The Holocaust....?

Question

We learned about it in school and some people have told me all about....but, I can't really understand it. Does anyone have a good ideas of what it is? Or do you know any good websites?

Answer 1

google concentration camps ... check out wiki ... u will get an idea ..

Answer 2

Thje Holocaust was the methodical, systematic extermination of the Jews by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi's during World War II.

You can read the entire text of the 800-page book THE HOLOCAUST CHRONICLE at the following website. I happen to own a copy, and it's a detailed account of the Holocaust, along with time lines at the bottom of each page to really simplify your understanding.

The book begins with the very first recorded persecution of the Jews, and continues on to present day. It's engrossing and rather disturbing, but necessary reading.

Four movies I would also recommend are SCHINDLER'S LIST, THE PIANIST, THE DEVIL'S ARITHMETIC and LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL. You might also enjoy the book BRIAR ROSE, by Jane Yolen, or NUMBER THE STARS.

Answer 3

The Holocaust occured during World War 2. Adolf Hitler belived (and got his citizens to belive) that the Jews living in Germany were the problem behind all the economic troubles. Although there was no logic to it, Hitler's men rounded up millions of Jews and other political enemies and put them in concentration camps where they were starved, brutally beaten and killed in horrible ways by the hundreds. By the time the Allied Forces (USA, Russia and England) liberated the camps, millions of Jews and been killed, and many more died afterward.
So basically, the Holocaust was a prime example of the horrors one man can inflict on another.

Answer 4

I am sure that all you have to do is type Holocaust into your search engine and you will find tons of information.
The short story is that after WWI Germany was pretty torn up. They worked very hard to get back up and running, so to speak, but one of the things that began to happen is the leaders, specifically Hitler, needed to unite the people. And the best way he found of doing that was to find a scapegoat, so to speak, to blame all of Germany's problems on. At first it was the Jews and they most certainly suffered the most. But other cultural groups suffered as well. Gypsies being one of the many. The German government then went on to find other groups to persecute, other religions and those with different political beliefs as well as homosexuals.
It was a horrible time in our history, and one I am not sure that we have learned anything from.

Answer 5

Simply put, the Holocaust is the name for the enslavement and murder of 6 million Jewish people (and some 7 million other "undesireables" like the handicapped, mentally retarded, Gypsies, gay people, political prisoners, Slav, Gypsies, so many others) by the Nazi German regime between the years of about 1934 or 35 and 1945 or so. The Nazi regime was led, as you must know, by Adolph Hitler, the most evil human being to ever live on the earth, IMO. Hitler and his regime - the Third Reich, as it was called - were racist in the extreme and taught that they themselves were a "master race", more deserving of life and living space than anyone else in the world. They believed that blond, blue-eyed people were superior to all others and actually selectively bred humans for this trait. (This was called the Lebensborn Program.) Jewish people, they believed, were subhuman and responsible for all the problems in the world including German's massive depression, when in fact it was Germany's own aggression in WW 1 that brought them to economic ruin.

They needed someone to blame, an enemy to hate, preferably one that was peaceful and easy to terrorize. There is a deep and abiding current of anti-Semitism (hatred of Jews) in Europe which exists to this day, especially in Germany, Austria, and Poland, and it was easy for the Nazi propagandists to exploit this hatred. They rounded up every Jewish person they could get their hands on, women, men, old people, children, rabbis, scholars, and exterminated them in concentration camps, by the millions, and the ones they kept alive to work were slowly starved and otherwise brutalized to death, by the millions.

There is no way to really explain or understand genocide. What the Nazis did is bewildering to us in this day and age - I, like you, find it hard to understand and I've read many books and seen many films and TV programs about the Nazis and the Holocaust in an attempt to comprehend them. The first thing to do is see Steven Spielberg's film "Schindler's List". This is a fact-based story about a wealthy man who, through employing them in his factory, managed to save the lives of over a thousand Jews. I believe it to be Spielberg's masterpiece. It's also extremely realistic, pulls no punches, and is extremely hard to watch. You'll cry, probably a lot, but it's very much worth it.

