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Holocaust
The genocide of approximately 6 million European Jews during World War II planned by Adolf Hitler.
11,094 Questions
How many Jews were put in a gas chamber at a time?
The figure usually given for German Jews killed in the Holocaust is about 150,00-165,000 (using the 1937 frontiers of Germany). Figures are based on country of deportation. So, German Jews who fled to, say the Netherlands, and were deported from there are counted for these purposes as Dutch Jews. (This is done in order to avoid double counting).
Incidentally, when you say 'went to the gas chambers' I assume you mean 'were victims of the Holocaust' and not that you asking how many died by gassing as opposed to other means.
Is krakow near Auschwitz in the holocaust?
No, Auschwitz is actually 40 Miles west of Krakow and 214 Miles South, South West of Warsaw.
Where were the female prisoners in the Holocaust?
Yes there were many, many female prisoners during the Holocaust.
Why were they called SS guards?
The Schutzstaffel (help·info) (German for "Protective Echelon"), abbreviated SS- or (Runic)- was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The SS grew from a small paramilitary unit to a powerful force that served as the Führer's "Praetorian Guard," the Nazi Party's "Shield Squadron" and a force that, fielding almost a million men (both on the front lines and as political police), managed to exert as much political influence as the Wehrmacht.
What were the weather conditions like in the Holocaust?
The holocaust lasted six or more years. They had some of the worst winters ever during that time period. The prisoners would die from exposure, disease, dehydration and starvation. But, they were dressed in what is basically considered to be pajamas. Most did not have shoes or decent coats if they did have them. The summers were not nearly as bad but they still died from exposure and murder.
(The holocaust spanned from the early 1930's until 1945 with the fall of Nazi Germany)
What were Hitler's anti-semitic policies and activities?
1) Rebuild the German armed forces so that they could go to war.
2) Gain revenge on France for beating Germany in WWI.
3) Conquer as much territory as possible in Eastern Europe and Russia.
4) Exterminate the Jews.
5) Enslave or exterminate the conquered peoples.
6) Settle Germans in the East.
What group of people suffered over 6 million deaths during the holocaust?
6 million Jews were lost to the Holocaust.
Was Auschwitz a town in Poland?
Auschwitz is the German name for the Polish town of Oswiecim, which is about 42 miles west of Krakow. The notorious concentration and extermination camps (actually a vast complex of camps) was well outside the town and surrounded by an exclusion zone while the camp was in operation.
What happened to Frank Ifield?
This is what he wrote on his web site. He now lives in Australia and is having a revivial of interest in his music. He has just put out his autobiography.
During my career I have played all the places I dreamed of and more. However, during the 80's, I was to experience some of my greatest professional highlights - yet some of my deepest personal lows. While touring Australia in 1982 my dear father lost his battle with cancer. This had a devastating effect on me and I was still reeling from the enormity of it when returning to the UK to headline a show at the Palladium. Being an important date, I expected my wife and family to attend - instead, I was handed a writ for divorce. I guess she had simply had enough of me flitting around the world chasing my dreams, but coming at that untimely moment placed further pressure on me. On the outside all seemed well, I performed at the Wembley Stadium and was given my own ABCTV Special followed by a summer season in Blackpool. But stress took its toll ending with pneumonia. After treatment I headed back home to Sydney in order to recuperate. Instead, I was rushed into hospital with collapsed lungs. I felt fine after the operation but was told by the doctor I would never sing again.
I was devastated. After a time I began to feel that this was not the end but only a new beginning and adapted to doing other things that I now had time for. I hosted TV and radio shows; Instigated the Galston Country Music Festival; Became the patron for The Music & Arts Talent Search (MATS); Started the annual presentation of 'The International Spur Award' given to Australian CM artists that I felt had overseas appeal and; lined up UK and European tours for the most promising. Meanwhile I have had lots of CD releases around the world. Now Rajon Music have released a collection of some of the best tracks I recorded from around the globe on a double album called 'Something Rare & Wonderful'. Many of the songs had not appeared before on CD format and some indeed are great rarities. So there is life in the old dog yet
How many years was anne frank in the concentration camp?
