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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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Hitler committed suicide on 30 April 1945 and he did that because he realised Germany was losing WW2 and he chose to rather kill himself than to be caught by his enemies and be executed.
What does the term the final solution refer?
The term "Final Solution" was the plan that Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazis, had to completely destroy and get rid of all the Jewish and disabled individuals in Europe and other parts of the world. Nobody knows what it's origin was, but final solution means "The ending solution to a problem".
What is some effects of the Holocaust?
Well, it depended on who you were and where you were. A Jew just released from a camp tried to contact friends and family members that were taken to other camps. They and others tried to publish books on the Holocaust to prevent it from happening again and giving us a constant reminder. Some of the texts were too gruesome or sad to print at the time so they kept trying. Some never found any survivors of their families, but heard what had happened to them (gunned down, escaped then re-captured and killed by dogs, burned in the incinerator/gas chambers, etc.). If you were a Nazi or guard and were arrested by the US you were tried in court. Some are still waiting to be found and tried. Other German Nazis that were captured as POWs during the war were also put on trial.
__Very few of the guilty were put on trial.- Europe lost nearly two-thirds of its Jews (about 6 million out of a pre-war total of about 9.4 million).
- Large areas of Eastern Europe had previously had flourishing Jewish communities - Warsaw, Lodz, Lviv (Lemberg), Vilnius, Riga, Czernowitz, Minsk, Kiev, Odessa - to name some of the bigger and best known. All these centres had gone, for ever. A simple example: in 1939, just before the start of World War 2, Lodz had a Jewish population of about 215,000. After the Holocaust about 800 Jews were left in Lodz. A small trickle of further survivors found their way back in the following months. This may help people understand something of the scale of human devastation caused, and why this is called the Holocaust.
- There had been large pre-Nazi Jewish communities of Central Europe - Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest - to name only the best known and biggest. These were destroyed.
- There was increased determination among Jews in the then British Mandate of Palestine and among Holocaust survivors to establish Israel. However, they had to fight for the creation of Israel. It was not some consolation given by the guilt-ridden victors.
- On an individual level, survivors needed help to regain their health. Many of course needed longer term help, too.
The Aryans, or Hitler's 'perfect Germans'. They were his 'master race' that he wanted to dominate the world.
It started as an ideal, people had to prove their lineage and prove that they had no 'impure' blood. But by the end every gentile and non-slav was considered to be Aryan.
What if there was no Holocaust?
If the Holocaust had never happened, the world would be a different place. The world may have been better, with less discrimination.
What were the living conditions in Frankfurt during the Holocaust?
Jews during Holocaust Jews were taken to concentration camps where they had to work from early in the morning until late in the night. A total of six million Jews were killed. Often there would be hundreds of people taken and burned, slapped, gassed, shot. Many would have to dig their own grave before being shot into it or buried alive. It was a tragic. They also would have to get up at 4ish every morning for roll call where they would stand outside in the freezing weather and stay there for 2 hours or more. Food rations were below subsistence-level.
Where did the Einsatzgruppen operate?
Officially, the purpose of the Einsatzgruppen was to kill guerrilla fighters in the Soviet Union, but in practice their main function was to kill Soviet Jews.
The ''Einsatzgruppen'' were a specialized German force. They were mobile killing units (death squads) and went into action behind German lines on the Eastern Front, killing mainly Jews. There were four Einsatzgruppen: A, B, C and D. They were all posted in different areas behind the Eastern Front.
Incredible as it may sound, three of these four groups were commanded by men with doctorates! The commander of Group C, Otto Rasch, even had two doctorates and was referred to as Dr. Dr. Rasch.
The Einsatzgruppen were SS paramilitary forces in WW2 that were primarily employed to eliminate Jews and Communist party officials. They were little more than death squads who killed without qualm or remorse.
'The Einsatzgruppen were the mobile Nazi killing squads trained by the SS. They were dispatched on special assignments for the primary purpose of murdering Jews. Their task to kill the Jews on the spot - Jews, but not only Jews; communists, Gypsies, political leaders, and the intelligentsia were also killed. Order police battalions, Waffen SS units, the Higher SS, and Police Leaders also carried out the mass executions. Einsatzgruppen units followed the German Army (Wehrmacht) into the Soviet Union following the June, 1941 invasion of Soviet Territory. (1) Berenbaum, Michael, editor. Witness to the Holocaust. New York: HarperCollins. 1997. pp. 112 - 113'
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Why were children killed during the Holocaust?
Children were mostly killed by being sent directly to the gas chambers. Or children in their teens would work alongside the adults and die of starvation or fatigue. The worst method ever was medical experiments on children especially twins. They would cut them open stitch them up and let them die of infections and they would kill babies also.
Did Muslims die in the Holocaust?
Most of them do, but many in the Arab world use it as a stick to beat the state of Israel with as regards their treatment of the Palestinians, having undergone such abuse (albeit on a grander scale) themselves. Of course, some (especially in high places) do not believe that the Holocaust took place, but so do many neo-Nazi Christians and Pagans.
What source provides much of the information you have about the aryans?
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Did the Nazis tell the Jews the gas chambers were showers so they would go in?
They forced them in. They would tell them that they were about to have a shower, so they would strip and walk right in, they even had shower heads in there, but they were just for show. the people that realized that on the other hand were forced in
Why did Hitler want a 'pure' Aryan race?
Obviously, his parents didn't give him enough attention. I mean, come on, his "perfect race" didn't even include himself!
