I was very surprised upon reading the holocaust that a total of 26 million people were killed. Yet, I thought that the holocaust was only 6million jews only..Yet there are 20 million who were killed besides the jews, so why is it associated only as a jewish genocide? It included homosexuals, disabled, poles, russian prisoners, etc. So maybe the holocaust, as only a genocide crime only against the jews is flawed. It seems it was a larger scale genocide with jews only as one category in the general populace of the concentration camps. Furthermore,were there concentration camps that only involved jews? Please let me know I am interested in this subject.
2006-12-12
10:49:14
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my bad---I just read wikipedia and said that most of the people in the holocaust were jewish and second, that it was mainly german military and gov that oppressed the citizens of the camps--however, I am still reading on it, I am not entirely sure.
2006-12-12
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'blakenwitt' I don't agree with "hitler did not want to 'completely annhailate' any other group of people"--I agree now that jews had the largest casualties--but I think Hitler wanted to exterminate the 'diabled and homosexuals' and 'obliterate them' as well--I remmember in history that that was definitely one of the goals. eugenics-- I think that's what it is.
2006-12-12
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I was thinking the Jews were the largest *single* group. Of the homosexuals, Poles, Russians, etc. There may have been more total kills of the others, but no single group had near the loss that the Jews did.
2006-12-12 10:51:34
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answered by Anonymous
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no, the holocaust or the shoah is about jews, but ww2 in a whole encompasses all the groups that were killed. and i think that the 26 million has to include everyone everywhere that was killed during ww2, because in concentration camps and other areas where people were murdered as a direct result of the nazis, it's only 11 million. that includes poles, catholics, homosexuals, roma(gypsys), and disabled. the reason the holocaust mainly focuses on jews is because they were the largest majority killed during ww2, roughly 6 million as opposed to the gypsys where only 200k or so were killed. also, concentration camps held all groups, not just jews. some camps actually had higher numbers of political prisoners and poles then jews in them. if you have any more questions on the holocaust, ask me, i have done extensive research on this subject and have also been to ravensbruck, bergenbelsen, auschwitz, treblinka and sobibor concentration camps.
2006-12-12 10:56:43
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answered by divamommy_4 4
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As a group the jews were the most killed and the most persecuted, and when you say Poles you forget that apart from Catholics also there they killed Jews as Poland's 3.3 million Jewish men, women, and children were targeted for destruction.
In its entirety, the "Final Solution" called for the murder of all European Jews by gassing, shooting, and other means. Approximately six million Jewish men, women, and children were killed during the Holocaust -- two-thirds of the Jews living in Europe before World War II.
2006-12-12 11:17:06
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answered by Martha P 7
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There's not much more to add.
The Third Reich set out to create a utopian Germany, a nation where all non-Aryan "impurities" were to be at first driven out then exterminated.
Although many other groups were the victims of Nazi atrocities, the Jews were targeted most vehemently. Shortly after the rise of the Third Reich, Jews were legally defined, legally and economically stifled, and eventually segregated into ghettos (state-defined Jewish communities).
Such effort was not put into persecuting non-Jewish "impurities." However, the crimes against humanity inflicted on non-Jewish victims should not be discounted.
2006-12-12 12:03:27
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes Hitler targeted other people besides Jews but as I understand it, it was only the Jews that Hitler and his comrads wanted to completely annilate. He was trying to kill every Jew in the world and if he had not lost the war, may have succeeded in doing that.
I don't think Hitler and his cronnies wanted to totally wipe out any other group of people. He wanted to lower there numbers, show them who was "boss" and punish them in general but the Jews were the only group that he wanted off the face of the earth and his reasons were unsubstantuated. He hated Jews so much that even if a German was married to a Jew, he would put the German in the concentration camp also for having betrayed his race.
I don't think it is necessarily the number he managed to kill but the numbers he was planning to if he had succeeded. Many American soldiers died in his camps too and we don't hear much about that either, do we? However, his intent was not to kill every American...His intent was to kill every Jew.
Another point, in relationship to their world population, 6,000,000 is nearly 50% of that nationality. If he had killed 6,000,000 Chinese, it wouldn't have even been 1 tenth of one percent. He came close to destroying an entire population as Jews are fewer in number than the other groups he was torturing. That's why it makes news. He almost succeeded.
2006-12-12 10:59:20
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes, Most things about the Holocaust seems to only to focus on the Jews. There are a few reasons for this: One, Hilter believed that Blonde Hair, Blue eyed people were the perfect race. Two, Hilter knew that Jews(brown hair and eyes) do not belong to this perfect race. Third, 6 million jews is quite a few people but only 1/4 of the total holocaust number. The main reason why we put Holocaust and jews together is because of media. We have many pictures, movies, stories, and such showing jews during the holocaust.
2006-12-12 10:58:00
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answered by jojot001 2
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Because that 20 million is a group of many different people. Whereas the 6 million was ONE group. That's a lot of people. Jews were sought out, sent out of their homes and killed where as I don't think they did that with the other groups unless they stumbled upon them.
2006-12-12 10:53:11
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answered by D S 4
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During the Holocaust, jews lost about 30% of all the European jews. No other group suffered such a loss.
2006-12-12 10:56:30
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answered by Sophist 7
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Where to start...
The Jewish people were the main focus of what happened. The plan was to wipe all Jewish people off the face of the earth.
Other "imperfect" groups were also targeted, but not as intensley as the Jewish people.
I suggest going to your local library and taking out some books, or asking a local Rabbi (even if you arn't Jewish) for alot more information.
2006-12-12 10:53:02
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answered by Knee 6
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My history knowledge isn't the best, but I believe they started with disabled, retarded, gypsies, and other smaller groups of people that no one really seemed to realize what was happening. When the Jewish citizens were targeted it became more widespread, and they were ultimately the largest group by far with loss numbers.
2006-12-12 10:57:36
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answered by Anonymous
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