In what year did the Holocaust start?

Answer 1

1942, coinciding with the decision at the so-called Wansee Conference in Jan. 1942, where Reinhard Heydrich had convened all the top SS and Nazis leaders to come up with the 'final solution to the Jewish question.'

Some may argue that it started earlier with Jewish persecutions going on in the 30's, but the key date of jan 1942 started the high volume state-sponsored extermination of European Jewry, AKA the Holocaust..

Answer 2

Hitler wasn't at the Wannsee Conference. Both in person and on paper he's conveniently absent from direct links to these decisions.
In 1941 when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union the attack initially moved through the Soviet occupied lands of eastern Poland and the Baltic States (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania.) In Lithuania after the German army took control from the retreating Red Army, bands of anti-Semitic Lithuanians publicly attacked and murdered many Jews. German army command, unsure of how to react, contacted Berlin for orders on whether to intervene or allow it to continue. They were ordered not to interfere and it became the inspiration for the practice of rounding up and shooting victims. This was the method used before the introduction of poison gas chambers at the large death camps.
In his book "The Theory and Practice of Hell" Eugen Kogon, a camp survivor who had been an inmate since 1939, points out that for every German involved in running the camps there were 10 Slavs on staff also. It's worth reading if you are truly interested in the realities of the camps.

Answer 3

They started to systematically removing the rights of Jews in 1933. It wasn't until 1939 that the first extermination order was given.

"Many scholars date the start of the Holocaust to the anti-Jewish riots of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, on November 9, 1938, in which Jews were attacked and Jewish property was vandalized across Germany. Approximately 100 Jews were killed, and another 30,000 sent to concentration camps, while over 7,000 Jewish shops and 1,668 synagogues (almost every synagogue in Germany) were damaged or destroyed. Similar events took place in Vienna."

Answer 4

The first concentration camps opened in 1933, but were mainly for political dissidents, while Hitler consolidated his power and gradually ended civil rights. The Nuremberg Laws which disenfranchised Jews were passed in 1935.

Some Jews were no doubt arrested and sent to concentration camps from that point on, but the actual massive deportation to slave camps (where people died of starvation, overwork, and disease), which later became death camps (where people were immediately selected for execution), probably started with the invasion of Poland in 1939.

The Wannsee Conference was held in 1942 and it was during this meeting of SS officials that the "final solution" was verbalized and formalized.

Answer 5

Around 1933

Answer 6

1933ish, when hitler came to power.at that time, it mostly the rights of jewish and unfavorable citizens that were restricted. but as ww II started and progressed, nazi officials determined that concentration camps would be an effective way to maximize productivity in germany and also be a solution to exterminating "undesirables." there was a particular meeting in which hitler and other officials decided to turn concentration camps into death camps, but i can't think of the name. it starts with a w...maybe someone else remembers?

aha! loditx knows it...the wannsee conference!

Answer 7

The Holohoax is a myth.