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Holocaust
The genocide of approximately 6 million European Jews during World War II planned by Adolf Hitler.
11,094 Questions
How did they kill in the Rwandan genocide?
Most of the killing was done with machettes, and an estimated 800,000 victims were slaughtered in 3 months. This means that the view that killing on the scale and speed of the Holocaust was only possible in an industrial society, using industrial means, needs rethinking carefully.
Who were the people of the past in the Holocaust?
It sounds as if the phrase people of the past is quoted from somewhere. It is not a phrase generally used in connection with the Holocaust, so it would be helpful to have the souce and some background information.
How did the Nazis associate Jewish people with communism and capitalism?
The Nazi's didn't really associate them with communism and capitilism. It was my understanding that the Germans didn't like the Jewish people because when the world including Germany suffered from the great depression, the Jewish people were able to stay well- off because they owned their own little stores. So the Germans were angry with them and thought that they were the reason every thing was bad with their economy. On the night of broken glass the Germans went to Jewish shops and destroyed them.
What were conditions like in military camps?
Young, fresh recruits in both armies were generally eager to fight. Experienced troops, however, knew better. C:
Why did Hitler target the Jewish popultions?
Hitler targeted the Jewish Population because they were for a lack of better words his scapegoat. Since Germany had lost WWI they were blamed for the lost and this is why Hitler opposed them and Killed nearly 6,000,000 Jews in his Concentration Camps during WWII. He Blamed this loss on the Jews to make himself look better in the time of election, but the Jews never Had done anything Bad to Germany. Many believe that Hitler was crazy after being on the front lines in WWI.
Three examples of persecution of the Jews in history?
They are the Holocaust, the concentration camps, and the stars they wore to tell that they were Jewish
Five examples
- In 1096 the Jews in the Rhineland and elsewhere were murdered by Crusaders (if one may call them such).
- Persecution at the time of the Black Death (1348-1351). In many areas the Jews were accused of deliberately causing and/or spreading the plague. Many were killed and others were forced to leave Western Europe.
- c. 1350 onwards. The Jews were persecuted in Spain, and in 1492 those who refused to convert to Christianity were expelled from the country.
- 1881-1917. Following the assassination of Alexander II there was a prolonged series of government-sponsored waves of anti-Jewish violence (pogroms) in Tsarist Russia. Many Jews fled to the U.S. and Western Europe.
- Nazi Germany and the Holocaust.
Who were the Problem groups in Hitler's Eugenics plan?
Jews, Roma (gypsies), homosexuals, the mentally and physically disabled, and Slavic peoples were all brutally treated in Hitler's final solution. Other groups including the poor, 'promiscuous women,' and Russian POW's were dealt with harshly as well.
What were the effects of the Holocaust in the Middle East?
There were numerous effects of the Holocaust in the Middle East. The following are the three most important of them.
State of Israel: This is probably the most common answer. The Zionist project existed long before the Holocaust. (The first Halutzim came to the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine while it was still under Ottoman control -- late 1800s and early 1900s and Ze'ev Jabotinsky encouraged Polish Jews to immigrate to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1937.) However, after the Holocaust, it became clear to the International Community that the Jews needed a place to exist freely and without fear of persecution where previously this sentiment was confined to radicals in the Jewish community. (Most Jews were anti-Zionist or at least not pro-Zionist before the Holocaust.) As a direct result of the Holocaust, the United Nations convened and proposed the UN Partition of the British Mandate in 1947 which gave Israel a legal claim to statehood in 1948.
Nazification of Arab Nationalism: This is usually glossed over, but the root causes of the Holocaust like the Nazi ideology were important in the development of Arab Nationalism. During the Colonial Period in the Arab World, the Arabs felt that while they were the sons of conquerors who ruled vast empires, they were now humiliated and conquered by the British and the French. This feeling of subjugated superiority matched the Nazi profile and as a result, Arabs began pilfering Nazi doctrine and adding it to their own Nationalist sentiments. This caused Arab Nationalism to have a more militaristic and violent character in addition to giving it a more anti-Semitic character. Pogroms and violent persecution of both Jewish and Christian minorities ensued, especially in nations that had direct dealings with the Axis Power like Iraq. The legacy of the Nazification of Arab Nationalism is still quite strongly ingrained in the Arab World.
Mizrahi Jewish Exodus: Because of the two above results of the Holocaust, the overwhelming majority of Jews who lived in Arab countries were forced out of their homes or felt compelled to leave to avoid further persecution and went to Israel, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, in addition to other regions. The amount of Jews in the entire Arab World in 1945 is over ten times the number in 1975.
In the holocaust What happened if you disobeyed an order to participate?
