Holocaust

The same as full blooded ones. Any drop of Jewish blood in the family tree was enough to condemn a person. It did not matter if a person was a non-practicing Jew and had never seen the inside of a synagogue.

Prospective recruits to the SS, at least at first, had to provide genealogical information back eight generations, which could be investigated, to confirm they were free of Jewish blood. The Germans had quite a mania about it.

The Nazis felt that they were the perfect rate, and people with disabilities were imperfect, and thus not worthy of life. They wanted to prefect humanity according to their idea of perfection.

The actual number of deaths is not known. There were an estimated 6 million European Jews. There were most likely about the same number of non-Jewish deaths, these fell into many groups Russian POW's, Polish, disable, freemasons, gays, and even Jehovah's Witnesses.

The Soviet Union was the first country to liberate the Jews. The United States reached the camps in April and May, 1945.

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Liberation took place camp by camp as the Allies advanced. Most Jews were dead by the time the Allies reached the camps.

She was murdered at Trelinka in 1942, at the age of 17.

There are some rumors hinting that Hitler's grandfather was Jewish, but few Hitler historians believe that this is true, (but see below). This rumor most likely started because Hitler always tried to keep the history of his family secret, but this was most likely because there was a high incidence of insanity in his family history, not because of a Jewish ancestory in his family.

Early in his time as chancellor of Germany, Hitler did assign Joseph Goebbels to research his lineage to find out if he had any Jewish blood. Goebbels reported back that there was a 50/50 chance Hitler was 1/4 Jewish.

Though he always had a hatred for Jews, it was at the start of WW2 that the Nazis realized that their first plan, to ship them all off to Madagascar wouldn't work because they couldn't do it during a war, so he decided to have them all killed off, though he was not among the Nazi officials who agreed upon the "Final Solution."

Credit for the idea has to be given further down the chain of command, but Hitler will have approved the idea.

Yes, but it is in understanding the difference in the reasons why others were killed that will give you a grasp on the Holocaust.

The Nazi strip every one naked because they wanted to see if they were hiding any thing. they were also were tortured out there in the cold

D- day was when the people in the ghettos celebrated because they heard d-day on the radio that some one would help the people in the ghettos

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The ghettos had been 'liquidated' long before D-Day; they no longer existed.

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One was used to end the other.

The earliest ones was minor ones which was in 1938. They were used until the end of the war in 1945. The exact number is disputed from 1,200 to over 15,000.

witnesses

No. She had one sister.

i have found out that there are a number of different underlying facts why people kill each other , factors such as money is a very big reason why people murder each other , other factors are revenge , power , love , jealousy , some people just don't see that its a wrong thing to do , they think that they are doing the right thing IE their "religion " told them to do it.

~Here's a question for you, is the impulse to murder from when we were cavemen , and learned as a defense, or is it unnecessary action that comes from mislead peoples?~scrunnchy

nobody really knows unless it is you that did it, but 9 times out of 10 its because they hate someone or they felt like doing it for fun

Because jews didnt have a single country for them in europe,so hitler used that as their disadvantage, he maded all jews in germany stateless, so they didnt belong or had human rights for any country. this maded harder for allies to rescue jews because of their stateless citizenship.

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One of the main reasons was indeed that the Jews had no state or statesman to speak up for them, or to support their cause.

Also, Hitler needed to blame a group that was small enough, but also significant enough. Jews only consisted of less than 1% of the population, but there was an increacing number of poor Jewish refugees fleeing the persecution in Poland. This increase was not welcomed by others who were struggling to find employment and it was easy to blame a group that was already unpopluar.

well an extermination camp is a camp where the Jews are sent so that the Nazi's can exterminate them or in other words where they can kill them.. try and kill off the race.

to remind the holocaust happened and nations should insure it does not happen again....

First he made them put signs in their windows that a store or business was Jewish owned and forbid anyone to shop in those businesses. Next he confiscated all of their personal wealth and jewelry.

• The Jews were made second class citizens
• Nuremberg Laws were passed. Once law forbid Jews from working in Aryan homes and businesses. Another law forbid the intermixing and marrying of Aryan blood with Jewish blood.
• The Jews had their business boycotted and later taken from them.
• The Jewish banks were seized by the Nazis.
• The Jews were picked up and put into Ghettos and concentration camps. They were either murdered or made to do slave labor.
• Some were shot right out in public.
• All of this increased once the war started.

It targeted anyone whom Hitler openly viewed as against him or racially or ethnically inferior.

The second World War did not begin until 1939. However, the Nazis were already in power in 1936, and the Olympics that year were held in Berlin. During the two weeks of the Olympics, Germany had to hide their immense antisemitism and any plans for territory expansion.

Yes most people think so. For the reason that even before Hitler took any action he wrote a book about what he was planning.

1. Nearly all countries had very strict immigration laws in the 1930s and these were enforced. There was no such thing as a legal right to asylum at the time.

2. It wasn't enough simply to get out of Germany: the refugees needed jobs, too, and these were notoriously hard to find in the 1930s. Many also had young or elderly dependants. (In general, it was easier for young, single people to leave). If refugees did not have a job in advance, they needed relatives, or have a firm commitment that a charity would support them. Britain, Australia and the US all required guarantees. Moreover, the amount of money that refugees were allowed to take out of Germany was decreased year by year after 1933.

4. On the whole, young single people with good qualifications found it much easier than people with family commitments.

5. Before the Nazis came to power (1933) the great majority of German Jews were highly assimilated into German society. Some had been brought up to be "more German than the Germans". There is evidence that some had difficulty understanding what was really happening to them, at least in the early stages. They were thoroughly German and many were tragically in love with Germany. This only changed as persecution intensified and especially when they were subjected to widespread physical violence in the 'Night of the Broken Glass' (November 1938).

6. Until about 1941 it was not obvious that persecution would culminate in the Holocaust.

7. In addition to the German (and Austrian) Jews there were also non-Jewish political refugees trying to emigrate, and this added to the numbers seeking residence in countries like the U.S., Britain and Australia.