wat is the holocaust about?

Answer 1

name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany.

Answer 2

When you talk about "the holocaust" you are referencing a mass extermination of what Hitler thought were inferior people during world war ll. The main people targeted were jews, but so were gypsies, catholics, romanians, slavs and all who dissented with his views. Many of these people were cremated.

A holocaust in the ancient world is different. Simply put, a holocaust in this time period was a sacrifice of 1000 animals to a religious deity. Jews used to offer individual animal sacrifices and holocausts in the bible. If you read the iliad you will read about the greeks performing holocausts to appease the Gods.

Answer 3

The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: השואה HaShoah) and the Porrajmos in Romani, is the name applied to the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews and other minority groups of Europe and North Africa during World War II by Nazi Germany and its collaborators[1]. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom of the 8th and 9th November 1938 and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, leading to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

The Jews of Europe were the main victims of the Holocaust in what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (die "Endlösung der Judenfrage"). The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million, though estimates by historians using, among other sources, records from the Nazi regime itself, range from five million to seven million. Many gentiles were killed in addition to this figure.

About 220,000 Sinti and Roma were murdered in the Holocaust (some estimates are as high as 800,000), between a quarter to a half of the European population. Other groups deemed "racially inferior" or "undesirable": Poles (5 million killed, of whom 3 million were Jewish), Serbs (estimates vary between 100,000 and 700,000 killed, mostly by Croat Ustaše), Soviet military prisoners of war and civilians on occupied territories including Russians and other East Slavs, the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists and political dissidents, trade unionists, Freemasons, and some Catholic and Protestant clergy, were also persecuted and killed. Many scholars do not include the Nazi persecution of all of these groups in the definition of the Holocaust, with some scholars limiting the Holocaust to the genocide of the Jews; some to genocide of the Jews, Roma, and disabled; and some to all groups targeted by Nazi racism. Taking all these other groups into account, however, the total death toll rises considerably, estimates generally place the total number of Holocaust victims at 9 to 11 million, though some estimates have been as high as 26 million.

Answer 4

"The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah, was the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews and other minority groups of Europe and North Africa during World War II by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom of the 8th and 9th November 1938 and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, leading to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

The Jews of Europe were the main victims of the Holocaust in what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (die "Endlösung der Judenfrage"). The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million, though estimates by historians using, among other sources, records from the Nazi regime itself, range from five million to seven million. Many gentiles were killed in addition to this figure.

About 220,000 Sinti and Roma were murdered in the Holocaust (some estimates are as high as 800,000), between a quarter to a half of the European population. Other groups deemed "racially inferior" or "undesirable": Poles (5 million killed, of whom 3 million were Jewish), Serbs (estimates vary between 100,000 and 700,000 killed, mostly by Croat Ustaše), Soviet military prisoners of war and civilians on occupied territories including Russians and other East Slavs, the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists and political dissidents, trade unionists, Freemasons, and some Catholic and Protestant clergy, were also persecuted and killed. Many scholars do not include the Nazi persecution of all of these groups in the definition of the Holocaust, with some scholars limiting the Holocaust to the genocide of the Jews; some to genocide of the Jews, Roma, and disabled; and some to all groups targeted by Nazi racism. Taking all these other groups into account, however, the total death toll rises considerably, estimates generally place the total number of Holocaust victims at 9 to 11 million, though some estimates have been as high as 26 million."

Answer 5

Hitler had 6 million Jews killed because he believed they were inferior animals(evolutionary concept). That was known as the Holocaust. He also killed several million Christians during this time. Germany was the old 'Holy Roman Empire' and Hitler wanted to be the Emperor. His rise to power was orchestrated by the Roman Catholic church. Its all in the history books.

Answer 6

Hitler blamed Germany's troubles (depression, loss in WWI, etc.) on communists, Slavs, Gypsies, Jews, etc. Labor and death camps were used for extermination. Conditions were disgusting. Some people were tortured in experiments that were used to help the German army. Zyklon B was used in gas chambers, where people were poisoned. 11 million died, 6 million of whom were Jews.

Answer 7

watch (or read!!) Anne Frank
Schindler's List
&
the Apt Pupil
to start with. maybe you'll get a sense of what happened
the Jews were massacred by the thousand. ever hear of Hitler??
do some research on this subject, you'll find out more than you ever wanted to know...
but it's something you NEED to know something about..

Answer 8

The mass murder of Jews Done by Adolf HItler and the Nazis.
Over 6 million Jews were killed

Answer 9

When Hitler's supposed "Master Race" tried to illiminate the entire Jewish population.

HItler's Nazis savagely tortoured, worked, and starved these people to death.

They marched men, women and children naked into large rooms and gassed them to death. They placed them in ovens and creamated thier remains to cover up the evidence.

Their lifeless bodies we bulldozed into graves by the millions.

IT DID HAPPEN!..... and if you deny it did..... you are as bad as those that did it.

and.... I'm not even Jewish.

Answer 10

HITLER believed that the perfect shaped skull by him measuring them on people would make a superior white race.. he did not believe in books and religious things he felt it made the world as it is not perfect so he burned people jews, witnesses,catholics, etc all religions of faith burn and ate them as well- for every 10 people he burned in bonfire ( bone fire ) he threw fat one on to keep it going.they made mattresses of peoples dead hair.. . he had advanced insanity as well as he had syphillis which deteriorates the mind and thinking. Apparently tho his regime and power would not last forever to make the new world perfect..( we arent perfect so this is why christ was given to forgive sins so called as we are human and have error according to beliefs) he forgot or was so stupid to realize that genetics still run thru people you can have 2 perfect looking people with high education and still have a retard or deformity come out. he thought he could raise a perfect race smart and thinking the skull ( he used a caliber to measure u in line to see if u was able to live and mate or not) he thought the brain was gonna be big in the skull if u had a nice shaped one an certain measurements then therefore u would be good stock.. we are not plants & he was trying to make a new race perfect like that of a sci fi movie cross breed clone things well his mind was gone ppl who belive in a perfect race forgot about genetics and environmental factors. we have our own thoughts we are not robots and he thought he could brainwash and did to many -sadly -sick thing.. kind of like jimmy jones and david karesh things sick sad and not in our hands to begin with to play with.. but for white semitism and others the movement is still there like KKK and protestors they hate anyone then theri own kidn and race to me that is deficient i wouldnt want to be all same people on earth to look like all about control and power never ends there is not a possiblity to have perfect race and people we are all subject to disease and bad thought etc look what he done he was not perfect it was not all jews he killed it was many others

Answer 11

The germans thought that they were doing god's work by killing the jews in ww2