Holocaust

A frequently quoted figure is 11 million dead overall, of whom 6 million were Jews.

There were 20,000 concentration camps, ghettos and labor camps throughout Europe with the largest amount being in Germany. Not all of the camps and ghettos were designed or designated to be "murder camps". So they did not all have the same amount of deaths per month as you ask about. I have heard from historians who estimated that at the beginning of the incarceration of the Jews and undesirable people there were thousands who were killed each month or year. Towards the end of the war they guesstimate there were 70,000 deaths a month throughout Europe but that is not a solid figure. If you need the exact averages during certain years or months the United States Memorial Museum of the Holocaust could possibly supply you with those figures. See the link below.

1. wearing the star
2. shops destroyed
3. beatings
4. murdered during riots
5. property seized
6. arrests
7. deported to concentration camps
8. slave labor in concentration camps
9. starved in concentration camps
10. gassed in concentration camps
11. etc.

It does not, there was no national policy to gather African Americans together, no policy to eliminate them from society. There are similarities between the Holocaust and the experience of American aboriginals though.

The answer to this is not straightforward, as they had different positions at different times, as the treatment of the Jews became worse.

We can credit many Roman Catholic clergy with saving and assisting in the saving of victims (especially children) of the Holocaust, but it the lead up and the early stages of the Holocaust they were not as motivated to help.

The criticism of the Roman Catholic clergy, and indeed Roman Catholics (outside of Poland) is generally that they did not do anything until they were under threat themselves. (ie. with the protest against the eugenics programme).

Yes. When a body can no longer function, it ceases to work and you die. Unless you are a vampire.

The East German secret police was called the Stasi - short for Staatssicherheit (State Security).

most of the Jews that arrived in Auschwitz were animately sent to the gas chambers to die where as others where forced to work. and some were told that they were going for a shower but instead they would get asked

Extermination camps played the key role in the Holocaust, as they enabled the Nazis to gas and cremate victims - in order words, to dispose of them systematically, quickly and "industrially". Before that the Nazis had relied on mass open air shootings and mass graves.

no one really knows how many, but 6,000,000 Jews, Gypsies, and gays were in that total if not more, the actual amount of people who were murdered will never be known for sure.

After the Holocaust most people went back to their homes but instead of finding their homes their neighborhoods were destroyed. So techniquelly there is no answer to this question because we simply don't know unless we were in the holocaust ourselves.

Auschwitz hasn't actually been destroyed. It's still there and is a museum visted by thousands of people a year.

There are two parts to Auschwitz. There's the original camp (the one that has the famous Arbeit Macht Frei sign over the gate) and there's a newer one (Birkenau) which has the famous railway line leading into and under the main gate tower.

Birkenau was where the most killings were done and it's there that the main gas chanbers and crematoria were blown up by the Germans at the end of the war to destroy evidence. So to that extent you are right in asking why Auschwitz was destroyed, but be aware that only a small part of it was.

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The main site at Auschwitz (that is Auschwitz I, II and III) was liberated on 27 January 1945.

Please also see the related question.

They had to wear a badge with the letter P.

No. Well, it was at first, but as Hitler progressed he sent many more people to camps. (Disabled, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Jews, Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses and a incredible amount more.)

He did all this because Hitler thought they were not perfect, and Hitler wanted a perfect Germany.

Until August 1941 Jews were allowed to emigrate from Germany and from Nazi-occupied Western Europe, provided they could find a country to accept them and could actually travel there. They were able to pay the fares (including meals and so on) in advance in Germany, but they were not allowed to take much money with them and had to pay for permission to leave Germany.

In September 1941 Heydrich ordered a halt to all Jewish emigration - in anticipation of the Final Solution.

Yes, telephones ( landlines, but not cellphones or walkie-talkies-except possibly for Army and SS men) were in common use. They had public phones ( pay phones) even in Russia as far back as the immediate pre-war I era. ___ The walkie-talkies referred to usually only had a range of about 1-2 miles and were big and unwieldy.

The word used by Jews for the Holocaust is "The Shoah" which means "calamity" in Hebrew.

margot frank received her call up on Sunday, July 5th 1942.

They decied to flee rather then to face the punishment(understandable) they then fled to amsterdan, Netherlands to otto's old work office where the his in a secret annex

The amount of people that died during the holocaust was avout 12 million people. That is alot of people. frick

At the end of the first World War, the Allies forced the Germans to sign a peace treaty that many people (the US, for one) thought would cripple any chance of Germany's economic recovery and would destroy its political life.

That is exactly what happened, and the Germans - who had also trouble accepting that they had been beaten fair and square in the war - went looking for scapegoats for their defeat and for their economic and social problems. Pamphlet writers came up with the "answer": the problems were the result of an Allied-Jewish 'conspiracy' to keep Germany down: Jewish bankers and industrialists in America and elsewhere had conspired (they wrote) to make the World War 1 Peace Treaty as harsh as it was, and now they were making a fortune bleeding Germany dry.

Although this was nonsense, many right wing Germans chose to believe this, including the right wing parties such as the Nazi party. The result was that Hitler pledged to 'remove' the Jews from German society. For years he toyed with the idea to move them to other lands - Madagascar was a long-time favorite - but when he discovered that this would be impractical, he decided that killing them off must be the solution.

The holocaust refers to the extermination of Jews. Christians certainly died at the hands of the Nazis, but there is no category I could place this in. Perhaps, people the Nazis wanted dead for various reasons.