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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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Did Americans loot German museums in World War 2?
YES!a,ericans do that everywhere they war to compensate for their war expenses.The Libyan Gold went to Iran and Syria when Ghadhafi realized what had happened thus these warmongers tried to do Iran right after but couldn't than shifted focus on Syria.
The word "Holocaust" means a huge and terrible fire. It probably came into use as a reflection on the incinerating of victims after being gassed, and the burning down of so many Jewish businesses and synagogues. Jewish people do not call it the "Holocaust", they call it the "Shoah", though I don't know what that word means in Hebrew.
Did anything like the holocaust happen anyway else?
If you look up the Bosnia-Herzegovina Genocide 200,000 muslims where killed in 2001. History repeats it self and i see in the next few decades the 4th reich will happen. 88
What is an antonym for cremated?
This is the same as asking what is the opposite of brown. There is no antonym for a lot of words. This is one of them. The only thing opposite of "burning a body" is "NOT burning a body".
There was no Jewish army. ___ The Allies were the Forces Allied against the German Reich - England, Free French and Polish, Australian, New Zealand and late in the war the USA. Since the Jewish people were being persecuted and killed at the time by the German regime, it would be fair to say that they were not on the side of the German Reich. There were Jewish people in the armies of the Allied forces, who fought alongside them and against the German armies. It is very obvious when you visit places like the D-day landing beaches in France and look at the gravestones that many are topped by the Star of David.
Lithotripsy is the use of high-energy shock waves to fragment and disintegrate kidney stones.
What happened to the soldiers that helped kill the Jews?
In most cases - nothing. Most of them were allowed to go home, get de-nazificiation certificates and 'live happily (and forgetfully) ever after'.
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Because of the 'just following orders' defence, killing Jews was not enough to convict someone, but going further than those orders was (ie. excesive cruelty/violence).
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As a matter of fact, 'just obeying orders' was notaccepted. For example, a number of SS guards were hanged after the Bergen-Belsen Trial (September-November 1945) for murdering prisoners. However, there weren't that many trials.
The biggest problem was that with the onset of the Cold War, the West turned West Germany into an ally and so they soon lost any enthusiasm for prosecuting the murderers of the Holocaust. Hunting down Nazi killers was left to people like Simon Wiesenthal.
Worst of all, some Western governments developed a soft spot for anti-Communists, regardless of their past.
Did King Christian X wear the Star of David?
No. There was no requirement for Danish Jews to wear the Yellow Star and, as a result, King Christian X was never put in a position to wear one. However, he was reported by British Newspapers to have said that if the law were passed in Denmark, he would require all Danes, including himself, to wear one. His private diary confirms this view.
However, given King Christian X's consistent stance against the plight of Danish Jewry and his help in facilitating the escape of Denmark's Jews, there is more than enough to support the kind regard that both Jews and Danes have for his anti-Nazi activism without this false rumor.
What was the attitude of the churches regarding the persecution of the Jews?
their attitudes were different before, during and after
How did the Hungarian police treat the Jews as they told them the time had come?
The Hungarian police was actually two different forces (like the urban and state) who were competing to be the most efficient in the eyes of their German supervisors. As a result they did not stop for niceties.
What was the name of Hitler's love which was a Jewish girl?
Adolf Hitler's longtime companion (and, briefly, wife ... they married about a day and a half before committing suicide) was Eva Braun, who was not Jewish.
There was a girl named Stefanie Isak whom Hitler reputedly had a crush on when he was a teenager, but it's probably an exaggeration to call her "his love" ... Hitler may have been infatuated with her, but she claimed in interviews not to have ever known about it, as he was apparently too shy to speak to her; she did recall receiving an anonymous love letter once, but apparently didn't connect it with Hitler until much later.
It's also possible that the biographer who recounted the tale may have exaggerated the depth of Hitler's feelings for her because it makes for a better story that way.
Did the evian conference encourage Hitler to persecute the Jews?
No, the Nazi persecution had started in 1933 and intensified rapidly from 1935 on.
first she got sent to westerbork, then to auschwitz, and then she died.
Did the Holocaust get to Israel?
No. What is now Israel did not exist as an independent country at the time but was part of British Mandate of Palestine and therefore under British rule then. In the course of the fighting in N. Africa in World War 2 the Germans did not reach Cairo and did not cross the Suez Canal. So, there was no Holocaust in Palestine/Israel.
What is the irony of US neo-Nazis that went to Germany?
It's ironic for even an American to be a nazi. Adolf Hitler would have seen Americans as impure and would've most likely only used them then later kill them. The reality is that the Nazis hated all races except for the pure aryan Germans, honorary aryans (Japs) and austrians (which he considered Germans). He only used Fascist Italy as a puppet to help with ww2. He had great respect for Japanese culture. But like what he did to the Russians who were anti-Stalin and followed nazism. He massacred those Russians as he considered then impure. And would've done the same to Americans who claim to be nazi.
During the Holocaust when was the Warsaw eliminated?
Warsaw of course was never eliminated.
But if you mean the ghetto: mass deportations starter in the summer of 1942, with the final liquidation of the ghetto in May of 1943.
If you were to teach others about the importance of studying the Holocaust what would you include?
- It is considered one of the key events of the 20th century.
- Germany had a long-standing (and well deserved) reputation as a highly civilized country with outstanding achievements in the arts, science and technology, but committed genocide.
- It illustrates what has been called 'the banality of evil'. Most of those directly involved in committing the Holocaust were very ordinary people, almost boringly ordinary.
- There are no obvious 'lessons' to be learnt from the Holocaust. (History isn't a moral tale).
- The Allies did nothing specifically targeted at stopping or slowing down the Holocaust.
- Holocaust remembrance, which is not the same thing as Holocaust scholarship, has probably become the key feature of Jewish identity.
A little postscript. I'd make sure people I taught did not think the Holocaust was the same thing as World War 2.
Is there any that the survivors of the holocaust send you a letter?
i'm sure that there are, if i have understood your question.
