what happened to healthy and unhealthy Jews during the Holocaust?
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The unhealthy were generally gassed immediately & the healthy were used as slave labo or for medical experiments.
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Their bodies were literally unable to process the calories.  The human body is remarkable in its ability to adapt.  We are designed to shut down systematically, sacrificing the non-essential parts to save the essential ones.  First we live off the fat, then the muscle, then the organs that are nonessential.  At the same time the body begins to shut down non-essential functions to conserve energy.  Concentration victims were not starved in one sudden shot - they were systematically starved over many months and years.  Over time, their bodies become extremely efficient at performing only the most vital bodily functions on a minimum of calories.\n\nUnfortunately, when they were rescued and fed, a massive amount of calories, fat, protein, etc were put into their system at once.  For bodies that had been conditioned to exist on the barest minimum, it was too much.  Systems couldn't simply restart, and the sudden intake of so many calories literally sent the body into shock, much like freezing or a sudden trauma.  That type of shock would be completely survivable by a normal body, in much the same way a roller coaster ride is survived and enjoyed.  But for their abused bodies, it was too much.  There were reports of people scarfing down bowls of potato and pork-fat soup ravenously, only to die from shock, a smile still on their face.\n\nVery, very sad.\n.
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This question has been run into the ground.  The Holocaust of the 1930'and 40's was a factual occurrence in the history of man.  There are to many living witnesses, physical evidence,and documentation to think otherwise.  It does not matter how many times this question is asked, it is not going to make the facts change to meet your needs.
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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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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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Okay... most of the above answers are WRONG.\n\nYour question is WRONG.\n\nFirst, it's not "chosen"... \n\nSecond, it wasn't JUST THE JEWS.\n\nI am getting so tired of explaining this, but I guess I have to...\n\n"Another consequence of Hitler's ruthless dictatorship in the 1930s was the arrest of political opponents and trade unionists and others the Nazis labeled "undesirables" and "enemies of the state." While Jews were the primary target, Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, the handicapped & political dissidents were also trapped in the deadly grip of Nazi ideology.”1 Responses. German public reactions & reactions of the churches to the Nazi persecutions."\n\n"It was the explicit aim of Hitler's regime to create a European world both dominated and populated by the "Aryan" race. The Nazi machinery was dedicated to eradicating millions of people it deemed undesirable. Some people were undesirable by Nazi standards because of who they were, their genetic or cultural origins or health conditions. These included Jews, Gypsies, Poles & other Slavs, & people with physical or mental disabilities. Others were Nazi victims because of what they did. These victims of the Nazi regime were Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, the dissenting clergy, Communists, Socialists, asocials, & other political enemies."\n\n"The Nazis also persecuted authors and artists whose works they considered subversive or who were Jewish. \n\n“The remnants of the Communist and Socialist parties and members of the trade unions resisted the Nazi regime. Among the earliest victims of Nazi discrimination in Germany were political opponents--primarily Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, and trade unionists. In 1933, the Nazis established the first concentration camp, Dachau, as a detention center for political prisoners. Especially in the early years of the Third Reich, political prisoners were a significant portion of the concentration camp inmates. At the end of July 1933, about 27,000 political prisoners were being held in concentration camps in "protective custody." During its twelve year existence, Dachau was always a camp for political prisoners. \n\nIn 1935, the Nazis intensify the persecution of political dissidents and others considered “racially inferior” including “Gypsies,” Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals. Many are sent to concentration camps."
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Try the US Holocaust museum website, they might have some info for you.
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my grandfather survived the holocaust and i very sure that he isnt lying about it, i can see the number in his arm. \n\nTHE HOLOCAUST   \n\n   \n\nThe Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were "life unworthy of life." During the era of the Holocaust, the Nazis also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the handicapped, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.\n\nIn 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that the Third Reich would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, close to two out of every three European Jews had been killed as part of the "Final Solution", the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Although Jews were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included tens of thousands of Roma (Gypsies). At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled people were murdered in the Euthanasia Program. As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Nazis persecuted and murdered millions of other people. More than three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment. The Germans targeted the non-Jewish Polish intelligentsia for killing, and deported millions of Polish and Soviet citizens for forced labor in Germany or in occupied Poland. From the earliest years of the Nazi regime, homosexuals and others deemed to be behaving in a socially unacceptable way were persecuted. Thousands of political dissidents (including Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists) and religious dissidents (such as Jehovah's Witnesses) were also targeted. Many of these individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment.\n  \n\n   \n \nThe Holocaust\nSee maps\n\nBefore beginning the war in 1939, the Nazis established concentration camps to imprison Jews, Roma, other victims of ethnic and racial hatred, and political opponents of Nazism. During the war years, the Nazis and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) carried out mass-murder operations against Jews, Roma, and Soviet state and Communist party officials. More than a million Jewish men, women, and children were murdered by these units. Between 1942 and 1944, Nazi Germany deported millions more Jews from the occupied territories to extermination camps, where they murdered them in specially developed killing facilities.\n\nIn the final months of the war, SS guards forced camp inmates on death marches in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners. As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives on Germany, they began to encounter and liberate concentration camp prisoners, many of whom had survived the death marches. World War II ended in Europe with the unconditional surrender of German armed forces in the west on May 7 and in the east on May 9, 1945.