If you disobeyed the Nazi's laws, you would expect death very, very quickly. Their brutality knew no bounds when it came to concern the Jewish population.
If you are referring to the perpetrators: There were no official punishments for what we would consider morally dubious orders. People could request transfers from units who had to carry out these tasks. However the unofficial punishments were very bad. In a unit on the Eastern front; if a person did not want to participate, it meant that they were not as culpable as the rest of the unit and thus the unit would not trust them, this in a unit where everyone had to trust each other with their lives was very dangerous, so this person would be subject to anything from being shunned to being killed by their comrades. If a person requested a transfer, it could be declined because the commanders did not want stories to be spread.
What did Hitler practice against the Jewish religion?
Genocide. However, what bothered the Nazis about the Jews were race, not religion.
Where did Jews hide to avoid the ghettos?
Life in the ghettos was not only restricted and confined, but eventually, everyone in the ghettos was carted to concentration camps.
How were postcards from concentration camp prisoners used by the Nazis?
The Nazis used post cards from the concentration prisoners to find more Jews.
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Most of the postcards would not have been sent to any Jews in hiding. This would have been foolish. Most of the postcards, that were sent to Jews, were sent to addresses in Ghettos.
Some postcards were supplied to the concentration camp prisoners to use to acknowledging the receipt of red cross parcels.
Others had a more sinister purpose. Some prisoners had to send them to relatives still in the ghetos, what was written on them dictated by the SS. They basically said I am fine, I've arrived fine and then the writers were sent for extermination. It is thought they were done to try and hide the genocide from the general population.
Sometimes the postcards were just that. Quick notes sent to people outside the camp to let them know they were still alive.
How many concentration camps were liberated by Russian troops?
The camps liberated by Soviet forces included:
- Majdanek
- Auschwitz (with all its sub-camps)
- Gross-Rosen
- Ravensbrück
- Stutthof
The Nazis themselves destroyed some of the camps in Eastern Europe before the Soviet Army reached them, for example, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno.
They knew about the first routine mass gassings by the end of 1941. The information was passed on by Britain, which had received a report from the Polish underground. However, the first British Foreign Office official who evaluated the report wrote the words 'Bolshevist propaganda?' on it ... I'd be surprised if the US State Department took the report at face value.
Did Stalin send Jews to concentration camps like Hitler?
No, though he turned anti-Jewish in old age (1951 on). There were antisemitic undertones during the Great Purges, but there was no attempt to exterminate ordinary Jews or send them to camps for simply being Jewish.
What happened to danish jews' property after rescued?
There are examples in both end of the extreme : Some Jews reportedly experienced that their flats and houses had been looked after (and even cleaned by women auxiliary), whereas other returned to find their business taken over by others. I'm certainly no expert, but have read a debate by where historians disagreed about what was typical, so apparently the subject is poorly or inconclusively researched.
How did the conflict between the Jews and the Nazis begin and why?
There was no conflict, no war between the Jews and the Germans. If anything, many Jews were inclined to be pro-German. There was a completely unprovoked onslaught by the Nazis against the Jews, mainly because the Nazis regarded Jews as Communists - and Nazism saw the eradication of Communism at its key 'mission'.
I assume that you mean God. It is a question without a simple answer, one that many minds have pondered, but opinions differ.
When did the british turn up in concentration camp?
The first camps were entered by the allies in 1943 and continued to enter and liberate the Jews that could be liberated through 1945. When the Brits entered the Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945 60,000 prisoners were found alive but of that amount 10,000 died a week later of the Typhus disease (Anne Frank died there from that disease) and starvation. I could not find the very first concentration camp the Britons entered but you can get the specific on from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. I have given you their web site on the link below.
What event caused the Frank family to go into hiding?
On June 6, 1942, Otto Frank's family went into hiding, along with another Jewish family, to avoid capture by Nazi troops in occupied Amsterdam. His teenage daughter Anne Frank kept a diary of their activities. The families were discovered in August 1944 and sent off to concentration camps, where only Otto Frank survived. Anne's diary was returned to him and was published in 1947.
When did Kaufering concentration camp close?
There were eleven (!) concentration camps in Kaufering, near Landsberg, Bavaria, of which at least one was a women's camp. They were all sub-camps of Dachau and were closed on 25-27 April 1945.
On the official German list of camps, issued in 1967, they are numbered 709-720.
Why would most of the concentration camps used for labor be located in Germany?
They were ALL located in Germany during the Holocaust besides a few in the taken-over Poland. They were all there because Germany was killing the Jews and they can't put the concentration camps on other countries' land. Besides, they didn't want anyone to know about them killing the Jews.
Basically, this is a common sense answer, but still I have studied WW2 for a long time.
