Holocaust

An SS officer was an officer in the SS.SS stands for Schutzstaffel. Literally it means 'protective squad', but it should be left...

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Various explanations have been suggested. Until mid 1944 they were skeptical the information they received. They didn't care or...

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in this area rescue of Jews was run by the Protestant church (as they were able to move freely). The network managed to transport...

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To punish Nazis who had perpetrated war crimes during the Second World War.

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Used badges to organised people into groups the belong to such asJewsSoviet POWsHomosexuals

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Yes, in that they all were earmarked for death. Some were gassed soon after arrival; others were worked to death as slave...

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Jews, Gypsies, the Disabled, Homosexuals and Dark-Skinned or Mixed-Race people.

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4 a.m.: Wake up! You are awakened by the kapo barking at you. Hurry up! You must raise, find your shoes (but maybe somebody...

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Many people in different countries have grown up with anti-Jewish influences around them. However, they generally haven't later...

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A concentration camp is a large detention center created for political opponents, enemy aliens, specific ethnic or religious...

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Hitler started the Holocaust as a way of targeting minorities that he was prejudiced against. Many believe that the Jews were the...

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It varied somewhat depending on the camp. In most concentration camps the Jews were forced to do heavy manual labour on grossly...

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The Jews have been persecuted for over 2,000 years, so it wasn't a new concept to hate them. The Jews owned a large percentage of...

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Obviously, it was absolute hell. The process was a prolonged attack on the **whole person** of each victim. Please bear in...

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Millions of people were killied. Many wonderful people lost, families torn apart, etc., but we also learn lessons from it =:)...

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In World War 2 Jews from Germany and Western Europe were transported eastwards, mainly to the slave labour and extermination...

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Jews Blacks Gypsies Romanians Homosexuals Anyone mentally or physically handicapped Communists And anyone that didnt agree...

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I hope the link below is helpful.

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For causing World War 1. For profiteering during World War 1. For being Communists. For making Germany lose World War 1 (by...

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They hid in other people's houses, in attics and cellars. They were dependent on trustworthy friends to keep them supplied with...

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Yes. Most of the survivors who are still alive were young, in many cases very young, at the time of the Holocaust. Many years ago...

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The vast majority of Germans were either ambivalent towards Jews or against the mistreatment of the Jews. It was a strong vocal...

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There was never a war between Jews and Germans. In fact, before the Nazis came to power Jews inside and outside Germany had a...

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One date that is conspicuous is November 9, 1938, which is the Kristallnacht (night of broken glass). As many as 91 Jews, but...

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well we didnt stop the holocaust because we didnt know about it until after WWII. so we couldn't help any of the people that were...

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it is to be believed because Adolf Hitler and other Nazis, Germans, believed that the Jews were planning on taking over the...

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Miep and Jan were very much in love, and were married for over 60 years. They married because they knew they were "right" for...

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Hitler and the Nazis most likely victimised the Jews because he thought the blonde-haired blue-eyed people and the Germans were...

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The Germans took away the Jews' clothing because they use to steal any valuable things. So they would've thought that the...

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AnswerThis is a very delicate subject. I am not of Jewish decent, but my father had a dear Jewish friend who was a reporter in...

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Hitler wanted strict control over the media, because he wanted people to hear his opinions and points of view and to control...

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yes they were, and after it had ended, many families could not be reunited as there were so many homeless and lost - there are...

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Well, Himmler was Hitler's right-hand man, but mostly Hitler was the brains of the operations so the plan of the executions of...

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The extermination of the Jewish people in Europe. They were the scapegoats, who could be blamed for anything which was thought to...

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The Holocaust was directed against ALL Jews - men, women and children, young, old, healthy and sick. So about half the six...

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The Killers in the Holocaust The death camps (and other concentration camps) were staffed by members of the SS Death Head units...

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How much Germans knew about the campsThe first concentration camps were intended mainly for opponents of the Nazi regime, and...

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One madman, despite how attractive (Hitler was considered to be sexy) or politic savy (He had the uncanny ability to dupe...

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there were two main reasons: the marches occurred because the camps from which they started were under threat of liberation, so...

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Most had some idea of what was going on. Unless they lived in places where there were no Jews, they must have noticed the yellow...

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Choices? People never had any other choice than to cooperate with the Nazis in Germany or any other occupied country. The other...

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Original photographs of the Holocaust itself are extremely rare as photography without permission was strictly forbidden....

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very little, they were essentially police, but the rounding up of Jews was done by the local (ie French police in France) police...

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No. The figure of six million first appeared in the public domain in Hoettl's affidavit to the Nuremberg Tribunal (November...

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No the first concentration camp was build in 1890s by acub during the cuban war of independence in 1895. Actually, what we now...

