Holocaust

To remove their star was to deny their faith. That was not an option!

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There were penalties for removing the star.

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Also, sadly, the SS at the time had rather detailed dossiers on just about everyone who frequented the synagogues for prayer, as their names were written down by the synagogue for record. A list of people who pray became a hit list. With their names already in hand, the stars pretty much became irrelevant (not to offend, just stating that it wasn't a big identifier once their names were out, etc)

I am current reading "Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family" She was being interviewed by a German officer, and was left in one of the back offices of the Prinsengracht... he told her that if she ran away, he was take her husband. So there she waited until they left. When she exited the office, the Frank Family was gone.

Most of the Jews who left Germany did so legally in 1933-1941, having had to pay for permission to leave. In other words, it was much less of a 'cloak and dagger' matter than the question suggests. Obviously, many Jews went to countries like France, Belgium and the Netherlands which later invaded by Germany ... One of the big disadvantages of fleeing illegally is that it usually meant one didn't enter one's country of refuge legally, either. Migration was very strictly controlled in the interwar period. Since most Jews don't look like the common stereotypes, there was no need for the kind of disguise that question assumes. Obviously, those who fled illegally had the sense not to do so in specifically Jewish garb.

They were not called that. They were called prison camps. Unlike the German concentration camps of World War 2, prisoners were not deliberately put to death. Prisoners were given very meager rations. They went hungry. In the Confederate camps, they received the same meager rations as the solders in the field. They too went hungry. The solders in the field would steal food as they marched through the land. They only went hungry as they camped and depended on the supply wagons for food.

I know because i have seen how many people were taken from each region. I follow the number of 5.9 million.

The collection of data follows different sources, in some cases we only have one type of source (eg how many departed from a region), in other cases we have exact data of the numbers on trains and the number of trains and the numbers on arrival.

Other people have used cencus data ( i personally chose no to go with this method), in almost all of the regions Jews were registered with their local synagogue and one can calculate the numbers before the war and after the war. For me this opens up too much room for error as many survivors did not return home and it does not include those who did not consider themselves Jewish (but never-the-less were victims anyway), also pre-war borders were different to the changing borders during the war and to those post-war this method would give you results that many follow like 5.7 million.

If you are really interested, then look to the method of the historian (or institute) and decide for yourself which you consider more reliable (or less room for error). But because some of the data has very little chance of error (like with the Polish Jews) deviations from the number are not great.

No. The limit when abortion is legal is before a fetus is viable. They are not being killed but they get no treatment because they can not survive. They are not developed enough. For a baby born premature at 24 weeks it still only has 50% chance.

First of the number 6 Million is a median value of several estimates which reach, as far as I am aware of, from 5.9 to 6.5 million. That said, these estimates are arrived at by taking a variety of sources and combining them. The most complete and accurate source was of course the Nazis them selves, both in written documentation as well as witness accounts during the Nürnberg Trials.

There is for instance the so-called Hoefle-Telegram in which a SS-Sturmbannführer Hoefle from Lublin informs Adolf Eichmann the organizer of "Aktion Reinhardt" (Extermination of Polish Jews) that drung 1942 a total of 1,274,166 in four of the eight Extermination Camps.

There is also the witness account of the commandant of the Camp at Auschwitz, who stated during the Nürnberg Trials: "Another improvement we made over Treblinka was that we built our gas chambers to accommodate 2,000 people at one time, whereas at Treblinka their 10 gas chambers only accommodated 200 people each. [...] The prisoners would be marched by one of the doctors who would make spot decisions as they walked by. Those who were fit for work were sent into the Camp. Others were sent immediately to the extermination plants. Children of tender years were invariably exterminated, since by reason of their youth they were unable to work. [...] We were required to carry out these exterminations in secrecy but of course the foul and nauseating stench from the continuous burning of bodies permeated the entire area and all of the people living in the surrounding communities knew that exterminations were going on at Auschwitz."

