What can anyone tell me about politics during the Holocaust?
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The Germans hated the Jews and used every political forum to show themselves for the jealous, poor, angry fools they were because Jews are smarter than them, and knew how to make money, when they couldn't. It's a shame Im 1/2 German, yet I can tell the truth, where a lot of Germans wont.
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Go here, it might help.\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html
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The Holocaust (as opposed to lower-case "holocaust") is the systematic murder of 6 million Jews and approximately the same number of non-Jews by Nazi Germany led by Adolph Hitler.  Yes, it happened.  There are still survivors alive today who were there, as well as Americans, British, etc. who were involved in the liberation of the death camps who also witnessed the devastation.\n\nThe main deniers today are Moslems, as well as organized racist groups in Western countries (such as the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan in the US).
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What do you want to know? There is loads! Firstly, the Nazi party was formally the German Workers Party and the leader was Anton Drexler, Hitler took over in 1921. Nazi is short for NASDAP- it is short for National Socialist German Workers Party. There is so much information on the Nazis but I think that the best website is spartacus.schoolnet.com (something like that - google spartacus and it comes up). I am a History teacher and we study the Nazis so ask me any more specific Qs if you like.
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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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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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It was always obnoxious.  The US wouldn't have nearly the international political problems today if it hadn't been for Israel.  It started with supporting Israelis that were throwing grenades in to family homes in order to evict the Palestinians.  For what happened to them in Germany, it seems the future Israelis learned a lot about oppressing other people, herding them off to concentration camps, etc.\n\nI don't recall any information about how the original Israelis were oppressed by the Palestinians of the 1940's or the earlier century.  Was there any?  It seems like it was about the equivalent of anyone trying to get revenge on Mongolia... what's the point?  You're only a few hundred years too late...  Are these even the same people?\n\nOf course, now that we have decades of hate between them, there is plenty of atrocity to go around now, but I find it interesting that Israel plays off their aggression with cries of "holocaust" - particularly when that's what they have done to the Palestinian's - and would do if creating death camps were not frowned upon by the international community.\n\nEven so, a great recipie for eternal religious hatred:\n\n* Take one religion convinced that they are the "chosen" of God and are only special by lineage.\n\n* Take one religion whose faith is open to all, but has over the centuries taken a "convert or die" attitude as well as a strong emphasis on "an eye for an eye."\n\n* Mix together in an environment with some resource sarcity.\n\n* Watch the wars bloom.\n\nGod has an interesting sense of humor.\n\nAs for the specialness of Israel, I believe we could baste the whole country with neutron bombs and the rest of the world would be no worse for wear, just as the US could be wiped and the rest of the world would find some way to go on.  It's the vomitous pompus stupidity that keeps the problems kindling and I have NO respect for such insolence, just as I have no respect for people that kill innocents.\n\nMy guess is that the US keeps funding Israel in order to keep jews fighting muslims to destabilize the region.
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The holocaust itself started with the "Rassengesetze" /race law) in 1935. 3 years later at the "Reichskristallnacht" they started to put unwanted people into "Arbeitslager" (Concentration camps).\none of the first Concentration camps to be liberated was the one in S'Hertogenbosch (den Bosch9 in the Netherlands in September 1944. From that time to the end of WW II more and more of these camps were liberated in due course.\nThere were 23 Main Camps all over Europe with appr. four times as much dependent camps associated to these.\nThe last ones were Bergen Belsen in todays lower saxony in March 1945 and Dachau in Bavaria.\n\nThe best known camps are Auschwitz (today Poland), Dachau and bergen Belsen, as in these places great part of the murders of Jews took place (in these three camps more then a third  of the murders were done).\n\nSo you can't say when the liberation finally took place, but it ended with the Capitulation of the Nazi regime.
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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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go to\nhttp://www.politicalgraveyard.com\n\nthere is information there about that particular election.
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There are volumes of photos taken by the alied forces as they were liberating the camps. There are also many written accounts from eyewitnesses, both internees and liberators.\n\nThere are the camps, or what is left of them.\n\nThere are internal German State Department (and SS) memos (many now in the Yale library) that mentin movement of Jews and others.\n\nIn 1920 the German Eugenics Society published an article titled: "The Permission to Destroy Life Unworthy of Life".  Written by Karl Binding, A court judge, and Alfred Hoche, a psychiatrist.\nAs for pictures, see below link to Google image search.
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"Night" by Elie Weisel, is an autobiographical holocaust novel. I'd rather not give away the storyline, but it runneth over with themes and ideas. Death, faith, memories and the past... \n\nAs far as effects are concerned, I'd say the book gave an increased awareness of the events during the holocaust. It adds a very emotional aspect to something many people have only read about in history books. \n\nBelow are some study guides for this book, in case they can guide your research.
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Try the US Holocaust museum website, they might have some info for you.
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I just read a book called "The Blood of Abraham" by Jimmy Carter. It has insight into the problem and possible solutions. There are chapters regarding the other nations involved views: Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Jordon, Syria, Libya, USA, etc...Politics usually bore me but I found the book interesting and informative.\nYou can get it at the library.
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http://www.jewfaq.org/toc.htm
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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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check out\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust\nit might help...