How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust?

Question

How many Jews were killed and was it just Jews that were killed. What were the camps like

Answer 1

between 5-6 million Jews just in the death camps, about a half-million to a million in work camps & possible another million in occupied Russian territory, not counting all those who died in the ghettos, before they even got to camps.

2-5 million Russian prisonors of war

1.5 to 3 million Polish

anywhere up to 1.5 million Roma (gypsy, but that tern is no longer is use)

600,000 Serbs

80,000–200,000 Freemasons

75,000–250,000 disabled (not including the forced sterizialization of thiose who survived)

7,000–16,000 Spanish prisons or war

2,500–5,000 - Jehovah's witness

1-1.5 political prisoners

5,000 - 15,000 gay men (not including those experimented on, or castrated)

& those are roughly the numbers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust

as to what the camps were like, i don't have the stomach for that at the moment, read up on it yourself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camps

~~~ morgannia

Answer 2

Jews
Gypsies (Roma)
Jehovas Witnesses
Slavs
Soviet POW's
Poles
Gays
The disabled and invalids
Anyone the Nazis didn't particularly like.

In the camps and throughout the axis territories it is estimated that over 6 million Jews died, 75% of the European population, or thereabouts. Some claim 11 million total if you include non-Jews; the deaths on the trains there, the death marches, the street executions......
And the camps were a literal hell on earth. Sadistic torture and abuse for no reason beyond the fact that the camps inmates were undesirables. These places were expressely designed to kill the inhabitants, either through working to death, beatings, shootings, gas chambers, plagues......the Nazis were quite the experimenters. Look up the name Jospeh Mengale....There is no way any description I could give would ever do justice to the horrors of a concentration camp. I suggest you find the memoirs of a holocaust survivor, or find some of the pictures taken when they liberated the camps online. Possibly one of the most poignant images is the mounds of human hair taken to make clothing, or the warehouse full of shoes, or the room full of teeth.......
I really do suggest you read first hand accounts for a true picture of what it was to be in a camp. Its not nice reading but they weren't nice places.

Answer 3

One has to differentiate: Ordinary Germans who were NOT in the army, SS, SA or Gestapo or guards in the prison camps were never forced to kill Jews and very few of them ever did. Germans that were drafted in the army had no choice. If you refused to join the army, you were sent to prison. If they were ordered to shoot Jews, Russians, French, Dutch, British etc they had to do it because to refuse an order meant execution. Those that refused to kill were either executed or sent to the labour camps and died there (read about Jehova's witnesses) Germans that willingly joined the SS, SA or Gestapo or prison camp guards were actively supporting the Nazi-regime (the Nazi party had 5 million members at the peak, ca 10% of the population) and many of them were willingly killing Jews, because they believed them to be less human. Racism is a belief that is not based on fact or logic. It is like a religion and many people then and now belief they are different from other humans/races.

Answer 4

It is estimated that 6,000,000 Jews were slaughtrered during the Holocaust. They were not the only ones targeted though! Hitler's regime was responsible for the genocide of Gypsies as well. Hitler, who felt that the Aryan race was "superior" to all others euthenized many of his own people. The SS would go to mental institutions and hospitals and recruit the mentally and physically disabled. These people were told they were going to special hospitals where they would be "cured" only to be killed for not conforming to the norms of the Aryan "race". You see, by killing these people, Hitler and his regime were "securing" the DNA of the German people by ensuring that no disabled person will have a chance to procreate and pass his "negative" genes down!
About 20,000,000 Russians died in the war aswell. Innocent people were killed in France, Poland, England! Hilter wanted to take over Europe, so along with his mass murders at the concentation camps, his army invaded other European countries. The concentration camps( Treblinka, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, among many others) were a place of eliminating the weak by death, putting the stong people to work (physical labor) the food rations were meager, people could not bathe for months at a time, they had body lice, head lice, sores, diseases, and were starving and cold. Many people were told to line up by a ditch, they were shot and buried. Some were buried alive. The camps were liberated by American and Russian troops who brought food rations, blankets, etc... Displaced people were reunited with family members, some are still searching, others are the sole survivors of their families! (Great book to read "Child of the Holocaust) Good luck!

Answer 5

The International Red Cross was stationed in all German labour, internment, concentration and prison camps throughout World War Two. The Red Cross were never given access to any Russian camps before, during or after World War Two. At his trials in Canada, during the 1980s and 1990s, Ernst Zundel finally got the Red Cross to release their records from the German camps despite strong Israeli objections. The Red Cross records seem to suggest that there were no gas chambers, and a total of 271,301 died during World War Two in these camps, mostly from typhus.

In a letter to the US State Department dated November 22nd 1944 The Red Cross, who were stationed in all the camps, stated : “We have not been able to discover any trace of installations for exterminating civilian prisoners.”

OFFICIAL RECORDS FROM INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS

Answer 6

The official figures show right at 6 million; this does not include another roughly 5 million people who did not fit the mold created by the movers and shakers in Nazi Germany.

Answer 7

http://www.ushmm.org/education/forstudents/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blholocaust.htm

Answer 8

Low estimate 4,778,677
High estimate 6,017,760

For a country by country death toll got to http://www.auschwitz.dk/Holocaust.htm