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Holocaust
The genocide of approximately 6 million European Jews during World War II planned by Adolf Hitler.
11,094 Questions
An earlier action could have been taken by capturing Hitler off guard and sending him to a Internment camp.
Answer1. Participants of the Evian conference of 1938 could have provided asylum to German Jews.
1. Britain and France should not have declared war on Germany under the pretext of saving Poland - neither they meant to protect Poland nor did they, never decalring war on the other invader, the USSR, and accepting a post-war settlement under which the USSR kept the annexed part of Poland - in fact, parts of the ex-USSR, namely, Ukraine and Belarus, are still keeping those parts of Poland to themselves.
2. Roosevelt and Churchill could have abstained from the demand for "unconditional surrender" of Germany at the Casablanca Conference in February 1943 thus clearly prolonging the war and suffering of the European Jews.
3. Jewish people could have been educated to the fact that guerrila warfare was illegal under international law and thus constituted a war crime in itself.
Who is miep and how did she risk her life for the franks?
Miep Gies was born Hermoine Sanstrousitch in Vienna. At the age of six, her parents, out of concern for the famine going on in VIenna, did as many other parents did at that time and sent her to live with a Dutch family. She thrived there, and by the time she went back to see her parents just a few years later, she said that she was "already thoroughly Dutch". Otto Frank originaly hired her as a quality control person (she handled complaints about the product) and eventually made her a full secretary in the company - she was able to run the office with him away, if neccesary. After the Nazi occupation, Otto decided to hide his family in the rooms upstairs at the back of his office building. He explained to her the risk she was taking, and she brushed it off, saying later "I would not have considered for one second not helping them". She became their lifeline (along with the other employees, and her husband Jan). In theory, anyone caught hiding Jews could be summarily shot, though the usual penalty was more along the lines of 4-6 months in a work camp. She never considered herself a hero - though everyone else did.
What was the leading factor of the Holocaust?
The leading factor of the Holocaust was the desire by Nazi leaders to proclaim Jews as the cause and reason for all German problems, including the lost war of World War I and an economic depression. Jews have been the victims of expulsion, torture and murder for countless generations, dating to their slavery oin Egypt, to Assyrians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Christians (The Crusades), English (The English Expulsion of 1299), The Spanish Inquisition (1492) and Hitler's genocide of the Jews in the 20th century.
Anti-Semitism has been endemic throughout history in the Middle East, in Europe and beyond. Christians have told lies about Jews to their children for countless generations. Muslims have followed suit. Yet, Jews predate Muslims in Israel by 1,000 years and Jews predate Palestinians in Israel by even longer. Clearly, Jews have lived in Israel long before any other living people. One cannot occupy your own land. Israel was Jewish at least 1,500 years before Palestinians existed.
But, because Jews are a benign people, traditionally without powerful armies, they have been the subject of prejudice, bigotry and blind hatred. It is always easy to hate those who hold no power over you.
Jews could not protect themselves from the mendacious Third Reich of Germany. As a result, six million innocent Jewish men, women and children were murdered.
Charles Weinblatt
Author, Jacob's Courage
http://jacobscourage.wordpress.com/
Why did you think this happened why did people donothing to stop it?
it happened bit by bit and it happened because at no stage did people object.
Well, I know she was born in 1910, and I know she was a hero of the holocaust.. Sorry, that's all I really know... Besides that, I know that in 1942, She risked her life by helping the Jewish.. Sorry!!
Were any other races part of the Holocaust?
During the Holocaust, Jews, handicapped, homosexuals, gypsies, and Jehovah's Witnesses were main victims. Really though, anyone who was not pure white (whose ancestors all descended straight from Europe) and who were not of the religion practiced by the Nazis were considered enemies.
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With respect, the handicapped, homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses and not races. The question also refers to 'the religion practiced by the Nazis'. As a matter of interest, what religion(s) are you talking about? Himmler's paganism? Christianity? The question is specifically about race, not victims of Nazi atrocities in general.
What were prisoners made to do during the holocaust selection process?
During the selection process, there would be S.S. men waiting for the prisoners to arrive from the train. Then they would separate everyone by gender into two lines. Then the S.S. men would point either to the right or left. Whichever way it was, one side was where you can live for a couple of weeks and forced to work in harsh labor which ranged from age fourteen to age sixty. The other way they pointed was where many infants, prenant mothers, unfit people, elderly, weaklers, etc... met their deaths which were the gas chambers. They would be forced to undress completely and then make their way into the gas chambers. Those who lived were assigned numbers and assigned barracks. Unfortunetly, they too met their deaths and by the end of the Holocaust, only a little more than a thousand survivors lived.
