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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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Were Africans part of the Nazis Concentration Camps?
Jewish citizens in Morocco, Algeia, Libya, Egypt and the worst of them all in Tunisia where the "Star of David" was a necessary appendage. Areas under French control like Algeria and Morocco were given severe strictures and were quckly stripped oa all rights of citizenship. Labor gangs of French Jews were sent there without any form of protection. The Jewish presence in North Africa was greatly diminished but still exists today.
The whale that killed three people was not Shamu but Tilikum, the largest killer whale in captivity. He has killed two trainers and a park visitor.
Describe eliezers plan if he is selected for death at Birkenau?
He tells his father while heading to the crematoria "If that is true, then I don't want to wait. I'll run into the electrified barbed wire. That would be easier than a slow death in the flames."
Eliezar doesn't want to die from the flames so he plans to run into the electrified barbed wire because it is a quicker and less painful death.
How were the mentally disabled chosen to die during the holocaust?
The mentally disabled were murdered in German extermination camps by various means (i.e. gassings, shootings, and by the spread of disease, such as Typhus, due to poor conditions throughout the camps) prior to and during WWII.
This was due to the policy of "eugenics". Eugenics was a science (some would say pseudo-science), perpetuated in many places throughout the world at the time (including the United States), that advocated the extermination and forced sterilization of diseased and mentally retarded individuals in order to stop them from breeding and passing on their genes to future generations. This was done due to a number of reasons; for example, in Germany it was done in order to promote the Nazi ideal of a healthy, pure-blooded, Aryan race, but mainly because it was believed that by exterminating and/or sterilizing persons afflicted with the aforementioned deficiencies, certain diseases and mental retardation could be completely eradicated from society. But as we now know, that wasn't the case. Keep in mind, while America did not pursue eugenics on an extermination basis, many diseased, mentally retarded and mentally ill individuals were forcefully sterilized in order to keep them from procreating.
What was Dr Rascher's main role in the Holocaust?
He was one of those notorious SS doctors at Dachau and a fraudster. See the link below for more detail.
Why were the methods used by Himmler's SS effective in furthering Nazi goals?
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These days, Dachau has been turned into a museum/memorial. People from all over the world travel to the former concentration camp to get a glimpse of what the victims of the Holocaust suffered and to remember and honor those who did not make it out alive.
Was Renate Wolff killed during the holocaust?
No one knows, her and her family disappeared without a trace.
What happened to the Jew's in Copenhagen in 1943?
They had to flee, since the German occupational forces in Denmark has been given orders from Berlin to round them up and deport them to concentration camps - just as it had happened in other occupied countries. A German official, Duckwitz, told leading danish politicians about the plan and they in turn got the resistance movement to organise the rescue of the Danish Jews across the Øresund strait to neutral Sweden.
What is the inscription over the main entrance at Auschwitz and what does it mean?
The inscription reads: Arbeit Macht Frei
Translations:
- Work will set you free
- Work liberates
The same cynical slogan was written over the gates of most Nazi concentration camps, including Dachau, Sachenhausen, Theresienstadt and Gross-Rosen.
Inmates who were chosen for slave labour had their own saying or motto, which was "Der Weg in die Freiheit führt durch den Schornstein" - "The route to freedom leads up the chimney".
Buchenwald had the slogan: "Jedem das Seine" - "To each [according to] his just deserts".
Incidentally, both sayings predate the Nazis.
In English the word holocaust means destruction (by burning) on a vast scale; the slaughter of the Jews (and Roma and others) by the Nazis in World War 2. The word was first used in writing in English in this second sense (of genocide) - but without the and not as a proper noun - in 1942. The word is derived from Greek holokaustos which means burnt offering or sacrifice in the Biblical sense.
What did nazi soldiers do to the female Jews if the were pregnant in the camps?
They would kill the babies after they were born to save time and food. They woud treat thewomen the same
What impact did the Holocast have on the Jewish population of Europe?
Only six million Jews were killed by the Nazi's. This isn't a huge statistic.
Most of the Jews dispersed among other European nations and many many more emigrated to the United States.
Ultimately the nation of Israel was formed in the late 1940's and became the homeland of the Jewish people.
Why did hitler have such a big problem with the jews?
I doubt that we will ever know, but I think he was looking for power and some one to blame for everything.
Isi Brauman died because the Germans didn't believe in isi's religion
Was Hitler's final intent to kill all the Jews in the world or in Europe only?
