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The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators!. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire!." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community!.
The Nazis killed many Jews because they believed they were the reason for everything that went wrong!. Between 1933-1945, the Nazi German government tried to eliminate the Jewish people and other minority groups in Europe!. The Nazis killed over 5 million Jews, including 1!.5 million children!. There were approximately 3 million Jews left in Europe out of the over 9 million who lived there before the Holocaust!. As soon as Hitler took power in 1933, the German government passed laws to remove Jewish people’s rights as citizens!.
Ultimately, in German-occupied Europe, the Jews were forced by law to live in specific zones within the cities, called ghettos!. From there, the Nazis moved many Jews to labor camps and death camps!. In addition to Jewish people, the Nazis targeted other minority groups!. This included Gypsies, the disabled, political dissidents, Jehovah Witnesses, male homosexuals, and Soviet prisoners of war!. In December of 1942, a single Nazi decree ordered Gypsies from all over
Europe to be deported to the death camp in Auschwitz!. When they arrived, 16,000 were immediately murdered!. Throughout the Holocaust, the Nazis killed about 5 million non-Jews!. These crimes finally ended when American troops overpowered the Nazis in the year 1945!. Many of the survivors were forced to go to Displaced Persons camps because their homes and families had been destroyed!. Children were hidden in orphanages throughout Europe, while their surviving relatives struggled to find them!. The world has attempted to punish many of the Nazi war criminals!. Many were tried during the Nuremberg Trials!. However, some of these Nazi officials are still in hiding today!. The Nazis would ship Jews to concentration camps by trains, vans, and so on!. There were three different types of concentration camps: Red Cross camps, Work camps, and Death camps!.
They were forced to labor for the Nazis at the work camps and were treated harshley!. At the Red Cross camps, the Red Cross would be aloud to go to those camps and medically attend to the Jews!. At the death camps, the Jews would be gassed or killed in some other way!. Eventually, though, most Jews would have to go to the death camps!.The Jews were killed in various ways!. They were either worked to death, killed in gas camps, or killed by other cruelities!. Then their remains were used for various items such as soap, lamp shades, ect!. They would take the gold teeth out of people after they were gassed!. There was a vault found with 384 pounds of gold teeth!.
Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and mass murder of European Jews and other groups carried out by Nazi Germany and its allies between 1933 and 1945!. All European Jews were victims of the Holocaust, (two out of every three Jews perished, an estimated 6 million)!. But not all the victims of the Holocaust were Jews!. Other victims of the Holocaust included the mentally and physically disabled (estimated death toll 250,000), homosexuals (10-15,000) gypsies (220,000), Soviet prisoners of war (3 million), as well as thousands of Jehovah’s Witnesses and communists, and Polish nationals!.
Why did the Germans and their collaborators mistreat and even kill so many Jews and other victims!?
Since the time when the Jews first settled in Europe over two thousand years ago, they have been a persecuted minority!. In fact, some of the first Jews who arrived in Rome from the Holy Land were brought as slaves!. Later the rise of Christianity was accompanied by more systematic and aggressive assaults against the Jews!.
Although Judaism and Christianity are both based on the Old Testament, and Jesus was actually a Jewish rabbi, Christianity developed its own fundamentalism centered on teachings, practices, and rituals that were distinct from Judaism!. Those Jews who did not believe in the Holy Trinity and chose not to join the emerging Christian movement were deemed heathens, heretics, and traitors to the Christian cause!.
Popes, princes and monarchs in Europe Jews deliberately separated Jews from Christians by erecting ghettos, special sections of a city were Jews were forced to live!.
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These leaders also forced Jews to wear special hats or badges so that they would be recognized as Jews, demanded excessive taxes and arbitrary fines, and restricted them from owning property!.
During times of crisis such as the spread of the plague, Jews became convenient scapegoats and suffered popular outbursts of violence, later coined pogroms!. Pogrom is a Russian word meaning “thunder” and describes the loud crashing roar of destruction, pillaging, raping and acts of torture that periodically struck Jewish communities!.
If Jews were not forced into exile, then typically Jews coped with these waves of violence by fleeing, gaining the favor of individuals in power, or enduring the persecution with the hope that it would subside, and sometimes it did!. During the longer periods of relatively peaceful coexistence, orthodox and assimilated Jews developed a rich, literary tradition and made significant contributions toward the increasing prosperity of Europe!. Yet despite the progressive emancipation and assimilation of the Jews, which occurred with the secularization of European society, anti-Jewish thought did not disappear!. In fact it took on a new, more lethal form when it reappeared as a racial theory called antisemitism (a term coined in the 1870s in Germany)!.
