authorities collected the Jews for the Germans to do with what they would.
It could be argued that the passivity of many nations and of the League of Nations in the 1930's showed Hitler that he could do whatever he wanted to the Jews and no one would help them.
What did nazi Germany and communist have in common?
In both countries the government was dictatorial. Everything depended on one person's opinion and will. In both countries there was one-party system. In both countries there were camps for the opposition or the people undesired to separate and kill them. They both had a secret police and anyone could get arrested and even executed without a charge or a trial. Great fear was characteristic in both countries. Both countries intended to conquer Poland.
What was Hitler's greatest achievement?
Hitler's greatest impact was getting the Jews out of Europe. As a result, the Jews got their own country of Israel in 1948 and millions of European Jews moved to America. --- Millions ... No, about 250,000 at most. The great majority of American Jews settled in the US in period c. 1850-1914.
Why were Jewish people considered inferior during the Holocaust?
Inferior means a person who's lower than another in status or ability.
Jews were considerd along with other people who were not aryan or german to be inferior because their not worth to life and that jews should be killed because they are not equall to an Aryan german
Nuremberg is considered the ceremonial birth place of the Nazi party
How many non-Jewish civilians were murdered during World War 2?
It's estimated that about 5 million non-Jews were murdered during the holocaust.
People who were murdered during the holocaust were Jewish men, women, and children. Others that were murdered included Gypsies (Roma), Jehova's Witnesses, Communists, Soviet POWs, homosexuals, Blacks, and cripples.
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There's actually a lot of disagreement about this. The lowest figure I've seen is 5 million non-Jews and the highest is 11 million. 5 million is too low. A lot depends on which groups one decides to count as Holocaust victims.
What are some pros and cons for the Holocaust?
I have seen many people answer these questions saying that there are no pro's for genocide... but if that were the case, then why would people do it? Honestly, the person or group of people commiting the act must get something out of it, whether it be money or whatever. Maybe they gain control over land. Other times it may just be pure hatrid for another group.
The con's are really rather blatently obvious, what with all the destroction and the killing and dying etc.
So conclusively:
Con's--
-Killing/Murder
-Death of Innocents
-The ethics of the group committing the act
-[I'm sure you can think or more]
Pro's--
-It may wipe out a disease that spreads from that group
-The group may be a bad influence on the rest of the world
i.e they might be very violent and intrusive
-It could possibly put the country in a better place
-It may be condoneable if this group really can't support
themselves and are slowly and painfully dying out
What was the main country that the holocaust took place in?
German, some of Germany's allies and the countries that were occupied by Germany in WW2 - Poland Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Yugoslavia, Greece and much of the Soviet Union.
--- What do you mean by 'involved'?
Historians say Hitler cause the Holocaust?
Adolf Hitler himself was a cause of the Holocaust. Hitler was obsessed with the destruction of the Jews. Documents that have become accessible since WWII seem to point at the fact that he probably suffered from syphilis acquired as a youth in Austria and, left untreated, resurged later in life.
What had the jews done to deserve what hitler did?
Answer 1
While it is not true to say that Jews were innocent lambs, the Jews did not do half of the negative nonsense that is attributed to them in order to "justify" Anti-Semitism and violence against them. Jews have been punished for being different, unique, and misunderstood. It is the same reason that Blacks were enslaved by both Arabs and Europeans. It is the same reasons that Americans used to claim that East Asians were conspiring to overthrow America, etc. People prefer to fear the unknown than to properly examine what they do not know.
Answer 2
First of all, Jews made the mistake of being conquered by the Romans who began the Jewish diaspora to Europe. In Europe, the Jewish people have always been a minority and minorities are always picked on, it's human nature. There are parallels in history, the Armenians in Turkey and the Gypsies from India, to name just two, have been persecuted by whatever country they've chosen to live in.
