How long did the holocaust last?

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Answer 1

I think Himmler first used the term 'final solution' in mid-summer, 1941. Later that year, in September and October, as the German armies advanced across Eastern Europe, they began executing many, many Jewish civilians that they captured in places like Kiev (Babi-Yar) and Odessa. Around that time, the death camps were starting to be constructed. Mass killings began in earnest at Auschwitz about January, 1942. The Germans continued the Holocaust right up to the very last days of the war - using forced marches of Jews and other prisoners to stay ahead of the advancing Allies even as the concentration and death camps were being captured.

It is hard to say clearly when the Holocaust started - rhetoric, and then violence, against the Jews (and others) had been escalating almost from the day Hitler entered politics - but the majority of people were killed in the approximately 3.5 years between autumn, 1941 and May, 1945.

Answer 2

The first concentration camp (Dachau) opened in March/April 1933, but that doesn't mean that all Jews went to concentration camps right away. Only dissidents went there right away, such as Communists or anyone who spoke out against the Nazis. Jews were discriminated right from the start, for instance Jewish civil servants lost their jobs as early as 1933, and other laws followed. However, they remained in freedom until 1938. During the Night of the Broken Glass (Nov 9, 1938), many Jews were arrested and kept for a couple of weeks. Then they were released again. (There were also some casualties, but nothing like what was to follow later.) Even those who had thought that the discrimination by the Nazis was just a phase that would pass now thought otherwise and were desperate to emigrate. There were several problems. - Many didn't emigrate far enough and found that the Nazis conquered the country of their choice, such as Belgium, France, the Netherlands. - Some just didn't have the means to emigrate. - Others couldn't get visa. - And some didn't manage to organize everything by the start of WW2 in 1939. Then, emigration was no longer possible. Jews were then first transferred to ghettos. And the Holocaust itself didn't start until 1942, with the Wannsee Conference.

Answer 3

There is a bit of disagreement among historians as to when it began. Some say 1935, with the passing of the first Nuremburg Laws. Some say 1938, on Kristallnacht. Others say 1942, when the Final Solution was enacted.

It ended when Berlin fell to the Allies in May of 1945.

Answer 4

If you mean the high-volume state-sponsored genocide, then the exact dates are from January 1942 to November 1944.

Jan. 1942 coincides with the date of the Wansee Conference, Chaired by Reinhard Heydrich with all the top SS and Nazi leaders, to plan the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question."...the euphemism they used for the extermination of European Jewry.

Nov. 1944 corresponds to the date that Himmler ordered the destruction of the crematoria at Auswitz as the Red Army approached from the East.

Prior to 1942 and after 1944, there were Jewish deaths for sure, but not at the high volume that we've come to know as the holocaust. The highest months were from March 1944 to Nov. 1944.

Answer 5

1939-1945, Germany officially began the program after the invasion of Poland 9/1/39. But it had been in the planning stages since 1933 when AH came to power.

Answer 6

1939-1945

Answer 7

my guess is the same length of World War 2 but I'm not sure.

Answer 8

almost all of ww2.