Can Someone Explain Simply What Happened In The Holocaust?

Question

I'm 12 and I need to do this for my project. Other websites are too complicated! I need this info in simple terms.

10 points awarded for the best explanation!

Answer 1

During World War II (1939-45), the Germans occupied most of Europe. Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler and the ruling Nazi party, the German government rounded up Jews from all over Europe and imprisoned them in concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen and Dachau. There they were systematically murdered by poison gas and their bodies were burned. More than 6 million Jews and thousands others died in this Holocaust.

Answer 2

Holocaust, the World War 2.

Answer 3

hit upon a Jew with numbers tattooed on their wrists or an American WWII vet that helped launch those very genuine and intensely deadly concentration camps. If that's not possible, then examine history books. something of this value might desire to no longer have been something yet genuine. you may holiday to Germany immediately and nevertheless see the ruins of the crematories. you additionally can examine thoughts on Hitler. that's okay to question issues, yet no longer something as significant with the aid of fact the Holocaust. i'm hoping you will learn and discover the real answer.

Answer 4

The Holocaust is not easy to put into simple terms. But here goes:

Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party believed in the purity of the German race -- blond hair, blue eyes, strong physical build, intelligence, genetic perfection, etc...

One of Hitler's mandates was that Germany purge itself of the "undesirables" that were the Jews (full Jewish and half Jewish). And so their worldly possessions were confiscated, their businesses taken over, and they were herded onto trains and transported like animals to concentration camps.

The leaders of these camps had no where to put all of these Jews. And so...... they built incinerators and murdered millions.

There is so much more to it than this, but it's a start for you.

Answer 5

The Nazi German government arrested Jewish people both in Germany and the countries Germany conquered during World War 2 and placed them in prisons called concentration camps. They were forced to work at very hard labor with little or no food. Most became very emaciated and died or were killed when they could no longer work.

Many were simply killed upon arrival to the concentration camps because there was no room or food for them. Many others were subjected to grotesque medical procedures.

Millions of Jewish people were killed in this way during the Nazi Regime under Adolph Hitler.

Answer 6

Happened in the early 1940's, in Germany. Hitler, their old dictator (and half jew) decided he didn't like Jewish people. So, over time, he gathered an army, and using propaganda, made them believe that innocent Jews were bad people. This army started rounding Jews up all over Germany, Austria, and parts of Poland, and sending them to concentration camps. At these camps, they were starved and very badly mis-treated. Many were worked and starved to their deaths. Others were sent to the gas chambers, and killed all at once. It was a pretty gruesome time. You really don't want to know more than this.

Answer 7

The Holocaust, also known as Ha-Shoah (Hebrew: השואה), Khurbn (Yiddish: חורבן or Halokaust, האלאקאוסט) or Porajmos (Romani, also Samudaripen), is the name applied to the genocide of 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 8 and 9 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 most numerous of the victims of the Holocaust in what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (die Endlösung der Judenfrage) or "the cleaning" (die Reinigung). It is commonly stated that approximately six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, though estimates by historians using, among other sources, records from the Nazi regime itself, range from five million to seven million.

Millions of other minorities also perished in the Holocaust. About 220,000 Sinti and Roma were murdered (some estimates are as high as 800,000) — between a quarter to a half of their European population. Other groups deemed by the Nazis to be "racially inferior" or "undesirable" included Poles (6 million killed, of whom 3 million were Christian, and the rest Jewish), Serbs (estimates vary between 500,000 and 1.2 million killed, mostly by Croat Ustaše), Soviet military prisoners of war and civilians in occupied territories including Russians and other East Slavs, the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Blacks, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists and political dissidents, trade unionists, Freemasons, Eastern Christians, and Catholic and Protestant clergy, were also persecuted and killed.

Some scholars do not include the Nazi persecution of all of these groups in the definition of the Holocaust, rather limiting the Holocaust to the genocide of the Jews. However, taking into account all minority groups, 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.[2]

Another group, whose deaths are related to the Holocaust but not always counted in the totals, comprise the thousands who committed suicide rather than face what they feared would be untold suffering ending in death. In 2006, the European Union financed a project to research these victims; despite religious prohibitions against suicide, it is estimated that in Berlin alone, 1,600 Jews killed themselves between 1938 and 1945.

Answer 8

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