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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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Why do some people still claim that the holocaust did not happen?
Holocaust denial is a form of antisemitism or Jew-baiting. What the Jews suffered in the Holocaust was terrible, and then to tell the remaining Jews and their descendants that it's "all in their heads" or a lie is odious.
Most Holocaust deniers have a political agenda. They want to stir up hatred against the Jews and rehabilitate the Nazis.
In some countries in the Middle East (where Holocaust denial is widespread) many Muslims believe that the Holocaust is used or misused to 'legitimate' Israel.
The main purpose of denying genocide is usually to rehabilitate the perpetrators, in this case the Nazis, and to mock the victims and survivors. After all, neo-Nazis are well aware that the Holocaust and a host of other Nazi crimes and atrocities are abhorrent to all decent minded people.
Denial of genocide is common - for example, many Turks deny that the Ottoman Empire committed genocide against the Armenians in 1915-1917.
In World War 2 the Allies did nothing specifically targeted at disrupting tyhe Holocaust. There is a widespread assumption (for example in the US) that the guilt-ridden Allies established Israel after the war as some kind of consolation for the Jews. In fact, the key reason was that the British Mandate was about to expire and there was civil war in the British Mandate of Palestine. The United Nations opted for partition. If it's felt that Israel or "the Jews" or some Jews are exploiting the Holocaust it's perfectly possible to confront that specific issue without denying the Holocaust.
The majority of Holocaust deniers refuse, by choice, to believe that the Holocaust took place. The motives of the denialists is to mock the victims, the survivors and to bait Jews. Of course, another motive is the rehabilitation of the perpetrators.
See also the related questions below.
People don't truly deny the holocaust and will often say it never happened simply to get a rise out of you.
How did the holocaust survivors get out?
The camps were opened up by Allied forces as they found them and the people left alive given medical care and help. Eventually they were processed, given papers and some returned home. Many had no family or friends left to find because they had been sent to the gas chambers or worked to death. Some came to the states or went to Israel.
How many died during the highland clearances?
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Carbon monoxide from vehicle exhausts.
More detail: The first civilian victims of Nazi gassing were the mentally ill. After being certified by two doctors (who did not necessarily see the patient in person) the victims were shut in and submitted to the exhaust fumes of motors. This happened in Germany, to Germans, in the autumn of 1939, it was temporarily halted due to popular protest. This method, and its agents were adopted in 1941 to be used on Jews.
What is the difference between an Japanese internal camp and a concentration camp?
The Japanese internment camps were sort of like special prisons for Japanese-Americans during World War II. The camps weren't very nice, nor was being imprisoned in them, but at the same time, the internees were not tortured or otherwise severely harmed. Still, it's not one of America's proudest moments. They were intended to keep Japanese-Americans on the West Coast from assisting the Japanese military if it ever invaded the USA.
The Nazi concentration camps were special prisons that were initially meant to function a lot like the aforementioned internment camps. However, the Nazis didn't wait long to start doing terrible things to the internees, such as using them as slave laborers, performing medical experiments on them, or simply executing them. Unlike the Japanese internment camps, the Nazi concentration camps were intended primarily to get rid of any people that the government didn't like- Jews, Russians, Poles, Romany, homosexuals, political opponents, and so forth.
Why are concentration camps still being preserved today?
The camps have been turned into museums, tourist attractions. Most also serve as memorials.
How many death camps in the world?
Unfortunately, there were dozens upon dozens of death camps, or concentration camps as the Nazis preferred to call them. However, they were all centered in Germany and Poland. Poland was primarily where the camps were because that was basically 'Jew central'. It was also the first country in the war to be invaded and conquered.
How are Holocaust and concentration camp are related?
Yes. Unfortunately they were.
The holocaust was the persecution of the Jews, by Adolf Hitler. It mainly started when he became Dictator in Germany in 1934, after his predecessor died.
