Why did Hitler expel Jews from Germany?
Official reasons given included: * Only 'genuine Germans' should work for the German government at any level, and the Nazis claimed that Jews could not be Germans (regardless of citizenship, language, etc). (In fact, collectively, German Jews had a reputation for leaning over backwards to be 'more German than the Germans'). * The claim that Jews are subversives, Communists and so on.
What was the Jewish population before the holocaust?
Not really because it would have to be broken down according to country/locationzperiodz Many countries lost as much as 80% of the Jewish population while others much less. It is possible to have a total of all populations in Europe at the start of the Holocaust and at the end of it.
Why did Hitler and the Nazis hate the Jews for kids?
National Socialism did not invent the European race-thinking that postulated
the purity and superiority of the Nordic, Germanic race. The Nazis inherited this
fantasy from the writings of 19th-century pseudo-philosophers like Gobineau,
Chamberlain, Wagner and Dühring who asserted that the "race" question was the key
to history, and that "blood purity" determined the destiny of nations. Hitler's politics
were based on such biological foundations and objectives. In the name of Social
Darwinist eugenics he ordered the elimination of Jews as well as the
enslavement of millions of Slavs. Jews, in particular, were singled out for physical
annihilation, not as prisoners of war, political opponents or resisters; not because of
their opinions, behaviour or acts, but because they were deemed to be a priori
"racially inferior," a "world enemy" and a deadly virus. Their enslavement and
destruction fulfilled no rational purpose or economic function. It was the outcome of a
genocidal ideology which decreed the wiping out of biologically "inferior" entities as
corresponding to the "laws of nature."
What countries were Jews taken from in the Holocaust?
Well in countries like Poland, Denmark, France, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg (which the Germans occupied throughtout WW2) most Jews were sent to concentration camps (where they were usually gassed or shot) either in their country or Germany. Also, nearly all German Jews were sent to concentration camps. However, some Jews managed to remain hidden or escape from their occupied countries - some Jews could escape to Scotland from Norway, for instance, but some died en route to Norway. In total, 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis. Russian and Poland for sure --- Jews were taken from all areas under German rule: * Austria * Czech Republic * Slovakia * Poland * The Netherlands * Belgium * Luxembourg * France * Norway * Serbia * Greece * Russia * Ukraine * Belarus * Lithuania * Latvia * Estonia * From 1943, also from Italy * From 1944, alsofrom Hungary Two of Germany's allies - Romania and Croatia - carried out their own Holocausts.
Why did Jews want a homeland in israel?
Herzl, the founder of Zionism, explained quite well that the European concept of a nation-state was dependent on the idea that all of the people in any particular nation were of the same ethnic stock and heritage. Jews were branded by this system to be "the Other" and were regarded at best as possible equals and at worse as traitors, spies, thieves, and fifth columns. When the Dreyfus Affair turned out marches in Paris that said "Death to the Jews" on account of a kangaroo court against a particular guiltless Jew, it became clear that the Jew could not be integrated into Europe.
Why did people support the Holocaust?
Why do people support the war in Iraq? because we can. they attacked us back in 1993 and 9-11, we are going to finish what they started.
How did World War I cause the Holocaust?
After World War 1, the Treaty of Versailles punished Germany by forcing them to pay for war debts to countries such as France and Great Britain. It also forced Germany to limit its military and weakened the German economy. Germany went through many hard times, and at the same time Adolf Hitler saw the perfect time to make an appeal for power in Germany. In an almost desperate attempt to relieve their troubled economy, people turned to the promises that Hitler had proposed. He disobeyed the Versailles Treaty by rearming the German military. Hitler eventually started to demand more from other countries and no one seemed to stop him. Hitler despised the Versailles Treaty and annexed Austria, which was also in violation of the treaty. Hitler began to make claims on Sudetenland, and was given to him as a way to "prevent any further demands" and to "ensure peace between countries". This shows how the treaty from the outcome of World War 1 eventually led to angst between countries and leaders and how World War 2 was brought out of these bitter feelings and harsh situations.
How did liberation of concentration camps impact ww2?
The liberation of the concentration camps did not impact WW2 at all. POW camps and slave labour camps were also liberated, servicemen were able to return to their units, but that was the limit of the impact.
What did Japanese die of in the Concentration camps in World War 2?
Some Japanese Americans died in the camps due to inadequate medical care and the emotional stresses they encountered. Several were killed by military guards posted for allegedly resisting orders.
What is so special about the Jews?
Attractive and even flattering as the concept may be, there's actually no evidence to suggest that Jews are anything special for the US. In fact, one of the nation's founding principles is that nothing like that shall take shape here.
Why did Hitler want to eliminate so many races?
Hitler's idea of a pure Aryan race is that he wanted a new, purer Germany free from communism and Jews, this led to the Holocaust especially the Final Solution, The extermination of the Jews.
Hitler wanted to kill the Jews because they weren't Aryan and Hitler believed that the Jews were the cause for all Germany's bad times This is also known to be Antisemitism
What was the purpose of building Auschwitz?
Gas chambers
Pits/Graves to dispose the gassed/Burned bodies
Area where people worked from agriculturing to moving heavy pieces of metal
Barracks with concret blockes where the prisoners to sleep on
So basically Auschwitz was a killing/Slave working camp
What did Adolf Hitler do to the Jews?