The Germans, who slaughtered millions of Jews and thousands of Rom during the holocaust, were themselves the victims of persecution several hundred years earlier when Vlad Tepis, a psychopathic count known for his brutal treatment of minorities, impaled 400,000 Romanian Germans because they weren't Romanian. The legend of the vampire began with this butcher because of the fear he instilled in his German victims.
In my 60 plus years, I have discovered that the biggest sin an ethnic group can commit is to be a minority and the only way around that is to form alliances with either influential members of the majority or a consortium of other minorities. These are basic survival skills and the Jews have been very good at surviving, but even the best can hit a bump or two along the way. Unfortunately for them, it was their success that made them targets of Hitler since a large percentage of Jews inevitably become financially successful because of their intelligence, hard work and love of learning.
The irony of their success, however, often goes unspoken. The fact that they were never allowed to bear arms or take place in the ruling circles during the middle ages and renaissance era forced them to handle money, the only profession allowed to them, so they became adept at it. The truth is, the Jews are the most successful minority the world has ever seen and, I believe, to focus so much on their tragedies is actually demeaning. If the heart of the Jewish people, Israel, is to survive the children of Abraham must be feared not pitied, particularly because they are outnumbered ten to one by genicidal Muslims.
Who took the pictures from the Holocaust?
The Holocaust was the Nazi regime's shameful 'secret', and photography was forbidden in the camps and ghettos. However, some SS men did take a few photos, and there were a few carefully chosen 'official' photos of what the Nazis called 'Resettlement in Eastern Europe'. In the Lodz Ghetto, the head of the Jewish Council had a kind of photographic record kept, but this was most unusual. Many of the negatives have survived.
4 reasons of the restrictions Jewish people faced in Nazi Germany?
Germany passed this law called the Nuremberg Laws which strictly stripped Jews from a lot of things they were able to do.
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Please also see the related question. Most of these laws and restrictions date from the period before the actual start of the Holocaust (in the normal sense of the systematic mass murder of the Jews). The Nazi regime issued 429 decrees and laws in all against the Jews in Germany alone. The last of these dates from 1943 and was secret: it denied Jews the right to appear in court and said that any Jew suspected of a crime was to be handed over to the Gestapo (secret police) who were to deal with the person as they saw fit. If one adds those issued in Nazi-occupied territories the number is much higher than 429.
What happened to the Jews in the concentration camps?
Depending on which camp the Jewish families or individuals were sent to, the following could happen:
- 1) They were forced to work for no compensation (slavery).
- 2) They were imprisoned against their will and without having been charged with or convicted of any crime.
- 3) They were subjected to extreme rationing of food and water, resulting in malnutrition and starvation.
- 4) As a result of malnutrition, the captive Jews suffered a weak immune system and succumbed easily to disease.
- 5) They were subject to execution without having committed any crime.
- 6) Some were subject to medical experimentation often resulting in death.
- 7) They were subject to mass killings by poison gas.
mostly they were treated like slaves... or they were simply killed.
How long did you stay in a concentration camp?
That varied a lot, especially in the early stages. In the 1930s a few lucky people were released after a few weeks or months. However, most prisoners were held indefinitely or until they died of were killed. For example, Ernst Thaelmann, who had led the Communist Party of Germany was held from 1933 till 1944, when he was murdered. Obviously, in the extermination camps people were killed soon after arrival or worked to death on grossly inadequate food.
How was the food in the ghettos?
At lunch the had onion soup and for dinner they had one piece of bread and sometimes the smaller children would smuggle food for their family and friends to survive longer.
they would go through wall cracks and small openings they could fit through the small openings because they were stick skinny literally.
Why did Hitler have a thing for Jewish people?
Hitler hated the Jews because before he wanted to rule the world he was an artist and he didnt get paid very much. The Jews on the otherhand had most of the well paid jobs and that was when Hitler started to hate the Jews.
What percentage of disabled people died during the holocoust?
there was so many people killed that u coulnt even count it.
disabled people were killed as a part of the T-4 programme, if disabled people were killed in the Holocaust, it was because they were Jewish rather than their disability.
