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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 was the goal of hitters final solution?
The extermination and complete removal from the territory governed by the Third Reich of all people that he did not approve of.
What does it mean to be ghetto?
acting like a stupid black person ghetto is when you do something that 99% of people wont do or what they wont even think about doing. Its mainly saying that your ignornt, non-precianted, and more. Ghetto has nothing to do with color of skin. It really is about the Holocaust, but that is the non-holocaust related answer.
EX:Hollering realllll loud in the store, cussing the manerger out, while changing a babies diaper too.
Dont laugh. that's rude of someone. That's what you call Ghetto.
AND ITS NOT ONLY BLACK. THAT EXAMPLE I GOT WAS FROM MY >WHITE< FRIEND!!!
it is doing the things everyone has ever wanted to and if that is being really loud oh well don't tell u havent thought about it or cussing out the manerger just speaking ur mind. oh yea who ever said acting lik a stupid black person kiss my big black ghetto butt
Why did the Nazis attack the Jews?
This question implicitly has two parts. The first is a question as to the rationales that the Nazis believed in to justify Anti-Semitic beliefs and the second is a question as to why the Nazis felt the need to kill the Jews as a way to solve these Anti-Semitic concerns.
The Reasons for Anti-Semitism in Germany during that period are numerous, but some of the more important reasons were the following:
1) Decay of the German State: During the 1800s, Jews began to become more integrated in German National Life. They served in its government, its military divisions, and its industry. As was typical of Western Europe, the Jews had more of a hand in the higher echelons of government than their population percentage would account for. The Nazis saw this increasing Jewish percentage in the government as a slow takeover of German policy and a corruption of the German people. They contrasted the great victories under Bismarck with the depressing failure of World War I and noted how a much larger percentage of soldiers in the latter war were Jewish. There was also the sentiment than in the early 20th century, values were beginning to ebb (this is similar to current politics in the United States) and the Jewish integration in the German apparatus (becoming teachers, lawyers, doctors, etc.) was to blame for this recession of values as opposed to modernity as a process.
2) Nationalism: Germany was brought together under the Nationalist conception that all peoples with German culture, history, and language should be united regardless of which principality currently held control. The German self-conception also had an ethnic component, holding that the perfect German was blond and blue eyed. Regardless of the fact that the majority of Germans were dark haired, Jews stuck out like a sore thumb because they overwhelmingly had darker hair. In addition, the idea of a German Jew was still rather new and both Jews and non-Jews tended to see the Jews in Germany as being part of a vast Jewish network and that these Jews just happened to be in Germany. The Nazis capitalized on this cosmopolitan sensibility by claiming that Jews' allegiances were not to the German State, but to secret Jewish Councils organizing world events.
3) Economy: Whether it was true or not, there was perception among Germans and the Nazis in particular that Jews were wealthy individuals and had a higher per-capita income than the Germans. In many ways (because of the above two reasons) Germans felt that the Jews were "stealing" their money while they were poor and suffering.
4) Pseudo-Science: The late 19th and early 20th century was filled with radical new ideas concerning Social Darwinism. It was believed by the Pseudo-Scientific community (which was rather in vogue) that different groups of people or races exhibited different emotional traits that were linked to physical differences. This led to the belief that Jews were corrupt and thieving by their irreversible nature and that they could not be "cured" and brought up as proper Europeans. This formalized Racial Anti-Semitism in Germany and made the situation much more dire for German Jews.
5) Heresy: Although not as much an issue in World War II as it may have been 500 years prior, Jews were still considered the heretics who murdered the LORD and Savior. This helped to justify Anti-Semitism as the Jewish comeuppance for their accepting of the Christ Bloodguilt.
Why was killing the Jews necessary?
The answer to the second part, while cold, is brutally honest. The Nazis encouraged the German population to believe that this myriad of Anti-Semitic issues was ingrained in German Society by making it part of the national curriculum and teaching it to millions of German children. The Nazis proposed that the only way to improve Germany was to remove the Jews entirely. There were two options for such a removal: exile or genocide. Since no country was willing to take the Jewish population en masse (and this includes the United States and United Kingdom due to prevailing stereotypes there) the Nazis made the executive decision to commit genocide to "save Germany".
