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Holocaust
The genocide of approximately 6 million European Jews during World War II planned by Adolf Hitler.
11,094 Questions
What races did Hitler classify as inferior?
Jews
Homosexuals
Gypsies
Twins
Disabled people (physically and mentally)
There were many others, but they were more on an individual basis rather than a general populous.
What famous books have been burned?
There have been several famous books that have been burned in protest. The Bible has been burned on several occasions. Other books include the Torah, Fahrenheit 451, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and 1984.
Why did the people in the holocaust kill other people but not themselves people?
your not being spfirc enough if you the camps was to cleanse the human race if ou mean war was to gain taratorry
Did many Jews die trying to escape the Holocaust?
Yes, of course, but it was very difficult once the Holocaust had actually begun. It was not enough to run away: they needed to avoid recapture, and for that they needed help.
The soldiers had papers listing the name and religion of each Jew. They had gotten them before the war, and had kind of tricked them all into stating they were Jews, so they couldn't pretend not to be even if they had wanted to. They did have ways of escape, though, by fishermen and other citizens sneaking them out at night to Poland and other countries that had not been invaded by soldiers yet. A lot of the time, people hid Jews in secret rooms in their own homes. So yes, they did try to escape, but many people and organizations had to help them.
Who killed the Jews in world war 2?
The Nazis killed the Jews for Hitler. In addition, there were many other anti-Semites in occupied Europe who were happy to help in the Holocaust.
How many Nazis were against the Jews?
very little because there was terror and because nazi successes, economic fears and the grates effects of propaganda
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*** Although little there was some. Although the Nazi's did terrorise people with the 'Gustapo' (Secret Police) and almost brainwash them with Nazi ideas there were alot of people who hated the Nazis but because of fear kept it to themselves incase they were taken away. There were such teenage groups such as 'The Edelweiss Pirates' and 'The Swing Movement' who went against Nazi rules.
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How did anti-Semitism cause the Holocaust?
Anti-Semitism was one factor leading to the Holocaust.
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Surely, it was the starting-point or 'springboard' for all the other factors ...
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Germany was not the most anti-Semitic country in Europe, certainly the Nazis brought a new brand of anti-Semitism, but this was artificial, it was political, people did not hate the Jews because they were Jewish, they hated the Jews because they were told to, by the politicians, they believed that public opinion and ideology said that they should.
If you dismiss the Holocaust as being the fruits of a people with an irrational prejudice you risk not seeing how it was ordinary people like you and me or anyone reading this were convinced to follow a path that they were told was the right thing to do.
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If it hadn't been anti-Semitism which brought power to Hitler's regime, they'd simply have found another target; incited hatred against another cultural group.
As at all times in history, political ambition is well-served by isolating existing public fear and prejudice, and building upon that until a political entity can present itself as a savior of the people in the face of the perceived threat. Absolutely anything can be made to appear dangerous, given the right marketing techniques.
It always works; the need to protect their community is built into the nature of all communal creatures; uneasiness, followed by fear and finally defense and aggression are natural reactions to a perceived threat, and history, right up to the present day, clearly demonstrates people - with sufficient encouragement - will eventually seize upon any excuse to demonize and destroy those factors that they are told, and have been convinced, threaten their own existence.
The sole intention is for the political entity leading the movement to become powerful. Once it worked easily; today people of the world are becoming ever closer to one another, given far more opportunity to observe those they are told to fear as well as those they're told are friends. As a result, a greater percentage of people than at any time in recorded history will now question fear-tactics employed by those seeking to gain, retain, or increase power.
The evil that Hitler and other leaders achieved in turning good citizens against one another still works today, but not as easily. Have a look at the fearful tales spread about Jews leading up to WW2, and compare them with the tales we hear today about others we are induced to hate. The similarity is such that the gullibility of some would be laughable if it weren't so terrifying.
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When people have someone to hate and blame, they forget about their problems, and Germany had plenty of economic issues after WWI. Hitler rode this discontent to power and in the process killed many political dissidents and about 6 million Jews.
