Holocaust

They hunted the Jews in order to kill them. Please see related question.

Yes, especially after they declared war on Germany in 1933. See link below.

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The notion that the Jews declared war on Germany is Nazi propaganda. That headline from the Daily Express is the only "evidence" that neo-Nazis can produce for this lie. (The rest of the front page below is faked).

See related question for information on persecution in Germany, 1933-39.

w couldn't belive that these people were treated this way by the nezie. and that anyone could be treated this way. we were really surprised that this had happened. and that the Germans just acted like it never happened.

Ordering Jews to get special identification cards and wear a Star of David patch was one tactic used by Hitler to get rid of the Jews. A second tactic was to force the Jews to move into walled off sections of the region and give up all of their personal property and belongings. The third tactic Hitler used in an attempt to get rid of all Jews was genocide.

They died in the Nazi Concentration camps, death marches between camps or general didn't survive when escaped. Most deaths occurred at the Nazi Concentration camps. There are differnet kinds of camps:Concentration, Death, Extermination, Transition and Labor camps. Each kind of camps has got it's own purpose such as holding people or killing them in mass numbers.

Yes, though it was very hard. Successful escapers include: * Hans Beimler (escaped from Dachau in 1933) * Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler (escaped from Auschwitz in 1944) * Rudolf Reder (escaped from Belzec in 1942) All these escapers wrote reports, books or pamphlets about the camps they escaped from. Witold Pilecki is worth mentioning. He deliberately got himself taken to Auschwitz in 1940 in order to find out what was going on there. He managed to escape in 1943. (Links to all four of these men below).

The governor of any district was in ultimate charge of any ghettos in his district, but the day-to-day running of the ghettos was done by a Jewish council made up from the inhabitants of the ghetto.

Chances are the Jews would be almost or totally extinct. Also Neo-Nazism would be uncontrollable and Murder rates would probably be higher.

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This is a completely unreal question. The Holocaust would only have continued if the Allies had failed to defeat Germany.

The Third Reich refers to the whole of the period when the Nazis were in power (1933-45); the Holocaust usually refers to the period of the systematic mass extermination of the Jews from 1941-45.

the economy was crap most were out of a job commuinsim was right around the corner then Hitler came he was accually quite helpful to the German economy he built roads, made the volswagon,made jobs the econmoy was great he made Germany into a great country until that went to hell when he went into world war two

Because:

- they had a coast line.

- they had a neutral country that was willing to accept them.

- Danish Jews were assimiliated.

- the Germans warned them that there would be round-ups.

- the Germans did not try to stop them.

(it was not the Resistance that did the sumggling)

It wasn't just Hitler responsible for the attitude against the Jews, it was the attitude of the German government as a whole. For years government sanctioned pogroms took place (attacks against Jewish villages and settlements). One of the worst was called Crystal Night where widespread attacks against Jews prior to World War 2 signified the approaching atrocities that were to take place. The government acknowledged the attacks and while publicly condemned them, did nothing to find and punish those responsible. Many members of the German government were just as responsible as Hitler for scapegoating their problems onto the Jews.

im not sure but there is one called the theresienstadt concentration camp.

The genocide happened because one group misunderstood the other. What happened after was too sad. If people had taken time to listen, then maybe this would not have happened.

In 1994, the ethnic rivalry and animosity of many years between the Tutsi and Hutus, the two main tribes of Rwanda exploded in a killing spree. The Human Rights Watch estimates that 800,000 people were killed in the hundred days between April and July of that year.

The book, "An Ordinary Man" by Paul Rusesabaggina, was the best book I have read on this subject; it makes it understandable how a "normal" society can, so easily, turn into chaos and horror. I think this book should be in every high school library. The author is the main character featured in the movie "Hotel Rwanda", it is his story.

1. A ghetto was an enclosed (walled in) area where Jews had to live - by law. The first ghettos were established in Europe in the Middle Ages, when the Catholic Church ordered their creation (in the 1200s).

2. Ghettos were revived from 1939 onwards by the Nazis.

In the Holocaust, Jews were sent to ghettos by the Nazis. It was a horrible place where they were forced to work and only given limited amounts of food! Basically, a ghetto was a small town with a huge wall round it. All the Jews got sent there and it was packed full with sick and dying people. If the Jews look ill then they would not be fed and were left to die of starvation. Some Jews were lucky enough to escape and live today. Not many do but their relatives and other generations do.

3. In the 1960s the word was extended (figuratively) to run down inner city areas where Black Americans and others lived.

She is belived to have died on a death march of prisoners to some camp called Terezin in Czecheslovakia or shortly after arriving there.

It depends on their background: Ashkenazi Jews view it as the "quintessential tragedy of the 20th century."

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For many Jews the Holocaust has become a central and integral part of Jewish identity: they have become, so to speak, 'the People of the Holocaust', though this expression is not used. It may be the case that this is felt more strongly by secular (that is, non-religious) Jews than by practising religious Jews.

The Holocaust raises a number of difficult theological questions, and not only for Judaism.

The Nuremburg laws were passed in 1935 in Germany.

Jews were taken by the Germans because the Germans, more spoken Hitler blamed the war on the Jews

Male refugees of military age from Germany and Austria - whether Jewish or not - were interned ... However, the majority of refugees were able to establish their status as genuine refugees and were released fairly quickly.

It was not unique. Well, atleast not in a good way.

It was so horrible that it was unique.

It was "unique" because it showed how man can be so disgusting and inhumane.

It was unique to Europe because of the take over of the Nazis. They invaded countries, changed laws and killed. It was more of a "trauma" than "unique"

In concentration camps, most Jews were worked and starved to death. The "camps" were not all the same. Transit camps like Westbrook outside of Amsterdam generally shipped it's unfortunate victims straight to Auschwitz-Birkenau--a death camp.. The "Camps" were gradations of probable death. Jewish Ghettos were also a part of The Final Solution. They were set up by the Nazis in any area with a population larger than a village or small town (The Warsaw Ghetto is the most well known) -- This was a horrible step before Jews were sent to death, concentration or a transit camp.

That depends on which area of Europe they were living in. For instance, some Dutch often wore clogs, while others wore boots, sandals, loafers, etc.

In the World War II era, Hitler and his Nazi associates (along with many ordinary Germans) wished to kill Jews because, in their view, Jews were responsible for Germany's sufferings and hardships before and after World War I. Indeed, Nazi Germany based its rule on the claim that Jews throughout history were enemies of European civilization and would, if ever gaining the power to do so, cause further suffering for all.