Holocaust

It was not diseases that killed most Jews during the holocaust, it was murder by gunshots, poison, starvation, carbon monoxide, fire, etc. Although many Jews died in death camps from various contagious diseases or untreated illnesses, it was only in advance of their planned murder. In many cases the Jews were intentionally infected by various viruses or bacteria by the Germans operating the death camps. Some unethical or misinformed people have tried to claim (falsely) that most of the Jews that died 'just got sick and died'. That would be a lie. It was murder, not the bird flu.

About six million.

You would work making and doing things for the Nazi soldiers and eventually died by murder illness or pure exhaustion at one point in the war anyone under ten and over fifty was immediately killed.

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well no, Labor camps rarely served the military, they would serve the state, or be there for a private company like Buna or Mercedes or Schindler (as in the film). People would be worked to death and often beaten to death to motivate the others. It was very rare that anyone too old or too young would arrive at a labor camp as they were 'selected' before they were sent.

Conditions in the trains were appalling. The victims were packed tightly into cattle trucks and the trains travelled very slowly. (For example, the Greek Jews sent to Auschwitz had to spend 120 hours in the trains). There were no lavatories and people had to sleep standing up. Many older or frail people died in those trains.

When Jews arived at the death camps. They were told that their belongings would fallow them and they would get them back later. They were often seperated into men and older boys in one group and then women and children in the other. Elderly not able to walk far were another group. They were told that there were diseases going around so they needed get showers to keep it from spreading through the camp. The women had their hair cut off or sometimes shaved. They were told it was to prevent lice from spreading. They then were marched on to the "showers" were they were told to strip. Once everybody was in the shower, the doors were shut and sealed. Instead of water it was CO2 or Zyclon B that were released. After every one inside the chamber was dead. The doors were opened and Jewish work slaves or sonderkommando had to remove the bodies and clean it for the next group. The bodies either went to the crematoria to be burned or to mass graves to be buried. Most of the mass graves were dug up and the bodies exhumed and burned.

Josef Mengele was 67 when he died in Brazil on February 8, 1979.

Laziness. Sense of entitlement. Theft .Alcohol and drug abuse. Prostitution. Anything criminal

You should write about the daily life in the camps!

Over 3000 Protestants died in the Holocaust. 5 to 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust. However, this is an estimate as it is possible that more may have died.

It was a concentration camp.

Concentration camps were very common during and before the Holocaust.

Hitler certainly provided volumes of contributions to the medical industry in the form of studies of him by psychologists, psychiatrists, physical specialists and other medical personnel, though he didn't do this on purpose. Of course, among the millions of undesirable non-Aryans confined to death camps, many contributed to scientific research at the hands of doctors and other interested parties, but whether any real medical findings were published or were worth publishing is another matter.

It all happened on November 9, 1938 when violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager but the fact was that German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis carefully organized the pogroms. The morning after, German Jewish men were arrested for the crime of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps.

Routine (as opposed to experimental) gassings started at Chelmno on the 8th of December, 1941. However, since 25 June 1941 mobile killing units had operated behind German lines in the Soviet Union. massacring Jews on a large scale.

I know it's a shame most of your family couldn't make it as they didn't survive the concentration camps.

Appalled, horrified, amazed at the cruelty of man. The liberation of the camps in Germany in 1945 was, as above, horrifying. the startling fact was that the Russians had already 'liberated' camps in Poland in 1944. Astoundingly they said nothing about them. The idea of extermination on this scale was undrempt of: it is sad to say the first example of a concentration camp is in the Boer war in South Africa, by the British, at the turn of the 20th century.

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Common agenda. Fascism and Hitlers ideals mix well. Mussolini became leader of Italy in 1922. Hitler came to power later and so he looked to Mussolini for ideas and also a mentor in formulating his miliary. On 14 June, 1934, Hitler made his first trip to meet Mussolini to discuss "international policy". Mussolini put on a show of his military might to impress Hitler. However, Mussolini did not want Germany to annex Austria and share a common border with Italy. He succeded in this for a few years. Some say that Hitler was inspired to use the stiff-armed "Nazi salute" from observing Mussolini's troops using the Roman salute. On the other hand, Mussolini tried to emulate the German "goose step" march after his visit to Germany in 1937. After 1937, Hitler was in command of his own destiny and did not look to Mussolini for direction or inspiration. In World War 2 Mussolini was just a nuisance - going to war, getting a sound hiding and then asking Hitler for help.

A site called 'A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust" lists many different badges in it's linked in-depth commentary.

They include the catch-all black badges anti-socials and the green badge for criminals. Yellow was for Jews. purple for Jehovah Witnesses, and pink for male homosexuals

• Death
• Threat of death
• Exposure to the elements
• Starvation
• Slave labor to the point of death
• Disease
• Rape and assault

People could argue about a top 5 list until the cows come home. Lists tend to reflect the viewpoint of a person's country. For example, about two-thirds of European fighting was on the Soviet front, but British and US histories often gloss over this.

In the top twenty, I suggest the following might appear:

Fall of France 1940 (Germans routed British and French)

El Alemein (turning point for the war in Africa)

Fall of Singapore (Japanese routed British and Australians)

Siege of Leningrad

Siege of Moscow

Stalingrad (turning point on the Eastern Front)

More than 13,000 were arrested. The destruction of the village of Lidice was probably the most notorious thing the Nazis did in retaliation. All 199 men were executed, 95 children were taken and 195 women were arrested. The entire village was destroyed.

Heydrich had been the head of the Gestapo but was promoted to the head of the "Reich Main Security Office", and was the appointed ruler of the Czech Republic. His brutality earned him the nickname "the Butcher of Prague". He was assassinated by Czech rebels at the end of May 1942, although he didn't actually die until the beginning of June.

The Nazis, first and foremost, wanted to capture, torture, torture some more, and then execute the assassins. At first, they were unable to find them, so they arrested anyone and everyone who was around. Thousands of people were arrested, many of whom wound up in concentration camps and were killed.

Additionally, the initial findings of the Nazi investigation erroneously linked the assassins to two nearby towns. The Nazis destroyed those towns, and slaughtered the people. Those who weren't killed immediately, were sent to concentration camps to die.

Eventually the Nazis were able to arrest and torture enough people that they discovered where the assassins where hiding- in a church in Prague. The Nazis surrounded the church, and launched a military-style attack on it; all of the conspirators died, either by wounds or suicide. Also, the bishop at that church (who was not involved in the assassination) surrendered himself to the Nazis in the hopes that they would not attack his parishioners- the bishop and his church staff were arrested, tortured, and killed.

Simple, Hitler hated the Jews. His hatred came from his jealously for the blessing bestowed upon them and his belief through Athenian philosopha doctrine and its use of dalectics which produced writings by Germans such as Feuerback and Bauer and Sterner and Marx and Engels, which were anti-semetic.
Because he thought they betrayed him in WW1! so he was pissed!