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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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What are the ten most violent concentration camps?

The extermination camps and the camps that also did bizarre medical experiments were the most violent concentration camps. Auschwitz was the worst of them all. You can get your list from the related link below. Thanks.

Where are the best places to hide when you spy?

to be a good spy hide in places you will fit but people will never look

What was Canada's reaction to the Holocaust?

Canada was quite indifferent to the Holocaust while it was happening, although in subsequent years Canada joined in the general world-wide disapproval of that atrocity. During WW II Canada fought very hard to defeat the Third Reich, but not out of concern for the Holocaust, only out of concern that Canada would wind up being conquered by the Third Reich (as so many other nations had been) if they were not stopped.
Canada's position on the genocide of the Jews during World War 2's holocaust was the same as the US position. It was atrocious, brutal, a crime and they were all for the war crimes tribunal executing the Nazi leaders for what thy did to the Jews.

Why were prisoners sent from Auschwitz to other camps in January 1945?

It wasn't just in January, since October 1944, the SS began deporting prisoners to other camps, so that they can kill them quicker. It wasn't intill November 25th 1944 when they starting to mass deporting and mass killing as much people as they can because on this day, Himmler orders the destruction of the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers and crematoria. During this attempt to destroy the evidence of mass killings, prisoners are forced to dismantle and dynamite the structures. So then they started sending them onto Death Marches to the west because of the advancing Soviet Red Army.

What happened in World War 2 that reflects what happened during the Cold War?

Atomic bombs were used in the last weeks of world war 2.And in the cold war pretty much all of the war was fought with nuclear weapons.Not only did world war 2 had concentration camps but the soviet union invented communist jails and communist camps called gulag camps that were as Painful as concentration,labour,extermenation and transit camps.

What does World War 2 and the Star of David have in common?

jewish people had to wear a star of david on all of there cloths so people would know they were jews so it would be "ok" to disrespect them

In English what does dachau mean?

It doesn't really translate but it is a concentration camp near Munich in Southern Germany

What happened to the Jews from the Channel Islands?

they were sent to consentration camps. but there were only a few living there.

Were only Jews put into camps during World War 2?

No. Homosexual, Gypsies, Blacks, and the disabled were also put in concentration camps. Each prisoner wore a symbol signifying their reason for being imprisoned. (i.e. the Star of David for Jewish prisoners, the pink triangle for homosexual prisoners, etc.)

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What kind of gas did Auschwitz use?

Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland used Zyklon B gas in their gas chambers afterwards creamated the bodies.

What happened to many books in Germany in the 1930s and why?

Many books in Germany were burned in huge bonfires that consisted only of books. No wood. This happened because the Nazis thought that some books in Germany were against the Nazis and Hitler as well. So, they banned some books that were of "Lighter" criticisms, and burned those that were considered too against the Nazis ways and beliefs.

What is the difference between traditional anti-semitism and the racist anti-semitism of the Nazis?

The Nazis were not the first group to engage in Racial Anti-Semitism, it was actually developed during the period of Queen Isabella of Spain during the Inquisition. The common Anti-Semitic canard here is that Jews are somehow genetically inferior or lesser than other humans. Hitler argued that they were deficient emotionally as well as mentally. In the European context, this racism was directed at Jews, arguing that as Semites (Middle Eastern people) they were not as well-developed as Whites. In the case of Racial Anti-Semitism, by dint of being a Jew, a person is inferior and there is nothing that this person can do to become an acceptable citizen. The only change Hitler made to this paradigm was to add Social Darwinism to this and argue that the inferiority was genetic as opposed to "blood-borne".

Religious Anti-Semitism, which had previously existed faulted the Jews for being horrible as a result of the inculturation that their religion gave to them. Therefore, the Jew could lose his improper behavior and actions simply by converting out of Judaism and into the dominant religion (Christianity or Islam). Judaism was at the root of the problem, not being a Jew by blood.

Where did the 6 million Jews Hitler oppressed come from?

Of the 9 million people the Nazi's exterminated, 6 million were Jews.

This is believed to be about 60% of the Jewish population of Europe at the start of the Nazi atrocities and came from those European countries that they dominated. Of course, the Jewish population of Europe dates back many hundreds of years and moved in mass several times over that time. (Several Kings/Monarchs banning them from an area at different times- (Spain in 1492 displaced a huge population), or their "fortunes" moving them, as the case may be.)

However, the 3 million others is likely a much higher percentage of those other target groups...virtually all (in the high 90%) of Gypsies, Afro (black people), and those easily seen as mentally impared, and a strong percentage of those born as physically challenged. "Imperfects".