What exactly happened in the holocaust in world war II?

Answer 1

The Nazis rounded up the jews, slavs, dissidents, gays, poles, gypsies, and everyone else in their territory who they considered sub-human and sent them to work camps. Fit men and women were forced to do slave labor to support the Nazi war effort, while children and the elderly were taken into public "showers" which were actually gas chambers. Their bodies were then burned in massive furnaces. If a worker slacked off or became too weak to work, they were also gassed. It was a nasty affair by anyone's standards, and that is why it must not happen again.

Answer 2

The Holocaust is the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews and other minority groups of Europe and North Africa by Nazi Germany and its collaborators.

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, Eastern Christians, and 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 3

It's hard to break it all down here. I suggest looking it up in Wikipedia or something. Basically, Hitler and the Nazi party believed in "purifying" Germany and the rest of Europe. They gathered people from all kinds of religions (most commonly the Jews), races, and social backgrounds and put them in "concentration camps." While they were in there, the prisoners were malnutritioned and punished for being the "weaker race." Ultimately, a great number of them were murdered via gas chambers and furnaces or just plain old executions. Adolf Hitler and his henchmen tried to make Europe into a haven for the "master race." The Nazis invaded Poland, France, Holland, and other countries to spread their propaganda, gather more prisoners, and pretty much just take over. This all happened from the late 1930's until the Allied Forces (USA, Russia, and England) stopped the Nazis reign of terror in 1945.
This is just a broken down version. Go here for more information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust

Answer 4

Wow! If you have to ask, you haven't been to one of the many Holocaust museums all over this country and Europe, seen any of the great movies on the subject, watched the history channel, or read a book. One of the great horrors of all time, at the hands of Adolph Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Dr. Josef Mengele and all the citizens of the world who "just didn't want to get involved".

Answer 5

It was the German plan to exterminate Jews during the 1940s during WW II. Over 5 million were murdered by the Nazi regime.

Answer 6

To oversimplify: Hitler and the Nazis needed a scapegoat to make themselves look appealing. At first, they picked on the Weimar Republic, and blamed its leadership for selling out the country in WWI. When those folks had been kicked out, he allowed his personal haterd for all things Jewish to provide another scapegoat on which the public to blame its problems: the Jews.

For a time, Hitler was content to relocate German Jews elsewhere. As time went by and he conquered more territory, he sanctioned murder of Jews as opposed to re-settlement (moving them around and feeding them being deemed to be to much trouble. See the Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution.

Jews were separated into 2 groups: those to be killed immediately, and those to be exploited as slave labor, and then killed. Hence the concentration and death camps. The Germans, being thorough, practical, meticulous people, actually calculated how much a Jewish life was worth in dollar terms, and balanced this out against how much work could be extracted from them. As a result of their careful record-keeping, we have mountains of documents to attest to these atrocities - something unusual in the annals of slaughter.

Toward the end of WWII, as Hitler realized he was going to lose, he ordered the systematic murder of all Jews and destruction of the death camps. Only the rapid advance of the Red Army prevented him from killing every Jew in Europe and the Western USSR.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

satan reigned in Germany and 6 Million Jews were murdered.

The Germans even tried to trade 1 million Jews for 20,000 trucks when they were getting desperate in world war II but The UK and US said no so they went to Aushwitz and had a very horrible shower

Answer 9

There are many good books about the second World War.
Read some of them to find out

High emotions drive the human spirit. Hitler needed something to focus everybodies attention on. He picked hate for the Jews.

Once Hate is started, it feeds on itself.
People are afraid to go against the current.

Answer 10

the Nazis,were mean bastards,the Jews were the smart ones,made much moneys and had their own religion.Nazis could not handle that so killings by the thousands ,every day,Jews suffered more than i can imagine in my worst nightmares.history books your best bet,i think the final number of killed Jews ,has always been debated as ,so mane killed,Nazi bastards even made soap out of the some Jews.all kinds of crazy ****,