Why were the Nazis able to carry out the Holocaust?

Question:world anti-semtism worked in favor of the Holocaust. But the camps were in well guarded areas of the nazi party. So even if the allies wanted to free those in camps they couldn't until Germany fell. The german people went along with it because the nazis blamed the jews for the loss of the WWI. With a little tender care and sayin' the same thing again and again it worked. It also helped the nazis that hilter was one heck of a speeker.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: world anti-semtism worked in favor of the Holocaust. But the camps were in well guarded areas of the nazi party. So even if the allies wanted to free those in camps they couldn't until Germany fell. The german people went along with it because the nazis blamed the jews for the loss of the WWI. With a little tender care and sayin' the same thing again and again it worked. It also helped the nazis that hilter was one heck of a speeker.

Cause Hitler owned most of Europe till about 1943 to 1944. Switzerland, Spain, and Great Britain not including allies to make the Axis in Europe were under Nazi control.

One reason was that they had weapons – Hitler began remilitarizing the army early on, and the Nazis had a vast supply of weapons (mainly guns) that kept the Jews and other victims in the concentration camp from rebelling. The Nazis made a point to drive fear into the victims by making “examples” where they would randomly kill people to show what would happen to people who fought back. Another reason is appeasement – Great Britain and France let Hitler rebuild the army, and take back many lands. It wasn’t until Sept. 1939 that they declared war. Hitler and the Nazis were also very secretive. All the things they did relating to mass murder and the Holocaust was kept under wraps for the most part. Although we do have documents that prove the plan to exterminate multiple groups of people, Hitler did not publicize the idea to the people. And the Allies did not realize that the Germans were running concentration camps until too late. By that time, they were focusing on defeating Germany militarily and then liberating the concentration camps.

Because people couldn't believe that anyone could do anything even remotely that evil. Even those killed in the camps didn't believe that the atrocities were happening and went willingly to the camps.

The Nazis were able to carry out the holocaust because no one was foolish enough to challenge Hitler and The Nazis. Also, the Nazis used a lot of propaganda to make the German citizens against Jewish people and other minority's such as Gypsies and Homosexuals. Through propaganda, people believed that those going to the death camps and concentration camps were true enemies of Nazi Germany. Hitler had many supporters this way, and because the German people would not think twice about speaking out against Hitler's actions. As the Allies pushed into Germany from both the Western and Eastern Front, the Nazis (particularly the SS) executed many prisoners working in the camps and many relocated deeper into Germany as the Nazis were losing occupied territory. Those who worked in the camps worked in hard labor to benefit the Nazis until they were either executed, died of weakness and starvation, or committed suicide. Keep in mind that the Allies did not know what was going on in these camps until they reached them.

Cause hitler was the leader AND HE WAS Wat u call EVIL he was to powerful to take down

If you had a choice to protest and be hauled off to a concentration camp or keep quiet...which would you do? In a police state, you don't have many options.

Communications were not exactly what they were today communications was not as advanced and they couldn't exactly call one of the Allie countries and tell them whats going on, plus none of the Allies had any knowing that the Axis were carrying this out. They had know idea.

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Two young brothers, seated for a family photograph in the Kovno ghetto. One month later, they were deported to the Majdanek camp. Kovno, Lithuania, February 1944.
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CHILDREN DURING THE HOLOCAUST
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Children were especially vulnerable in the era of the Holocaust. The Nazis advocated killing children of “unwanted” or “dangerous” groups in accordance with their ideological views, either as part of the “racial struggle” or as a measure of preventative security. The Germans and their collaborators killed children both for these ideological reasons and in retaliation for real or alleged partisan attacks.

The Germans and their collaborators killed as many as 1.5 million children, including over a million Jewish children and tens of thousands of Romani (Gypsy) children, German children with physical and mental disabilities living in institutions, Polish children, and children residing in the occupied Soviet Union. The chances for survival for Jewish and some non-Jewish adolescents (13-18 years old) were greater, as they could be deployed at forced labor.

