Holocaust

* Carbon monoxide (at Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, Trelinka). * Hydrogen cyanide (in Zyklon-B) at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek. ___ The first attempt at mass gassing was on severely handicapped Germans. The gas was carbon monoxide, fed from running engines into sealed trucks. Whilst this ceased (Sep 1941) after protests (particularly by some Roman Catholics), the method was used for Jews and gypsies in the 'East'.

The really large scale killing of (mainly) Jews was by shooting , frequently machine gunning from 1941 onwards, mainly by special SS troops, with some Poles. After June 1941 the SS was assisted by volunteer Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Ukrainians and Poles This operation is estimated to have killed at least 1.3m persons.

In the death camps the chosen gas was Zyclon B (hydrogen cyanide). The first experiments in the autumn 1941 was on Soviet PoWs. The decision to execute all the Jews remaining in Euope (about 9m) was taken in January 1942 and the first camp became operative in December 1941. They ceased in December 1944/January 1945

The total number of Jewish fatalities were 5,789,000. In addition the camps killed thousands of gypsies, homosexuals, and East European freedom fighters. Let us not forget them - nor their executioners' and their helpmates' ideology.

Throughout history, many groups of people have been persecuted and the reasons for their persecution have been very varied so this question can't be answered fully. However, here are some examples:

Jewish people (people who worship Judaism) are often persecuted and more famous examples of this in modern history are the 'Great Purges' from the USSR under Joseph Stalin and the 'Final Solution' in Germany under Adolf Hitler in the 1930/1940s. However, many Jewish people are still discriminated against for their religious beliefs and, in many Arabic countries, Jewish people can sometimes be seen as hostile (due to the Arab-Israeli conflict).

The African American Civil Rights Movement was a highly publicised series of events in the USA in which protests, both peaceful and violent, strikes, hunger strikes and sit-ins were organised with the aim of changing the American society's views on African American people. The result of this was a series of laws protecting the rights of African Americans and greater equality and inclusion in the USA's society.

In June 2011, South Sudan gained independence from Sudan to become its own country. This was following decades of genocide with the African people in the south of the country (in South Sudan) being very heavily persecuted by the Arabic people in the north (in Sudan).

These are just a few famous examples of persecution but persecution still plays a large part throughout the developing world and discrimination of some sort can be found almost anywhere you go. The reason for this is usually that people are not taught to accept people who are different to them. When this is included in the education system, the level of hatred often decreases. Also, a lack of understanding may also be an issue leading to discrimination.

The Holocaust happened, it is a part of history much like the Civil War is. Though not everything that you read or hear about it is necessarily true.

As with any subject in history there are differing opinions and points of view, for example the US (for its own reasons) likes to claim that the Holocaust was not the attempted extermination of Europe's Jews, but is the name for all of the crimes committed by the Nazis. Juxtaposed to Israel who upholds the view that the treatment of Jews by Nazi Germany was very different than the treatment given to others and it is this that is called the Holocaust.

There are also people who try to claim that millions of people seventy years ago all agreed to make up a story, they are called Holocaust deniers or 'Holocaust revisionists', (not to be confused with revisionist historians) but they are on the lunatic fringe and not worth wasting your time with.

She was a good person and opposed the Nazi party, so she made a daring decision to hide the Franks.

Germany started their persecution of the Jews quite subtly - it started with restricting their access to certain places. For instance, some taverns refused service to Jews. Jews were not allowed to use public transit. And before you say "They could have lied," they might have. But the German's marked every Jewish citizen with a yellow star patch - the Star of David.

After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in '34, things only got worse. He announced the formation of concentration camps where "enemies of the Reich" would be kept. Many concentration camps gradually were transformed to death camps, where Jews and other political enemies were systematically murdered and disposed of without a trace of evidence. Nearly 7 million (7,000,000) Jews are estimated to have been killed during 1934-45.

In short, Jews weren't allowed to live during WW2.

