discuss how the racial prejudice against the jewish in europe and north america contributed to the holocaust?
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General European prejudice against Jews was already centuries old, and it had carried over to North America because the US was founded by European immigration. This is a prejudice against any "outside" group, and also extended to other people who were not local (new foreign immigrants, Gypsies, etc.). For more information on the Holocaust and the factors leading up to it, try the links below.
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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 various ethnic, religious and political groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators. 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 murder every possible member of the populations targeted by the Nazis.\n\nThe word holocaust originally derived from the Greek word holokauston, meaning "a completely (holos) burnt (kaustos) sacrificial offering" to a god. Since the late 19th century, "holocaust" has primarily been used to refer to disasters or catastrophes. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was first used to describe Hitler's treatment of the Jews from as early as 1942, though did not become a standard reference until the 1950s. By the late 1970s, however, the conventional meaning of the word became the Nazi genocide. The term is also used by many in a narrower sense, to refer specifically to the unprecedented destruction of European Jewry in particular.
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Primarily because it was popular to do so at the time.  Hitler believed in a conspiracy theory that said the Jews wanted to take over the world.   Hitler wrote (well he dictated it and it was heavily edited) called Mein Kampf - My Struggle in English, that does shed some light on his anti-Semitism (hating of the Jewish people)  I've included some resources below that may help you in your research. \n\n(I am not Jewish, but in an effort to be unbiased I must disclose that I do have Jewish relatives. The links I provided I have found personally useful and I find their coverage of the Holocaust to almost universally accepted.  There are however small groups which feel that the Holocaust never happened.  You will have to draw your own conclusions.  I was not alive then but the historical records and primary source material I have consulted have convinced me of the horrible reality of the Holocaust or Shoah.)
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Nazis are hated bcos of the cruel tortures they inflicted on the jews.But they are defenetly less hated than the Americans.
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Holocoast \n\n\nThe Holocaust Misconception The Holocaust Misconception is likely one of the most misunderstood historical events of modern times. There are those that underestimate the extent of world knowledge about the German atrocities. There are also those who are ignorant of the way in which the Jews reacted to their situation. There is an incredible extent of incorrect information about the Holocaust which people have been taught or made to believe. It is imperative that modern society fully appreciate the terrors of the Holocaust in order to prevent its reoccurrence. First and foremost, we must address the misconception concerning the world’s knowledge of what was happening. It is often assumed and taught that the Holocaust portion of World War II was such a well kept secret that no one knew of it until after the fact, however, this is untrue. There were various ways that the world was notified of these horrors. Various nations and various Jewish communities gained knowledge of the barbarity and did nothing. The people in power at that time were notified many times of what was going on. On September 29 and 30, 1941 there was a mass killing at Babi Yar, a Russian city near Kiev.
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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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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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The only point of debate over the Holocaust is EXACTLY how many Jews were put to death and by what means.  The number ranges from 1.1 million to 7 million people killed by several methods.  No matter how you look at it, it was still a lot of people in a targetted cultural group.  The very existence of the Holocaust is not a debate among any real historians.\n\nDid it exist?  Most definitely.  Was it wrong?  Yep.  Did a lot of jews die for a racist cause?  Yep.  So give it up already.
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Persecution of the jewish faith.\nHitler was after power and wanted all possessions to belong to him.  \nOthers were also persecuted, such as Catholics or Polish citizens.  \nHorrible war.  \nShindler's List to me shows that not all germans were bad, just frightened of Hitler and his army.  \n\nAnother movie to help you would be "The Boys from Brazil."  It was a book first and I believe it was written by Ira Levin.  \n\nAnother book would be "Exodus" by Leon Uris.\n\nBest of wishes on your essay.
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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.
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Jews. Mentally challenged people. Old people. Gays. People with physical handicaps. Basically anyone that Hitler didn't think would be able to contribute to "his" society. It wasn't just Jewish people, even though they are the minority most associated with the Holocaust.\n\nEither way, it was so sad.
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Come on, if you are hoping for an easy answer to your homework, in several minutes you will have all the wikipedia links you could ever want on this subject.  If you are hoping for non-attributable material in essay form, you won't get it here.\n\nAnswers...The Holocaust, meaning the Nazi German program to eradicate "undesirable races" like Jews, Gypsies and Slavs, happened primarily in what is now known as Poland and Germany, although one could argue that the round ups and other terror spread throughout most of occupied Europe.\n\nThe rough period of the Holcaust varies depending on opinions.  I rather believe it started with Kristalnacht on November 10, 1938 and didn't end until 1945 with the final liberation.  Survivors and their familes might tell you that they still suffer, therefore it hasn't ended.\n\nWhy is more complicated.  I would read "Hitler's Willing Executioners" by Daniel Goldhagen for a fairly succinct answer.  However, it was the result of Nazi Germany's effort to "purify" the "Aryan" (what toff, as though they were Aryan) race by killing off the so-called "sub-humans".
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The 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, though estimates by historians using, among other sources, records from the Nazi regime itself, range from five million to eleven million. Many non-Jewish people were killed as well.\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": Poles (3 million Polish Jews, and 2 million Polish gentiles, total 5 million Poles killed in Holocaust), Serbs (targeted mostly by Croat Nazi Puppet Ustashas, from 100,000 to 700,000 killed; estimates disputed), Soviet military prisoners of war and civilians on occupied territories including Russians and other East Slavs, the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists and political dissidents, trade unionists, Freemasons, and 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.[3]
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Nazis believed that the Aryan race was superior to all other races.  This meant removing the lesser races from German society and also expanding territory for the Aryan poeples to enjoy.  'Liebensraum' is the concept of 'living space' for the Aryan people.  \n\nIts hard to believe just how nasty it was but the atrocities of WW2 were all carefully planned and foretold in the book 'Mein Kempf'.
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Hitler believed in Aryan supremacy...not white supremacy...most of the Jews he gassed were white folks. As to why, it was a nationalism thing. Germans felt that the world had wronged them with the treaty of Versailles after world war one. It was a time when charismatic people with high ideals could persuade the masses to follow them almost blindly, and the superiority of the Aryan race was a centerpiece of Hitler's German Nationalism. Heinrich Himmler was the one who engineered "the final solution".
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Hitler was crazy and I bet he didn't even know he was partially Jewish. He needed the support of Germany, so he needed to blame a weak part of the population. He chose Jews because they were not Christian, which the majority of Germans were. They did not fit the regualar German "LOOK" and he felt there was room for discrimination. I am not saying the Jews are weak, and it was a bad move on Adolf Hitler's part. Later during the Liberation, they had to evecuate dozens of overcrowded camps and try to kill everyone without klling the soilders they would need later. Hitler had taken it too far and evacuation was a nusiance. He did it because of various diseases inside him, and because he was a wrongly prejudiced man. He was also against those in wheelchairs, African Americans, homosexuals, bisexuals, gypsies, and partially woman  and other minorities in his point of view.
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At least get your facts straight when you spout your racist nonsense, otherwise you just sound like an idiot.  Jews are 2.2% of the population according to the 2000 census.\n\nhttp://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/tables/06s0071.xls