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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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What happen to the jewish refugees aboard the Ss St. Louis?
650 survived the Holocaust, 250 died in it.
What was the average weight of the prisoners in the Holocaust?
acording to my calculations with bone and skin mass, approx, 2 pounds
What concentration camp is nearest ramstein Germany?
Natzweiler-Struthof
from wikipedia:
Natzweiler-Struthof was a German concentration camp located in the Vosges Mountains close to the Alsatian village of Natzwiller (German Natzweiler) in France, and the town of Schirmeck, about 50 km south west from the city of Strasbourg.
Natzweiler-Struthof was the only concentration camp established by the Nazis on present-day French territory, though there were French-run temporary camps such as the one at Drancy. At the time, the Alsace-Lorraine area in which it was established was administered by Germany as an integral part of the German Reich.
Natzweiler-Struthof was operational between May 21, 1941 until the beginning of September 1944 when the SS evacuated the camp into Dachau. Its construction was overseen by Hans Hüttig. The camp was evacuated and sent on a "Death march" on early September 1944 with only a small SS unit keeping the camp's operations,[1] and on November 23, 1944, discovered and liberated by American Allies as the first concentration camp in Western Europe.[2] Its system of subcamps is listed in List of subcamps of Natzweiler-Struthof.
The total number of prisoners reached an estimated 52,000 over the three years originating from various countries including Poland, the Soviet Union, the Netherlands, France, Germany and Norway. The camp was specially set up for Nacht und Nebel prisoners, in most cases people of the resistance movements.
The camp holds also a crematorium and a jury rigged gas chamber outside the main camp, which was not used for mass extermination.
Strenuous work, medical experiments, poor nutrition and mistreatment by the SS guards resulted in a documented 4,431 deaths. Among those who died here were four female SOE agents executed together on July 6, 1944: Diana Rowden, Vera Leigh, Andrée Borrel and Sonya Olschanezky. Since the female prisoner population in the camp was small, only seven SS women served in Natzweiler Struthof camp (compared to more than 600 SS men), and 15 in the Natzweiler complex of subcamps. The main duty of the female supervisors in Natzweiler was to guard the few women who came to the camp for medical experiments or to be executed. The camp also trained several female guards who went to the Geisenheim and Geislingen subcamps in western Germany.
Two Royal Air Force airmen (F/O Dennis H. Cochran, and F/L Anthony R. H. Hayter) who were involved in The Great Escape, and murdered by the Gestapo after re-capture, were cremated at Natzweiler.
Among the inmates were also the Norwegian resisters Per Jacobsen who died there, Tor Njaa en route, and Charles Delestraint, leader of the Armée Secrète who died later in Dachau.
63 Sub-Camps
These subordinated camps were located on both sides of the German-French border. There were about 50 subcamps in the Natzweiler-Struthof camp system, located in Alsace and Lorraine as well as in the adjacent German provinces of Baden and Württemberg. By the fall of 1944, there were about 7,000 prisoners in the main camp and more than 20,000 in subcamps.[1]
The number of people killed in the Holocaust in Nazi Germany during World War 2?
6 million jews were killed in ww2 in the holocast
What were the names of the six Nazi extermination camps?
The six major concentration/extermination camps in Poland were:
#1. Auschwitz-Birkenau Deaths-1,400,000
#2. Treblinka Deaths-870,000
#3. Belzec Deaths-600,000
#4. Lublin/ Majdanek Deaths-360,000
#5. Chelmno Deaths-320,000
#6. Sobibor Deaths-250,000
These camps are in order and Auschwitz-Birkenau was the only camp to kill more than one-million civilians.
What was the motivation behind the holocaust?
The Holocaust was motivated by ethnic selfishness. The Nazis figured that they could murder all the Jews of Europe, blame the Jews for all the problems in the world, and then steal everything that the Jews owned, to their own great enrichment. Even the bodies of murdered Jews were a source of profit. Some people had gold fillings in their teeth, some people had long hair that could be sold to wig makers, fat could be used to make soap, skin could be used to make leather.
What was the plan to kill the Jews and undesirable called?
1. The plan to exterminate the Jews was called the Final Solution of the Jewish Question.
2. The plan to kill uncurables was called Operation T4.
Why did hitler balme the jews for the holocaust?
He blamed them for Germany's terrible economic conditions. He also used that as an excuse to confiscate their property and belongings, some of which brought great wealth to the Nazi party members.
Because he believed that Jews were a blight to humanity and he took it upon himself to try to annihilate them.
Hitler and his Nazi officials were strongly anti-Semitic and thus the Holocaust.
What percentage of Germany was Jewish?
Using the criterion of at least one Jewish grandparent the proportion of the Jewish population in Germany just before the Nazis came to power was about 1.3-1.4% of the population. Practising Jews were about 0.8% of the population.