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When reports in the early 1940s came to the Allies about the Final Solution, the Allies labeled it propaganda.

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Jews were mistreated by having to wear a yellow Star of David (the Jewish symbol, such as the cross for Christians) on each...

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Ghettoization Being treated as slave labourers Extermination

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AnswerThe German government? Yes. The governments of the various countries allied with or occupied by Germany? Yes. The...

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1. The vast majority of German soldiers were engaged in fighting and did not commit atrocities. 2. They had to come to terms...

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When Allied troops liberated them.

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Children of a vanquished foe grow up to become very dangerous adults...better to just kill em before they get the chance to be a...

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Reports came out of Europe during WWII but some in the news media and some politicians did everything that they could to keep the...

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There was Bergen-Belsen, and Auswitz, Buchenwald, Dachau and Flossenberg.

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A. Preliminaries (1933-39) In January, 1933 the Nazis came to power in Germany and in April, 1933 they began to persecute...

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AnswerAsians who were targeted were mostly POW or the rare immigrants.Asians generally weren't a problem during the Holocaust, it...

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AnswerHitler needed someone to blame someone for Germany's pathetic state. by blaming them he gained popularity in Germany

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Small minds tend to believe that THEY, and people like them, are superior. They tend to believe that since they are superior they...

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The Nazis had various methods for torturing Jews. The first torture was the train transport to the camps often lasting several...

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Tortured, starved and murdered by the millions. Persicuted groups were relocated. Minorities; artists, intellectuals, sexual...

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The exact number will never be known. Most estimates put the total number of Poles who died in WW2 at about 5.5 - 5.9 million and...

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The Allied army that first entered a death camp (extermination camp) was the Soviet Army, which liberated Majdanek in July, 1944....

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Hitler was the driving force behind the holocaust. He lived in Germany, away from the concentration camps and extermination camps.

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The SSNote. SS stands for Schutzstaffel. Literally it means 'protective squad', but it should be left untranslated as SS. The SS...

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Because many innocent people died in it. Not only Jewish people, but the Roma and Sinti people aswell, together with many Slavic,...

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In deciding whether Dietrich Bonhoeffer was good, consider the following. Bonhoeffer was a German theologian who was imprisoned...

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The claim is that teaching about the Holocaust has been removed from the United Kingdom (UK) school curriculum because their...

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The United states Stopped the holocaust by defeating the German Army and The Nazi's.

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Generally it was the way that the Nazis (and the Germans) treated the Jews and arguably treated the Gypsies even worse.

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Estimates vary, but most say around 6 million. See the related link.

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The Jews of Krakow were subject to all the usual harrassments and restrictions by the Nazis. The only difference (of sorts) in...

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It is generally known as the Holocaust or Shoah.

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

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What following groups

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Most people speak Polish in Krakow or any part of Poland.

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A scapegoat is a term used to refer to a person who is made to take the blame for something.

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"Arbeit macht Frei" German for work will make you free, which was obviously a cruel lie.

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A lot of the 'normal Germans' in Nazi Germany didn't know of the holocaust, as it was done mainly in a secretive way....

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No not at all

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They treated them very rudely because they didnt care about anyone. They only cared about their team.

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Ricardo Klement

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Caught, tried and hanged.

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around 60,000

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Homosexuals Blacks Gypsies Jehovah's Witnesses Disabled people (deaf, blind, etc.) Catholics and Christians* Poles and Slavs*...

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don't go in.

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Based on how many died there, I would say six. 1.Auschwitz II 2.Majdanek 3 Sobibor 4. Treblinka 5.Belzec 6. Chelmno

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"Crimes against Humanity"

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Nothing is known about Ruth's fate after she was sent to Riga. No trace has ever been found.

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the families were mainly kept together in concentration camps as they shared the same room and bed but in the day they would be...

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the jews thought that the germans were awful people. That the germans had brought them to hell. (my english professor told me...

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No part of the Americas was under Nazi occupation, so it's completely unclear what you mean.

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Jews blacks homosexals gypsies johovah's witnesse's polish and homosexuals

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Most of them knew there was no worthwhile future for them in Germany and tried to leave the country.

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The killings in the camps were carried out by the Totenkopfverbände (Death's Head Units) of the SS, assisted by various...

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AnswerI can tell you what it was like in the concentration camps... lice everywhere. there was very little food and water and you...

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They weren't, that's the whole lesson of the Holocaust. There is no perfect race. That was an ego-centric illusion that led to...

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Sadam was doing the very same thing. That's one of the big reasons that he had to be taken out. Evil dictators must be stopped...

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Most German soldiers on the Eastern Front had a good idea of what was going on.

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Prior answer was factually incorrect and suggested IBM's subsidiary was taken over before the War. That was false. The War began...

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