When Hitler was young, he thought Jews hated him. He believed that because when his mother died, a Jewish doctor was caring for her. So he believed that Jews hated Nazis and that they were no better than rats that lived in the sewers. So he thought they should die for just being Jewish.
Yes.
In 1934 there was a purge of people who opposed their beliefs, but generally they were sent to concentration camps, some were released after re-education, but most remained imprisoned until the end of the war (those who survived). These were the people who made up the bulk of the 'Kapos' in the concentration camps (along with violent criminals).
Why and when were the Jews moved out of the ghettos?
It really depends what you mean by this. In January 1933, when Hitler and the Nazi party were officially in charge of Germany, discrimination began first against political opposition, then slowly against disapproved minorities, such as Jews, blacks, non-heterosexuals, and the mentally and/or physically handicapped. You're forgetting that of the 11 million civilians killed by the Nazis from the years 1933-45, more than 5 million were not Jewish. However, the Jews were forced out of their homes for the same reasons that anyone else was by the Nazis: they weren't liked.
Why were nazis so willing to kill the jews?
the question suggests that the Nazis killed Jews for weakness, this does not make sense, weakness was not a cause. Please rephrase.
Was the boy in the striped pajamas based on the Holocaust?
No Bruno was the boys name and he was a German boy who's father was the leader of one the concentration camps during the holocaust programme which Adolf Hitler (the Nazi German's leader controlled he also started this system.
What was the penalty for people in Poland that were hidding Jews?
They would in just as much trouble as the Jews.
What is ironic about the message attached to the gates that enter Auschwitz?
The saying on the front gate is "Work will set you free."
Did anyone try to help the jews?
Many are familiar with Oskar Schindler, but there were others. See the
Jewish Virtual Library for some other "Rescuers" like Chiune and Yukiko
Sugihara, Khaled Abdelwahhab, Miep Gies who protected the Frank family,
and others whose moral courage is beyond question. Israel has named between 16 and 20 thousand persons as the "Righteous Few".
In Nazi occupied Europe, nobody could openly stand up for the Jews and protect them by force, because the Nazis would hunt them down. What people could do was covertly help and protect Jews. A few examples of these people are Oskar Schindler, who protected his Jewish workers in his factory, Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who gave Jews passports and other documentation to give them access to safe countries, anf Frank Foley, a British MI6 agent who gave Jews British and Palestinian passports to allow them to escape.
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Did Albert Speer build the concentration camps?
Hitler did not build the consentration camps but had the Jews build them for him. So really, the Jews were forced to build the places they their friends and their families would eventually be killed.
How many non Jew died in the death camps?
Apart from the Jews, there were two other classes of people who were executed on mass. The disabled and the Gypsies. Most of the murders of the disabled occurred before the start of the war, and did not happen in the death camps themselves, but were in facilities on which the death camps would later be modeled. The exact numbers of Gypsies murdered is hard to know as they were not all registered as living in one place or another, and were rounded up from across the Nazi territories, but the figure is in the hundreds of thousands.
Arbeitsdorf was a concentration camp established by the Nazis in 1942. In 1936, a German car engineer named Ferdinand Porche designed a prototype of a car that would be affordable enough for all Germans to buy. He showed his idea to the then dictator of Germany, Adolf Hitler. Hitler liked his idea and ordered the manufacture of the car which was known as the KDF-Wagen or later known as the Volkswagen vehicle. With Hitler's approval, Porche and his partner Albert Speer set up a factory in Fallersleben, a town 30 miles northeast of the city of Braunschweig, and because of the war, all production from this camp was to be used for military purposes only. In 1942, Porche and Speer started a project to see how to use concentration camp prisoners for the benefit of their industry. So on April 8, 1942, a new camp, Arbeitsdorf, was opened to produce the KDF-Wagen for cheaper and large-scale production. On October 11, 1942, six months after the camp was first established, production of the vehicles was stopped and the camp was closed. A minimum of 600 prisoners perished at Arbeitsdorf.
