Why were forests a great place for the Jews in the holocaust to hide?
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because it's easier to hide in a forest than in an open field.
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My favorite liberal radio talk show host Randi Rhodes has,to my great surprise,has been talking about how our government is doing the same things that hitler did in the few years before WW2 started.  One thing was how Hitler had created  "databases" on all it's citizens,so they knew who were the jews and where they were,and who were the people most likely to hide them when it came time to round them up.\nPlus much much more.  And there are many concentration camps already set up and staffed.\n     As a truckdriver,I have noticed alot of prisons set up right next to the interstate.  And one prison in oklahoma on US Hwy 69,doesn't even say prison.\nThe biggest camp that I've heard about is near Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael is the Jewish National Fund. It was founded in 1901 to purchase land in Eretz, Israel on behalf of and for the Jewish People.\n\nIn 1904, in addition to this work, it embarked on a project to plant olive trees on the lands of Ben Shemen and Hulda, which it had recently purchased. The aims of afforestation have changed with the times. Earlier the aim was conservation. Today, it improves environmental quality, provides outdoor leisure and recreation sites, wood supplies etc.
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Although anti-Semitism had existed since the establishment of Christianity Jews were only one of Hitler's target groups for elimination. In his quest to purify and strengthen the German race Hitler ordered the killings of Jews, Blacks, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Handicapped persons, the mentally ill hospitals, the elderly, the homeless, Slavs, and even World War One Veterans who had lost limbs or had otherwise become dependent. The reason Jews seemed to have been singled out in the Holocaust is because Hitler used them as a scapegoat for the problems following WW1. Hitler gave the downtrodden German people a face to put the blame of their dire situation. He accused the Jews, because they were different, of bringing down Germany from the inside. You would have to admit that Hitler's greatest achievement was making a whole country believe that less than 1% of their population, the Jews, were to blame for WW1 and it's consequences. With everyone's attention and anger directed at the Jews Hitler was free to eliminate other "unacceptable" people, many his own countrymen, without opposition or even notice. The reason that it's usually a Jewish person who speaks at assemblies is because they made up the largest portion of the Holocaust therefore others didn't survive or have likely passed on.
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The Holocaust began because the Jews were seen throughout Europe as those that had even when nobody else did.  During this period of history Jews were not popular in many places of the world.  Hitler just took his personal hatred for them and put it to use as a way of starting to purify the European People.  He did not go just after Jews, he went after Jehovah's Witnesses,  Gypsies, and homosexuals.  The thing is that is where he started after clearing the world of these people who would have been next?  He used a lot of these people up as slave labor and when they were used up they were exterminated.  Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany losing WWI, as well as being well off in Vienna when he was starving.  He told the World of what he wanted to do to them when he came to power so it was no secret that he hated them, yet no one ever imagined the atrocities that he would do in the late 30's and to 1945 because of his hatred.
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Sometimes governments have rules on how long the keep records secret. As for the Red Cross I am not sure why they would have kept all of those records secret for so long.\n\nThere are currently millions of Holocaust documents being help in secret while the countries holding them decide how to release them. It is possible the Red Cross was not wanting to release too much personal information by releasing them too early. \n\nIt is strange they would have held them for so long.
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In 1936, Jews were banned from all professional jobs, effectively preventing them exerting any influence in education, politics, higher education and industry. On 15 November of 1938, Jewish children were banned from going to normal schools. By April 1939, nearly all Jewish companies had either collapsed under financial pressure and declining profits, or had been forced to sell out to the Nazi-German government as part of the "Aryanization" policy inaugurated in 1937.\n\nAs the war started, large massacres of Jews took place, and, by December 1941, Hitler decided to completely exterminate European Jews. In January 1942, during the Wannsee conference, several Nazi leaders discussed the details of the "Final Solution of the Jewish question" (Endlösung der Judenfrage). Dr. Josef Bühler urged Reinhard Heydrich to proceed with the Final Solution in the General Government. They began to systematically deport Jewish populations from the ghettos and all occupied territories to the seven camps designated as Vernichtungslager, or extermination camps: Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Maly Trostenets, Sobibór and Treblinka II. Sebastian Haffner published the analysis in 1978 that Hitler from December 1941 accepted the failure of his goal to dominate Europe forever on his declaration of war against the United States, but that his withdrawal and apparent calm thereafter was sustained by the achievement of his second goal—the extermination of the Jews.\n------------------------------------------------------------\nJews were the main victims. One could say their role was to be rounded up like cattle to concentration camps or death camps.\nAdded:\nAs for communities, they were started in other countries where the Jews fled to. After the second world war.
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Exists as a place for displaced Jews to settle after WWII.  Palestinians feel like it is there land and was stolen from them--thus the conflict.