Not very long. She arrived in Auschwitz concentration camp on September 3, 1944. On October 28, she and her sister were transported to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they became sick with typhus and died in March 1945, only a short time before the liberation.
Besides the Jews, Nazis persecuted homosexuals, gypsies, physically and mentally handicapped, and obviously political enemies.
To be unworthy or unfit to be part of the master race meant that one was not of Aryan descent.
How has the Holocaust been memorialized?
There is a museum in Europe where you can see all the objects that the Nazis took away from the Jews. For example, there are millions of pairs of shoes, glasses and the clothes of the people who were killed. There is also a memorial in the shape of a hand.
Did they ever let people go in concentration camp?
yes, they accepted millions of people.
Many Nazi staff officers and Nazi officials visited the camps, civilian access was not completely ruled out, but it was rare.
If you mean 'Were the camps open to the general public?' the answer is no.
Why do the the Jewish wear the star of David?
Some Jewish people wear the star of david because it is a symbol of the nation of Israel. Others because it's the symbol of the Jewish people all over the world.
During World War II, European Jews were forced to wear the Star of David on their clothes to identify themselves as Jews.
How many Jews were liberated from concentration camps?
It is estimated that about 1.5 million Jews were left in Europe at the end of World War II. About 50,000 were interned at the end of the war. Many had escaped when the Nazis abandoned the camps.
Hitler killed the Jews because?
Answer 1
There are three problems with that question:
He did not kill all of the Jews because he did not try to kill all of the Jews. The only Jews that were targeted were those under German control. Even though Jews were killed from other Axis countries, most of them were sent voluntarily, or even paid the Germans to take them.
Next you have to disassemble whether the murder of the Jews was at the behest of Hitler, or whether it was done under the impression that it was what Hitler would have wanted, or whether it was done out of some kind of necessity. Whereas it is clear what happened, making assumptions about why it happened is a mistake.
The question makes two incorrect assumptions, as such the best answer is: He didn't.
Answer 2
It was because he felt that they where inferior. He also killled mentally challenged ppl.
Answer 3
The only person qualified to answer that question fully and accurately,
without speculation, killed himelf on April 30, 1945.
Answer 4
The question assumes that Hitler and the Nazis killed the entire Jewish people; this is not correct. The Nazis killed roughly 30-40% of the world's Jewish community and roughly 60-70% of the European Jewish community. European Jewry was around 9 million in 1933, of whom Hitler killed just over 6 million during the Holocaust. The reason that he did not kill all of the Jews was because he didn't conquer the entire world and because he lost the war. As for why he strove to kill the Jews, that question implicitly has two parts. The first is a question as to the rationales that Hitler believed in to justify Anti-Semitic beliefs and the second is a question as to why Hitler 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".
Why were the handicapped targeted during the Holocaust?
They were fed a piece of bread and got some coffee without any sugar or milk. They were treated terribly, like they were not even human. Some of them didn't even like the food so many died of starvation only after a few days at the concentration camps.
How did killing the Jews benefit Hitler?
Anti-semitism in Nazi Germany benefited Hitler because he was able to use it for his own purposes. By focusing people on the Jews, Hitler was able to get them to murder millions of people and to turn against other countries as well.
What concentration camp did peter Van Dann go to?
For several days they were imprisoned in Amsterdam. Then on August 8, 1944, they were moved to the Westerbork (Netherlands) Transit Camp and imprisoned in the Punishment Barracks, which was reserved for those arrested while hiding. Long story short, Peter witnessed his father being selected for the gas chambers. Peter was sent to the sick barracks. His exact death is currently unknown. But I think I read somewhere else that he was sent to the gas chambers later to be killed because he was too thin and sick that he was useless. Hope this helps!
-Jazmyn:)!
What did other countries do to help toward the holocaust?
Other countries, especially America, did absolutely nothing!
Should ordinary Germans be blamed for the Holocaust?