Where did most of the holocaust occur?
Most of the killing took place in Poland and Eastern Europe.
The various articles in Wikipedia on the individual extermination camps are roughly as follows:
- Auschwitz-Birkenau: 1.1 million (minimum, of whom about 960,000 were Jews)
- Belzec: 435,000 Jews plus an unknown number of Roma
- Chelmno: 152,000-153,000 (mostly Jews)
- Bronnaya Gora 50,000 (Jews)
- Majdanek: 78,000 (59,000 Jews)
- Maly Trostinets: 60,000 (?)
- Sobibor: 250,000
- Treblinka: 870,000 (?)
In addition, over 800,000 died from "ghettoization and general privation" and 1,400,000 were killed in open-air shootings. In many parts of the Soviet Union Jews were simply killed on the spot. There were also 'killing fields' in Latvia.
The place where more Jews died than any other is the gas chamber in krematoria II in Birkenau (Auschwitz II)
Why did the world come to know about the Nazi holocast?
information about nazi practices had trickled out of Germany during the last year of the regime.it was only after the war defeat of Germany that the world came to know about the holocast horror.the ghetto inhabitants who just survived the holocast told the world about it .Anne Frank's diary is the best proof of the holocast.
Did the people of Europe know about Nazi plans for the Jews?
The attitude of the local population vis-a-vis the persecution and destruction of the Jews varied from zealous collaboration with the Nazis to active assistance to Jews. Thus, it is difficult to make generalizations. The situation also varied from country to country. In Eastern Europe and especially in Poland, Russia, and the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania), there was much more knowledge of the "Final Solution" because it was implemented in those areas. Elsewhere, the local population had less information on the details of the "Final Solution."
In every country they occupied, with the exception of Denmark and Bulgaria, the Nazis found many locals who were willing to cooperate fully in the murder of the Jews. This was particularly true in Eastern Europe, where there was a long standing tradition of virulent antisemitism, and where various national groups, which had been under Soviet domination (Latvians, Lithuanians, and Ukrainians), fostered hopes that the Germans would restore their independence. In several countries in Europe, there were local fascist movements which allied themselves with the Nazis and participated in anti-Jewish actions; for example, the Iron Guard in Romania and the Arrow Guard in Slovakia. On the other hand, in every country in Europe, there were courageous individuals who risked their lives to save Jews. In several countries, there were groups which aided Jews, e.g. Joop Westerweel's group in the Netherlands, Zegota in Poland, and the Assisi underground in Italy.
Why did Hitler get banned from Germany?
Germany pursues a policy of active commitment to democracy - and this involves among other things - a ban on Nazi writings.
What did most Jews die from in the ghettos Hitler put them in?
There were many causes of death in concentration camps. When they first entered a camp some were shot automatically. Of course there were the terrible torture devices ( gas chambers etc.) There were also many many diseases that spread around. ( Example: typhus, which Anne Frank died from) due to the terrible conditions and uncleanliness it was easier to spread. Starvation and exhaustion were other causes.
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How Nazis encouraged the Germans to hate the Jews?
Well, they used common tactics seen throughout the entire 20th century, (most notably the Chinese civil war and America during the Vietnam war to raise support for the War against the NVA). The idea is that, if you tell someone enough lies again and again, they will eventually believe it. Hitler and the Nazi's repeated this and used the people's fear and humiliation to their advantage. The fear being communism, (many Jews were blamed for this) and the humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty of Versailles was by many considered a huge humiliation, especially due to the nationalistic values at the time, and so if one blamed it on a certain group of people, they would be able to channel all that hatred into that one group, no matter how misleading or inaccurate it may be.
What were the other groups besides Jews that were considered inferior?
Almost every kind of people besides "Aryans" (Germans, but also Scandinavians, English, Dutch, and some French) were considered inferior. However, besides Jews, the Nazis in particular hated Slavs- Polish, Russians, Serbs, Bosnians, Ukrainians, etc. This is a big part of the reason why Nazi Germany invaded Poland and the Soviet Union- the Nazis wanted to kill or enslave the Slavs, and settle "Aryans" in their lands.
