Holocaust

Firstly, there was a war on at the time and it is easier to hide such actions under the umbrella of a war situation, without the war, the Holocaust could not have happened. (The first phase of the Holocaust was carried out at the front)

The political climate was another factor, the Nazis had always campaigned under a banner of antisemitism and the idea of national unity, (which meant without the undesirables) and 'living space' which bring in the third factor.

Hitler wanted more space for proper German people to live, to do this he had to concentrate the people who currently lived on that land into smaller places, there soon became too many people in too small an area.

Possibly the largest factor was the fact that there was no food to feed these people. When planning the invasion of the USSR, the Germans knew that they would not have enough food to feed everyone and they faced the choice of who not to give food to...

(this of course is not an exhaustive list)

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There is no first factor when it comes to the holocaust. If a starting point is needed one must begin at the onset of the German Empire. That would be 1871. For centuries, since the middle ages, Jews were considered less than full citizens of Germany and groups such as the Völkisch Movement in the 19th century, with political pressure acted to force emigration, isolate, deny citizenship, exclude and eventually use violence to that end. Without this baseline attitude toward Jews they would not and could not be targeted for the next biggest factor. At the end of WWI a surrender was effected by Germany and the subsequent reparations plunged the new Weimar Republik into a crushing depression and hyper inflation. The war was blamed entirely on Germany and the Central Powers. Even with nearly a million men in theater the Kaiser withdrew all German forces. Mainly due to the flu pandemic, many of these men were not able to fight. Germans, including a certain corporal named Adolph Hitler blamed Jews, communists and Bolshevism for this betrayal of German nationalism and pride. Jews became the focal point of the Natonal Socialist Party as the scapegoats in losing WWI. Let just suffice to say the overwhelming factors behind Jewish persecution happened well before WWII. The next factor would be the emergence of Eugenics. The systematic purification of the Aryan Race was the aim of Health Courts or Erbgesundheitgerischte. This started in 1933 six years before World War 2 began in Europe with the invasion of Poland. Romani, Jews, developmentally disabled persons, and the ethnically impure were sterilized, deported or forced into work camps and ghettos. If you could prove your Jewish grandparents had converted prior to January 18, 1871 you could be considered for Gemeinschaftsfremde or community of aliens. At least in this classification you could be instructed on how to be a good Nazi instead of a work camp and death. Another example of Jewish repression far in advance of WWII. At this point the escalation of violence and animosity toward Jews is apparent. The last blow was the Final Solution. Endlösung, Shoah, Holocaust, or genocide take your pick. A culmination of all of the above factors, the need for Germany to get lebensraum or to retrieve historically Germanic territory, the reclassification of Jewish from a religion to a race, retaliation for WWI, Prewar anti Jewish legislation such as revoking their right to own weapons, hold public office, own newspapers and their denied admission into the Volksgemeinschaft or community of people. All of this and more resulted in Kristallnacht. A response to a German diplomat being killed in Paris was all that Hitler and the SA needed. Violence was the answer, almost every synagogue in the country was vandalized, hundreds of shops were destroyed, 30,000 Jews were placed in concentration camps and it all happened in 1938. Before the invasion of Poland. Many say that the public didn't know. Others say they were aware but bought into the final solution, eugenics and extreme nationalistic ideas. The systematic and efficacious manner with which 6,000,000 Jews and millions of others such as Gypsies, Christians, Homosexuals, Communists, Soviets, Poles, the mentally retarded, political dissidents and anyone thought ethnically impure that is estimated to be as many as 11,000,000 genocide victims must bring one pause. Every government agency was involved yet not one group came to the defense of those who were persecuted. World War Two was not the first thing, it was not the fifth thing, it was not a factor in the Holocaust whatsoever. Hide behind that supposition at your peril.

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Obviously it was the culmination of many factors that led to the Holocaust, without all of these factors it might never have happened, but this is pointless speculation.

As is any attempt to look for the origins of the Holocaust in Imperial Germany. It was the opinion of the first generation of post war historians that you could trace the origins of the Holocaust from the origins of the Nazi party, this is quite frankly not true. It was only in 1941 that the focus moved from mis-treatment and sterilization (and deportation) to a swifter method of extermination.

Despite what Daniel Goldhagen may have you believe, there was nothing especially German about the Holocaust, if one were to predict in 1932 where the Holocaust would occour, it would still be in Poland, but at the hands of the Poles, not the Germans.

Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews. As soon as I have the power to do so, I will have gallows built in rows - at the Marienplatz in Munich, for example - as many as traffic allows. Then the Jews will be hanged indiscriminately, and they will remain hanging until they stink; they will hang there as long as the principles of hygiene permit. As soon as they have been untied, the next batch will be strung up, and so on down the line, until the last Jew in Munich has been exterminated. Other cities will follow suit, precisely in this fashion, until all Germany has been completely cleansed of Jews.

This was an interview given by Adolph Hitler as reported by a Munich journalist named Joseph Hell. The year was 1922. It is up to the reader whether the FACTORS that lead to Shoah began, was enacted or was executed in 1941 in Poland. Most prognostications on an eventual or inevitable genocide in central Europe would be hard pressed to look to the Poles after reading Hitler's true feelings on the matter this early in his life. This was 2 years before he wrote Mein Kampf. An account of this can be read in Hell's book Aufzeichnung which in German means, written account.

