what can you say about the german soldiers during the holocaust?during world war II?
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They were working under orders,....but the problem is that there are sadists everywhere and probably some of them enjoyed what they were doing, whilst others were sickened by it.
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My great grandfather escaped from Auswitz nazi death camps and I lived with this history in my own family. I am no genious or nothing like that but I thought I'd take a stab at it since its part of my own families history.\n\nEconomic _- well, it was WWII! It got the united States out of the depression because we made bullets and guns and war stuff that the world bought!\nIt destrpyed all of Europe and so Europe was in an economic crisis and suddenly the US was quite prosperous and Europe was hurting.\n\nJapans at that time was in total economic ruin especially after Heroshima and Naggasaki.\nJapanieze products were the joke of the entire industry untill Dr. Edwards Demming came on the scene and single handedly resurrected the entire japanieze economy.\n\nSocial, well, at that time everyone for a while totally sympothized with the Jews across the board except for the British and the Arab countries.\nSo on a social scale Jews were more accepted than before by Allied countries.\n\nPoliticle- this was the time when David bengurian proclaimed the national rebirth of the nation of ISREAL! the British faught tooth and nail to prevent this as did the Arab countries with the United nations. But eventually world wide sympothy won out and the Jews gained their own homeland, Isreal. this was also a time of mutch internation reform concerning war and the geneiva hate convention laws. many new laws were inacted to help prevent such occurances again! we hope.\n\nReligeous- The Jews for the first time in decades were free to worship their own way. Though not widly accepted, the jewish faith was finally able to be freely expressed by Jews world wide though some anti sematic jewish factions still existed especially in the united States.\n\nmy great grandfather feared for my families security here in the US so he sahved his beard, wore a suit and dropped the Orthodox faith to help save us and we were all raised regular christians. All because of the anti semitism that still existed here even after WWII. I never had a barmitsva, nor was raised in the jewish way but my family is bloodline Jewish. I still till this day wonder about my own Jewish roots.\n\nIn the words of my grandpa- "We must never forget the Holocost!\n\nHere's a little fun fact for you.\nDid you know that the term Holocost did not come from Europe?\nNo one in Europe ever termed that time period of the nazi's demonic reign of terror the Holocost.\n\nThe term Holocost was coined actually by America.\n\nSo there you go, a bit of history lesson for ya.
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Ilsa:How nice, you remembered. But of course, that was the day the Germans marched into Paris. \n\nRick: Not an easy day to forget. \n\nIlsa: No. \n\nRick: I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue.
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They believed that Nostradamus had predicted Germany would win WWII and they handed out propaganda with quotes from him. Also more people from Ukraine died in the Holocaust (up to 7 million) than Jews (6 million).
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This depands where your Grandmother was during the war:\nIf she was in Britain ask her:\n*What was Rationing like?\n*What was it like to be evacuated? (if she was)\n*What was the Blitz like?\n*What were your feelings towards the Axis powers?\n*What kind of shelter did you have, if any?\n\nIf she was in the US:\n*Did you hate/dislike the Japanese and Axis Powers?\n*Did you have any relatives lost in the Pearl Harbour attack?\n* (again) What was rationing like?\n*What were the air-raid tests like?\n*What was her father doing? Fighting or participating in the war effort?\n*Same question about her mother\n\nIf she was in the occupied territories:\nUnder the Japanese:\n*Were you (your grandmother) sent to a Prison camp?\n*What was life like?\n*What did it feel like to be released?\n*Were you attacked en-route home, by seperatists?\n\nIf she was under occupation by the Germans:\n*How did life change?\n*Were you kicked out of home?\n*Were you happy when the allies arrived?\n*Did you listen to the BBC?\n*If no, why?\n\n*If she was in Germany:\n*Did you belive what Hitler said?\n*Were you part of the Hitler Youth?\n\n\nHope this will help,
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SS stands for "Schutzstaffel" which means "defense squadron". The Nazis regarded the SS as an elite unit. \n\nI don't know what "regarding the holocaust" means in your question.  The SS was an military group whose units took part in many crucial battles in WW2.