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he was tried for his part in the extermination of millions of people (including 6 million Jews).  his trial was a "big deal" because he escaped to Argentina for years and was finally apprehended about 20 years after the holocaust.
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In the concentration camps there were also homosexuals and handicapped people. He wanted to get rid of the 'weaker' people, create a superior race of people who were 'pure' and 'strong'. He believed the Jews had defects in their genes that caused them to be diseased and sickly. I believe Gypsy were another race he wanted to get rid of because they were often rumored to carry diseases from towns to towns in their nomadic wanderings. Also remember that Mein Kumpf was just saying the things that he wanted people to know.... \n\nHitler's goal was to create a 'master race'.
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It is a crime in Germany to deny the Holocaust, but I don't believe that is the case anywhere else.\n\nThe primary reason overall is that too many misguided persons want to rewrite history and, as Kierkegaard said, "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it."
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to not catch fire, thats what the forest stations are there for
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In Germany the Jewish population had the money and power being better business people.  The Germans were jealous and Hitler used this to gain power in a disgrunted country.  He then decided to creat an Aryan race of blonds with blue eyes - thats me dead then - and reportedly systematically murdered the Jews, homosexuals and cripples, and anyone else who disagreed with him
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To hide it from the Germans.
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Ask the Jews if they thought war was necessary during WWII.\n\nAuschwitz\n\nAuschwitz was the largest concentration camp. Auschwitz was located in Poland. It was made up of 3 concentration camps in one. It was a camp that had forced work and killed people. The people were sent from a forced labor camp to a death camp when they became old or when they were weak to be killed. Some were also tested for experiments that tested medical things, such as diseases and cures. About 1 ¼ million people were killed at Auschwitz during World War II.\n\nBergen-Belsen\n\nBergen-Belsen was near the villages of Bergen and Belsen in Germany. It was built in 1943 as a prison camp and a Jewish slave work camp. It was meant for 10,000 people but ended up holding 41,000. It did not have any gas chambers, but 37,000 prisoners died there. They died from diseases or just being over worked. Anne Frank, one of the most famous concentration camp victims today, died there.\n\nBuchenwald\n\nBuchenwald was one of the first and the biggest concentration camps. It was built in 1937 in Weimar, Germany. It held 20,000 prisoners and most of them worked as slaves in near by factories. There were no gas chambers in Buchenwald, but many died from disease, little food or the wrong kind of food (malnutrition), exhaustion, beatings, and executions. Prisoners were used to test the viruses and their vaccines.\n\nDachau\n\nDachau was the first Nazi concentration camp built. The camp was built in 1933. It was located in Dachau, Germany. The camp was meant to perfrom medical experiments on prisoners. These experiments left the people dead or disabled. The experiments and the harsh living conditions made it one of the most harsh camps. It was not designed as a killing camp though.\n\nSachsenhausen\n\nThis camp was located near the village of Sachsenhausen, in north Germany. It was built in 1936 as a part of 3 camps including Buchenwald and Dachau. The early prisoners of the camp were 10,000 Jewish people from Berlin and Hamburg. 200,000 people were in the camp and 100,000 of them ended up dying from disease, exhaustion, and over working in the local factories. A lot of the rest were brought to many other death camps.\n\nTheresienstadt\n\nThis camp was in north Bohemia (in modern Czech Republic). The camp later became a walled-in ghetto (a part of a city where Jewish people were forced to live) in 1941. After the people that were not Jews were evacuated, they started sending more Jews to the camp from Germany, Austria, Denmark, and other countries. Out of 14 1,000 Jewish people sent to Theresienstadt, 33,500 people died from the crowding in the ghettto, 88,000 Jews were sent to killing camps, from Theresienstadt, especially Auschwitz.\n\nI think you see my point.
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I don't believe your "faithfulness" notion here.  Where was your god during holocaust days?\n\nYou can't tell me there weren't any god-fearing jew / people in those camps.  \n\nDon't bother with the "well well" + explanations about the permissive will or any other sort of will of god, and all the other explanations that amount to "too bad for them glad it wasn't us" rationale.\n\nAll over the world, people suffer terribly through no fault of their own.  Your god doesn't seem so faithful.  \n\nPerhaps you're simply lucky!
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It was when Hitler was a dictator in Germany during World War II, and he took it in to his own hands to wipe out the society of what he felt was inferior beings, messing up and ruining the Aryan race. He was a huge racist and in other words, commiting genocide on millions on innocent Jewish civilians. The Holocaust was the event where the millions of Jewish people were being put through torture, being murdered, and were dying in concentration camps because he did not like them. He was actually Jewish also, but he made this like one of the earliest forms out a hate crime, but in such a more degrading, sick twisting way. He was insecure of his artist abilities and it was said because he got kicked of art school, he decided to hate Jewish people from them on. Holocaust one of the worst events that happened in our history other than slavery, and the land stealing of Native Americans.