Holocaust

The word "holocaust" is a noun meaning a fire, or Holocaust meaning a genocide in World war II.

The adverb form for the common noun would be the ungainly "holocaustally" or "holocaustically."

Executions were one means of physically liquidating prisoners and people brought from outside the camp. At first, people were shot to death in the pits near the camp from which gravel had been dug. From the autumn of 1941 until the autumn of 1943, most of the executions by shooting took place in the courtyard of Block 11 in the main camp. Most of the victims here were Poles, who received sentences of death by shooting from, for instance, the Gestapo summary court.

Soviet prisoners of war were also executed at Auschwitzconcentration camp. Beginning in September 1941, executions were also carried out using poison gas.

At least 2,000 Soviet prisoners of war were put to death in this way. After the dismantling of the Death Wall in 1944, larger groups of Poles sentenced to death by the police summary court were executed in the gas chambers. Executions by hanging were carried out sporadically in the camp. As opposed to shooting or killing in the gas chamber, hanging was public. It was carried out in front of other prisoners, usually during roll call. The goal was to intimidate the witnesses, and the victims were most frequently prisoners caught trying to escape, or suspected of aiding escapers.

The stab-in-the-back legend was a conspriacy theory that claimed that Germany had not been defeated on the battlefield but had been 'stabbed in the back" by subversives (allegedly mainly Jews) on the homefront. It was claimed that these subversives had fomented (encouraged) labour unrest and revolution, which had sabotaged the German war effort. The astonishing thing in World War 1 was that Germany managed to keep fighting for four years plus against an alliance that had vastly more resources and manpower. There was labour unrest in January 1918 but it did not wreck the war effort. By the time of the revolution of November 1918 Germany was militarily and economcially at the end of its tether.

This is a very delicate subject. I am not of Jewish decent, but my father had a dear Jewish friend who was a reporter in Germany. He smuggled many pictures back to Canada and later, when I was 17 years old my father showed me those pictures. Need I say, I was shocked and horrified and was ashamed at this time to be part of the human race. My father then explained what happened, and that we must all learn from such a tragic war in order to honor the lives of those good men, women and children that died in this manner. Unfortunately, my father's friend was captured and his body was never found.

Believe it or not there are many people to this day (including some fine professors in Universities that do not believe Jews were subjected to gas chambers. One professor several years later after the war even went to the gas chambers in Germany to take samples to see if the Nazis had actually used the gas ZykonB or any type of cyanide. He took his samples from between the bricks. His findings were "this did not exist and there was no future proof it did." However, other forensics did a test on the same samples and found too much mortar to give a true reading. The fact of the matter there are pictures to prove it and survivors who have no reason to lie. Many people to this day (even though some witnessed the aftermath of what Hitler's dirty deeds were during the war) refused to believe gas chambers existed. It's called "denial" and YES it did happen! This same professor looked at pictures of what appeared to be well fed prisoners with warm clothing on. This man had to be living under a rock at the time, because ALL countries at war will show the very best of their prisoners and it's called "propaganda." Even our own men who were POWs were shown in pictures as smiling, looking quite healthy , but the truth of the matter is, they are not and these pictures are of new prisoners that have not been in POW camps long enough to look as ravaged as those that had spent months and years in captivity by the enemy. Also this professor could not understand why the Nazi's would go to the trouble of tattooing the prisoners if they were going to exterminate them. Although I hate to put it in this manner ... we brand cattle knowing full well they are going to slaughter!

Many do not know of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. On Passover, April 19, 1943, 2,000 men, Germans, Ukrainian, Baltic troops, Polish police and firemen entered the ghetto which had been cut down steadily size since January. A tank led the way, and the Jews tried to stop it with Molotov cocktails, but they had no effect. Some 650 people in 20 groups moved underground through the sewers to attack the Nazis whenever they could, but within 4 days, Brigadefuhrer Jurgen Stroop ordered the destruction of the entire ghetto "by setting every block on fire." 56,000 were dead, including 5,000-6,000 who were burned alive in the fires set by the Nazis. Jewish women were forced to surrender April, 1943, Warsaw, Poland.

Like most wars it is impossible to give correct stats in body count. There were 6 million Jews (including Gypsies and Polish) that died in these concentration camps and I am sure the count is even higher. Not all prisoners of the concentration camps were murdered in gas chambers. Many were purposely starved to death, etc. Many died on the "death March" in which the Nazis had every intentions of putting them on ships and then sinking them. However, the march was too hard on the already weakened prisoners and many died, others were shot and left on the side of the road like rag dolls. The atrocities are so horrific that I am going to leave you a website to go too and you can study it for yourself and make your own conclusions. I do not want to put on this board the atrocities of what happened to these poor souls and cause pain or anger for anyone.

I would like to add, with great delight, that the U.S. (also British/Canadian) went into these concentration camps to liberate the prisoners and they were so horrified at what they found they forced many of the German People (women, men, and children) to go through the camp to see what their beloved Furer had been up too. Some denied it, some were horrified and others were indifferent. U.S. Army Lietuenant Colonel Seiler, addressed 200 German civilians and forced them to see conditions amid the victims of the holocaust in Landsberg Concentration Camp, Germany May 15, 1945. The liberating armies also made high ranking German Officers bury many of the dead. The liberating armies held services for the dead.

It is a slip of the tongue when one says, "6 millions Jews died in the gas chamber." Many did, but some were tortured to death while others starved to death and there were many diseases that caused the lives of these prisoners.

From each war we must learn not only that there is no winners in war, but we must be forever grateful to those that died (soldiers and civilians alike) and try to bring some peace to this indifferent world we live in. We must also learn that when we yell out "We won the war!" did we? What about all the lives lost of our loved ones. If that's called winning, no thanks!

