Holocaust

Ridding Europe of what the Nazis called "Jewish Communism" was their #1 core aim. (The brief pact with the Soviet Union in 1939 was purely tactical). In fact, the original party, the DAP, had been established in Janaury 1919 with this specific aim.

They were taken from the ghettos to extermination camps, where they were killed.

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The Jewish ghettos were sections of the city that were allocated specifially for Jewish housing.

The Japanese-Americans living and working on Oahu Island (where Pearl Harbor and Honolulu are located) had nothing to do with the attack on Pearl Harbor. Japanese Naval Pilots were the ones who perpetrated the attack.

God created two human beings for this earth then just placed them on an uninhabited planet and look what we have made today, not god, us. God is just sitting back and watching, things like storms and cyclones aren't 'evil' persay, they are all our fault, we damage the atmosphere and case all these storms it is the same principle that applies for The Holocaust. Vengenced

Most historians including E H Carr would be outraged that the term 'inevitable' is being used like this. They feel that no historical event can be labelled 'inevitable'. The holocaust must be studied in its own terms, without adding labels to it. I would argue that it wasn't anyway, because events that led to Hitler having power to commit such an atrocity were out of his own hands and may not have unfolded as they did if his subordinates had reacted differently.

Because the nature of soldiering is that you have to do what you are told without question. If you question the orders you are given then you are disobedient. If you disobey then you are in trouble. Even if you are told to do something which you know, or even think, is wrong, then you obey first and then think about asking a question of your superior, having thought about the question then you decide the superior was right anyway. Any alternative to this is not worth consideration. This is not just what happened in WW2 Wehrmacht, it happens to this day, and has always been the case. Possibly the best example of simple, arduous, military training is the French Foreign Legion, La Legion Etrangere, in which obedience to orders is beyond all. Even if you do what you are told explicitly then you have not done it properly or fast enough. Just how much running do you like to do & then some ? & then some more................ Military discipline depends entirely on obedience. Those that are prepared to question are in no position to follow the leader into battle and are not worthy of a position in the hierarchy and will be adapted or eliminated. Put it this way, as I was once told by a senior sergeant :'Either change your attitude or I will change your features'...... A reply of other than 'Yes, Staff' never entered my conciousness!

After the Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were murdered, the Jews continued to face massive antisemitism in Europe. Poles blamed the Jews for their troubles and pogroms in Poland murdered thousands. Jews sought a place where they would be safe from antisemitism, a place where they would not bother the rest of the world. Great Britain had a mandate on "Palestine" at the time and would split it into Transjordan(later to be named Jordan)and Palestine. The U.K. then allowed the UN to vote on how to split Palestine. The UN approved a Jewish state in parts of the land, and Israel was created. The nations of the world were more than happy to be rid of the Jews, and the Jews were more than happy to oblige. Ironically enough, calls of "go to Israel, Jew" from 60 years ago have turned into "get out of Israel, Jew" today.

Nazi Germany was not concerned only with Jews, although they certainly placed their greatest emphasis on killing Jews. They also attacked many other categories of people, including communists, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally ill, and Jehovah's Witnesses. However, they chose to blame Jews for all the ills of Germany. Since there was a tradition of a thousand years of anti-Semitism in Europe, the German public was well prepared to blame all their problems on Jews, which they much preferred to the alternative of recognizing their own responsibility for their own problems.

Germany has a reputation for being fairly liberal towards refugees.

After the end of World War II, Britain underwent enormous social change and the country was bankrupted after the war.

It has been estimated that about 13.5 Million people were murdered during the Holocaust. 6.6 Million being Jews, 3 Million being Soviet POW's, 1.9 Million being Non-Jewish Poles. Other kinds of people such as the Mentally and Physically Disables along with Criminals, Black People and Romas were also killed the Nazi Genocide which is known as the Holocaust.

