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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 were all Jews treated the same way during World War 2?
because Jews are Jews. All Jews were seen as the same and none were treated more favourably than any others.
How many Jew were killed out of a total population of Jews living during the Holocaust?
Approximately six million of the estimated nine million Holocaust victims were Jewish.
Why were many Jews refused entry to many countries in the 1930s?
- High unemployment. (It was the 1930s).
- Antisemitism.
What was the first concentration camp found?
dachau
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Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp to be founded (March 1933), the first major concentration camp to be found (and liberated) by an Allied army was Majdanek (July 1944).
What does Holocaust mean in English?
it means burned whole
it means destruction or slaughter on a mass scale caused by fire or nuclear war
What day and year was the Jewish concentration camps liberated?
They were liberated at different times as the allied forces - US, Britain and Russia advanced into Germany on three fronts. Bergen-Belsen was relieved by the British in April 15, 1945. After liberation the British maintained the camp for at least five years containing the prisoners as the levels of disease such as Typhus was so high that they were afraid of the disease spreading outside. Conditions obviously were much better than during the war with cinemas etc. However, according to a British soldier who wrote about his experiences there, he believed more prisoners died after the British took control than during German occupation. A second reason for the British occupation of the camp was their reluctance to allow jews to leave to go to fight in Palestine. In fact the camp became a centre of arms smuggling and terrorist recruitment centre.
Who was invited to the holocaust?
There's a big misunderstanding here. The question makes it sound as if the Holocaust was some kind of social event or party! Please see the related question.
What happen to the 10st and 82nd airborne on the night prior to the invasion?
the 101st and 82d Airborne as well as the British Airborne dropped behind German lines at Normandy, France very early on the morning of 6 June 1944
Vilnius is the capital city of Lithuania and boasts nearly 25% of the Baltic State’s income, as one of the largest financial centers. The region remains one of the largest Jewish communities and areas to study the Torah in Eastern Europe.
Shortly after the fall of the Soviet Empire, the KGB headquarters was reopened as the Museum of Genocide. Many tortures and executions took place in the basement of this building, including Jews in the holocaust days and later, wealthy residents of which the KGB had suspicion. To keep the original integrity, the museum features a glass floor, under which real remnants of torture remain, as well as a nearby water-torture room.
Compliments of a communist empire, the remaining electric buses are a convenient and fun way to travel the city and see the historic Gates of Dawn, Old Town and Uzupis neighborhood.
Historical travelers and sightseers traveling in Eastern Europe may enrich their experience with a stop in Vilnius.
Why do other countries fight with the Jews?
Other countries fight with Jews because they are not like the Nazis and the other countries don't discriminate people but some countries still disseminate people because of their race and/or religion and/or their sexuality
Auschwitz roles in the holocaust?
It roles as to be run as a concentration camps and a extermination camp
Kill as much jews as possible whiles making a profit from the labour workers
What caused Hitler to hate Jews and homosexuals the most?
The holoucast wasn't about Hitler hating the Jews or Jehovahs Witness or homosexuals or anyone else. He blamed all of Germanys problems (losing World War One, bad economy, other countries hating Germany, low national pride) on groups of people that Germany would go along with hating. The Jews were the biggest target because the bible blames the Jews for turning Christ over to the Romans. They were also stereotyped as wealthy, money-hogging people. Becuase of the bad economy, many Germans were very, very poor, and Hitler blamed the Jews, saying they were taking and hoarding all the money, leaving Germans to die. The German population wanted to believe this. This was entirely untrue, but it started the discrimination against Jews. Hitler used this hatred to gain power, IE saying 'Vote for me, I'll take care off the Jews'. Once he WAS in power, and the Nazi political party had complete majority, he passed all sorts of laws making himself dictator. It all went downhill from there. :'( As far as homosexuals go, well, they got hated on all the time. Like the Jews, there was a general mistrust of homosexuals. He played on this as well to gain power. It's generally believed that Hitler himself didn't hate Jews in particular, but only used them to gain power, to accomplish his main goal, making the perfect race. (Blonde, blue eyes, hooked nose, Aryan descent)
How did Hitler use the laws strategically to make the Holocaust?
laws regarding the Holocaust were made retrospectively, as Hitler found out about what happened in the Holocaust, he backdated orders so that the actions were made to be legal.
