Holocaust

He was a true national socialist, an example for all of us.

He was a sadist and propagandist who justified and took part in genocide. That is not setting an example to anyone except the sick and the depraved who share his views.

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Well the holocaust was the most documented piece of history. so their are many many many books about it that people read and learn about.

If you are interested in any books concerning the Holocaust, I suggest that you read books such as "Night" by Eli Wiesle, "The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas" by John Boyne, "The Diary of Anne Frank", or "The Book Thief" by Markus Zusak. They are all wonderful books that really help you understand what the Holocaust was like. Many of the books written on the Holocaust have won many prizes and national recognition. For example, "The Diary of Anne Frank" is one of the most popular books still on world-wide lists, and "Night" by Eli Wiesle is very popular and is taught in most schools today. The graphic novel, "Maus" by Art Spiegelman (a biography of Spiegelman's father, who went through the concentration camps) is one of the only graphic novels to ever receive a Pulitzer Prize.

Mainly, the Holocaust, as horrid as it was, opened a "new chapter", if you will, on literature today. It's impact has been great and significant.

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Many awful things happened during the holocaust. For example there were 3 groups of people in the camps, 2 were the regular ones who go in the camps, but the 3r group was a medical group which the Nazis tested thing on them. Like seeing how far you can stretch them until they rip, or doing brain surgery as they were awake, and many for awful things.

NO, Israel was the name for the Jewish people. According to Judaism, when the Messiah comes, he will create a state which will be called Israel, it will be roughly where mortal gentiles thought that they had the right to call their state 'Israel', but this happened after the Holocaust.

Short answer: It helped the Nazis with the goal of Jewish genocide.

The Nazis wanted to get rid of all Jewish owned businesses, either by closing them, stealing them, or destroying them. This was just one of the first steps that the Nazis used to eventually impoverish, de-house & imprison all Jews in preparation for their complete extermination (murder).

There are rumors that Hitler's grandfather was Jewish, but most historians dispute this.

Brutally. Inmates were used as slave labor, and those who could not keep up with the unreasonable expectations of the Nazi camp commandants were either killed or left to starve. Many inmates were also used as the subjects of medical experiments, usually against their will.

What do you really mean by literary evidence here? Personal autobiographical accounts? Or do you mean documents?

The swastika was used all over the world before the Nazis appropriated it. Vikings, Romans, Greeks, the Middle East, even ancient China and India. Around the time of World War II, a blue swastika was a common symbol used by the military of Finland.

However, Hindus- people who follow Hinduism, one of India's major religions- still consider the swastika to be a symbol of good luck. Hinduism is thousands of years old too, so it's been used by them for a long time. Other religions that have ties to India, especially Buddhism and Jainism, also sometimes use the symbol.

About 165,000 German Jews perished. However, this figure does not include German Jews who emigrated to countries like France, Belgium and the Netherlands, which were subsequently invaded by the Nazis. Figures for Holocaust dead are based on the countries from which the victims were deported. This avoids double counting.

Some of the 'experiments' done on the Jews in the camps are so grotesque that to this day, people vomit while reading the details.

One of the most notorious Nazis was Josef Mengele. He had a particular fascination with 'experimenting' on Jewish children - especially twins.

He would separate twins into different buildings. Then he would slowly, slowly torture one twin right up until they died. Meanwhile, the remaining twin would be monitored for signs of distress, to see if they picked up on their sibling's pain by 'telepathy'.

Many other terrible things were done as well, some of which have been mentioned in other answers.

Key point: NONE of the things done by the Nazis have EVER led to any scientific breakthroughs, studies or benefits. NONE. It's important to stress this because there are a few random morons out there who will claim otherwise.

All of the things done by the Nazis were purely to determine the most painful/slow/fast ways in which to kill the Jews. Thus the Jews were marched, while alive, into the ovens, and gassed. They were shot, and pushed into mass graves. They were burned to death. Starved to death. Frozen to death. Injected with various chemicals and then watched as they died in agony.

