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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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Miep Gies was not arrested for helping the franks and Van pels family. It was said that the arresting officer had felt a connection with her so he let her go, and she was dutch.
Did any German Jews fight in the RAF during World War 2?
Those refugees from Nazi Germany who volunteered for service in the British armed forces were not used for frontline combat.
Technically, that answer is correct, however there were at least two cases of German Jews who became RAF pilots and did see front line combat.
Klaus (now Sir Kenneth) Adam was a Typhoon pilot. See his story on Wikipedia.
Georg Hein was a Jewish refugee living in London in 1939, and he committed identity theft in order to join the RAF under the name Peter Stevens. He went on to fly 22 combat operations as a Hampden bomber pilot before being shot down and taken prisoner by his own countrymen. As a POW for 3 years and 8 months (without any protection whatsoever under the Geneva Convention - he was, after all, still a German citizen and was fighting for Britain) he became one of the most ardent escapees of the war, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1946. He is mentioned in at least 10 books, including his biography 'Escape, Evasion and Revenge: The True Story of a German Jewish RAF Pilot Who Bombed Berlin and Became a POW. His story is also on Wikipedia.
From 1936-45 this was a Nazi concentration camp about 25 miles from the centre of Berlin. From August 1945 till 1950 it was used by the Soviet Union as a prison camp.
What were the Nazis trying to gain from the genocide of the Jews?
The Nazis believed that all Jews were an inferior race and that they should'nt be allowed to live with their own so called "Aryan" race. Adolph Hitler was not fully responsible for the Holocaust his chief in charge of the killing was "Heinrich Himmler" Head of the SS
Who was in sent to the camps and who was in charge of running the camps during the holocaust?
Jesus Jews from all over Europe, gypsies,homosexuals,Jehovah
Witness,Pows,any
resistant fighters,communists,and
any one else that looked suspicious to the SS or Gestapo. The camps were run by the SS, there were criminals taken out of prison to work as guards.the detainees were offered more food if they would be guards, I think they were called kampos. somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
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Since 1933 the camps were designed to hold criminals and political opponents, they were expanded to take anti-socials, with more laws criminalising different activities, more groups were sent to the camps, these would include Jehovah's witnesses, Homosexuals and trades unionists. After the outbreak of war these types of 'criminals' would arrive from conquored territories, as well as any partisans/resistance fighters who were not executed and eventually Jews.
The camps were run by the SS, Kapos were prisoner trustees who would be incharge of ( and responsible for) their barracks, they were generally violent or political prisoners.
Why Was The Holocaust A sad Time Period?
lots of people were killed from discrimination against jews, gypsies, handicapped people, and lots of others.
Hitler's father, a simple civil servant, didn't have the money to hire a nanny, Jewish or otherwise.
How did the Holocaust gets its name?
The Holocaust refers to the murder of about 6 million Jews by the Nazis in World War 2. Sometimes other victims of Nazi mass killings are also included, in which case the total number of victims is much higher than 6 million.
The term The Holocaust in this specific sense has been in widespread use since the late 1970s. Before that it was referred to as the Final Solution [of the Jewish Question]. This was not a very satisfactory term as it was a translation of the Nazis' own term for the genocide.
The word holocaust (with a small h and without The) means: 1. great destruction, especially by fire; 2. whole burnt offering.Because of the religious connotations of the word, some people prefer to use the word Shoah (Hebrew for great calamity, disaster).
In addition to the Jews, the Nazi killed many other groups. Some people include these other groups, some don't.
The modern, specific sense of Holocaust was popularized by Elie Wiesel from the late 1950s onwards.
Please see the related questions.
Neither the one nor the otherThe first alternative assumes that in the period 1919-1933 Germany was obsessively and frenetically anti-Jewish. This simply wasn't the case except in the beer-halls of Bavaria. This preoccupation wasn't widely shared in other parts of Germany. In fact, between about 1850 and 1933 Jews in Germany and in other countries regarded Germany as fairly tolerant and as a desirable country to live in. The German Jews didn't feel particularly threatened till Hitler came to power and almost none of them had made any practical arrangements to leave the country.
In 1934, about a year after the Nazis came to power a book appeared consisting of articles by Nazi party members on how and why they had joined the NSDAP. Only about one in eight even mentioned antisemitism.