Prominent member of the Nazi Party and 'physician' at Auschwitz - he oversaw many cruel and twisted experiments performed on Jewish inmates at the infamous concentration camp.

Irene Gut Opdyke hid Jews in a hidden room in a laundry room, then in a vent in Major Rügemer's bathroom, then in Major Rügemer's basement, attic, and cellar which was underneath his gazebo. She also hid some Jews in the woods.

Please have a look at the three related questions below.

Many did while some did not. Anti-Semitism was pervasive in Poland at that time and continues to be today.

by flooding the battlefield with massive amount of foot soldier and medium but destructive tank.. they also had a large amount of anti tank cannon.. they also fought with a high

In 1945, when Anglo-American and Soviet troops entered the concentration camps, they discovered piles of corpses, bones, and human ashes testimony to Nazi mass murder also found thousands of survivors suffering from starvation and disease. After liberation, many Jewish survivors feared to return to their former homes because of the anti-Semitism that persisted in parts of Europe and the trauma they had suffered. Some who returned home feared for their lives and witnessed violent anti-Jewish riots. The largest of these occurred in the town of Kielce in 1946 when Polish rioters killed at least 42 Jews and beat many others.

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One important element of the Holocaust was that the Nazi genocidal machine was aimed not only at the destruction of the European Jewish Community, but also at the Jewish seed itself. It was a war not only against the Jews racial existence, but also against the Jewish procreative potential.

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In the first weeks after liberation, the Allies did not recognize the Jews as a separate group. Nor did they consider them a nationality. This had far-reaching consequences because it meant that camps that housed only Jewish survivors were the exception and that Jews who had suffered persecution were often forced to live in camps alongside their former tormentors, for instance, concentration camp guards.

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With few possibilities for emigration, tens of thousands of homeless Holocaust survivors migrated westward to other European territories liberated by the western Allies and some labored for the establishment of an independent Jewish state in Palestine.

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Following the war, Jewish immigrants who came to the United States were strongly encouraged by their relatives to abandon their European culture, language, religious practices and so on, and to suppress the memory of their experiences. This was no doubt a result of the guilt American relatives felt over not doing more to sufficiently aid the rescue of the European Jews. They were encouraged to look to the future - that this was more important than the past. Denial, however, proved to be ineffective. In the 1950's, when the children of survivors were of age to be Bar Mitzvahed, painful memories were stirred when survivors and their children became acutely aware of the absence of many relatives at these celebrations.

Yes. Jealous frustration on the in average smarter en richer jews. Left wing people are jealous.

Yes for the first part, no for the second.

Maus : A Survivor's Tale is a graphic novel by Art Spiegleman .

In the diary of Anne Frank many people die and here is why. Mr. Van Daan was taken off to a gas chamber.

Mr.Dussel was sent back to Germany and died at the Neuengamme concentration camp.

When the SS abandoned Auschwitz, in February 1945, to escape the advancing Russians, they took Peter Van Daan with them on the winter march to the west; he was never heard from again.

Mrs. Frank died in the infirmary barracks at Auschwitz on January 6, 1945.

Mrs. Van Daan died at Belsen concentration camp.

Margot died at the end of Febuary or beginning of March from sickness called typhus.

Anne died shortly after Margot from typhus a sickness, she was not yet sixteen.

Otto Frank survived but none of his family did.

Suzy is a very proper girl. She is an american. Leah is a refugee (look it up-or-a person who flees from home or a country.) She is Jewish.

it would depend on who from; anything from nothing to death

The Jews knew with all the things happening around them. There were signs, hate speeches by Hitler, murders and beatings of their people, discrimination or to sum it up, the violation of their religion and people. One major event that made it clear to them that something worse was to be expected was Kristallnacht.

Nobody was killed for simply being deaf.

The above answer is wrong. Many people were killed just because of there disability whether it be big or little. In fact my great great aunt (My mom's dad's aunt) was deaf and killed in the holocaust. as for the exact number, i do not know. sorry that i did not answer your question, but i had to improve the other one.

Two of the better known other genocides include the Ottoman Turkish genocide of about 1.2 million Armenians in 1915-1917 and the slaughter of about 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

horses were used for pulling or carrying things, cows were used for eating, the normal kind of uses.

NO, Zara is a Spanish clothing company base in Barcelona owned by Catholic conglomerate of investors.

The Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942 was short (about 90 minutes) and was only concerned with co-ordinating the various agencies involved in carrying out the Holocaust. It was not concerned with policy. The decision to embark on the Holocaust was taken at a much higher level and earlier. The Holocaust was already under way at the time of the Wannsee Conference.

he had to report upwards. Within the camp there were commanders of smaller sections that would report to him.

Yes, the French politician Marine Le Pen is a Holocaust denier.

he applied for art school, but a jew got the place instead

Basically he didn't, there were others much more proficient at that kind of thing. Hitler holds responsibility for the Holocaust, but he was not up to the task of organising and executing it.

The Nazis tried to claim that Jesus was not a Jew, but was the son of a roman legionary from Germany.

Eisenhower enjoyed light reading. He had enough heavy material on his plate.

He read Westerns and enjoyed Western films.