Here is the website: www.worldwar2database.com/html/holocaust.htm

If you have problems getting on this site please go to:

www.google.com

Then type in ... history of German concentration camps.

Marcy

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Policy of targeting males and females changed during the Holocaust.

At first men were exclusivly targeted, then women and children were also included, by 1943 men were wanted for labour and women and children were tageted for immediated execution, by the end there was no significant difference.

It's a fancy word who people who hate and bait Jews.

From the spring of 1933 onwards.

An unknown but very large number.

The Birkenau section (Auschwitz II) contained the biggest Nazi killing centre of all. The majority of Jews sent to Auschwitz were gassed or shot as soon as practical after arrival.

See also related question.

The Auschwitz Concentration Camp, officially Auschwitz-Birkenau, was the biggest Concentration Camp used by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.

The Final Solution was devised by Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels, which was the plan to exterminate all Jews - they were essentially extremely successful, and Auschwitz was one of the most effective places to do so - it is estimated that as many as 1,1 million Jews (one sixth of all the Jews killed during the Holocaust) and an unknown number of Gypsys were killed here in the gas chamber. Auschwitz was also the location in which Nazi Doctor Joseph Mengele performed his notoriously horrific science projects.

The reason for the Holocaust (extermination of the Jews) and subsequent construction of the Auschwitz was the inherent belief in Nazi Germany that Jews were not humans but something of a lesser value - their very existence was considered a crime and an offense to the "Aryan Race", which Nazi Germany believed was the Master Race of Humanity. Anti-Semetism has excisted in Europe throughout history and was used as a means for popularity by Hitler.

More than 13,000 were arrested. The destruction of the village of Lidice was probably the most notorious thing the Nazis did in retaliation. All 199 men were executed, 95 children were taken and 195 women were arrested. The entire village was destroyed.

Heydrich had been the head of the Gestapo but was promoted to the head of the "Reich Main Security Office", and was the appointed ruler of the Czech Republic. His brutality earned him the nickname "the Butcher of Prague". He was assassinated by Czech rebels at the end of May 1942, although he didn't actually die until the beginning of June.

The Nazis, first and foremost, wanted to capture, torture, torture some more, and then execute the assassins. At first, they were unable to find them, so they arrested anyone and everyone who was around. Thousands of people were arrested, many of whom wound up in concentration camps and were killed.

Additionally, the initial findings of the Nazi investigation erroneously linked the assassins to two nearby towns. The Nazis destroyed those towns, and slaughtered the people. Those who weren't killed immediately, were sent to concentration camps to die.

Eventually the Nazis were able to arrest and torture enough people that they discovered where the assassins where hiding- in a church in Prague. The Nazis surrounded the church, and launched a military-style attack on it; all of the conspirators died, either by wounds or suicide. Also, the bishop at that church (who was not involved in the assassination) surrendered himself to the Nazis in the hopes that they would not attack his parishioners- the bishop and his church staff were arrested, tortured, and killed.

Probably more than 1'000 :(

there probably aren't very many. It would be dangerous if they were to tell anyone that they were in the SS. They probably keep it quite so it's impossible to calculate what it would be. I am just going to guess and say around fifty or one hundred.

How can there be a author of three books that are not written as yet.

According to FBI statistics firearms are the weapons of choice for killers. Followed by knives/sharp instruments and beatings take 3rd place.

Due to their culture, they were told not to fight back. There is something in the Testament where Jesus resided that said "Love your Enimies" therefore, the Jewish are very civil.

no he didn't Yes, Hitler did listen to his people. They loved him because he listened to their ideas and if their ideas were not anti-Jewish he would kill them. He mesmerized them in the Hitler youth program to never question Him. They were taught anti-Jewish ideas early on.

Jews were a primary target, although that was a combination of ethnicity and religion. Jehovah's Witnesses were the only group that was targeted purely based on religion, largely because they refused to support the German war effort. They were also interred in UK and USA for the same reason.

Many other groups were sent to concentration camps as well for other reasons: homosexuals, political dissidents, Russians, Poles, Gypsies/Romany and anyone else who dared to oppose the regime.

These would have been wide mix including Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant, Atheist and more.

No, nothing.

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He did, but it showed itself in jealousy rather than admiration. He admired their sense of community and was convinced that this was a global community

The identity of the informer is not known.

During.

In "Suddenly Last Summer", the camp closes. In the book, before Dr. Steve announced the camp was going to close, Tori's cousin, Cassie sent her a mail asking her to go to Camp Ohana with her. (Camp Ohana is a surfing camp in Hawaii). She invited Natalie (her best friend in camp) to go with her to Ohana but Natalie declines the offer. The camp eventually closes down and some of Tori's Lakeview friends (Jenna, Sarah, Brynn, Natalie, Priya) went to Camp Walla Walla, a camp also runned by Dr. Steve, so Tori accepts the offer from Cassie and goes to Ohana. She was never heard or seen in the Walla Walla books ever since then. There are 3 books (Sunrise, Sunset, Twilight) dedicated to Ohana and there are 5 books dedicated to Walla Walla (Politically Incorrect, Topsy-Turvy, In It To Win It, Reunion, Extra Credit)

Herr Liszt does take advantage of the children's innocence, teaching them antisemitism and nationalist propaganda.

Most prisoners were in their prime, between 18 and 50. But some outside of these ages pretended to be within these ages in order to survive.

There were also the family (gypsy) camps, where children and the elderly lived, but the numbers of people in these camps was proportionately very small.