2007-05-05 05:37:40 · 5 answers · asked by mike 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
its just a homework question which i dont understand...
2007-05-05 05:44:41 · update #1
It is very interesting that in November 1938 the Nazis arrested twenty-six thousand Jews and sent them to concentration camps. "They were held from a few days to many weeks and then released after much ill treatment, without explanation...Germany's insurance companies paid out about 100 million marks to Jewish claimants, who then had to turn over their compensation to the government."*
The Nazis's 'Final Solution' to their perceived Jewish problem took place from 1942 to 1944.
Death camps and special action groups (Einsatzgruppen) operated exclusively by the S.S. systematically murdered thousands of Jews per day by various means: gas, firing squads, burnings, hangings, etc., over the entire range of Nazi Occupied territories.
The Einsatzgruppen (special action groups) were teams of S.S. murderers who drove around the captured countries in trucks murdering Jews where ever they found them, in villages, hamlets, towns, or small cities.
Not all the concentration camps were death camps. There were a few death camps located in the occupied territories and they murdered both Jews and non-Jews in large numbers.
2007-05-05 08:39:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Jewish Virtual Library has many articles on "The Final Solution". I would especially recommend the section on concentration camps.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/final.html
The Holocaust Museum has a good article in their Holocaust Encyclopedia:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005151
2007-05-05 06:08:16 · answer #2 · answered by parrotjohn2001 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It took the complicity of all walks of German life, from the Gestapo who rounded up the Jews, the trainmen who hauled them, the contractors that built the crematoria, the pharmaceutical conglomerate which supplied 4-1/2 tons of Xyclon-B per month to the SS, the death camp guards, the war factories that used the slave labor, etc.....they didn't call it 'state-sponsored' extermination for nothing.
2007-05-05 06:09:53 · answer #3 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What is your fascination with this topic? They carried it out by rounding up Jewish civilians by the millions, putting them into camps and then murdering them. What's the mystery?
2007-05-05 05:43:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever heard of the gas chambers? Start reading, will you...
2007-05-05 05:45:27 · answer #5 · answered by robert43041 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