Who was responsible for the deaths during the holocaust?
There's plenty of guilt to go around for that, but if you have to bring it down to one person most responsible for carrying it out, it would be Heinrich Himmler.
Jewish people were killed during World War 2 because Hitler thought that they were beneath the German race. There were millions of Jewish people that were killed during this time.
How is the holocaust and the trail of tears alike?
They were not that different at all, in overall outcome and events.
The "Holocaust" (extermination of Jews and Pol's (persons from Poland)) killed more people and that is about all of the differences.
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The trail of tears was one part in the government's actions against the aboriginal population, where as the Holocaust is the collective name for all the actions.
The Nazis made a lot of different anti-Jewish Decrees that they introduced slowly at first in an effort to keep civilians from realizing exactly how strong Nazi Antisemitism was. They were anything from publicly burning Jewish books and publications to school closings and deportations. They were considered 'actions' and decrees.
What kind of people were sent to the Auschwitz camps?
Anyone who was considered 'inferior' to the master race - the Aryans, that is. These people included:
-Anyone with ties to Judaism
-Gypsies
-Bible Students (now called Jehovah's Witnesses)
-Mentally and physically disabled persons
-Communists
-Enemy soldiers
-Political enemies (anyone who opposed Nazism)
Why did the Jews go to the gas chambers?
Why were the Jews gassed? Hm, Probably because Hitler thought it was an easier way of killing the innocent Jews. Obviously, you can see that Hitler was very Genocidal.
It depends what is meant by the word "killed". If "killed" means "responsible for ordering or taking the life of", then the answer is certainly Adolf Hitler, who masterminded the Einsantzgruppen and the Final Solution as ideas and approved them, resulting in the death of 6 million Jews. Hitler, however, did not actually go out and physically murder Jews in large numbers, leaving that to his subordinates. The person who probably took the most Jewish lives by his own hand is the man who dumped the Zyklon B cartridges into the largest gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau, who was a very "average" low-level worker in the camp.
How many Nazi people died in world war 2?
This is an enduring conflict. Some Germans wer Party members, many who were not members were still loyal Germans. At the point of its ascension to power in 1933 its membership was only about two million. At the highest membership point the Nazi party existed at the 8.5 million level. Many had become party members to secure or maintain positions of employment, to secure business connections or contracts and some sought social status. To be a Nazi was sometimes a very loose affiliation. It was often a matter or convenience or a way to cash in on a trend. Some but not all were Nazis. Some Nazis hid under this cloak and became "invisible". We know that many survived like Eeichman and Mengele. Never attempt to compare Germans with Nazi's and remember that among Germans there is also the rare possibility of a hidden Nazi.
Were all concentration camps killing centers?
No. Historians distiguish between #1 extermination campsand #2 ordinary concentration camps. The extermination camps were killing centres and served no other function and had very few survivors. Conditions at concentration camps varied and many inmates survived.
Please see the related question.
Why did the Nazi's take the shoes of their victims of the holocaust?
This was actually part of an overall scheme for financing the Holocaust. Otto Funk, the head of the Reichsbank, had worked out a scheme where all of the regular junk that people carried with them when they travelled to the concentration camps (eye-glasses, worn out shoes, battered suitcases, socks with holes in them, etc) would be collected and used as 'collateral' for loans that were issued to the SS for the various needs to make the Holocaust work (the railroads had to be paid, the guards had to be paid, the manufacturer of the Zycklon B poison gas had to be paid, the workmen who built the crematoriums had to be paid, etc). Most of the things collected were never intended to be used for anything (the dental gold would be recycled into new teeth, the gold is not the same quality as monetary gold), they just piled up in warehouses that were set up as make-shift 'vaults.'
This was very troubling for the American forces that were liberating Germany when they would find warehouses crammed full of scuffed-up baby shoes.
How many people did Adolf Hitler kill because of his religious beliefs?
Almost none.
Six million people were killed because they were Jewish, but Hitler did not care if they believed or not. People were classified as Jewish if they belonged to their faith, or if their parents or grandparents did. Peoples of other faiths were also killed, namely priests and Jehovah's Witnesses, but this was because of what they did, or did not do, not because of what they believed.
Was there any good reason for hitler to kill so many jews?
Hitler was a purely psychotic person. His main reason being that he wanted to kill the Jews was to extinct their race. He had no legit reason to kill those innocent people, he was just a very racists person!
Were any other people other than Jews sent to work camps?
The Concentration Camps (also known as Work Camps, Death Camps and more) were not just for Jews. Many thousands of non Jewish Germans were sent there simply for disagreeing with the Nazi Party or failing to serve in their armed forces. Political openents, diabled persons, gypsies and generally non Ayrian (persons who fit the physical and genetic profile of Naziism) were sent. Also members of the armed services (some very high ranking) or past members of their services who refused to join.