Using the tools of science, theorists wrongly claimed that the Jews constituted a separate biological category or race!. The Semitic race, as it was called, actually included other middle eastern ethnic groups and cultures such as the Arabs, however Europeans focused their attention on the Jews because Jews were the most visible minority in Europe, giving rise to what many Europeans described as a ”Jewish problem!.”
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It was not enough to ostracize Jews as an “inferior race!.” people also denounced Jews as a threat to the future of Western civilization!. The new racial science that became very popular in Europe and the U!.S!. led to the eugenic policies of forced sterilization, and capital punishment of the mentally and physically disabled!. In Nazi Germany, Jews were grouped together with these other so-called genetically inferior types, racially unpure bastards, or “subhumans!.” In movies, plays, parade floats, magazine cartoons and other forms of propaganda, Jews appeared as rodents, as a defective pollutant that must be exterminated or excised from German society!.
These illustrations from the Nazi period show the type of propaganda that scientists and schools teachers used to spread racial antisemitism!. The poster “the Jews as bastard” claimed that Jews were not pure, but hailed from a mixed breed of inferior races, such as “negroes!.” The children’s book, “The poisonous mushroom” contained distorted fables about Jewish doctors as pedophiles, among other repugnant depictions
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The Holocaust is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by the National Socialist regime in Germany led by Adolf Hitler!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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The Holocaust is the murder of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime!. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire!." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community!.
During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Gypsies, the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others)!. Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals!.
In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million!. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II!. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe!. Although Jews, whom the Nazis deemed a priority danger to Germany, were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included some 200,000 Roma (Gypsies)!. At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, mainly Germans, living in institutional settings, were murdered in the so-called Euthanasia Program!.
As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Germans and their collaborators persecuted and murdered millions of other people!. Between two and three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment!. The Germans targeted the non-Jewish Polish intelligentsia for killing, and deported millions of Polish and Soviet civilians for forced labor in Germany or in occupied Poland, where these individuals worked and often died under deplorable conditions!. From the earliest years of the Nazi regime, German authorities persecuted homosexuals and others whose behavior did not match prescribed social norms!. German police officials targeted thousands of political opponents (including Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists) and religious dissidents (such as Jehovah's Witnesses)!. Many of these individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment!.
In the early years of the Nazi regime, the National Socialist government established concentration camps to detain real and imagined political and ideological opponents!. Increasingly in the years before the outbreak of war, SS and police officials incarcerated Jews, Roma, and other victims of ethnic and racial hatred in these camps!. To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps for Jews during the war years!. The German authorities also established numerous forced-labor camps, both in the so-called Greater German Reich and in German-occupied territory, for non-Jews whose labor the Germans sought to exploit!.
Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) and, later, militarized battalions of Order Police officials, moved behind German lines to carry out mass-murder operations against Jews, Roma, and Soviet state and Communist Party officials!. German SS and police units, supported by units of the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS, murdered more than a million Jewish men, women, and children, and hundreds of thousands of others!. Between 1941 and 1944, Nazi German authorities deported millions of Jews from Germany, from occupied territories, and from the countries of many of its Axis allies to ghettos and to killing centers, often called extermination camps, where they were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities!.
In the final months of the war, SS guards moved camp inmates by train or on forced marches, often called “death marches,” in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners!. As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Germany, they began to encounter and liberate concentration camp prisoners, as well as prisoners en route by forced march from one camp to another!. The marches continued until May 7, 1945, the day the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies!. For the western Allies, World War II officially ended in Europe on the next day, May 8 (V-E Day), while Soviet forces announced their “Victory Day” on May 9, 1945!.
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, many of the survivors found shelter in displaced persons (DP) camps administered by the Allied powers!. Between 1948 and 1951, almost 700,000 Jews emigrated to Israel, including 136,000 Jewish displaced persons from Europe!. Other Jewish DPs emigrated to the United States and other nations!. The last DP camp closed in 1957!. The crimes committed during the Holocaust devastated most European Jewish communities and eliminated hundreds of Jewish communities in occupied eastern Europe entirely!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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