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Holocaust
The genocide of approximately 6 million European Jews during World War II planned by Adolf Hitler.
11,094 Questions
What term meaning prejudice against Jewish people convinced many Jews to embrace nationalism?
Anti-Semitism
How did bystanders of the holocaust feel?
pretty good that they were getting rid of those vermins aka rats aka jews
Did people dig their own graves so that Nazis just shoot them durning the holocaust?
Some people did dig their own graves, and did get shot and buried in those graves.
Was grandpa Dan From the book The Devil's Arithmetic part of the Holocaust?
No, Grandpa Dan was in America at the time of the Holocaust. Grandpa Will was the on in it. He went to the concentration camps and everything. If you remember, he had the number on his arm. :)
What were the estimated number of concentration camps during the Holocaust?
"Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany established about 20,000 concentration and death camps to imprison its many millions of victims." Courtesy of The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
How many people died during the Hidenburg disaster in 1937?
36 people died that day in the Hindenburg not including the crew
Why is the Shoah in every synagogue?
The Hebrew word 'Shoah' means 'catastrophe' and is used by Jews to refer to the Holocaust. The word Shoah is not found in every synagogue.
How many jews did Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin kill combined?
joseph stalin killed over 123,000 people but he didnt kill any jews
What if the Holocaust never happened?
Then 6 million Jews would have had more children and much better lives, but we should not desecrate their deaths and posthumous mutilation, regardless of how long ago it was and who it affected, and our present day opinion of the Germans and Jews.
Why do all these bad things keep happening to you?
They happen by luck wich is made by how you look. Look all pretty/handsome and good luck will sprinkle on you, look like a horrible old hag and bad luck will spread all around you!!!!!
What country did the Germans start executing of Jews first?
the polish Jews were attacked first then the Germans killed as they went east the western Jews were left until later in the war.some German Jews even survived the whole war.it was easier to hide their crimes in the east-that is why the extermination camps were in the east eg sobibor,chelmo
In Auschwitz and in Dachau
Would it be difficult for those at the concentration camp to keep their faith?
Yes it would be difficult because they are locked up in a room most of the time with basically nothing but they could still pray.
Why didn't many people notice the harassment of German Jews before the war?
They noticed it; the Nazis made no effort to hide discrimination against Jews, and even encouraged it. People generally didn't do anything about it because of one or more of the following reasons:
- They agreed with it. Antisemitism had always been unusually strong in Germany.
- It didn't affect them, so why bother?
- They were afraid of being arrested, beaten, or killed (or any combination thereof).
What was a typical Jewish person's life before the Nazi's invasion?
Life for the Jews before the Nazis took over the government was fairly nice. There was no bad Hitler and no bad Nazis. Hitler and the Nazis were liked within Germany before they took over. The Jews around the world were unaware of all the fortunes that awaited them before Hitler became racist and became a horrible dictator with the Nazis on his side. The Jews before, lived a happy, normal life, where there was no racism going around for their religion. The Jews were happy before any that could be found (unlike Anne Frank for a while) were sent to concentration camps, were there were many ways to be killed. Gassed with Zyklon B or C, burnt, shot, and much more terrible ways!
Before the Nazis, Hitler and the racism, the Jews were happy and normal and just ordinary people that fit in everywhere, that were not treated like outsiders.
What happened to men during the holocaust?
The men were put to labor work until they were too old or sick to continue. Then they were killed in gas chambers.
Is it illegal to post pictures of people who are sleeping?
It might depend on where the person is while sleeping. Is the person in his own bed, and the photographer sneaks in to get a pic? The person could argue that there is a presumption of privacy, and the photo could cause a problem, if posted without permission. On the other hand, is the person sleeping on a bench in a public park? Shoot away.
The sad thing is other countries did know, the fact is other countries were also facing tough times, as it was going on during the war. many countrues were not in a strong enough state to do anything about the situation in Germany and the other countries involved with the holocaust!
What differnent things did the Jews in the Holocaust die from?
-Disease. Typhus was rampant in concentration/death camps because the Jews were forced to live so close together.
-Gassing. Many Jews who were placed in gas chambers actually believed they were getting a shower. Cruelly, the Germans would supply them no water. Once they were inside, they poured the deadly toxin Zyklon-B into openings in the roof. It was a slow, painful death. It could take up to 10 minutes depending on where you stood in the gas chambers.
-Grave digging. Perhaps the cruelest disposal method of Nazi Germany was having the Jews dig their own graves. They would make square holes, 6ft by 3ft. When they finished digging, the Germans had them stand in front of it. They then shot them, usually in the head.
-Gossip and suspicion. Sometimes, if a Jew was thought to be conspiring with the Nazis for extra food or better treatment, he would be hung in the night by other Jews. And since the suicide rate was so high in death camps, the Nazis shrugged it off as another self-inflicted death.
-Insubordination. If you so much as breathed the wrong way, it could cost you one of three punishments: A bullet in your head, a trip to the gas chambers, or sonderkommando duty. Sonderkommandos were the Jewish teams of 3-4 men that worked the creamation ovens. They would burn the corpses of their family and friends, and sometimes even burned live victoms. Many of these men were severely psychologically damaged after the war.
-Firing Squads. It wasn't uncommon for groups of Jews to be gunned down into mass graves. And these weren't small groups. Groups of thirty or forty would be forced to line up on the edge of a large hole, and then would be shot into it and covered with dirt.
The attrocities committed by the Nazis are unspeakable. I myself had to stop writing a few times because this is so horrid.
Why did the Nazi's kill the Jews and others?
The Nazi's wiped out the Jews because, the Jews economy was doing good while on the other hand the German's were in depression. They thought that by wiping out the Jews it would make their economy better. They wiped out the others because, they weren't German.they also wiped some out because Jews made up a large number of communists and in fact funded communism and systematic destruction of white Christian Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Austrians, and soon to be German whites.
What did Christian religions and Jews have to do with Hitler?
Hitler believed that the Jews were parasites in Aryan (German) Society. He was always a very self-centered man and he liked being the highest in society. The Jews were considered lower in society for many reasons. One of these reasons is that they were thought to have been the ones that killed Jesus Christ. Many thought that the Nazi's movement was a Christian movement, but it was in fact not. Hitler was a racist person. When he was thrown into prison for treason against the government, he wrote a book called "Mein Kamph" which means "my struggle" in German. It basically outlined all of his thoughts about getting Germany back after the Treaty of Versailles (This was an extensive treaty and I don't think I should explain all of it). One of his main points was purifying the people of Germany. He, as I mentioned earlier, was a racist person that was very anti-semetic. He did not like Jews. So he released the SS into the streets with orders to kill all the Jews. Some were sent to concentration or death camps. Many died in the concentration camps, all in the death camps. He didn't like the Jews because he was a selfish man and he thought that he was better than everyone. He just hated the Jews. He didn't really care about Christians. He also disliked Gypsies homosexuals and Atheists. Hitler speech 1942; "We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out".
German news reports called kristallnacht a spontaneous citizen outburst against Jews Was it?
No, there was nothing sponteous about the Kristallnacht. Nazi Germany did not tolerate spontaneity - after all, there was no knowing that might lead. The Kristallnacht was organized by Goebbels and carried out by the Stormtroopers (SA). Some of them were ordered to turn out in civilian clothes in order to create the impression that the action was spontaneous.