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Holocaust (hŏl'əkôst', hō'lə–) , name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany. Although anti-Semitism in Europe has a long history, persecution of German Jews began with Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Jews were disenfranchised, then terrorized in anti-Jewish riots (such as Kristallnacht), forced into the ghettos, their property seized, and finally were sent to concentration camps. After the outbreak of World War II, Hitler established death camps to secretly implement what he called “the final solution of the Jewish question.” Extermination squads were also sent to the fronts: In one operation alone, over 30,000 Jews were killed at Babi Yar, outside Kiev. After 450,000 Jews were sent to death camps from the Warsaw Ghetto, news of their fate led the last 60,000 to rebel (1943), fighting until they were killed, captured, or escaped to join the resistance. The main Jewish resistance was spiritual: observing their religion and refraining from suicide, while Zionists evacuated some to Palestine. By the end of the war 6 million Jews had been systematically murdered. The Allies refused rescue attempts and American Jews were warned against attempting them. While the European churches were silent, some clergy and individual non-Jews saved many. The Danes sent most Danish Jews to Sweden in private boats while under German occupation.\nAfter the war Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes at Nuremburg, and West Germany later adopted (1953) the Federal Compensation Law, under which billions of dollars were paid to those who survived Nazi persecution. In the mid-1990s a number of suits were filed against Swiss banks that held accounts belonging to Holocaust victims but had denied the fact and failed to restore the money. A settlement reached in 1998 established a $1.25 billion fund to be used to compensate those who can document their claims and, more generally, Holocaust survivors, the latter as restitution for undocumented accounts and for Swiss profits on Nazi accounts involving Holocaust victims' property. In 1998 the Roman Catholic Church issued a document acknowledging Catholic complicity in the long-standing European anti-Semitism that was background to the Holocaust. Under the terms of an agreement signed in 2000 by the United States and Germany, a $5 billion fund was established by the German government and German industry to compensate those who were slave or forced laborers or who suffered a variety of other losses under the Nazi regime.\n\nThe destruction of European Jewry has demanded a reevaluation by Jews the world over. The renascent Jewish community in the state of Israel, itself largely a byproduct of the Holocaust, now serves as a focal point for much of this energy. A vast literature consisting of histories, diaries, memoirs, poetry, novels, and prayers has emerged in an effort to understand the Holocaust in terms of its religious and secular implications. The secular materials attempt to explain how it happened and the reactions of the victims; some have suggested that an underlying and pervasive anti-Semitism in Germany was fueled by a deep and complete despair combined with a corrosive and unacknowleged sense of worthlessness that had been created by crushing and humiliating hardships and the disintegration of the Weimar Republic. The religious materials focus on the problem of whether one can still speak in traditional Jewish terms of a God, active in history, who rewards the righteous and who maintains a unique relationship with the Jewish people. Museums and memorials have been established in a number of cities worldwide to preserve the memory of the Holocaust.\n\nsome sites to check out are - \nwww.ushmm.org/wlc/en\nwww.holocaust-history.org\nholocaust.about.com\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust
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One of the unintended side effects was the rise of feminism.\n\nPrior to WWII the men worked and the women stayed home and took care of the family. During the war the work force suddenly became 80+% female while the men were off saving the world from communism.  When the men returned home from the war, "Rosie the riveter" soon found out that she was no longer content cooking, cleaning, and taking care of her man and his kids. \n\nAs a side note, I've got to hand it to the women of WWII. I recently spent the night aboard the USS Lexington as a part of a boy scout outing. This particular ship was known as the "gray ghost" because it was reported as sunk on 5 different occasions but managed to survive (a well constructed ship!). Further, when it was commissioned shortly after Perl Harbor the construction schedule was slated for 4 years. She was completed in two. Both of these outstanding items are attributed to the fact that 80% the construction crew were, in fact, women! \n\nYou go girls!