(Sidenote)- sometimes prisoners would end up just heading straight into gas chambers because that camp was a killing center alone or others went to concentration camps because that alone was just one camp for forced labor.
Lt. William Cowling is believed to be the first American to enter Dachau camp in World War 2. On the day of the liberation, he wrote a long letter to his family claiming that he was the first soldier to enter the Dachau concentration camp.
In what city was the largest of the Jewish residential quarters found during the Holocaust?
Of the cities occupied by the Nazis, the one with the largest Jewish population in 1939 was probably Warsaw, which had a total population of 1.3 million, of which about 400,000 was Jewish. Vilnius, Minsk and Lviv (also known as as Lvov and as Lemberg) had very large Jewish populations, also Lodz.
Initially, the main target of Nazi racism was the Jewish people in Germany. So pretty much the very first thing they did regarding it was pass a series of laws, called the Nuremberg Laws, in September 1935.
These laws basically did two things- first, made it illegal for Jews and "Aryans" (the Nazi term for non-Jewish "pure" Germans) to marry or have sex, and some other things (like Jews couldn't hire young Aryan women as housemaids); second, stripped Jews of their German citizenship, changing them to "state subjects"- which also stripped them of any legal protections under the German constitution.
Did the Holocaust happen so long ago that it is no longer important?
The Jews and others affected by the Holocaust still say, "Never Again". The contempt for any human life different than our own must be acknowledged and people who demonstrate that kind of disdain must never allowed to again destroy people just to achieve their political ambitions.
During and before WW2, when NAZI's were killing Jews in secret, rumors were getting out of Germany that described what was going on. "Enlightened" people around the world turned their collective backs on the problem and pretended that it didn't involve us.
If we want to pretend that we're civilized, perhaps we can get by without caring. But if we are ever to evolve past barbarism, we must care what happens to those who are being victimized by that kind of brutality and put an end to it.
The holocaust is as relevant today as it ever was. Evil political leaders still destroy their own citizens in an attempt to secure their political power.
No, as long as there is hate and racism, the story is relevant. We can never allow people to forget that so many Jews were killed, simply because they were different and perceived as a way to pay for Hitlers war. The Holocaust is still relevant. Sadam killed millions in the name of religion and was still actively trying to kill the Jews. Middle east religious extremists still want to kill all "non-believers", and yes, even today people want to kill blacks, hispanics, orientals and just about anyone who is different. If anything, the Holocaust is even more significant today. Hate and power drove Sadam to do the things that he did. Hate and power are driving the Middle East extremists to do the same thing; they aren't any different really.
Um, no. The holocaust didn't happen 500 years ago, it happened 60 years ago, and there are still people walking around who survived the death camps. The study of history does not 'work' in the way that the question suggests. For example, the American Declaration of Independence is much older than the Holocaust but that does not make it unimportant. What really matters, is whether something is seen as important or relevant or not.
Did the Jews stay at one camp?
No there where many different camps for Jews and men and woman were sepperated into diffrent camps.The woman all of their hair shaved and had to walk naked by all the soldiers before they were allowed to join the others.Often these camps where over crowed so they would herd them into gas chambers like animals and kill them with the gas.If they were'nt killed this way it was often from the harsh conditions with little food and worked from sun up to sun down.After the war mwha was left of the Jews from these camps left only to find nothing left of their homes and shops.
What was Corrie's Secret family in the hiding place?
She was a Dutch Christian, who with her father and other family members helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust. The Nazis arrested the entire Ten Boom family with the help of a Dutch informant. The book The Hiding Place is a 1971 book on the life of Corrie ten Boom, written by ten Boom together with John and Elizabeth Sherrill.
It all started when he hid a German Jew after he escaped the country. History does not have a record on the hidden people names.
Would people with blue eyes and medium to pale skin suit platinum blonde hair?
Platinum blonde suits those with fair skin and blue or grey eyes- but it has a tendency to go brassy and will make your face seem more pink than it actually is!
Why does Elli stay away from the Secret Annex for six weeks?
Elli stays away from the Secret Annex for six weeks because she contracts a contagious illness outside and she wants to avoid spreading it to the others inside.
