What is the Holocaust exactly?

Question

I have a little bit of an idea because I learned about it last year while reading about Anne Frank, but I remember hardly anything about it. Can anyone explain it to me? and do you think it was EXACTLY how the Jewish people said it happened?

Answer 1

The Holocaust began with an Idea. The Nazi ideology of Aryan racial supremacy along with societal feelings of anti-semitism in Germany and other European nations at the time allowed the steps towards the Holocaust to begin.

Once the Nazi's came to power they intruduced legislation to start stripping the Jews of their rights. From 1933-34 prison camps were opened for political adversaries and the Eugenics campaign began to cleanse Germany of undesirables. In 1935 the Nuremberg Laws were created. These laws stripped all Jews of their citizenship and civil rights. These laws were meant to completely force the Jews from Germany. It was noted at the time that if these laws did not work to do this, then a final solution to the "Jewish problem" was to be created. On November 9th 1938, Kristallnacht, Jewish business that remained were attacked and Jews were killed or sent to prison camps in "supervised" civilian disorder.

The start of ww2 and the invasion of Poland lead to at least another 1.4 million Jews under Nazi persecution. By absorbing this many Jews while having a policy to deny them any rights created a much more problematic concern for Nazi officials. Ghettos were established in Poland where Jews would live in urban camps outside and isolated from the rest of the world around them. As Hitler saw that Great Britain would not surrender and make peace in late 1939, (on the belief that Jews in Britain were bent on destroying the new Germany) he declared that if the war dragged on then all the Jews of Europe would pay the price. A this point Jews were secretely rounded up and shot, forced from their homes, put into camps.

When the invasion of the USSR took place in 1941, there were no more illusions as to the fate of the Jews in Europe. The Wanasee Conference of 1942 put in writting and legal practice what was already going on behind the scenes the since 1940. At this point the systematic killing of Jews as a policy was implemented.

Now as far as did it happen EXACTLY how the Jewish people said, we can be sure that millions of them died during the war. The exact figure is roughly 5.2 million. Holocaust deniers usually say that there were only labour camps but their is ample evidence of gas chambers. What is sure is that the Nazi's had a policy of killing the Jews after 1942 for sure. Since the Russians were also notoriously persecuting Jews it is a question of how many were actually killed and by who.

Overall though, it happened the way the Jews and neutral Historians claim. It was not however the first genocide. Each sufferer is unique in its own historical way.

Answer 2

Basically, it was Hitler's goal to wipe out the Jewish people. Yes is did happen as the Jewish people said. There is documented proof in pictures and written record of the atrocities commited by the Nazi party. Jews were stripped of their wealth, home, dignity and lives. A Holocaust museum opened in Washington DC, I believe not too long ago. If you have the chance to go someday, it would be worth it. Also, the camps where they were held also still stand and tours are available.

Answer 3

The Holocaust is the term used for Hitler's attempted genocide (extermination) of European Jews during World War II, which resulted in deaths of six million Jews.

This was what the National Socialist Party (i.e. the Nazis), led by Hitler, termed as the "final solution" to the "Jewish problem."

The Jews were killed by various means, most famously in "death camps." Hitler and the Nazis also tried to exterminate other groups of people, but the word Holocaust is used mainly in relation to the Nazi scheme to exterminate the Jews.

A link with more information appears, below.

Yes, it was exactly how the Jewish people said it happened. The historical evidence is overwhelming.

Answer 4

Dear,

HOLOCAUST:

Means:

1. A great destruction of life
(Chambers Essential English Dictionary)

2. Large-scale destruction especially on human life by fire.
(An English Reader's Dictionary)

3. Large Scale destruction especially by fire
(The Oxford English Dictionary)

Holocaust exactly from Greek "Holos" - "Completely" and kausto-"burnt", also know as "Ha Shoah" is the term generally used to describe the killing of six million European Jews during World War II.


THE BALFOUR DECLARATION:

The British Government expressed itself as favoring a Jewish homeland in Palestine after the World War l.

The Crisis Years (1918-45):

World War I, left crisis of such great severity that they spawned totalitarian societies in Russia, Italy, Germany, and Spain, and threatened to overwhelm all but the most durable Westernized nations.

These developments proved to be fraught with danger to the Jews. In Russia the Soviet regime offered Bolshevik conformity, capitalist Jews, socialist Jews, and Zionist Jews all suffered hardships.

In Poland the Jews were persistently subject to discriminatory legislation, even though their status as a national minority was guaranteed by the Versailles Peace Treaty.

Even the West the Jews found anti-Semitism to be highly popular when the depression of the 1930's brought into question the viability of capitalism and constitutional government.

The Jews settlers in Palestine did not have an easy time either. The policies of the British mandatory administration raised painful obstacles to the construction of a national home, for these policies were anything but firm against rising Arab nationalism. The fate of the hardy Jewish settlement on the eve of World War ll was very uncertain.

All these difficulties faded into minor problems in the face of Hitler''s determination to exterminate the Jews. Crushed by the economic collapse of Germany (1929-32) millions of Germans accepted Hitler's analysis of the disaster: the Jews as international capitalists and international Bolsheviks had deliberately ruined Germany.Attaining the chancellorship, Hitler set about creating a totalitarian society free of Jews. He stripped them of their wealth and humiliated them (Nuremberg Laws, 1934)). With anti-Semitic ideology thoroughly entrenched, the Nazi system used the mantle of war to wipe out the Jews of Europe. Systematically and efficiently about 6,000,000 Jews were destroyed.

Answer 5

The Jewish people will tell you of the holocaust and it may be worse than the way they explain it. Hitler felt the Jews controlled the wealth of Germany were against his cause, were not of Arayan blood, and had too much influence in all phases of German culture. His solution was extermination. In all over 6 million were murdered while he was in power.

Answer 6

The Holocaust is a means by which the Jews manipulate the world for personal gain, an excuse to to whatever they please.

It is the same with America and Communism, Robert Mugabe and Zimbabwean colonialism, post-democratic Apartheid and Islam's Jihad. These factions hold us to ransom for things that have passed, and will not let go because it gives them an excuse to ecercise any form of terror, albeit political, social or economical, over the people of the free world.

These bullies use the past, and often resolved issues, to lay seige to modern thinking. In South Africa we still bear hte brunt for Apartheid, whilst claiming to be a reconceiled people. America still thinks herself to be the Messiah of the enslaved. So we needed her help in the Wars, does that make us forever indebted to her?

Just because we launched Crusades in the 1100s, should Islam factions still demand retailiation?

The world democratic? Sod it!

Answer 7

yes it was exactly the way Jewish people said it. it can be even more worse than their stories. the holocaust main objective is to eliminate races that they consider as inferior like the Jews. hitler considers those inferior races as a trash compared to the race that he considers superior. that race is the Aryan race. see these sites for more info:

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=holocaust
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/holo.html
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html

Answer 8

the holocaust was when it hitler was in charge and did mean stuff to the jews like send them to camps where they later died.i think that it was true what the jewish people said happend.if you want to know more about the holocaust go to this link below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust