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Many people who helped save Jews from persecution by the Nazis are recognised as "Righteous Among The Nations" by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem. (If you run a wikipedia search on 'righteous among the nations' you will find links to brief biographies).

Some of the best known of these are:

Corrie ten Boom (Netherlands)

Pere Marie-Benoit (France)

Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians

Oskar Schindler (Germany)

Giorgio Perlasca (Italy)

Archbishop Damaskinos (Greece)

Julius Madritsch (Austria)

Prince Konstantin Karadja (Romania)

Per Faye-Hansen (Norway)

Frank Foley (England)

The Nazis found that it was the easiest way of disposing of the corpses of their victims.

As you no doubt know, Hitler persecuted many groups. Hitler was trying to make a "master race," and to do so, he felt that he needed to eradicate any who were deemed by him to be unfit. Jews, Blacks, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, Polish, homosexuals, and any who differed in political ideals than he did were persecuted. There is much information about the Holocaust at the U.S. Holocaust Museum's website at www.ushmm.org Being one of Jehovah's Witnesses, I have studied about Hitler's tirade against the Witnesses. Hitler attempted to stamp out the existence of my fellow Witnesses in Germany. The reason was that JW's all over the world had spoken out against Hitler. In fact, the organization's leaders had publically spoken out against Hitler even at the very beginning of his rise to power in the early 1930's, before the world at large had become aware of his schemes. In Nazi Germany Witnesses refused to perform the "Heil Hitler" salute. The reason, is because the phrase means, "salvation comes from Hitler." Jehovah's Witnesses believe that salvation comes from Jesus Christ. So therefore, they could not salute a man(Hitler) in this way. In the concentration camps, all a Witness had to do to be released, was to say "heil Hitler," and sign a document renouncing their faith. If they did that, they would be released, and would not face possible death in the camp. Only a handful of Witnesses succumbed to this temptation. The overwhelming vast majority refused, and many died for this. There is much more information, as well as personal testimony from survivors at the website I mentioned.

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Put simply, Nazi Germany was defeated because of bad decisions made by the Führer, Adolf Hitler, and advantage the Allies (mainly Britain, USA and Russia) had in number of troops, sometimes technology, and production.

Hitler's decision to invade Russia was a difficult one from the outset. In the Winter of 1941, Germany lost the initiative and its forces became stuck in battle. Hitler would not allow any retreat, and decisions to attack the wrong targets were made.

The German army was not equipped to fight a Winter battle, wearing mostly Summer clothing. The Russians eventually pushed the Germans all the way back to Berlin.

Meanwhile, the Western Allies bombed Germany relentlessly, and planned an ultimately successful invasion. That placed Germany in a noose.This question could be answered in a lot more depth, but this is the simplest run-down. By their war with Soviet Russia. Hitler attempted to conquer Russia, and the Red Army drove his forces back all the way to Berlin.

Uncomfortable; it of course depended on how undesirable you were.

It's hard to pick a particular action, I would normally just go with the massive amount of death, but there are worse things than killing a person.

If we move to things that are arguably worse than death, the worst thing that Nazis did to the Jews was the inhumane "experiments" of Doctor Mengele. A close second and third, in my book, were the Sonderkommando and the Judenraten. The Sonderkommando were Jews who worked in the Nazi Death Camps and were tasked with running the crematoria that burned up the Jews that had just been gassed. Every day, they would see and be forced to support the annihilation of their brethren. The Judenraten were Nazi-Appointed groups of Jews who were to oversee the internal workings of the ghettos and were required to provide the Nazis with lists of Jews to deport from the ghettos to the concentration camps. The type of moral quandaries that creates for a person and the erosion of justice and fairness makes the creation of the Judenrat and its members a unique and sadistic form of torture.

I would also second the atrocities listed by Expert Cassandra Lifesnadir as horrible things done by the Nazis, though I would still argue that Mengele, Sonderkommando, and Judenrat are the three worst things.

The leadership of the SA (Sturmabteilung) was purged off.

