Why did the halocaust happened?

Answer 1

The Holocaust was caused by Nazi Germany's leader, Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler pictured a utopia of Aryans, as he called it. He was also recorded saying "we shall regain our health only by eliminating the Jews", who ended up being the largest victim in the Holocaust. He passed several laws to disband people, Jews, the handicapped, homosexuals, etc. of their civil liberties. This were enforced prior to and during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a mass murdering of people such as Jews, Poles, Soviets, Romas, homosexuals, the handicapped, etc. It was actually a mass murdering of Eastern Europeans in general, as the Germans wanted to push eastward and enslave or murder the Eastern Europeans.

Answer 2

• The Jews had previously been subject to all kinds of earlier "religious" prejudices. From the 1870s onwards a new, racial antisemitism was added to this.
• There was widespread demonization of the Jews.
• According to the first part of Ian Kershaw's biography Hitler, 1889-1939 Hubris, Penguin Books 1998 Hitler was a "lazy leader" who did not like to bother himself much with formulating day-to-day policy ... As a result, his subordinates at various levels tried to guess what he wanted. This encouraged rapidly growing extremism. The terror apparatus, headed by Himmler and Heydrich, became a very powerful lobby.
• There were all kinds of fanciful conspiracy theories about the Jews as the 'biological root' of Communism. The Nazis kept on saying, without any evidence, that 'the Jews' were enemies of Germany and so on. In fact, most German Jews were very pro-German indeed and had fought well for Germany in World War 1. Many were tragically in love with Germany, and some were reluctant to leave the country even if they were able to do so. However, fear of Communism was a powerful force in many parts of Central and Southern Europe in the interwar period, and was ruthlessly exploited by many politicians.
• The Holocaust happened because Hitler wanted to purify Germany so to speak...He wanted the Aryan Race, of which couldn't be obtained unless all Jews were gone (along with homosexuals, Gypsies, Russians...etc.) Extermination camps were a ploy for Jews...Hitler actually told them that he was just getting them out of the country and "resettling" them in Eastern Europe but ended up killing them there...
• One motive may have been robbery - it has been estimated that the Holocaust (including confiscated property and slave labour) profited the Nazis by a sum that would today be in the tens of billions of dollars. {However, according to Raul Hilberg, the value of Jewish slave labour for the Nazis was even greater].
• Nazi conquests, especially in Eastern and Eastern Central Europe (Poland and the Soviet Union) resulted in large additional numbers of Jews coming under Nazi control, thus exacerbating the Nazis' self-imposed "Jewish problem".
• In addition, there were also Nazi plans to reduce the population of occupied Eastern Europe. This kind of thinking was propped up by various race theories.

Further input:

Many Germans blamed the Jews for Germany's defeat in World War I, some even claiming that German Jews had betrayed the nation during the war. In addition, at the end of the war a Communist group attempted to carry out a Bolshevik-type revolution in the German state of Bavaria. Most of the leaders of that failed attempt were Jews. As a result, some Germans associated Jews with Bolsheviks and regarded both groups as dangerous enemies of Germany. After the war, a republic, later known as the Weimar Republic, was set up in Germany. Jewish politicians and intellectuals played an important role in German life during the Weimar Republic, and many non-Jews resented their influence.

On the basis of his antisemitic views, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler attacked the impressive role Jews played in German society during the Weimar Republic, especially in the intellectual world and in left-wing politics. He referred to them as a plague and a cancer. In his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle, translated 1939), which was published in 1926, Hitler blamed the plight of Germany at the end of World War I on an international Jewish conspiracy and used terms such as extirpation and extermination in relation to the Jews. He claimed that the Jews had achieved economic dominance and the ability to control and manipulate the mass media to their own advantage. He wrote of the need to eradicate their powerful economic position, if necessary by means of their physical removal.

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Some historians, such as Christopher Browning, see the Holocaust as part of a wider campaign to destroy what the Nazis saw as 'Judeo-Bolshevism'.

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Note also Yehuda Bauer's stark formulation:

The basic motivation [of the Holocaust] was purely ideological, rooted in an illusionary world of Nazi imagination, where an international Jewish conspiracy to control the world was opposed to a parallel Aryan quest. No genocide to date had been based so completely on myths, on hallucinations, on abstract, nonpragmatic ideology - which was then executed by very rational, pragmatic means.

How seriously individual Nazis took these illusions and conspiracy theories is another matter. This notion of the Jews as dangerous, cunning conspirators doesn't fit the Nazi view of them as inferior.

The main cause of the Jewish Holocaust was AdolfHitler's hatred of all Jews also

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Answer 3

In purely organizational terms the victims were killed by:

1. Being forced into ghettos without sufficient food.
2. They were sent to concentration camps, where they were worked to death.
3. The Nazi mobile killing units (SD-Einsatzgruppen) killed many in mass, open air shootings.
4. Gassing at extermination centres.

If the question is more like "how did they get away with such a horrible act," it was actually this. Hitler rose to power in the government and took it over. He then brainwashed all of the Aryans and told them that Jew=bad, evil person. Then he felt the need to keep them somewhere where they wouldn't harm anybody with their dangerous religious ways, like killing a cow Kosher-style (the most humane way, I might add), and built these concentration, or a lot of people in a small area, camps. he told the people that it was a good thing to lock them up where they cannot hurt anybody.

It all came down to no one really sticking up. The Holocaust did not start with the gas chambers. It started with singling the Jews out, a brick thrown into a Jewish shop or house. Answer 2 The final solution involved killing everyone in the concentration camps. Concentration camp inmates were to be worked to death, then the evidence burned. unfortunately, they came rather close to succeeding.

Answer 4

The Holocaust simply happened because Hitler pointed out specific people he disliked. So, people began listening to the nonsense he said and they agreed that these people did not deserve to live. And so began the genocide of millions who perished because of this major event. Main target to eliminate: the Jews.

Answer 5

The holocaust happened for lots of different reason. The main one was that Adolf Hitler felt that anyone not perfect should be rid from the world, so that (to him) meant Jews, Homosexuals, Disabled people and others were to be killed.

Answer 6

it happened because people hated the Jews, and it was very wrong. Hitler killed innocent human beings who had as much right to live as him. some people say Hitler was crazy, but i think he just had a problem in his heart

Answer 7

Because Hitler hated jews. And wanted them dead :D

Answer 8

the holocaust was when the germans killed the jewish

Answer 9

because Hitler had the power to start a genocide on the Jews and wanted a perfect nation with blond hair and blue eyes even though he had brown hair and eyes. he was crazy!