Holocaust

Hitler committed suicide at the last days of the war in europe.

According Vol. 1 of Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler there is no evidence of antisemitism on Hitler's part before 1917, when he was 28.

They were generally cremated and their ashes stored in an urn.

Aside from the Jewish, Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma Gypsies, courageous resisters, other pastors and priest, homosexuals, the disabled and masons were executed by the Nazis. Prior to World War I, there were very few dark-skinned people of African descent in Germany. But, during World War I, black African soldiers were brought in by the French during the Allied occupation. Most of the Germans, who were very race conscious, despised the dark-skinned "invasion". Some of these black soldiers married white German women that bore children referred to as "Rhineland Bastards" or the "Black Disgrace". In Mein Kampf, Hitler said he would eliminate all the children born of African-German descent because he considered them an "insult" to the German nation. Many husbands and wives of Jews in Germany were forced to choose between divorce or concentration camps. Hitler would not allow "interracial" marriages. Those that chose to remain married were punished by imprisonment in camps where many died.

1. The Nazis invaded country after country, and this brought more and more Jews under German control. As a result, the Nazis' self-inflicted 'Jewish problem' grew and grew for them. (In particular, the invasion of Poland and, later, of the Soviet Union, brought a huge increase in the number of Jews under Nazi rule).
2. The war shielded the Holocaust from outside intervention, in much the same way as WW1 shielded the Ottoman Turkish genocide of the Armenians in 1915.
3. The Nazis were able to conduct the Holocaust in Poland, which is difficult to access from, say, Britain.
4. The Holocaust was a kind of 'subplot' of World War 2. Saying this is not intended to diminish its significance but to put it in the context of World War 2.
5. Some historians, such as Christopher Browning, see the Holocaust as part of a wider campaign by the Nazis to rid the world of what the latter called 'Jewish Bolshevism' ('Jewish Communism').

Auschwitz, which consisted of three camps on the main site and a further 45 sub-camps.

More than 28000 Afrikaner women and children died in the concentration camps

Some in the world deny that the holocaust even happened. Jehovah's Witnesses recognize that the holocaust happened, in fact, many of Jehovah's Witnesses were murdered at the hands of the Nazis in concentration camps. There is an entire section of the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC dedicated to Jehovah's Witnesses. The website address for that is : http://www.ushmm.org/education/resource/jehovahs/jehovahsw.php Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Nazi Holocaust and all the other genocides that have occurred are all prt of the composite sign that Jesus gave in Matthew chapter 24, Luke chapter 21, and Mark chapter 13, that indicate that we are living in the "last days" of this present system of things. Jehovah's Witnesses have been able to face, even death, because of the hope that we have that soon this present rulership will be done away with, and God's Kingdom with Jesus Christ as king will rule and even those who have died will be ressurrected to paradise on earth. See the article "Jehovah's Witnesses, Courageous in the Face of Nazi Peril": http://www.watchtower.org/e/19980708/article_01.htm == As one of Jehovah's Witnesses and can say that the Holocaust definitely happened and it was an extreme test of fait to be taken away from their homes and put in concentration camps but many were able to endure and survive. Those who died will have the chance to be resurrected and live forever in a paradise earth because they died faithful to Jehovah. Another test of faith was when they were tempted to deny Jehovah and offered relief by doing so.

It's estimated that about 1.6 Million Children were sent to Auschwitz during the Holocaust, 99% of these were killed immediately.

The social climate in Germany from 1933 to 1945 was one of gradually growing fear and antisemitism. At first, the German people were very pleased with Hitler and all he did to get them out of their devastating economic depression. Little by little, though, they realized that he was monstrous. By that point, however, it was too late to stop him, though many did try.

I would think so. Probably some of them did from being there so long.

Being Objective does not mean being amoral. Rather, it refers to a dispassionate assessment of the facts of something, and then judging the action according to a moral framework based solely on those factual assessments, leaving emotion and (cultural) bias out of the judgement.

By those means, I see no rational basis for claiming that the Holocaust served any valid moral purpose or necessity, based on the basic moral code that Western civilization has used for the past 2,000 years. So, yes, the Holocaust was most certainly objectively wrong.

The fact that the Nazis were able to justify it as right (and necessary) to their own people shows exactly how twisted and far removed their moral code was from that of the baseline Western morality.

No! The holocaust was a very real, very traumatizing event.

NO

Hitler was responsible for the death of many people aside from the Jews during his period of control in Europe. He was dedicated to the extermination of the Jews. however he also killed

Roma and Sinti (Gypsies)

Poles and other Slavs

Political Dissidents and Dissenting Clergy

Persons with Physical or Mental Disabilities

Jehovah's Witnesses

Homosexuals

The fact of the matter was that many people from many walks of life could fall foul of the Nazi party and be assigned to one of the extermination camps to be simply gotten out of the way. The reason that these camps are only associated with the Jews in the general press is that so much of the general press is in Jewish hands.

No one knows for sure but they were many of them....

I think she may still be alive. Please see the link.

Yes it is, as well as 12 other countries. (Note that this relates to public denial).

You could change your question to, "How were people mistreated by the guards in concentration camps, and be more accurate." The guards were at best cold and indifferent. At worst they were cold blooded killers.

At best, they simply did their jobs working with people who would be working while slowly starving to death. They refused to get emotionally close to any one person when they knew the future of the entire group.

At the worst, they enjoyed lying as they led the doomed to the death chamber.

Answer The Jews had been confined in an area of Warsaw that was referred to as the "ghetto". The Warsaw Uprising began on 1 August 1944 when the Germans began rounding up the Jews and sending them to concentration camps.

studing this subject of hitler hating jews, I can disagree on that. He treated every enemy with the same cruelty. He just happened to start somewhere and then proceed for his world domination intention. Other groups were not earmarked for extermination. See related question.

There is really no hard, factual evidence for Hitler's anti-Semitic arguments. At that time Jews were a very small minority but were extremely successful in a high profile way and he wanted to use that against them to benefit his political ambition.

The Nazis whipped out 2/3 of the Jewish population which is a about 7 million Jews. But not only Jews died; smaller races such as Gypies were also exterminated. Altogether, about 11 million people died in the holocaust.