Hitler wanted a pure Aryan race, people with blue eyes, blonde hair, muscular (in the case of men) and beautiful (the case of women). He wanted all Germans to be racially pure because he wanted to start his own "super" perfect race, even though he did not have blonde hair or blue eyes! Also there was a lot of speculation about him being homosexual, even though he sent homosexuals to concentration camps etc.
The view that the Nazis wanted a pure "blonde-haired, blue-eyed" race is largely a popular myth. The Nazis aimed to ensure that all members of the state were of "Germanic" stock. In practice that usually meant proving that one's ancestry for three generations past was free of any mixing with "non-Aryans", i.e. Jews, Asians, Africans.
However, the emphasis was always on ancestry, which was tested through records. There was no test based on the individual's hair or eye colour.
Obviously German propaganda depicted individuals with a handsome appearance and with North European features. But blondness was not an exclusive characteristic. Propaganda films, such as films showing members of the Hitler youth, or girls doing gymnastics, display the normal range of physical features found among German, e.g. many blondes, but also many persons of darker colouring.
Comments- The 'ideal German' was also supposed to be tall, slender, physically fit, free of any disability, deformity, abnormality or mental illness and sexually as 'straight' as a poker, chaste, refrain from masturbation and be completely immune to Marxist thinking. Smoking, heavy drinking and drugs were also a complete 'no-no'. It wasn't only a matter of appearance.
- For men it was essential to be fit for military service, while women of child-bearing age were expected to be very fertile.
- A key catchphrase was 'a sound mind in a healthy body'. (It was sometimes said at the time that this really meant 'a servile, conformist, obedient mind in a body fit for military service' - or in the case of women 'a fertile body').
- The only member of the Nazi leadership who bore any physical resemblance to the 'ideal German' was Reinhard Heydrich. During the Nazi period jokes circulated in Germany about being 'as blond as Hitler, as slim as Goering, as chaste as Goebbels' and so on.
- According to some sources, the Nazi leader who took all this most seriously was Himmler. Hitler's main concern was to get rid of the Communists and the Jews. He wasn't very interested in eye or hair colour. After all, he himself was far removed in appearance from the 'ideal type' ...
What did women to in the Holocaust?
In Germany and surrounding countries Jews had no rights and at the very best of times they had severely limited rights. Before being thrown into concentration camps Jews were put into ghettos, had a curfew, and could only shop at Jewish stores, amongst other things.
A concentration camp is a camp where the Jewish people were sent to when they were called. The camp had very bad conditions and as Jews were considered outlaws they were treated badly. Over 1000 people died in concentration camps all over Europe. People were even gassed to death at concentration camps.so generically a concentration camp was like a prison
What do Jews call the holocaust and what does it mean?
The Germans have borrowed the word from English to replace the expression Voelkermord an den Juden (genocide of the Jews).It is not some German word borrowed into English.
What did Jewish prisoners of war wear in concentration camps in Germany in world war 2?
they usally wore blue and white striped outfits that were worn down and that had holes. they were treated very badly and i think that the peoplle who started the holocaust should be beaten and put to death because of what they did.
He realised Germany was going to lose the war and that he was responsible for all the destruction and he rather wanted to kill himself than have other people execute him.
How can you make sure the holocaust never happens again?
To prevent genocide the world need to to pay attention to the signs and listen to people directly impacted. In order to prevent genocides we must understand it, we must study and compare genocide and develop a working theory about genocidal process.
Lives in Holkocaust during the war. Jewish people endure hardship and many of them died under the hand of Nazis. These hardship include violation to their human rights, many of them were force to concentration camps, and the life after the Holocaaust.
Sometimes we must interfere when human are in dangered and when human prestigi are in risk, national border and sentivities are irrelevant. When men and women are persecuted of their race, religious, culture and political view that place must at that moment become the center of universe.
Where did german jews try to migrate to find safety from nazi territory?
Their position, especially after late 1938, was desperate, and they tried to go to any country that would accept them (About 25,000 went to Shanghai, for example). Moreover, they had to go to *something* ... No country wanted to accept people who were likely to be a burden. In other words, they needed jobs or a firm guarantee from friends or family members or a charity that they would be supported.
Having said that, the U.S. took about 250,000 refugees from Nazi Germany, Britain about 70,OOO and Australia took about 50,000. Canada only accepted 4,000. Some countries took in very few indeed. For example, Turkey took in about 1,000. Please note that all these figures include non-Jewish political refugees.
How many Jews were put in one gas chamber?
Of the six million or so Jews who perished in the Holocaust:
- About 1.5 million are estimated to have been killed in mass open air shootings, mainly in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Latvia.
- At least 250,000 thousand were killed by the Romanians in their own national holocaust. (This did not involve gassing).
- About 800,000 were worked to death, died from disease and starvation or died of ill treatment or were beaten to death.
- About 3 million who were killed by gassing.
One needs to add to this other categories of victims, but most of them were killed by means other than gassing.
Was Zakyna a concentration camp?
No. In the story The silver sword, there is a prison camp called Zakyna portraying where the father was sent to. He spent a year at the concentration camp before escaping. Lee-Andra ♥'z shane!
Why is important that handicapped people be given opportunity to do things by themselves?
For one thing, it is very frustrating for anyone to be totally dependent on another person. It is even more so when someone is always jumping in there doing things for you that you can do, or would at least want the chance to try. It is good for anyone, not just handicapped people, to have the opportunity to rise to a challenge.
This is an example of hatred for the Jews. This is because the Jews were not fully responsible for Germany's poor economic condition, Hitler had always hated them.
