Proper noun
the Holocaust- The mass murder of Jews and other groups by the Nazi regime during World War II.
...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!
Huh Thank You Very Much
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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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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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Reciever of holocaust dishing Where are the so called
psychologists?
Is Holocaust not a bad thing?
What is the difference between
the german Holocaust against
the Jews and the Jewish
Holocaust against the
Palestinians?
Is it not true that "One man's
terrorist in another man's
freedom fighter"?
Remember Mandela's ANC of
South Africa was labeled
terrorist by USA, Britain and
other big powers?.
Is Israel not proving the fact
that a bullied child grows up
to become a super bully adult?
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I agree Isreal needs to back off |
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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