Jews and Negroes were regarded as impure and unclean races by the Nazi's. Initially they were persecuted under Hitler's regime, throughout the mid / late '30s and in the first couple of years of the war- they were forbidden to hold jobs or to work, had to carry special ID cards, were publicly humiliated, harrassed and beaten up by the Gestapo, had their property confiscated, and all Synagogues were closed or burnt down. Literature, music and works of art by Jews or blacks were destroyed, and many were convicted of spurious offences and imprisoned or sent to work in forced labour camps. From 1942 onwards, the Nazi's began a programme of mass extermination of all people they regarded as inferior, sending them to be killed in the many extermination camps around Germany, Poland and other occupied nations. They were rounded up and put on trains that took them to the death camps, where they were gassed, shot, poisoned, or simply starved or worked to death.
Is it true Hitler used the electric chair in the Holocaust?
No. The people killed in the Nazi extermination camps were killed by the hundreds and thousands each day. Poison gas and gunfire were used to kill as many people as possible.
What was the holocaust and who were the victims?
Adolf Hittler hated jues so he balamed them for all that was happaning and he was voted commishon and jues were forsed to wear six pointed stars sowed on there shirts so people would know that they were jues he sent them to camp more like death camps and torchered and killed some excaped with alot of luck athers worent hert but got verry ill and later died
hope this answers your question
Why did the Jews betrayed their own country during the world war?
There are always some people who behave abominably.
Why did Hitler shave the Jews heads?
The fake reason is to dehumanize the prisoner work worse. There is also a history that the hair was to be used in the production of "womens mattresses" as attested at Nuremberg.
Nazis shaved prisoners heads to prevent the spread of lice and the deadly disease typhus. zyclone b was used as the countries premiere pesticide and was used to delouse prisoner barracks and clothing in order to prevent the spread of the disease. zyclone b is also reported as being accountable for the death of 2/3rds of the Jewish prisoners during WWII, but no one knows how many lives were saved by regular hair cuts and delousing.
Why were the Jews considered undesirables?
Jews were classified as undesirables as they were seen as impure and abnormal and had no right to exist. They were considered as mentally or physically unfit.Nazis wanted only a society of pure and healthy nordiac aryans and they were not seen as pure or healthy, so they were considered as undesirable.
Antisemitism prevailed in Europe during World War 2 and long before that. Many European did not like Jews because a good proportion of them were well off and controlled a lot of businesses that affected the European economies. People like Adolf Hitler blamed the troubles of Germany on the Jews. When the Jews were being hauled a way very few Germans or other nationalities did anything about it because they did not like the Jews nor did they understand them. There were many who did love and support the Jews. They helped to hide them, rescue them and get them to other safe countries. The worst of the Jewish racists were the Nazis and leaders like Heinrich Himmler, Heydrich, Goering, Hitler, Goebbels, and Mengele. They and others were responsible for the holocaust genocide.
How was Anne Frank's diary an important historical document during the Holocaust?
If at all it is important ot the diary it would be impportant becasue it was a life sotry of a Jewish girl living in a small annexe with 7 other people for 2 years and not getting found by the Gestapo.
What happened if you try to escape from the concentration camps?
The main principal behind the use of concentration camp inmates was what was called at the Wansee Conference "Annihilation by work". They worked the inmates until they literally dropped dead, and frequently at pointless or futile tasks. Not all inmates were so used, however. Some were sent to sorting rooms to sort shoes, jewelry, clothing and anything else taken from new arrivals. All of these people were ones who had passed the initial "selection" upon arrival at the camp. The very young, the very old and the obviously sick or infirm were gassed immediately.
Where did the Jews go into during and after the Holocaust?
During the Holocaust the Jews were first sent to ghettos and from there to extermination camps and concentration camps.
After the Holocaust many Jews were unable to go home and had to live in camps for Displaced Persons until they could find somewhere permanent.
Where did the murders in the holocaust take place?
across most of Europe, essentially wherever there were both Jews and Nazis.
Did children in the death camps know what was going on?
To answer your question it is important to understand that there were 'only' six 'death' camps (extermination camps). The rest were concentration camps which had a ifferent function, although a large number of people died in them. The six camps were: most of the Birkenau section of Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek (part) , Treblinka and Sobibor . These were all built in Poland and designed to liquidate the Jewish and gypsy population of Europe.
These were set up in 1941-42 as part of the 'Final Solution'. It is accepted that no-one, adults and children alike, had any idea what was to happen to them until the last possible moment. On arrival by rail at the camp the unfortunates were greeted by smiling, friendly guards who explained that they were to be re-settled in this new town that was being built for them. They were then escorted to the proccessing sheds where they were invited to leave their belongings while they had a shower and were de-loused. They were then taken to changing rooms where they left their clothes folded neatly in cubicles and filed into the 'shower' rooms. Only when the gas-tight doors were shut and the Zyklon-B gas canisters dropped did the occupants guess something was amiss. These camps existed for no reason other than extermination. This was carried out, normally, within a few hours of their arrival and all signs of their fate were removed prior to the arrival of the next train-load. The Nazis employed Poles, Ukrainians and Serbs, as well as some Jewish slave labour. All were instructed to keep their mouths tightly shut when dealing with the new arrivals and to smile at all times in order to keep up the pretence.
At Auschwitz some prisoners were worked to death. Auschwitz was a complex of about 48 camps, and of these part of Auschwitz II (Birkenau) was a camp of the kind described above. Usually, prisoners were sorted quickly on arrival: able-bodied adults (usually 15+) were chosen for slave labour, and the rest (the old, sick, very young and visibly pregnant women) were gassed as soon as possible.