What happened to Rudolf Hoess after the war?
I had a cousin in the Berlin Brigade (US) in the 70s who several times was a guard at Spandau. The guards were not supposed to speak to Hess or interact with him in any way. But he'd try to talk to them, try to bum a cigarette. If you talked to him, or gave him a cigarette, he'd rat you out and get you in trouble.
All the foregoing is if you believe the man in Spandau Prison was actually Hess. Chances are he was not. During the Nuremberg trials this prisoner acted "crazy" and had little meaningful interaction with the other Nazi defendants, who were men he had known well, supposedly, before flying off to England on his crackpot self-appointed mission in 1940. But if he was merely a lookalike, he would not have known his codefendants, and would have wanted to avoid trying to have conversations with them, when he would have been at a loss when they brought up the old days. Similarly, he refused to have any visits from his family for a year and a half after the war was over, until there had been time for letters to be exchanged. All the information he seemed to have about his own "family" was what they had written him post-war, and he would cleverly parrot this back to them in his own letters. The elapsed time of "Hess"s flight to Scotland was an hour and a half longer than an ME 110 could remain in the air. But the most conclusive evidence was presented by a British physician, who as a British Army doctor had occasion to treat Hess during a month while the British were guarding the prison. The real Hess was shot through the chest leading an attack in WWI. When a person is shot with a modern, high powered weapon, the track of the bullet through the body is visible for the rest of their life on X-rays, as a "soft tissue displacement track". This is true even if the scars of the entry and exit wounds should somehow miraculously disappear. The prisoner in Spandau had neither entry nor exit wound scars, and no soft-tissue displacement track, which is impossible, if he had been shot through the chest. It was a year or more before this doctor had occasion to see Hess again, and he tried to bring up the subject. The man appeared terrified, and would only say "Too late! Too Late!". Whatever hold whoever (perhaps unrepentant Nazis) might have continued to have over him, to keep him in his lonely imprisonment for so long, went to his grave with him, after the Russians were his last guards.
Answer 2:Since Rudolf Hess's death is controversial I am giving you this answer:From Wikipedia under the heading of Rudolf Hess:
"On 17 August 1987, Hess died while under Four Power imprisonment at Spandau Prison in West Berlin, at the age of 93. He was found in a summer house in a garden located in a secure area of the prison with an electrical cord wrapped around his neck. His death was ruled a suicide by self-asphyxiation. He was buried at Wunsiedel in a Hess family grave plot sold to his family by the Vetters of the Sechsämtertropfen bitter liquor company of Wunsiedel. Spandau Prison was subsequently demolished to prevent it from becoming a shrine."
Sources:
"Hess Dies at 93; Hitler's Last Lieutenant". New York Times. 23 August 1987.
"Germany The Inmate of Spandau's Last Wish". Time (magazine). 31 August 1987
What did people do with diabetes during the Holocaust?
The Germans took everything away from Jews they sent to the camps and they died slowly. See the video on You tube of Holocaust Auschwitz Survivor Renee Firestone she witnessed people suffering to death without there insulin.
What is a holocaust word that begins with E?
* Eichmann, SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolph - head of Gestapo
Einsatzgruppen
What happened to Swedish Jews during World War 2?
Sweden was neutral in World War 2, so Swedish Jews were safe in Sweden.
What events took place in the movie Schindler's list were different from the real events?
There were many differences, historians have written whole papers on this subject.
The thing to bear in mind that a movie, any movie cannot be totally accurate, or it would bore the audience. But i will include a few issues that you should be aware of when watching the film:
The film totally eliminates the role of Mrs Schindler, for example when the women are accidently sent to Auschwitz, it is she who saves them.
The clearing of the ghetto did not happen as it was shown, the inhabitants were given notice and told when they would have to move.
Schindler's final scene was totally embellished, far from wishing that he could sell a ring to save another person, he left with a car full of money, with his wife and his mistress.
There are many criticisms of the film, including the way that the Jews are only used as a method of telling Schindler's story, the list of issues is long, if you wish to know more, look for a commentary of the film by a historian rather than a film critic, as assuredly from a technical point of view the film is a masterpiece.