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Surprisingly few know that Nazi extermination camps in World War II were by no means the only ones in Europe at the time. In the years 1942-1943 also in Croatia existed numerous extermination camps, run by Catholic Ustasha under their dictator Ante Paveliç, a practicing Catholic and regular visitor to the then pope. There were even concentration camps exclusively for children!\nIn these camps - the most notorious was Jasenovac, headed by a Franciscan friar - orthodox-Christian Serbians (and a substantial number of Jews and Muslims) were murdered. Like the Nazis the Catholic Ustasha burned their victims in kilns, alive (the Nazis were decent enough to have their victims gassed first). But most of the victims were simply stabbed, slain or shot to death, the number of them being estimated between 100,000 and 150,000, in a rather tiny country. Many of the killers were Franciscan friars. The atrocities were appalling enough to induce bystanders of the Nazi "Sicherheitsdienst der SS", watching, to complain about them to Hitler (who did not listen). The pope knew about these events and did nothing to prevent them. [MV]
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Last year, the remains of about 200 Italian prisoners in Russia were returned to Italy.\n\nDuring World War II, at least 250,000 Italian troops were sent by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini to help allied German Nazi forces, but most lacked the warm clothing and cold-weather survival skills of the Soviets.\n\nWith most of their vehicles broken down or lost in battle, the Italians trudged in retreat often traveling hundreds of kilometers during the winter of 1942-43. Many dropped dead in forced marches to prison camps. Others survived the cruel journey, only to die in camps as far away as Siberia.\n\nAn estimated 70,000 Italian soldiers never returned from the campaign. (From the Mos News)\n\nI would contact the Italian Embassy in Moscow and ask what they are doing to locate the missing Italian prisoners.\n\nGood luck.  Those that weresn't killed outright often died in the prison camps later.  Very few made it back.
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The Nazi imposed a “New Order” marked by exploitation, torture, and mass murder.\n\nThe Germans captured 5.5 million Russian prisoners and held them captive in concentration camps.  More than 3.5 million of these prisoners died, mainly due to starvation.\n\nThe Germans imprisoned and executed many Polish intellectuals and priests and slaughtered an immense number of Gypsies.\n\nUsing modern day technology the Nazis murdered six million Jews and nearly one and a half million children. (two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe)\n\nDue to the insane view of Nazism Hitler’s elite guard carried out these murderous acts with dedication and idealism; believed that they were exterminating men, women, and children who threatened the German nation.
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I am incredibly pleased that there is a school somewhere in the world that teaches its students about the reality of the holocaust, and that only 1in3 people killed during it were Jewish.\nHitler was a Roman Catholic, and his Nazi Germany was endorsed by the Papacy, and as a result the Nazis persecuted anyone whom the RC church was against. The nazis not only rounded up Jews, but also Slavs, Gypsies, Communists, the Disabled and Gay people for their concentration camps. All these people were seen as unsavioury by the church, and as unbeneficial to the German society. During 1943, the Nazis started killing people in the concentration camps, for several reasons, one simple one being that too many people meant too many guards, who could be fighting on the frontline. The first people to be butchered in these camps were Russian prisoners of war, then Slavs. Finally, Jews, Gays and disabled people were also slaughtered. Approx 1/2 a million gay people were killed in the Death Camps.
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1. what was considered the aryan race?\n2. Who were kept in the camps? (answer is men, women and children were killed)\n3.where were most victims taken from I.e what countries.\n4.How many victims were there( estimated to 12 million plus)\n5.Who is elie weisel?( he wrote the book "night" about his experience in the holocaust)\n\nmy advive is to read the book night by elie weisel, his book is so emotional ad true to fact read that fr mre info!
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The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of the Jews of Europe along with other groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators[1]. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, progressing to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by the Nazis.\n\nThe Jews of Europe were the main victims of the Holocaust in what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million, so much so that the phrase "six million" is now almost universally interpreted as referring to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, though estimates by historians using, among other sources, records from the Nazi regime itself, range from five million to seven million.\n\nAbout 220,000 Sinti and Roma were killed in the Holocaust (some estimates are as high as 800,000), between a quarter to a half of the European population. Other groups deemed "racially inferior" or "undesirable": Soviet military prisoners of war and civilians on occupied territories including Russians and other Slavs, Poles (3 million Polish Jews, and 2 million Polish gentiles, total 5 million Poles killed in Holocaust), the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists and political dissidents, trade unionists, some Catholic and Protestant clergy, were also persecuted and killed. Many scholars do not include the Nazi persecution of all of these groups in the definition of the Holocaust, with some scholars limiting the Holocaust to the genocide of the Jews; some to genocide of the Jews, Roma, and disabled; and some to all groups targeted by Nazi racism.[2] Taking all these other groups into account, however, the total death toll rises considerably, estimates generally place the total number of Holocaust victims at 9 to 11 million, though some estimates have been as high as 26 million.
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I like German people, but I have a bias because I lived in Germany when I was in the sixth grade (11-12 years old).  Admittedly the knowledge of World War Two and the Holocaust make me angry because I am an American and I am Jewish (my family lost some relatives due to Nazi atrocities), but my feelings towards Germany today are positive.\n\nI hope that helps!!!
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Probably alot, but neither side used them in World War 2.  Germans used most of their gas on the Jews.  Needless to say, the Nazis got creative.
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Maybe this link will help.\nhttp://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/WW2res.htm
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ww2?? Your question is a little vague.
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I like the first answer!\n\nHowever, I'll give in and give a bit more information.\n\nLook at Germany after WWI.  They were devastated, morally and economically.  They were supposed to pay gigantic reparations which realistically they could never pay.  Thus, they fell into a huge depression and were quite vulnerable to anyone who promised to "save" them.  A little wimpy untalented artist named hitler used incredible propaganda to bolster himself and his disgusting ideas.