In other words, Jew-baiting wasn't quite the vote winner that it is often made out to be, though Weimar Germany did become unhealthily Jew-conscious, with people asking, 'Is he/she one?' This can be a stage that precedes antisemitism.
Hitler promised to remove Jews from 'public life' and to introduce various measures to curb their influence, but he didn't try to woo voters with promises of a Jewish holocaust.
The second part of the question suggests that Hitler's main goal was to exterminate the Jews and had a master plan for exterminating long before he came to power. Since 1970 or so professional historians have been very skeptical about this. They also don't believe that in Mein Kampf he'd said he would exterminate the Jews. What he wrote on this is convoluted, hypothetical and somewhat obscure.
Hitler believed that he had a mission in life - namely, to restore German military might, to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and expand Germany well beyond its 1914 borders and to unite all ethnic Germans under German rule (or that of puppet states). He was keen to restore what he called 'German honour'. (This was one of the favourite Nazi buzzwords and meant 'prestige', not healthy self-respect). Another key aim, equally important for him, was to destroy Communism. A third element of his 'mission' was the removal of all 'un-German' things and people from Germany and German life - Bolshevism, socialism, democracy, Jews, 'degenerate art', homosexuals and much else besides. He sought power in order to fulfill this 'mission'. In this 'mission' Hitler tended to equate Jews with Communism.
The vast majority of German Jews were neither Communists nor 'un-German'. They regarded themselves as Germans and were widely accepted as such by most German. However, some people just love conspiracy theories.
How do the terrorists kill Jews in modern times?
Terrorists are not all the same group, targeting one particular race creed or country. Extremists, any extremists, will go to almost any lengths to impose their ideology upon those that disagree with them and by any means available to them. Bombing, shooting and torture are only physical manifestations of terror.
Many groups are now considered acceptable which were villified only a few years ago.
Men such as Che Guevara and Castro, Moshe Dayan, Martin Luther and even Jesus were considered 'terrorists' or malcontents, in their time because they wanted to change the established order of things. Some by violence others used different methods.
How many pages does Survivors true Stories of Children in the Holocaust?
194 pages (not including: title pages, acknowledgments, author's note, map, and glossary)
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What is meant by 'Arbeit macht frei' and where might one one have seen it?
It means 'work makes one free' you can see it above the main gate to the main Auschwitz camp, or in the gate of Dachau. It is very much like the motto 'freedom through work' which was the motto of the Soviet Gulag system (their punishment/work camps).
What resistance did the Germans get in the ghettos?
The Warsaw ghetto uprising in April 1943 is a classic example of Jewish armed resistance to Nazi oppression during the Holocaust. Uprising in larger ghettos such as Warsaw, Bialystok, Grodno, or Minsk also took place. Jews took armed uprising when they got convinced the Germans were in to extinct the Jews.
How did the Netherlands lose 90 percent of their Jewish population?
In May 1940 the Netherlands was invaded by Nazi Germany, and the Nazis rounded up and killed all the Jews they could find. The percentage you give is too high. The Netherlands lost about 107,000 of its prewar Jewish population of about 140,000. (That is about 76%). The figure is higher than for other countries in Western Europe that were occupied.
What does Aryan Race have to do with the holocaust?
Hitler's Aryan Race was a non-existent fictional group of people who track most closely with the Nordic group of Indo-Europeans. In Hitler's mind, the Aryans were the people who founded the German Tribes and were the forefathers of all of German culture. He held that these Aryans, who could be recognized by their distinct blue eyes and blond hair, were superior beings than other human races. He also appropriated symbols from the historic Aryans, like the swastika, for his Aryan Race.
Hitler perpetrated the Holocaust in order to remove all of the Non-Aryans from German society and create a superior society.
Ww1 internment camps in Canada list of internees of Germans?
During World War I, Canada established internment camps for enemy aliens, including many German nationals. Approximately 8,579 individuals were interned, with a significant number being German immigrants, as well as Austro-Hungarians and others perceived as threats. Internees faced harsh conditions, and many were eventually released, but the experience left a lasting impact on their communities. In 1983, the Canadian government formally acknowledged this injustice by offering compensation to the survivors and their descendants.
Is there any evidences of mermaids found in this world?
None. No bodies, skeleton's, pictures or anything else. They are from fiction and myth so they don't exist and never have.
