what was the holocaust about?

Answer 1

The Holocaust is the term generally used to describe the killing of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a program of deliberate extermination planned and executed by the Nazi regime in Germany led by Adolf Hitler. After legislation to remove the victims from civil society, the machinery of the state was used to kill them in extermination camps. Where the Third Reich conquered new territory in eastern Europe and Russia, specialised units, the Einsatzgruppen, murdered Jews and political opponents by shooting. Ghettos were established to concentrate and contain the victims before their destruction. In western European countries occupied by the Nazis, Jews were interned before being deported to the death camps.

Other groups were also persecuted and killed by the regime, including 220,000 Sinti and Roma in the Great Devouring, the Porajmos. Earlier, disabled people were killed for eugenic reasons in Action. Other victims were homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet POWs, Polish citizens, and political prisoners.

Many scholars do not include these groups in the definition of the Holocaust, defining it as the genocide of the Jews, or what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" ("Die Endlösung der Judenfrage"). Taking into account all the victims of Nazi persecution, the death toll rises considerably; estimates generally place the total number of victims at nine to 11 million.

Answer 2

The Holocaust was an attempt for a madman such as Hitler to build a superhuman Anglo Saxon race that would change the face of Europe. He thought that by eliminating certain peoples, it would better strengthen the position for his "elite" European race to spread their influence across Europe without being subjected to weaker subclasses of humans. Of course Hitler was crazy, but the persecution of the Jews and other peoples allowed for a scapegoat to place all of Germany's problem on. It also gave the Nazis a sense of superiority, obviously a false sense, because look where it led them, to defeat and ruin. In the end, some people speculate that Hitler may have had success had the Holocaust never been a part of his regime. The Holocaust is definately the greatest sign that Hitler was truly crazy.

Answer 3

The Holocaust was the systematic murder of millions of Jews in Europe by the Nazis. This genocide is also referred to as the Final Solution. I believe that's how the Nazi leaders themselves referred to it. Hitler and his followers blamed Jews for many of Germany's problems. I'm not totally clear on how the Nazis thought killing Jews was going to solve their problems. I've taken a class about WW II. Apparently many people in the early 20th century were anti-Semitic, but most people didn't hate Jews enough to kill them.

Answer 4

that's by way of way the Jews have been slaughtered. Holocaust comes type the Greek word holokaustus, meaning to burn or consume by using fire. those others slaughters did no longer make the main of the flexibility of fire as did the Nazis.

Answer 5

The holocaust was the period during which the Nazis subjugated, imprisoned, persecuted and murdered millions of Jews.

Answer 6

You mean what was its purpose? Its purpose was to "cleanse" the human race by removing facets of it that Adolf Hitler deemed unworthy of existence.

Answer 7

It was all about Adolph Hitler, trying to get rid of the Jewish race of people.

Answer 8

its when the jewish people were put in camps, tortured, and killed in gas chambers 1,000s were killed a few of the lucky ones exscaped