Comment
Obviously, without antisemitism there would have been no Holocaust, but the above doesn't explain genocide. There had been literally hundreds of pogroms (violent riots against Jews) in Tsarist Russia. Very few of these resulted in more than 20-25 deaths. One also needs to bear in mind that when the genocide started (in 1941) Germany had overcome its post-WW1 economic problems. See the related questions.
What are the names of the concentration camps in the Holocaust?
Camp Name
Country (today)
Camp Type
Breitenau
Germany
"Early wild camp", then labor camp
Langenstein-Zwieberge
Germany
Buchenwald subcamp
Bergen-Belsen
Germany
Collection point
Bernburg
Germany
Collection point
Hinzert
Germany
Collection point and subcamp
Oranienburg
Germany
Collective point
Osthofen
Germany
Collective point
Vaivara
Estonia
Concentration and transit camp
Banjica
Serbia
Concentration camp
Bardufoss
Norway
Concentration camp
Bogdanovka
Moldova
Concentration camp
Bredtvet
Norway
Concentration camp
Crveni krst
Serbia
Concentration camp
Herzogenbusch
(Vught)
Netherlands
Concentration camp
Oberer Kuhberg
Germany
Concentration camp
Fort VII (Poznań)
Poland
Concentration, detention, transit
Berlin-Marzahn
Germany
Early a "rest place" then labor camp for Roma
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Poland
Extermination and labor camp
Bełżec
Poland
Extermination camp
Chełmno
(Kulmhof)
Poland
Extermination camp
Majdanek
(KZ Lublin)
Poland
Extermination camp
Maly Trostenets
Belarus
Extermination camp
Sajmiste
Serbia
Extermination camp
Sobibór
Poland
Extermination camp
Treblinka
Poland
Extermination camp
Jasenovac concentration camp
Croatia
Extermination camp for Jews, Serbs and Roma[7]
Kauen
(Kaunas)
Lithuania
Ghetto and internment camp
Janowska
(Lwów)
Ukraine
Ghetto; transit, labor, & extermination camp
Le Vernet
France
Internment camp
Drancy
France
Internment camp, transit
Ohrdruf
Germany
Labor and concentration camp; Buchenwald subcamp
Warsaw
Poland
Labor and extermination camp
Malchow
Germany
Labor and Transit camp
Arbeitsdorf
Germany
Labor camp
Buchenwald
Germany
Labor camp
Dachau
Germany
Labor camp
Flossenbürg
Germany
Labor camp
Kaiserwald
(Mežaparks)
Latvia
Labor camp
Kaufering/Landsberg
Germany
Labor camp
Klooga
Estonia
Labor camp
Mauthausen-Gusen
Austria
Labor camp
Mittelbau-Dora
Germany
Labor camp
Neuengamme
Germany
Labor camp
Płaszów
Poland
Labor camp
Sachsenhausen
Germany
Labor camp
Salaspils
Latvia
Labor camp
Stutthof
Poland
Labor camp
Ravensbrück
Germany
Labor camp for women
Gross-Rosen
Poland
Labor camp; Nacht und Nebel camp
Natzweiler-Struthof (Struthof)
France
Labor camp; Nacht und Nebel camp; extermination camp
Alderney
Channel Islands
Labor camps
Soldau
Poland
Labor; Transit camp
Risiera di San Sabba
(Trieste)
Italy
Police detainment camp
Breendonk
Belgium
Prison and labor camp
Niederhagen
Germany
Prison and labor camp
Fort de Romainville
France
Prison and transit camp
Fossoli
Italy
Prison and transit camp
Falstad
Norway
Prison camp
Grini
Norway
Prison camp
Bolzano
Italy
Transit
Westerbork
Netherlands
Transit camp
Theresienstadt
(Terezín)
Czech Republic
Transit camp and Ghetto
Amersfoort
Netherlands
Transit camp and prison
AnswerThere were three different camp functions: transit, labor and death or the extermination camps. Some camps served in more than one function and many camps had numerous sub camps.Labor camps could be located at factory sites or small plants and might have as few as 50 to 100 prisoners and for this reason they were represent the largest number that can be listed.
Second, some camps were in use for only brief periods of time like those in North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya had 17 different labor camps, there were six in Croatia and three in Estonia and two in France. Alderney in the Channel Islands had the dubious honor of being located in England).