Anyone who ever doubts if there is true evil in our world, need only read up about what was done in those concentration camps.

The Federal Republic of Germany has always claimed to be the sole legal successor to the German Reich and therefore accepts Germany's responsibility for the Holocaust and has paid out part compensation to individual victims and to Israel.

Medical experiments were not confined to ethnic or religious undesirables- such as the Jews. They were rather routinely conducted on POW"s and crime suspects by the SS and often SS Medical Officers, who were trained but somewhat unethical MD"s cooperated, not merely examining corpses and grabbing parts for anatomy lessons like the famous Dr. Herman Voss, still widely popular as a textbook anatomist and he is required study material in German medical schools- his anatomy book went into something like 37 editions, like Webster:s or something Very few movies dealt with Nazi Medical experiments. Truth drugs, to get information on war intelligence or crimes, was one ( arguably legitimate) goal, not stark torture. If there was little phycial discomfort, this would not be materially different than the use of Polygraphs or Lie Detectors as they are commonly called. Few films deal with Nazi (Forensic) medicine and I don:t mean the Quincy or White room stiff variety.

Unfortunately, the history books we are given in school are written with bias to tell only a certain side of a story. Hitler in fact was surrounded by Jews in his own government and military, as well as in the financing he received from German-Jewish bankers. Going even one step further, there has always been speculation as to Hitler's actual background and some people say that he was half-Jewish himself!

There is no verifiable evidence that I know of about that claim, but modern researchers did in fact track down 39 living relatives of Hitler and tested their DNA which was found to have a particular chromosome that would NOT be found in Western Europe but that IS common to certain Jews! So this does seem to indicate that Hitler DID have some Jewish blood, or DNA very closely related to a certain group of Jews!

One of the best known is: Elie Wiesel, Night Others include: * Primo Levi, If This is a Man (also published under the title Survival at Auschwitz) * Jean Améry, At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz ... * Fania Fénélon, Playing for Time

Yes, atleast 7 Million Jews died in the Holocaust.

Amersfoort, Arbeitsdorf, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Banjica, Bardufoss, Bełżec, Bergen-Belsen, Berlin-Marzahn, Bernburg, Bogdanovka, Bolzano, Bredtvet, Breendonk, Breitenau, Buchenwald, Chełmno, Crveni krst Dachau, Drancy, Falstad, Flossenbürg, Fort de Romainville, Grini, Gross-Rosen, Herzogenbusch, Hinzert, Janowska, Jasenovac, Kaiserwald, Kaufering/Landsberg, Kauen, Klooga, Langenstein-Zwieberge, Le Vernet, Majdanek, Malchow, Maly Trostenets, Mauthausen-Gusen, Mittelbau-Dora, Natzweiler-Struthof , Neuengamme, Neuengamme-Alderney , Niederhagen, Ohrdruf, Oranienburg, Osthofen, Płaszów, Ravensbrück, Risiera di San Sabba, Sachsenhausen, Sajmiste, Salaspils, Sobibór, Soldau, Stutthof, Theresienstadt, Treblinka, Vaivara, Warsaw, and Westerbork.

They died from starvation; over-work; terrible experimentations on them; shot to death; tortured to death; gas chambers and many died from different diseases from the lack of food, filth they had to live in.

Given the widely known facts regarding the Holocaust and, for example, the fact that well over 1,000,000 Jews were murdered in Auschwitz, it is quite disturbing that such a question could be asked. However the question was asked and Auschwitz gives the answer.

holocaust was bad, and was organized by hitler, he was a bad man.</zzz>

The Final Solution was organized in secret with almost no paperwork discussing the plan. Heinrich Heydrich and Himmler were in charge of setting up the concentration camps, rounding up the Jews and "undesirables", and carrying out the killing and burying. Himmler eventually put the SS in charge of the camps, arrests, transportation and murders. There were medical experiments overseen by Josef Mengele. Albert Speer suggest gassing the Jews to increase production of the killing and using ovens to burn the bodies. Heydrich died so Himmler got the top job of being in charge of the camps and killings.