Proper noun
the Holocaust- The mass murder of Jews and other groups by the Nazi regime during World War II.
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...The Holocaust (from the Greek (): holos, "whole" and kaustos, "burnt"), also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: , Latinized ha'shoah; Yiddish: , Latinized churben or hurban "Holocaust," Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2009: "the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The Germans called this "the final solution to the Jewish question ...") is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, its allies, and collaborators.Niewyk, Donald L. The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust, Columbia University Press, 2000, p.45: "The Holocaust is commonly defined as the murder of more than Jews by the Germans in World War II." Also see "The Holocaust", Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2007: "the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women and children, and millions of others, by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The Germans called this "the final solution to the Jewish question". Read full entry
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Holocaust?
I Know The Holocaust Was
Horrible A Thing, But I Dont
See What Was So Terrible About
It. Would Someone Please
Explain In Depth What Was So
Overwhelming About The
Holocaust
How Dare You Call Me An IDIOT
and A Jerk! I Just Asked A
Question And I Expect It To Be
Answered Not Me Be Criticized!
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The Holocaust was the extermination of 6 million jews in concentration camps in Germany during the second World War. Adolph Hitler hated the jews so he exterminated them. Many were gassed, others were shot, they were all tortured in various ways. And then killed and put into mass graves. When the allies came in and freed the remaining prisoners they were totally horrified by what they found. Sick and starving prisoners, and the sight of mass graves and stories of the torture by the German gestapo became known world wide and many pictures of these atrocities circulated to the outside world. People were horrified and there are probably no words for what was done to these people. That is why the Holocaust was a "Horrible Thing". |
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The Holocaust: What's the What's the difference between
those two. Are they the same?
Giv eme details please. Also,
what was the role of the
United States at the
Holocaust? Did they caused the
Holocaust?
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Extermination camps were solely for killing. Thousands would be sent to extermination camps (like Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka) via train. Upon arrival their possesions would be taken and later sorted, the Jews (or Gypsies, Homosexuals, Blacks, etc.) would be hearded like cattle towards a field to wait for what they thought were showers. Large groups would be sent into a room where they would take of their clothes. They then were all forced to go into the gas chamber (ironically the door read " Harmful gas! Entering endangers your life"). There they were murdered and their bodies either burned in the crematory (and their gold teeth collected) or buried in mass graves. Concentration camps were a little diffrent. The process of getting there was the same, but women, men, and children would be sorted in the 'fit to work' or 'unfit to work' categories. Those who were unfit to work were killed immeadiatley by way of the gas chamber or shot at an execution wall. Those deemed fit to work were cleaned, head shaved, and tattooed with a number on their left arm. Their clothes, shoes, and all possesions were taken. They wore striped prison uniforms that most likely used to be someone else's. They were put to work, brutally experimented on, starved til near death, and in most cases died by starvation, illness, or gassing/execution. Auschwitz was both a concentration camp and an extermination camp and around 1,100,000 people died there. Mauthausen was a famous concentration camp where around 120,000 died. So the main diffrence is: extermination camps= certain death concentration camps= most likely death but small chance of forced labor and survival until liberation (especially if you were a healthy young man) The US did not cause the Holocaust. That was most if not all a European thing. The US liberated camps and freed 'slaves' once involved in that part of the war. |
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why was the German holocaust there were many genocides and
"holocausts" like in rwanda,
turkey, russia etc. why is the
holocaust in germany the most
famous one? what is different
about this one?
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Probably because it was the largest in scale and it incorporated the full weight of the state in conducting the holocaust. It was also intricately planned and carried out on an unprecedented scale by almost a whole nation. Perhaps the fact that the German's were regarded as an educated and civilised people it is interesting to see how they as a nation desceneded into all out genocide on an established people within their country. You could also argue that the holocaust was the most wide ranging of genocides. Not just one race or religion but masses of Jews, Poles, Czecks, Gypsies, Roma, Handicapped, Communists, Catholics, Protestants, Slavs etc, this again is unprecedented when compared to other genocides such as Rwanda/ Former Yugoslavia etc. On a side note to Jamal A I think your answer is quite insensitive, the question is asking why do we thing the Nazi Holocaust is the most famous, and i think your anti-western tirade detracts from importance of the question and subject at hand. Indeed many muslims died as a result but half of the world's Jewish population was wiped out, HALF in only six years!!! |
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well, personally i hate the fact that all those people were killed but lets put it in the past and deal with the racism problems now...
where did the Holocaust originate and how did it end. why is it important to remember it and what was the nazi movement four questions= four answers