The fate of Jewish and non-Jewish children can be categorized in the following way: 1) children killed when they arrived in killing centers; 2) children killed immediately after birth or in institutions; 3) children born in ghettos and camps who survived because prisoners hid them; 4) children, usually over age 12, who were used as laborers and as subjects of medical experiments; and 5) those children killed during reprisal operations or so-called anti-partisan operations.

In the ghettos, Jewish children died from starvation and exposure as well as lack of adequate clothing and shelter. The German authorities were indifferent to this mass death because they considered most of the younger ghetto children to be unproductive and hence “useless eaters.” Because children were generally too young to be deployed at forced labor, German authorities generally selected them, along with the elderly, ill, and disabled, for the first deportations to killing centers, or as the first victims led to mass graves to be shot.

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Upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau and other killing centers, the camp authorities sent the majority of children directly to the gas chambers. SS and police forces in German-occupied Poland and the occupied Soviet Union shot thousands of children at the edge of mass graves. Sometimes the selection of children to fill the first transports to the killing centers or to provide the first victims of shooting operations resulted from the agonizing and controversial decisions of Jewish council (Judenrat) chairmen. The decision by the Judenrat in Lodz in September 1942 to deport children to the Chelmno killing center was an example of the tragic choices made by adults when faced with German demands. Janusz Korczak, director of an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto, however, refused to abandon the children under his care when they were selected for deportation. He accompanied them on the transport to the Treblinka killing center and into the gas chambers, sharing their fate.

Non-Jewish children from certain targeted groups were not spared. Examples include Romani (Gypsy) children killed in Auschwitz concentration camp; 5,000 to 7,000 children killed as victims of the “euthanasia” program; children murdered in reprisals, including most of the children of Lidice; and children in villages in the occupied Soviet Union who were killed with their parents.

The German authorities also incarcerated a number of children in concentration camps and transit camps. SS physicians and medical researchers used a number of children, including twins, in concentration camps for medical experiments that often resulted in the deaths of the children. Concentration camp authorities deployed adolescents, particularly Jewish adolescents, at forced labor in the concentration camps, where many died because of conditions. The German authorities held other children under appalling conditions in transit camps, such as the case of Anne Frank and her sister in Bergen-Belsen, and non-Jewish orphaned children whose parents the German military and police units had killed in so-called anti-partisan operations. Some of these orphans were held temporarily in the Lublin/Majdanek concentration camp and other detention camps.

In their "search to retrieve 'Aryan blood,'" SS race experts ordered hundreds of children in occupied Poland and the occupied Soviet Union to be kidnapped and transferred to the Reich to be adopted by racially suitable German families. Although the basis for these decisions was "race-scientific," often blond hair, blue eyes, or fair skin was sufficient to merit the "opportunity" to be "Germanized." On the other hand, female Poles and Soviet civilians who had been deported to Germany for forced labor and who had had sexual relations with a German man -- often under duress -- resulting in pregnancy were forced to have abortions or to bear their children under conditions that would ensure the infant's death, if the "race experts" determined that the child would have insufficient German blood.

In spite of their acute vulnerability, many children discovered ways to survive. Children smuggled food and medicines into the ghettos, after smuggling personal possessions to trade for them out of the ghettos. Children in youth movements later participated in underground resistance activities. Many children escaped with parents or other relatives -- and sometimes on their own -- to family camps run by Jewish partisans.

Between 1938 and 1940, the Kindertransport (Children's Transport) was the informal name of a rescue effort which brought thousands of refugee Jewish children (without their parents) to safety in Great Britain from Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories. Some non-Jews hid Jewish children and sometimes, as in the case of Anne Frank, hid other family members as well. In France, almost the entire Protestant population of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, as well as many Catholic priests, nuns, and lay Catholics, hid Jewish children in the town from 1942 to 1944. In Italy and Belgium, many children survived in hiding.