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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 there just men in auscwitz?
Most Jewish women, all children, elderly people, sick people, and disabled people would be killed immediately on arrival in the gas chambers and cremated. Men, and a few women, would be used as slave labor, to dispose of the corpses. When the slave labor became too sick and disabled to work, they were gassed, and replaced by other men. Women who were saved, were used in other ways by the camp, as slave labor.
Why did Hitler believe that disloyalty incur Jewish deaths?
Because the Jewish ran all the banks and his family got in very bad financial dept. He blamed the Jew's.
Why did Hitler want to free Europe from the Jews and Communism?
Because the Germans began to blame the Jewish because the Germans lost the war. The Germans did not want to accept the fact that they lost and they thought that the Jews were the reason for it... so they captured all the Jews from wherever they could find them, brought them to Poland and put them in the concentration camps. In the concentration camps, the Jews were put in very thin layers of clothing, given very less food, etc. If you want to find out more about the Holocaust then you can read Elie Wiesel's book Night. It is a very powerful book and he shares his memories he had in the concentration camps.
What did people do in the concentration camps?
in concentration camps they would have been working for people like the nazis until they would be put into gas chambers to die. However they would be told to work if they wanted be free and go home.(but they were lyin to them.) Some people would have been let free if they were in a good state so that it would incourage more people to want to go.
What did the Gestapo do to the Jews that were in hiding?
They would either shoot them immediately, line them up against a wall and murdered them, shoved them on the already crowded train to a Detention Camp where they were tortured, used as Guinea pigs, used as force labor, starved and raped and eventually placed in crematorium and burned alive. All this, while the rest of the world watched and did nothing to stop it.
What happened after the selections proses during the Holocaust?
Those selected for death or deportation were killed or deported, those who passed went back to whence they came.
Was victims of the holocaust include large numbers of Italians?
Yes, but in relative terms Italy was not as hard hit as many others.
What 3 countries were affected by the holocaust?
The three most affected were no doubt Germany, Poland and the Ukraine.
Why were Jews not allowed to own a radio?
During WWII and the events leading up to it, no one was allowed to own a radio. Those who owned a radio had access to news like the BCC, which was what was actually going on, instead of Nazi propaganda.
What nazi ideology led to the mass murder if Jews known as the holocaust?
The beleif that white non-Jewish "Aryans" were a superior race.
Why did the Jews in Germany wear the star of david?
Because it showed that they were Jews and should be treated differently.
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Quite simply because they were ordered to do so - not from choice.
How could the Jewish people of the holocaust have avoided the holocaust?
Some of the Jews hid like Anne Frank. Others waited until it was safe, and then went to someone who could write them visas or permission papers to get out of the country.
The usual answer is infectious diseases that Columbus and Co brought with them from Europe - diseases that had previously been unknown in the Americas and against with the Native Americans had therefore not built up immunity or even resistance.
By the way, I wouldn't call that an American holocaust as was not deliberate killing.
What took place in death camps?
In the death camps Jews,disabled people, homesexuals, Gypsies and other groups of people who where not seen suitable for Hitlers plans of World domination, where taken to Death camps. First there was the selection, some people where taken straight to the gas chambers and killed, and others where chosen to work depending on there health, Education and personal skills. They where given around 1500 calories a day which is not enough to survive on if you are a working human.
How many people were non Jewish in Auschwitz?
According to research done by the Auschwitz Musuem about 85% of the those killed at the Auschwitz group of camps were Jews. The others included Roma/Sinti (gypsies), Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses and 48 homosexuals.
What year were like holocaust survivors freed?
Majdanek was liberated in 1944, the other camps in 1945.
When did the holocaust happen?
The start date of the Holocaust is not agreed upon. Many date it from the start of the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. It certainly did not start in 1933. But if you were to date it from when the decision to murder all of the Jews in occupied Europe, then it could have started as late as 1942.
The end date is a bit clearer, if you were to put it at the date of Germany's surrender, then a starving inmate who died the day after would not be a victim of the Holocaust. Clearly the Holocaust lives on within any Survivor, what we can say is that the persecution was stopped upon liberation/surrender.
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Systematic mass killings began in late June 1941. The decision to kill all the Jews in Europe was taken before the start of 1942.
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Because of the nature of the evolution of the mass murder; the murdering of the people within the ghettos was not part of the decision to kill all of the Jews in occupied Europe (ie. the Final Solution), it was only later that we see the movement to wholesale genocide, this is why the decision could have been made after the start of 1942.
He believed that he would win the war until close to the end. He thought that he was doing a good thing in the Holocaust and he did not trouble himself details, such as covering up evidence.
What did mordecai do when he learned that all the Jews were to be killed?
assuming you mean Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, then he had to accept his fate along with the others that he had sent to their deaths.
It is not unstable, used properly it is safe. But of course it is harmful if inhaled.
How were the people in the holocaust that got killed?
The Holocaust murdered all kinds of people, from newborn babies to decrepit aged persons and everything in between.
What impact did the German people went along with the nazi policy of persecution of the Jews?
After Hitler started world war two, the Germans saw the real deal. They wanted prosperity and such but that war was so hard on the whole world and the majority of the Germans were not in accordance of Hitler's moral.