Then there is the account of SS Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop, who was in charge of the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto and who documented the transport of 300.000 Jews to the Extermination Camp in Treblinka.

Another source are the records and testimony of Adolf Eichmann himself, who oversaw in large parts the transportation to the camps via trains. Yet another source is the Polish census prior to and after the war, indicating that over 3.5 million Jews were "missing" from that country alone.

The list of sources is virtually endless.

A lot of hub hub is made of the supposed impossibility of murdering 6 million Jews in the time the Nazis had. But if you ONLY take the account of Ausschwitz' commandant, that their Gas Chambers held 2,000 persons and multiply this by 365 days and 2 years you already arrive at the number of just above 1.4 million, which are said to have died in this one of eight camps. And again, this is corroborated by the Hoefle Telegram for the year 1942.

I hope this answers your question.

about 23.

He thought that pure Germans, especially Aryans (blond hair blue eyes) were at the top of the scale, with Jews at the bottom, Slavs ranked slightly above Jews, then there were Negroes and other races going up to Nordics, and Aryans. Gypsies were a bit more complicated as they were Aryans, but were considered anti-social, there were other types who were considered inferior because they were differently-abled or criminal, but everyone was considered superior to Jews.

they had to surrender their property

Mostly camps in Poland.

Very few young children survived the Holocaust, once they reached the camps. The Nazi Germans judged them unsuitable for forced labour, and immediately executed them. Older children, teenagers, if they were strong enough were allowed to work, but few survived the mistreatment. Boys had to struggle to survive in harsh working conditions. Many young girls were forced into prostitution for the soldiers, and suffered great mental and physical anguish.

Some young children were saved when their parents sent them away to distant relatives or gave them to non-jewish neighbors, but these were exceptional cases. Most parents thought that it would be safer to keep their family together and so usually they all went to the concentration camp. Once inside the camp, almost no children escaped. Some grew up and survived to end the war in the camps, when they were finally liberated by the Allied Army.

I think you mean "How the Holocaust WAS led". Well, a man named Adolf Hitler who was once in German politics. Later into his life, he became involved with the Nazi's or the "National Socialist German Workers Party". He eventually became the leader of the Nazis. He believed that the Jew, homosexuals, disabled, and anyone that was different than him, was inferior. Therefore, he started to act on his feelings and started to exterminate all of the people who fell under this category. The Nazis followed whatever he said and told them to do, even if they knew it was wrong.

Hope this helped!

The Jewish ghetto police secured the deportation of Jewish people to the concentration camps. They were also not permitted to carry weapons.

It would only be those Germans who did not consider themselves as Jewish who would be prosecuted, they would have to prove that they were not Jewish, but lived as gentiles. Jews were generally not prosecuted as they were not given the luxury of a trial

Because they felt bad for the Jews. If there was a genocide, who wouldn't feel bad?

There was millions of children who walked in and only 100 children came out alive and in good health,

Hitler started the Holocaust.

Adolf Hitler, who became leader of the Nazi Party or NSDAP in the 1930s, attributed many of Germany's problems to the Jewish minority, already antagonized in Germany. Eventually, the party caused violence against Jews to escalate, and on Kristallnacht (night of the broken glass), Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues were vandalized, raided, and destroyed. Hitler ordered that Jews be moved to Ghettos, hoping that they would eventually starve and fight each other to death. This taking to long, Hitler came up with the "Final Solution", the genocide known widely as the Holocaust.

I don't think the Nazis generally killed for mere possession of books.

The main book burning in Nazi Germany took place in May 1933.

Yes, he continues to be on of Jehovah's Witnesses up till this very day

It really depends, especially on your purpose there and how you worked.

Some survived to tell the story whilst other died soon after arrival or a couple months later (approximately 3-8 months).

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there was a world war, Japan was rapidly taking over the far east, France had fallen, Britain and her allies had won the Battle of Britain, Germany and the rest of the Axis powers had turned their attention to the east, and the United States was neutral.