This is a difficult question. Very few Germans disagree that their country as a whole bears some responsibility for the Holocaust - the question is how much.
One of the shocking things about the Holocaust was that, although it was the initiative of the Nazi leadership, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, went along with idea with little or no complaint. There were relatively few acts of disobedience or resistance by ordinary Germans in relation to the Holocaust - they certainly took place, but there weren't very many. If there were more, 6 million Jews would not have died.
When you say "punishing", it depends on what you mean. Accepting responsibility for something, like the way that the current German government has apologised to Holocaust victims, paying reparations to Israel, etc. - these things are arguably not punishment at all, just an act of responsibility.
I don't think anyone would argue that this is appropriate. More extreme measures might not be appropriate.
There are some Germans who believe that their country has been forced to do too much in relation to making amends for the Holocaust. They are a minority however.
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I'm not sure I understand the question properly. Do you mean punishment now, in 2009? If so, my answer would be a resounding no. Germans under the age of about 64 weren't even alive then, Germans under about 75-80 now were too young to be responsible. One of the things the Allies, quite rightly, criticized the Nazis for severely was collective punishment ...
There's a point in first answer that I find problematical. It reads:
'One of the shocking things about the Holocaust was that, although it was the initiative of the Nazi leadership, hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, went along with idea with little or no complaint'
The Nazi regime went to great lengths to try to keep the Holocaust secret, precisely because it feared it did not have the support of many Germans. The above seems to assume that ordinary Germans (1) knew exactly what was happening and (2) actively 'went along' with that. The assessment by the historian Helga Grebing, writing in 1959, much closer to the time, strikes me as much more plausible, namely that the prevailing attitude was one of 'hear no evil, see no evil'. In other words, many Germans had some idea of what was going happening to Jewish neighours but made a point of trying not to find out more.
Obviously, one can argue that that was dishonourable, but punishable? Surely not!
As for making amends, there is something significant not mentioned above. Since 1990 Jews have been allowed to settle in Germany with very few questions asked, and over 100,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union have taken up the offer.
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Punishing the Germans for the Holocaust would make as much sense as punishing the white population of the US for massacring Native Americans. Please use a little common sense.
If Hitler was Jewish then why did he kill Jews?
Hitler wasn't Jewish.
If Hitler was Jewish, it wouldn't make any sense for him to kill all the Jews.
What were the crematorium like during the Holocaust?
A crematorium is an 'oven' (most often the heating ovens [boiler rooms] of the building housing the people) where the dead bodies where burned into ash or "cremated", these 'ovens' ran 24 hours a day during 1937-'39 and still couldn't keep up with the amount of people being murdered. A gas chamber was either an enclosed room, or a tour bus which had the exhaust piped into the rear compartment where they loaded the Jewish and handicapped people for 'joy rides' around the German towns which actually poisoned the people and they died viciously.
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Cremators are never called "ovens". The crematoria in the Nazis' extermination camps used purpose-built cremators, not heating-boilers, but the combination of gas-chambers and crematoria did not come into use until later, during the War itself, and continued until liberation by the various Allied nations' armies converging on Germany from East and West in 1944. The earlier mass-murders were generally by shooting and to a lesser extent gassing in vehicles.
What was the most dangerous camp to go to in the Holocaust?
If you are looking for a 'record' of sorts, at Belzec 434,508 Jews and an unknown number of gypsies were slaughtered, and there were only two (!) known survivors at the end of the war - Rudolf Reger who emigrated to Canada and Chaim Hirszman, who was murdered by Polish nationalists in 1946.
There was also Maly Trostinents, near Minsk, Belarus. It is virtually unknown, except among specialists on the Holocaust. The main reason is said to be that there are no known survivors at all out of about 50,000 victims taken there.
What were the Jews accused of during Holocaust?
Well, if you don't know who were the accusers, then you might have some problems in your research. For starters, the Nazis were the main, primary, and biggest accusers. The Germans, though far behind, were second, then many of the other peoples throughout Europe were the other accusers.