This is a question that calls for an opinion. In my opinion, the answer is an unequivocal YES, Hitler intended eventually to murder every Jew in the world. I believe that Hitler and the Nazis certainly intended to control all of Europe, including eventually England and anyplace else they hadn’t already conquered, and they had already demonstrated by their immediate actions in every area they controlled that their intent was to either shoot on the spot or deport every Jew to the death camps in Poland and elsewhere, to either be worked to death, gassed or shot. After 1941 they declared war on us. Had we lost the war, what would have stopped the Nazis from coming after American Jews?
One of the best overall descriptions of what has become known as The Holocaust may be found at
One of the questions that arise in the minds of most thinking people on learning of The Holocaust (the name that has come to symbolize the deliberate, organized and mechanized attempt by the Nazis to exterminate all of the Jews) is, “Why?” It’s a question that has been on my mind most of my life, and arises every time I hear of yet another genocide, but always the mind returns to try to bend around what the modern, intelligent Germans of the middle 20th Century did to the Jews, starting in Germany. Jews had lived in Germany in apparent peace and harmony with their Gentile neighbors for most of 1700 years. There had been the usual occasional persecutions and pogroms, but for the most part, especially after what is called "The Enlightenment" of the late 18th Century, Jews eventually became accepted into almost every aspect of life and labor throughout Europe. So what happened?
An excellent book on the subject is Hitler's Willing Executioners: ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah. Alfred A. Knopf, c1996. This work postulates that average Germans of any educational and social level harbored a deep, visceral distrust and even fear of Jews. It seemed to be rooted in both Catholicism and Lutheranism: basically, priests and pastors of both faiths would periodically stand in their pulpits and rail against the Jews as “Christ killers.” This sort of nonsense was by no means limited to Germany, as witnessed by the collaboration with the Nazis in “getting rid of their Jews” of conquered peoples all over Europe, including even so enlightened a nation as France! This is particularly frightening when your thoughts turn to your own country. Could it happen here? Why not? Anti-Semitism happens here. Or it might not be the Jews the “next time.” Right now we are in what we call a “War on Terrorism,” but who are most of the terrorists? Radical Islamists. It’s only a short step from there to blaming all Muslims for allterrorism. Do not mistake me: terrorists of any stripe are bad and must be stopped! I just think we need to be careful of turning on our good neighbors “just because” they happen to be … anything we are not.
The main point that Goldhagen makes is that to murder millions requires the complicity of thousands, and it’s a good argument. Hitler, together with Himmler and Heydrich and all the rest of the upper level Nazis could not, by themselves, murder 6 million Jews. They had to have help. Lots and lots of help. And they didn’t murder just Jews. There were Gypsies and gays and people with mental disabilities and so on and on, up to as many as 6 million more. Between approximately 1940 and 1945, to willfully murder 12 million people by shooting and gassing required an enormous number of helping hands, says Goldhagen, and the people doing it had to believe that what they were doing was somehow rightand good and necessary. How else could the nation that produced Schiller and Goethe and Beethoven also have produced so many killers? It’s as good an explanation as any I’ve heard as to the “why” of it.
German Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemoller, who eventually offended the Nazis enough to end up in a concentration camp, said this after the war:
- “First they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out.”
This film is called " Schindler's list" and stars Leam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes When Stephen Spielberg made this movie he insisted that when it was shown on TV that there were to be no interuptions with commercials, so he bought upl all the commercial space.
How big were the rooms in the Warsaw ghetto?
They were of a standard size of the time and place. They were not specially constructed, they were just normal buildings that had been allocated as being in the ghetto.
What was life in the ghetto like?
Life in the gheto was terrible, which goes without saying. Disease ran rampant, and food was exetremly hard to get a hold of. People were stealing from each other and there were always bodies on the streets, covered by newspaper, barefooted because their shoes had been stolen.
People would stand on the streets auctioning off just about anything, from food (even rats, which were commonly eaten, though not advertised by these street vendors as being rats) to shards of mirrors, candles or clothing. Anything was sold.
If you are interested in life in the gheto, I suggest reading "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinell
wtf?dont nobodi be eaten rats, that y we steal food for duh.
What did Hitler do with Jews and why?
He, via his henchmen, sent the Jews to death-camps. That was because Hitler believed that the Jewish race, in particular, was a 'lower' race than others, and that the Jews where to blame for, sort of, everything bad.
The "SS.Skuzzy" really did exist a verry long time ago. The "SSSkuzzy."was built by Andrew Onderdonk in 1882 to clear caraboo road from the carts that were pulled by oxen to bring supplies to build the railroad across Canada.The SS.Skuzzy was built to take supplies to the site that the railroad was beeing built the only way to get the"SS.Skuzzy" through hells gate was to get the chiniese workers to pull the boat through. :)