Finally, some camps like Auschwitz were really four different camps of the same name. The other major camps include Belzec, Bergen Belsen, Buchenwald, Chelmno, Dachau, Dora, Flossenburg, Grossrosen, Janowska, Kaiserwald, Majdanek, Mauthausen, Neuengamme, Oranienburg, Plaszow, Ravensbruck, Sachenhausen, Sobibor, Stutthof, Terezin, Treblinka and lastly Westerbork.
Why didn't Hitler just expel all the Jews instead of killing them?
The Holocaust was supposed to be secret; and slaughtering the victims publicly, in the street, might have aroused some sympathy for them. Moreover, the Nazi regime did not like public disorder.
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Early in the regime many Jews and others were rounded up and shot but the Nazis quickly realised this was too slow and inefficient, and shooting many individuals at point-blank range was having a bad (from their military point of view) effect on the morale of the officers and men involved. So Adolf Hitler and his High Command developed the concentration- and extermination- camp system.
Which countries were the allies in the Holocaust?
Allies: U.S., Great Britain, and the Soviet Union are the most recognized "Allies" (before 1941, Great Britain, France, and Poland)
Axis: Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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The question confuses the Holocaust with World War 2. See the related question.
What ways did the Nazis persecute the Jewish people in Germany between 1933 - 1935?
Germans persecuted Jews in a number of ways throughout the 1930s. Almost as soon as Hitler came to power, the Nazis began boycotting Jewish owned businesses, and they required Jews to mark themselves with a star. In 1938, Jews are openly attacked and Jewish businesses are ransacked. This was the precursor to the roundup of the Jewish people into the camps.
What were the intentions of the Nazi leaders in the Holocaust?
to eliminate Jews from the Nazi-controlled territory
What was the Final Solution referring to?
The Nazis wanted to wipe out the Jews (and other people they didn't like, like Polish, Russians, homosexuals, and so on), but they usually didn't outright say that. They tended to talk in euphemism- they would use other terms rather than just say "let's kill them".
So the Nazi regime believed that Jews were a problem and needed to go away- they called this "The Jewish Question". In 1942, the Nazi leaders had a conference where they finally came up with an answer- the "Final Solution"- to the Jewish Question. The solution was: kill them.
Up until that point, Jews were cruelly treated by the Nazi regime. They lost their businesses, their livelihoods, their relationships, and their citizenship. After a while, the government started arresting them and forcing them to live in certain places where it'd be easy to control them, including concentration camps. After the 1942 conference, the camps started actively killing them, either by making them work too hard and not feeding them enough, or by simply killing them (by poison, machine gun, medical experiments, and so on).
How many Jews died in Soviet concentration camps?
I would say about 60,000 if not more Jews were killed in the Soviet Union during the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler despised the Jews B/C they refused to believe like he did. It was all about religion. The Jews wanted to keep their religion and did not want to change it. On the other hand, Hitler wanted them to convert to his religion. B/C they refused it caused their death. I won't argue with the numbers because I don't know, but you are wrong about the reason. It wasn't the Jewish religion Hitler objected to. It was the Jewish race. Anyone with one Jewish grandparent was subject to all the discriminatory laws no matter what church they belonged to or what god they believed in. - The Holocaust had nothing to do with religion. - Most souces give a much higher figure than that in the first answer - usually about 1.5 million Soviet Jews killed by the Nazis in WWII (out of a total of about 2.6 million). Over 33,000 Jews were killed in the Babi Yar massacre just outside Kiev, and there were many other such massacres.
How were Jews removed and taken to concentration camps?
Usually, they were first forced to live in Jewish-only appartment houses (in Germany, for example) and subjected to all kinds of petty restrictions, such as not being allowed out of doors between 9pm and 7am, not being allowed to use public transport, to own pets or radios ..... The list was very long. In Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, parts of Belarus and parts of Ukraine they were forced to live in ghettos (Jewish districts) which were surrounded by high walls and guarded. The Nazis appointed Jewish Councils and later these councils had to give the Nazis list of people to be taken away 'for resettlement'. They were then seized by the SS and transported by rail to the extermination camps.
