0
Did the prisoners in concentration camps during the Holocaust starve to death because the allies cut off food supply to Germany?
Wiki User
∙ 15y ago
No. Though there were food shortages there was no famine in Germany. The policy of working certain categories to death on insufficient food had been Nazi policy since early 1942. In the very final stages of the war, the decision made by the SS to try to move prisoners to camps deeper inside Germany caused chaos and increased the spread of Infectious Diseases, as for example at Bergen-Belsen. The chaos also caused worsened the situation regarding food. The food shortages in Germany in the war were not extreme, till perhaps the very end. In the immediate postwarperiod food became scarcer in Germany because: # The 1945 harvest was poor. # Vast numbers of Germans had fled westwards to avoid the Soviet Army and others were expelled. These explusions continued till 1948-49. # Fighting on German soil in 1945 did immense damage to the rail and road networks. There were serious problems moving essential goods.
Wiki User
∙ 15y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
Why did the Holocaust end?
The Holocaust ended in 1944 and 1945, when the Allies began began to liberate the concentration camps. Another big event that ended The Holocaust was the suicide death of Adolf Hitler. After his death many Nazis retreated and went into hiding for fear of the Allies. ___ The Holocaust ended because the American, British, Soviet, and other Allied armies drove into Germany, liberated the concentration camps, and forced Germany to surrender unconditionally. The Allies won the war. Humanity was saved.
Why was the Nazis involved in the concentration camp buchenwald?
The Nazis were involved in the concentration camp Buchenwald because it was a camp for political prisoners.
How does prejudice relate to the Holocaust?
Prejudice affected Jews during the Holocaust because even before the Holocaust it was all around the and during the Holocaust because the Nazi's and the SS enforced it heavily. Non-Jews were affected by it because it made them look at it with a whole new perspective.
Was kristallnact the beginning of the Holocaust?
Yes. Kristallnacht took place on 9-10 November 1938. It was so called because of the breaking of shop windows owned by Jews in Germany. Many Jews were beaten up and about 30,000 sent to concentration camps. (Of these, 2,000 were dead by Christmas, 1938). There was a stampede to leave Germany. Most Holocaust historians date the start of the Holocaust from mid 1941 when death squads started to murder large numbers of Jews in mass open air shootings behind the lines on the Russian Front. The Holocaust refers specifically to genocide. This is not to minimize the Kristallnacht, and many see as a prelude to the holocaust.
Why did the Holocaust happen in Germany?
It is an oft asked question, there was not (as some tried to suggest) a specifically German thing about the Holocaust. Germany, under the Nazis provided the breeding ground for many of the factors leading to the Holocaust, but it was only when the war came and the pressures of the eastern front that persecution turned to genocide. There were many genocides carried out in Europe at the time of the Holocaust, the one in Yugoslavia, more brutal that the Holocaust may have happened under the protection of Germany, but was not instgated by Germany. Many facets of the Holocaust were due to the problems created by underlying resentment from especially the last twenty years, but in some cases beyond. __________________________ Another view is that it was all because Hitler said so.
Did the Canadians know about the Holocaust in 1933?
No. Because the holocaust did not exist in 1933. Germany began imprisoning political prisoners and people they deemed "un-desireables". They didn't begin to exterminate them until after WW2 or after 1941. Even then, Germany tried to keep it a secret from other countries.
Did the prisoners in those concentration camps starve to death because the allies cut off the food supply to Germany?
No..... No..... The people who died in the concentration camps died because it was the intention of the Nazis that the people who were sent to the concentration camps were to die. They starved because those that imprisoned them did not feed them.
Why did two world wars start in Europe?
I think because of the Holocaust, most of the concentration camps were in Europe.
Does Germany hate the US?
Because of the Holocaust? No. Because if I did, that's what started the Holocaust in the first place.
What are the roots of the Holocaust how did it get so bad so quickly?
The holocaust roots were bad from the beginning, the Germans just didnt know it. Adolf Hitler got a position in Germany's congress and slowly started to incorperate his soldiers into their houses. Once he had their trust he had it figured out who the Jews were and he sent them to horrible concentration camps. He also took war prisoners, political prisoners, and anyone who tried to protest the holocaust or hide Jews. Hitler did this because he thought that the Jewish were a whole diffrent race and that they were the lowest form of life on the planet and Germans were the highest. Scince this is what he thought he decided Jews didn't have the right to live, and so became the holocaust.
Why were the Jewish dressed like prisoners during the Holocaust?
Because they were prisoners! Those that were able bodied were used for forced labor, the others were killed.
Why was Auschwitz the only concentration camp that tattooed its prisoners?
Because Auschwitz was the toughest concentration camp in the world at that moment.
Did England help Germany in the Holocaust?
No they did not. The reason why Hitler comitted suicide was because he would be held accountable for the holocaust & all the concentration camps. & he was going to be caught by allies, England, France, u.s, russia.. etc. So no, England did not help.
Why did the Holocaust end?
The Holocaust ended in 1944 and 1945, when the Allies began began to liberate the concentration camps. Another big event that ended The Holocaust was the suicide death of Adolf Hitler. After his death many Nazis retreated and went into hiding for fear of the Allies. ___ The Holocaust ended because the American, British, Soviet, and other Allied armies drove into Germany, liberated the concentration camps, and forced Germany to surrender unconditionally. The Allies won the war. Humanity was saved.
When was the first concentration camp established and who were the first prisoners?
The first concentration camp was Dachau, it was opened on march 22nd 1933. The first prisoners were communists, because they were blamed for the Reichstag fire, that Hitler and the Nazis had planned to make it seem as if it were the communists fault, and Hitler "saved" the Germans from their actions and he "stopped" the fire. So they were sent to dachu, political prisoners
Why was the Nazis involved in the concentration camp buchenwald?
The Nazis were involved in the concentration camp Buchenwald because it was a camp for political prisoners.
Why would most of the concentration camps used for labor be located in Germany?
They were ALL located in Germany during the Holocaust besides a few in the taken-over Poland. They were all there because Germany was killing the Jews and they can't put the concentration camps on other countries' land. Besides, they didn't want anyone to know about them killing the Jews. Basically, this is a common sense answer, but still I have studied WW2 for a long time.
