joseph stalin's invovlement with hitler and the holocaust.?

Question

i am doing a paper on how joseph stalin was invovled with hitler while hitler was in charge and the concentration camps were going on, such as auschwitz and the holocaust.
any info that relates to this would be so helpful. thanks a ton!

Answer 1

Stalin and Hitler were never "involved" with each other except through normal diplomatic channels. Having said that it can be argued that much of the day to day operation of the Nazi camps was pioneered by Stalin's Gulag. For example: the use of inmates as slave labour, the use of cattle trucks and closed carriages to transport prisoners (zeks) by rail, roll calls lasting hours for prisoners in sub zero temperatures, casual brutality by the guards, encouraging genuine criminals to laud it over and brutalise the "politicals". The only difference was that the Stalinists did not set up camps the sole purpose of which was to exterminate whole categories of peoples. Fatalities and conditions in the Gulag from starvation, brutality, over work and disease were horrendous - just as bad in the Nazi camps.

The Nazi Holocaust and camps like Auschwitz and Sobibor had only one purpose - genocide. The Stalinists never set up camps like Auschwitz where intentional mass murder was an industrial process. The actual figure for people who died in the Nazi extermination camps was nearer 9 million, not just 6 million Jews, including Romanys, Sinta and others the Nazis deemed a threat to "German Blood" and the Aryan race.

Answer 2

Hey, we're going to talk about this next week in History...Well so far all I know is that Hitler made an "underground" treaty with Stalin - that he wouldn't hurt him...But soon after broke the treaty and attacked the Soviet Union. Stalin also killed millions of his own men/women before WWII.

Answer 3

One event that sticks out in my mind was Stalin's complicity in allowing more Poles to be killed than was necessary. As the Red Army approached Warsaw from the East in Aug-Sept, 1944, Stalin halted his army as the Poles began what was known as the Warsaw Uprising. By halting, the Germans were able to put down the Polish uprising and kill thousands of Poles.

Answer 4

Stalin was busy with his own holocaust, and killed lots more people than Hitler.

Answer 5

i dont know about that joseph guy but i do know alot about the concentration camps this is what ik.

Auschwitz (Polish Oœwiêcim) town in southern Poland, situated on the Vistula River about 32 miles southwest of Kraków, and site of the largest concentration camp and death camp run by Nazi Germany during World War II (1939-1945). The name Auschwitz is commonly applied to the complex of death and concentration camps near the Polish town of Oœwiêcim.

The Auschwitz complex was the site of scientifically planned and efficiently executed genocide during World War II. Accurate statistics were not kept, but the estimates of deaths at the camp complex range from 1.5 million to as many as 4 million. Camp Commandant Rudolf Höss admitted to a minimum figure of 2.5 million deaths at Auschwitz. Jews comprised the largest number of victims, and Auschwitz has become the prime symbol of what became known as the Holocaust of European Jewry; at least one-third of the estimated 5 million to 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II died there. Large numbers of Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma (Gypsies), and homosexuals also died at Auschwitz.
The Nazis established Auschwitz in April 1940 under the direction of Heinrich Himmler, chief of two Nazi organizations—the Nazi guards known as the Schutzstaffel (SS), and the secret police known as the Gestapo. The camp at Auschwitz originally housed political prisoners from occupied Poland and from concentration camps within Germany. Construction of nearby Birkenau (Brzenzinka), also known as Auschwitz II, began in October 1941 and included a women's section after August 1942.

Plan for KL (Koncentration Lager) Auschwitz II
Birkenau had four gas chambers, designed to resemble showers, and four crematoria, used to incinerate bodies. Approximately 40 more satellite camps were established around Auschwitz. These were forced labor camps and were known collectively as Auschwitz III. The first one was built at Monowitz and held Poles who had been forcibly evacuated from their hometowns by the Nazis.


Prisoners were transported from all over Nazi-occupied Europe by rail, arriving at Auschwitz in daily convoys. Arrivals at the complex were separated into three groups. One group went to the gas chambers within a few hours; these people were sent to the Birkenau camp, where more than 20,000 people could be gassed and cremated each day. At Birkenau, the Nazis used a cyanide gas called Zyklon-B, which was manufactured by a pest-control company.

A second group of prisoners were used as slave labor at industrial factories for such companies as I. G. Farben and Krupp. At the Auschwitz complex 405,000 prisoners were recorded as laborers between 1940 and 1945. Of these about 340,000 perished through executions, beatings, starvation, and sickness. Some prisoners survived through the help of German industrialist Oskar Schindler, who saved about 1000 Polish Jews by diverting them from Auschwitz to work for him, first in his factory near Kraków and later at a factory in what is now the Czech Republic. A third group, mostly twins and dwarfs, underwent medical experiments at the hands of doctors such as Josef Mengele, who was also known as the "Angel of Death."

The camp was staffed partly by prisoners, some of whom were selected to be kapos (orderlies) and sonderkommandos (workers at the crematoria). Members of these groups were killed periodically. The kapos and sonderkommandos were supervised by members of the SS; altogether 6000 SS members worked at Auschwitz.

By 1943 resistance organizations had developed in the camp. These organizations helped a few prisoners escape; these escapees took with them news of exterminations, such as the killing of hundreds of thousands of Jews transported from Hungary between May and July 1944. In October 1944 a group of sonderkommandos destroyed one of the gas chambers at Birkenau. They and their accomplices, a group of women from the Monowitz labor camp, were all put to death.


In 1946 Poland founded a museum at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in remembrance of its victims. By 1994, about 22 million visitors—700,000 annually—had passed through the iron gates that bear the cynical motto Arbeit macht frei (work makes one free).

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Answer 6

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