Someone found out about their hiding place and betrayed them to the Nazis. The Nazis removed the bookcase and at first just saw Edith Frank, then they went to the next room and discovered everybody. They were all sent to Auschwitz.

because he didnt think that they were worth living. To gt the world a better place he just killed them

Because Hitler (leader of the Nazis) needed someone to blame for the loss of World War 1 and the Great Depression, and the Jews, Gypsies, and gays just happened to be chosen to carry the blame.

Jewish children were not allowed in the same schools as German children and were not even allowed an education after 1942, they were bullied by German kids and German teachers also they did not have any individuality as they were not allowed that privilege and were even hung for speaking ill of Hitler. But times were tough what can you do?

Adolf Hitler. For him, it wasn't necessarily hard to achieve total power, but it was a bit time-consuming. He was a powerful and motivational speaker. It would have been hard to ignore him or even try.

In English it is called the Night of Broken (the) Glassand in German it is called Kristallnacht.

Jewish people were required to wear a big, bright yellow star of David on the shoulder of their coats. This allowed the Nazis to identify them as Jews.

The Treaty of Versailles was, viewed from an objective point of view, manifestly unfair on Germany. However it is coloured by the demands in territory & economic demands of Prussia (Germany) following their victory over the French in the 1870-71 war. Versailles made Germany poorer, created resentment and fostered a desire for revenge. The Great Depression added to this and it might be argued affected the poorest most. The breeding ground for Nationalism was established, along with a focus for all the ills of the world, and Hitler was able to find mass support for his rabble rousing invective. The Versailles Treaty with the benefits it may have had to other countries was so disproportioate towards Germany that its effects were so penalising that, for the German population as a whole, a feeling that they had nothing to lose was an appealing option. Hitler appealed greatly to this strand of thought. Although I am not saying that Versailles created the Depression, it didn't, it did not help.

The Nazis outlawed many and eventually almost all jobs for Jews, eliminating their ability to support themselves.

They did not as a point of protocol, they were supposed to wait for the mother to come to term before killing both mother and child.

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.

The Nazis were the inner core of the German political system and at their centre were a small group of dedicated individuals who had bought into the 'Mein Kamp' system espoused by Hitler. The core of the party was built around the SA, the SS and the charisma of a few individuals.

Adolf Hitler became the German Chancellor in 1933, and ruled as dictator until April 1945. As such, he ran the entire government of Germany (in other words, Germany as a whole).

Earlier, in 1923, he had attempted unsuccessfully to overthrow the Bavarian government in Munich. Bavaria (Bayern) is a state of Germany.

This is a huge issue, so this answer focuses on the essentials. The two most important reasons were: *Mass unemployment as a result of the Great Depression - in a young democracy (with only very wobbly commitment to democracy). *The absence in Germany at the time of an effective, conventional mainstream right- wing party. In 1928 (before the stockmarket crash) the NSDAP (Nazis) won only 12 out of about 580 possible seats in the Reichstag (Parliament) and were written off as a joke led by a funny, wildly gesticulating little man with very strange ideas. In 1930, however, the Nazis won 107 seats and were a force to be reckoned with. Their strength grew rapidly between 1930 and 1932, when they became the largest single party. Obviously, they exploited fear - especially of Communism; they also exploited resentment arising out of the Treaty of Versailles. However, it was everyday, basic 'bread and butter' issues that appealed to most voters rather than, say, Germany's frontiers and so on. In Germany at the time, commitment to democracy was wobbly or plain weak, partly because democracy was associated with defeat and since 1929-30 with unemployment. The main right-wing party in the late 1920s was the German Nationalists (the DNVP). It had lost touch with its supporters and had somehow lost its way - and many of its traditional supporters. For example, in 1928 it tried to resist legislation abolishing the right of aristocratic landowners (in some parts of the country) to whip (!) their agricultural labourers. The DNVP was in habit of knee-jerk support of 'landed interests' and was hopelessly out of touch. It's not surprising that it was in decline. I hope this goes some way towards answering the question. Joncey

The Nazis relocated (removed them from Germany) and sent them to Concentration Camps where they either got sent to freedom or you got killed by going into a bath house where instead of water coming out of the spout, there was Mustard Gas and you got poisoned.