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Whether the Holocaust really happened or not only matters for Israel, and Germany, cause Israel benefits from that claim, and i think that Germany is still compensating for Israel..\nBut what matters for all of us, is the possibility of such a terrible thing to happen to any one, or any group.\nA lots of terrible things like the Holocaust are happening in the world right now.. Like the hunger in some african countries, the diseases, and lots more.\nSome estimate that 100,000 people have been killed in Iraq. Isn't that a Holocaust?\nI hope we work to prevent Holocausts, rather than argue about an ugly part of our human history..
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Have you not had any history lessons yet?  The Holocaust is the name applied to the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews and other minority groups of Europe and North Africa during World War II by Nazi Germany and its collaborators[1]. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom of the 8th and 9th November 1938 and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, leading 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 Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.\n(There is more info about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust\n\nAlso read the book "Diary of Anne Frank".  See if you can find a copy of the tv miniseries "Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance".  They were made from books written by Herman Wouk and had actual footage from the concentration camps, etc.\n\n\nTry these sites for movies about the holocaust:\nhttp://www.thirdreich.net/Holocaust_Movies.html\nhttp://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/MOVIES.htm\nhttp://www.teachwithmovies.org/guides/schindlers-list.html
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He was in the Treblinka death camp.  I assume he was thrown into a furnace.  Towards the end, the Nazi's didn't even bother gassing children.  The Nazi's were inhumane and  horrible.  David's diary would be worth reading.
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Catholics, Gypsies, homosexuals, people with disabilities, all were sent to the concentration camp along with Jews.  It's just that there were more Jews murdered than any other group.  \n\nHere's a great link that includes information about the WWII Concentration camps and all their victims.  Scroll way down to Germany.   http://www.tartanplace.com/tartanhistory/concentrationcamps.html
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Most of the Poles where just as cruel as the Nazis themselves. Some of them actually joined the Nazis. Others reported the Jews to the Nazis to be killed, told out their hiding places, watched thousands of children die of starvation daily and did nothing. Treatment? Obviously not too nice. \n\nThere were some exceptions of some righteous people who went out of their way to help some Jews. Some hid Jews in their homes, gave them food...Although there werent to many of those.\n\nEven after the Holocaust they were filled with hatred to the few Jews who survived. They moved into their homes and stole all their belongings. There are stories of Jews who survived 5 torturous years in concentration camps only to be killed after the war by their fellow Poles - many of them who used to be their friends and neighbors. Then some people complain why we associate the Holocaust with Jews when so many others like Poles died. As you see, I have absolutely no pity for the Poles. They were wicked people and had no problem killing other innocent people. \n\nEven today, when my grandmother returns to Poland, every 5 years, to vistit the remains of her family (about 25 people = 10 immediate family members + nieces, nepehws sister and brother in laws. This does not include all her cousins, aunts and uncles who were killed) She walks on the street and the Poles curse her out in Polish "Hitler should have finished you off". Unknown to them she knows a perfect Polish and understands all they say. May they rot in Hell!!
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What was the reality about it???? Are you serious?!?! Millions upon millions of jews were systematically murdered by the Nazis- 6 million!!! Can you even fathom how many people that is? Many families were forced from their homes into ghettos where living conditions were grutesque and disgusting. Many families were torn apart, and children saw their parents for the last time as they marched off toward the crematoriums. Groups of Jews were taken to a desolate field, forced to dig a large hole, then were lined up in rows of 5- to then be shot by machine guns to fall into the grave that they dug for themselves!! Many times groups of 100 or more would be shot in this way. The people who were in the second row had to pick up the bodies of the people shot before them and push them into the hole, before they were then shot on the spot. So many Jews were humiliated and made to clean the streets with toothbrushes, or even sweep the streets with their hands after a storm. I hope that you don't deny the holocaust. Everything that happened was very real. I hope you take the time to research the holocaust and to read about some of the atrocities that have taken place from 1939-1945. (Some of these terrible things happened even before the war took place- and a lot of the discrimination was starting in Russia before the war "officially" began.)
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It was the killing of people of Jewish decent by people of Christian decent.  People who were Jewish were killed if they did or did not subscribe to a particular relgious tradition, and most of the people who did participate in the Holocaust were Christian.  I am not saying that there were not heros of all religions at the time- but there were Christian who did kill.  \n\nThat said- Christianity does have a lot of blood on it's hands, as do many religions.  Crusades, Witch Burnings, and Genicides.  They are even happening today... a religion doesn't protect it's followers from turning evil.