The Holocaust of World War 2 was the genocide of the Jews from many countries. The Nazis killed 6 million Jews over the span of 6 years or more. They were still killing them up to the last day of the war. Many Jews died, after the war was over, from disease, starvation, dehydration and exposure in the diesease ridden concentration camps. There were hundreds of the concentration and extermination camps where the Nazis imprisoned and killed Jews of all ages. They also conducted atrocious medical experiments on the Jews and other people who were disabled, suffered from dwarfism or were mentally disabled. Every Jew was marked with a numerical tattoo for the German records. The survivors have lived over 5 decades with that tattooed number on their arm. They can never escape the nightmare.

Out of millions of Jews who were in the camps or hiding in covert places it is tallied that 196,000 survived (estimated). Approximately 140,000 Jews emigrated from Europe to the United States after the war. The Nazi criminals were tried for their atrocities at the Nuremberg Trials. Some were killed and some given long prison sentences. It is crucial that people world wide never forget the Holocaust victims or the evil of the Nazis.

The SS and themselvesd kept Jews in the Ghetto. The SS because, the Jews were threatened to be killed on the spot if they dis obey the orders made by an SS Officer or SS Guard. They kept themselves in the Ghetto because, they were feared of what would of happened if they try or do escape.

The phone number of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is: 202-488-0400.

The Holocaust was the systematic murder of six million Jews during ww2. There were some fortunate ones who were able to hide (at least temporarily). Those who hid, such as Anne Frank, had to endure privation of many kinds.

Hitler and the Nazis had convinced many people that Jews were at the root of the economic problems in Europe. A disproportionate number of Jews were successful businessmen and academics, and plenty of Europeans believed that there was a Jewish conspiracy to control the economy, rather than looking at the work ethic and perseverance that made this group as a whole more sucessful than average. Given the fact that Jews have been made scapegoats by other civilizations throughout recorded history and that they are a fairly easy group to identify, it's not surprising that Hitler targeted them again in the 1930's. It's much more palatable to blame a relatively small, identifiable group as the source of the economic hardships that Europe was facing rather than taking a long, hard look at policies and economic cycles that truly were at the root of the problems.

I believe that I also remember from school that many countries in Europe chose to turn a blind eye to that Nazis' annexation of the first few countries they targetted, hoping that war could be avoided if they just let the Nazis have what they wanted--a policy of appeasement. It later became clear that the more territory the Nazis conquered, the more they wanted, so war was the only way to curb Hitler's ambitions. By this stage, most European countries were much more concerned about their own survival than about the fate of the Jews or other "undesirable" groups.

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While there were nazi sympathies in Europe, once the scale of the atrocities were known, these sympathies where reconsidered in most cases. There was a huge resistance in France and Poland, but as the opposition was caught they were quickly disposed of.

To say that Europe did nothing during the holocaust is really not fair, as Britain was deeply involved in the war. And also, you must remember that a lot of Europe was either invaded or under fascist rule.

Hitler's rise to power took place over several years preceding the outbreak of the actual war, so the holocaust was also gradual and did not happen over night.

Also, the death camps were not advertised, and certainly not as death camps. The first people to be moved to the camps were told they were being "re-patriated", that they were to be moved to live somewhere else, not to be killed.

You also have to remember that Germany was allied with Spain, Italy and Russia, all major military powers at the time.

It's easy to pass judgment this far after, but I personally think that no one could foresee the outcome of the invasion of Poland in -39.

He had really no opinion on them as people, although they would certainly be lesser people on account of their non-Nordic heritage. However, he noted how the world ignored the Armenian genocide and argued that his genocide of the Jews, Romani, and other undesirables would be similarly ignored.

According to my knowledge, the jews got humiliated by putting them on a cow and walk through some streets. The jew sat on top of the cow, knowing that everybody knew he was jewish followed by nazi soldiers walking next to the cow

Buna is a work camp mainly and it is also in Auschwitz as well as the main Auschwitz camp and Auschwitz-Birkenau, the death camp.