What was it like to live in the Holocaust?
One can pick out various themes and images, such as trains transporting human being slowly over vast distances, fire, smoke, ashes, emaciated prisoners, but there is no overall 'look' to the Holocaust.
The holocaust was a huge square arena, which was surrounded by Barbed wire ( Which was terribly sharp ) , and was completly in the surveyance of Hitler and the other German Guards. It was really cramped and hardly everyone survived. It was where Anne Frank and her others died. Only her Father survived because of the Russians (Who were a bit late on freeing people because only 138 people where left!) .
Who was the first person to die in the Holocaust?
This question seems to assume that records were kept of the names of the victims and of the dates (and even times) of death. This wasn't how the Holocaust was carried out. Some victims were worked to death, but the majority were gassed in large numbers. Some extermination camps were liberated; others were dissolved by the Nazis as the Allies approached. One of the few concentration camps still in operation when the Allies reached it was Bergen-Belsen. The last victim? Some of the prisoners were desperately ill, and despite medical treatment and nursing care by the British, the deaths continued till long after the end of the war.
Why did Adolf Hitler blame Jews and other groups?
In order to unite a diverse group, a government needs to create a common enemy. By selecting an identifiable subgroup as this common enemy, the Nazi party was able to build an 'Us versus Them' attitude that brought the average man closer to the banner of the Nazi party.
It also encourages the average man to accept the violation of the 'enemy's' rights and creates an atmosphere that allows more and more government abuse to be called 'protection'.
It is a strategy that worked and still works. In recent times the US Government has gotten most of it's citizens to accept blatant violations of our civil rights by manufacturing villains in drug dealers and gangs (in the 80's and 90's) and most recently 'terrorists'.
While each of these groups do exist and do pose some form of threat, the universal response by the government has been to reduce and restrict the individual liberty of the citizen in the cause of reducing the 'threat'.
So far only the liberties of the citizen have been hurt, each 'threat' remains largely unaffected.
Actually, Nazi is just an acronym for the National Socialist Party, as it is in German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. The term had no negative connotations in Germany, or indeed in the rest of the world, until the time of the Second World War.
Nazism is the name given to the political ideology and subsequent regime of Adolf Hitler, which ruled in Germany from 1933 to 1945. Although Nazism is often called "fascism", it does differ from generic fascism, as the term is used today, and also from Fascism, which is the name given to Mussolini's regime in Italy around the same time. Nazism's main points of emphasis were the racial superiority of the "Aryan" people, the annihilation of the Jews, seen as racially inferior, the aggressive foreign policy, especially in relation to East European countries, seen as genetically inferior and the importance of the "Fuehrer" (i.e. Hitler) as the head of state.
Bertioga, Brazil
Josef Rudolf Mengele died on February 7, 1979, in Bertioga, Brazil, while swimming in the Atlantic. It is believed that he may have suffered a stroke while swimming or accidentally drowned. He was buried in Embu das Artes under the name "Wolfgang Gerhard", an alias he had used since 1976.
Josef Mengele died in Brazil.
Did Hitler ever have any Jewish children?
I would not think so, but according to the Translators notes in Mein Kampf (by A Hitler), Hitler's father, Alois Hiedler, was born illegitmate. It is "possible" that Hitler's unknown grandfather was Jewish. How's that for irony? ___ Are the question and answer referring to the same Hitler? My reading of the question is that the question refers to Adolf, not to Alois.
How many people did the Nazis murder?
The answer to this is unclear as the question itself is open to interpretation. is the question asking how many kids did Hitler personally kill because of that is the case then there is no answer, if the question was how many kids did Hitler send to there deaths by others, then that is also not something that i think that we will ever know. and if the question is how many kids were killed because of Hitler then once again the answer is debatable so the answer to this question no matter what it means is a matter of opinion.
He married the day before he and his newly wed wife committed suicide. He had no children. Hitler killed about 1.6 million Jewish kids.