None. There were no Black Jewish communities in Europe for Hitler to have killed. However, if Nazis had encountered Black Jews, they would certainly have been deported and murdered just like every other Jewish community that Hitler took apart.

The North Korean government uses concentration camps to keep their citizens under control. The government has created an illusion, and an entire history where facts have been created and changed, as to teach it's people that North Korea is a blessed land and the dictator is the blessed leader. Anytime a citizen is thought to have doubted the things that the government teaches, either complaining about food shortages, speaking against the government, or practising christian beliefs; they and their family are taken to a concentration camp. The concentration camps then serve the government as a place where these "criminals" can be watched closely and monitored. The government uses these people to do most, if not all, of the production that comes from N.K. They are given minimal food and shelter and a new set of "clothes" once a year. You can learn more on our blog: www.alpharelief.wordpress.com There are people, like you, that are trying to make a difference.

It was certain death, If you were caught, I'm certain that you were killed. However, there were thousands of partisan Jewish fighters that carried on successful campaigns against German armies. They would hide and ambush them with sub-machine guns, grenades and flame-throwers. Then, disappear into the thick surrounding forests. There are even many who lived to tell the story although they are old now. While your survival rate was about one in ten if you were taken into the death camps, your survival rate was about two in every three if you were a partisan Jewish resistance fighter. You can read more about it here... http://www.jewishpartisans.org/

It depends on how big the rock is and how good a thrower you are. Please do not be one of them.

Sadly, many Jews who died during the Holocaust were buried in mass graves or incinerated in large furnaces.

The Star of David was used in the concentration camps during the holocaust which identify the prisoners in the camps to their categories such as Jews and Criminals etc...

Here who wore what

-Jews wore yellow badges

-Religious groups who oppose the Nazi regime wore purple badges

-Alcoholics, tramps, gypsies, vagabond, mentally ill, workshy, disabled people and deaf people wore black badges

-Professional criminals (eg. POWs) wore green badges

- sexual offenders wore pink badges

-foreign forced labour groups wore blue badges

-political prisoners wore red triangle badge

Prisoners in the concentration camps wore these badges because, this indicates their reason for imprisonment

The medical experiments were gruesome and had little merit for the rest of the medical world. There motivations for the experiments were mostly about studying sub-humans according to their view. See the attached links.

you can keep the memory of wat happened to all 6,000,000 people that died because this is somthing that is hurtful and it is also a memory you should keep in mind on what happened to the people like use and the way they lived was OK but to the Nazis it wasn't but it is OK because they deserve to live how ever they want to with out punishment i will always remember Wat happen to all those inesent people.We should remember Wat they went through.

The United States did not directly respond. this was in l9l5 when World War I ( then styled the European War) was in progress. US was not in the fight until l9l7, and public opinion was mostly anti-war. Therefore the Armenian massacre received little media ( at the time almost entirely newspaper) attention, events in European War such as various battles land, and sea, yes, but Armenia was a backwater compared to say, the Somme or Vimy or the French theatre of operations in general.

basically most of them were buried in mass graves.

The Jewish House of Worship has been the synagogue ever since the destruction of Great Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE.

However, most Jews in Europe during the Holocaust did not have the freedom to be able to worship in synagogues. They would worship wherever they could if they felt it was important.

Miep Gies, Elli Vossen, Victor Kraler, and Jo Koophuis

It all started off when Adolf Hitler wanted someone to blame on so he blamed the Jews. He started what is now the Holocaust. The night of broken glass, also known as Kristallnacht, started when one young Jewish man shot a German solider to protect his family. After that German solider's all over Germany started looting and breaking into Jewish stores and taking everything. They also killed or sent Jewish people to concentration camps. Hope this helped!

Historian Norman Davies estimates 1.4-2 million for England (not Britain) in 'Europe: A History'. He was using an estimate made in a book called 'The Black Death' by Ziegler. Davies makes no numerical estimates in his British history 'The Isles', describing the death toll only as a third of the population.

i think it was 1933 :)

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