Hitler spread the word around that Jewish people were bad, people loyal to the devil. He had many Jewish people sacked from their jobs, and replaced with Nazi-loving, pure-german men. Especially the ones from the high-standing jobs.
The Jewish almost became a taboo, and they were hunted in the streets by the SS, Hitler's secret police. it became dangerous for anybody to hang around, or be too friendly with Jews. It even got to the stage where you could not shop in a Jew's shop without being a target for the SS yourself.
The Jews were degraded, their citizenship taken away from them.
Concentration camps were built almost as soon as Hitler became Dictator. Homosexuals, communists, criminals and other minority classes were also thrown into the camps, but the Jews were by far the most persecuted.
This happened in all of the countries Germany occupied, especially Poland.
Soon, some of the concentration camps turned into extermination camps.
6 million Jews died.
He rescued at least 80 Jewish children during the Holocaust
Hyperkalemia or hypokalemia which is more serious?
hyperkalemia as it may cause heart arrythmias and sudden death, where hypokalemia generally just causes malaise, muscle weakness and tetany.
hyperkalemia as it may cause heart arrythmias and sudden death, where hypokalemia generally just causes malaise, muscle weakness and tetany.
How did Father Maximillian Kolbe die in Auschwitz?
He was initially starved and then was injected with poison. His body was then burned.
What four groups suffered the most as a result of the Holocaust?
- Jews (about six million killed)
- Soviet prisoners of war (about 3.3 million killed)
- Gypsies
- Non-Jewish Polish civilians
Are there any Nazis been captured in recent years?
Ninety-seven year old Czech Laszlo Csatary was apprehended and arrested in Budapest 18 June 2012 for war crimes he had been convicted of in absentia. Csatary ran a brick factory in Kosice from where thousands of Jews were sent to Auschwitz.
Did some Jews migrate to avoid the concentration camps?
Yes. However, by the time the 1930s had arrived, with the sudden spike in hatred of Jews by Germany, nationalism and border-control had also spiked, and people were suddenly unable to immigrate freely to the various destinations.America (for example), which had accepted 1,800,000 Jews before WW1, suddenly made a drastic reduction in the numbers permitted to arrive there. The same thing happened (for other reasons) in the British Mandate in Israel (Palestine).
The only place in the world to which Jews could enter uninhibited was Shanghai; and about 25,000 did so, despite the vast distance and the hardships involved. Even there, the Nazis badgered their Japanese allies to kill the new Jewish community.
Another point is that no one predicted that the Nazis would overrun all of Europe; so that Jews who did move out of Germany were killed anyway.
Also, the Nazis used a tactic of deception, right up to and including the last few minutes in the gas chambers which were presented as showers. Very few people were aware of what the Nazis were perpetrating. What was happening was unprecedented and inconceivable even as it was going on.
How many German Jews fled to the UK before and during World War 2?
hm,alot of them did. But Hitler was so greedy and sick in the mind that none probably survived,i'm sure some did,but they are probably dead. just remember that whatever race/religion it DOESN'T MATTER! WE ARE ALL THAT SAME!
Who made an attempt on Hitler's life in the Diary of Anne Frank?
In the book, Diary of Anne Frank, it was a German Generalist who made an attempt on Hitler's life.
How did people survive in ghettos during the holocaust?
It's not very cozy inside a ghetto home. If you've been to student apartments this is probably worth living like compared to the ghetto. The social life is about the same, but ghettos have a tendency to squeeze several people together in a tiny hole. Another thing you could compare to a ghetto are the gavel's, for example in Brazil, that exert the same kind of charm that would make you strive after not growing up poor.
Who authorized the idea that non-Nazis had to die?
Adolf Hitler.
It was not non-Nazis, most Germans were non-Nazis. But yes, it was sanctioned by Hitler.
What did the Nazis do with all of the Jews posetions?
Almost everything of no value was destroyed or stored in mass. Nazis kept anything of value, including money, gold, jewels, etc.