What groups of people were sent to the Nazi concentration extermination camps?
Until November 1938 the concentration camps were primarily for:
- Communists
- Social Democrats
- Other dissidents
Often people who had given personal offence to Nazi party bosses were sent there too.
What other groups did the Nazi's persucute besides the Jews?
During World War II, the Jews were, indeed, not the only people persecuted by the Nazis. Political opponents, especially socialist or communist activists, gypsies and homosexuals, persons of Slavic origin, and fervent Christians, among others, were included in the beatings, imprisonments, and killings perpetrated by German authorities.
Who made the Holocaust crematorium furnaces?
They were manufactured by J. A. Topf und Soehne, Erfurt (Thuringia). The firm had a reputation already before World War 2 for making highly efficient crematoria that used very cheap fuel (lignite or 'brown coal').
Did the Nazis send the Russians to concentration camps?
Yes, during the leadership of the"Fuhrer" some Russians were sent to concentration camps if they protested or disagreed to the made decisions.
but mostly the punished people were Jew.
Who worked in concentration camps?
generally they were de-mobbed. Those who had committed war-crimes were brought to trial.
When did the US find out about the Holocaust?
Reports about the Holocaust reached the British and US governments (from the Polish Home Army or Underground) by late 1941, but they didn't quite believe them. They knew about the Holocaust but did not want to know about it.
Reports about the Holocaust appeared in the media in the US and Britain in late 1942 and early 1943 and there was also some discussion about what might be done about it. However, it seems that a lot of this didn't 'register' with the public. In a war, reports about battles are much more interesting than reports about processes.
Who saved the Jews from concentration camps?
It is unclear what time period is being referenced.
Biblical Period
Moses saved the Jews from slavery and King Cyrus of Persia saved them from Exile.
Spanish Inquisition
Sultan Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire gave Jews fleeing Iberia the chance to come to specific cities in the Ottoman Empire like Salonika (Thessaloniki) or Constantinople (Istanbul). The Netherlands also permitted Jews to seek refuge.
Nazi Holocaust
Just to be clear, 6 million Jews were brutally murdered. Nobody saved ALL of the Jews. Some of the Jews were saved in different ways.
1) German Sympathizers: A number of German Industrialists of which Oskar Schindler is the most famous, felt bad for the Jews, but could not express his sympathy for their plight without also being sent to the the Camps. He, like other sympathetic industrialists, made their factories exclusively based on Jewish labor and protected their workers quite vociferously from any harm.
2) Civilian Sympathizers: Many individuals in occupied countries hid Jews in their homes. (Anne Frank is a good example of this). Many nameless and unknown Europeans risked their lives to protect other human beings in what little ways they could. In Denmark, it was source of national pride to protect the Jews by coordinating their flight to neutral Sweden.
3) Foreign Diplomats: A few courageous foreign diplomats like Raoul Wallenberg issued fake papers to Jews guaranteeing them the ability to flee and live beyond the reach of the Nazi authorities who would want to kill them.
4) Foreign Armies: When Britain, the USA, and the USSR began to liberate the Nazi-occupied territories, they encountered the Concentration Camps, Death Camps, and ghettos and proceeded to liberate the prisoners.
What groups were targeted by Nazis and how were they identified?
"Undermenschen", or in english "undesirables." Jews, Gypsies, Serbs, Gays, Handicapped, Retarded, etc. About anyone that resisted Germany or was physically, mentally, or spiritually warped according to Nazis. They thought eliminating was right.
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There was a reason for each group:
Because they were part of a 'lower' race the Slavs were targeted.
Because of their religion (and therefore dubious loyalty) Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses were targeted.
The disabled (both mental and physical) were targeted because they could not benefit the state.
Homosexuals and paedophiles were targeted because they were seen a perverted.
Communists and trade unionists because they spread dangerous thoughts.
Habitual criminals and homeless because they were anti social.
Gypsies were targeted because Himmler thought that they held the key to life.
What type of Jews did Hitler kill?
It didn't seem to make any difference to Hitler what type of Jews were killed during the Holocaust,