Links:

http://www.ushmm.org/ - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

http://www.holocaust-history.org/ - The Holocaust History Project

http://www.yadvashem.org/ Yad Vashem

If you'd like to talk more, feel free to email me.

We live in a selfish time filled with selfish people. It makes me glad to see a young person trying to understand the Holocaust, when so many are trying so hard to pretend it never happened.

Answer 6

Well, you probably would have heard of Hitler. He was the Dictator of Germany. He believed that the "master race" were the Aryans, blonde ahri adn blue eyed people. Everyone else was a sub-human (including blacks, asians, handicapped, Jews, etc). Now, after World War I, Germany was in debt and went into Depression. Hitler came and told Germany the only reason they were in debt was because of German Jews. Soon the rights of Jews, such as owning shops and land, were taken away. Hitler hated the Jews and wanted them all to die or a Genocide (killing of a group of people, in this case Jews).

Okay stay with me. Hitler came up with the "Final Solution" that would kill all Jews. He ordered all the Jews into concentration camps where they were forced to do labor and eventually die of starvation. But the killing took too long for Hitler so he ordered his Nazis to go around and kill all the Jews. In that one night, many Jews died becuase of Hitler's hatred toward them and that is the Holocaust.

Answer 7

A holocaust is any great sacrifice or loss of human life. So both world wars would be holocausts. Even the much smaller Vietnam war would. I lost a half brother in that. Btw, I can not understand it either! Why os there war? Why is there fighting and killing?

Answer 8

The Holocaust is where Hitler, Germany's dictator at the time, went on a war rampage. He came up with the final solution. The final solution was when he decided to put all the Jews into concentration camps. In the camps they were either burned to death, poison gas, worked to death, or were exiperments to find the perfect race.

Answer 9

Well u may get too much of the material since all the media is controlled by the jews world over even your most of the search engens so all over the media u will find the jews most pathetic , traumatized & in need kind of situation so this all "HOLOCast" is such sort of the thing so when u read all such manuplated, material do'nt get away with it. After these much years no one is alive to tell u wether all those concenration camps really existed or not. whatever u be looking what media presents & that is definately in the hands of "ZION" or jews. Neo-cons will force u to think that only jews r the right full humens & thats all.

Answer 10

quick answer - the culmination of two thousand plus years of anti Semitism and fear of "outsiders" .
Longer answer
The Holocaust (from the Greek holókauston from olon "completely" and kauston "burnt"), also known as Ha-Shoah (Hebrew: השואה), Khurbn (Yiddish: חורבן or Halokaust, האלאקאוסט), 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 National Socialist regime in Germany led by Adolf Hitler.

Other groups were persecuted and killed by the regime, including the Roma, Soviet POWs, disabled people, gay men, Jehovah's Witnesses, non-Jewish Poles, 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." 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.

The persecution and genocide were accomplished in stages. Legislation to remove the Jews from civil society was enacted years before the outbreak of World War II. Concentration camps were established in which inmates were used as slave labour until they died of exhaustion or disease. Where the Third Reich conquered new territory in eastern Europe, specialized units called Einsatzgruppen murdered Jews and political opponents in mass shootings. Jews and Roma (Gypsies) were crammed into ghettos before being transported hundreds of miles by freight train to extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, the majority of them were killed in gas chambers. Every arm of Germany's bureaucracy was involved in the logistics of the mass murder, turning the country into what one Holocaust scholar has called "a genocidal nation."

I recently heard that many Holocaust.victim have become Mormons posthumously?

Answer 11

Well Nazis murdered many jews (and other people they didn't like such as gypsys and homosexuals) in places called concentration camps where they took them and killed them in various ways. This was because they were immigrants etc. and hitler was convinced they were stealing all the money and jobs etc. off good germans. However, I think people play it up a bit much, most official figures say between 1 and 6 million jews died and that's a pretty big range but tens of millions, now thats a real stretch of the truth.