The holocaust
The 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 an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.
During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities not only targeted the Jews, but other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Gypsies, the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.
During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities not only targeted the Jews, but other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Gypsies, the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.
WHAT WAS THE HOLOCAUST?
In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would soon occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, Germany and their collaborators had nearly killed two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Though Jews, who the Nazi deemed a priority danger to Germany, were the prime victims of the Nazi racism, other people fell victim to the Nazi racism. The victims included 200,000 Roma (Gypsies), at least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, majorly German, living in institutional setting, were murdered in the so-called Euthanasia Program.
As the Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Nazis and their collaborators continued to persecute and murder millions of other people. Between two and three million soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died o starvation, disease, that were neglected or maltreated. The Germans targeted the non- Jewish Polish intelligentsia for killing and deported millions of polish and soviet civilians to forced labor in Germany or in occupied Poland, where they worked and often died under deplorable conditions. In the early years of the Nazi regime, German authorities persecuted homosexuals and others whose behavior didn't match prescribed social norms. German officers targeted thousands of political dissidents (such as Jehovah's Witnesses.) Many of the individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment.
ADMINISTRATION OF THE "FINAL SOLUTION"
During the early years of the Nazi regime, the National Socialist government established concentration camps to detain real and imagined political and ideological opponents. The years before the outbreak of war, SS and police officials incarcerated Jews, Roma, and other victims of ethnic and racial hatred in racial hatred I'm these camps. In able for the Nazi to concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced labor camps for the Jews and other hated races. The Nazi authorities also established many forced-labor camps, both in the so-called Greater German Reich and in German-occupied territory, for non- Jews whose labor the Germans sought to exploit.
Following after the incursion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) and, later, militarized battalions of Order Police officials, moved behind German lines to carry out mass-murder operations against Jews, Roma, and Soviet state and Communist Party officials. German SS and police units, fortified by units of the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS, murdered more than a million Jewish men, women, and children, and hundreds of thousands of others. Between 1941 and 1944, Nazi German ascendant entities deported millions of Jews from Germany, from occupied regions, and from the countries of many of its Axis allies to ghettos and to killing centers, often called extirpation camps, where they were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities.
THE END OF THE HOLOCAUST
In the final months of the war, SS sentinels moved camp captives by train or on coerced marches, often called “death marches,” in an endeavor to obviate the Allied liberation of immensely colossal numbers of prisoners. As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of onslaughts against Germany, they commenced to encounter and liberate concentration camp prisoners, as well as prisoners en route by coerced march from one camp to another. The marches perpetuated until May 7, 1945, the day the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. For the western Allies, World War II officially ended in Europe on the next day, May 8 (V-E Day), while Soviet forces promulgated their “Victory Day” on May 9, 1945.
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, many of the survivors found shelter in displaced persons (DP) camps administered by the Allied potencies. Virtually 700,00 Jews emigrates to the Israel, including 136,000 Jewish displaced persons from Euope between 1948 and 1951. Other Jewish DPs emigrated to the United States and other nations. The last DP camp closed in 1957. The malefactions committed during the Holocaust traumatized most European Jewish people and annihilated hundreds of Jewish communities in occupied eastern Europe entirely
In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would soon occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, Germany and their collaborators had nearly killed two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Though Jews, who the Nazi deemed a priority danger to Germany, were the prime victims of the Nazi racism, other people fell victim to the Nazi racism. The victims included 200,000 Roma (Gypsies), at least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, majorly German, living in institutional setting, were murdered in the so-called Euthanasia Program.
As the Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Nazis and their collaborators continued to persecute and murder millions of other people. Between two and three million soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died o starvation, disease, that were neglected or maltreated. The Germans targeted the non- Jewish Polish intelligentsia for killing and deported millions of polish and soviet civilians to forced labor in Germany or in occupied Poland, where they worked and often died under deplorable conditions. In the early years of the Nazi regime, German authorities persecuted homosexuals and others whose behavior didn't match prescribed social norms. German officers targeted thousands of political dissidents (such as Jehovah's Witnesses.) Many of the individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment.
ADMINISTRATION OF THE "FINAL SOLUTION"
During the early years of the Nazi regime, the National Socialist government established concentration camps to detain real and imagined political and ideological opponents. The years before the outbreak of war, SS and police officials incarcerated Jews, Roma, and other victims of ethnic and racial hatred in racial hatred I'm these camps. In able for the Nazi to concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced labor camps for the Jews and other hated races. The Nazi authorities also established many forced-labor camps, both in the so-called Greater German Reich and in German-occupied territory, for non- Jews whose labor the Germans sought to exploit.
Following after the incursion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) and, later, militarized battalions of Order Police officials, moved behind German lines to carry out mass-murder operations against Jews, Roma, and Soviet state and Communist Party officials. German SS and police units, fortified by units of the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS, murdered more than a million Jewish men, women, and children, and hundreds of thousands of others. Between 1941 and 1944, Nazi German ascendant entities deported millions of Jews from Germany, from occupied regions, and from the countries of many of its Axis allies to ghettos and to killing centers, often called extirpation camps, where they were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities.
THE END OF THE HOLOCAUST
In the final months of the war, SS sentinels moved camp captives by train or on coerced marches, often called “death marches,” in an endeavor to obviate the Allied liberation of immensely colossal numbers of prisoners. As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of onslaughts against Germany, they commenced to encounter and liberate concentration camp prisoners, as well as prisoners en route by coerced march from one camp to another. The marches perpetuated until May 7, 1945, the day the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. For the western Allies, World War II officially ended in Europe on the next day, May 8 (V-E Day), while Soviet forces promulgated their “Victory Day” on May 9, 1945.
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, many of the survivors found shelter in displaced persons (DP) camps administered by the Allied potencies. Virtually 700,00 Jews emigrates to the Israel, including 136,000 Jewish displaced persons from Euope between 1948 and 1951. Other Jewish DPs emigrated to the United States and other nations. The last DP camp closed in 1957. The malefactions committed during the Holocaust traumatized most European Jewish people and annihilated hundreds of Jewish communities in occupied eastern Europe entirely