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-7 million people died

-Maria Mandel - one of the most evil women to ever live. She was in charge of the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Prisoners called her "The Beast" for her cruel ways. She would wait at the gates and any prisoner that looked at her would be killed. She enjoyed having "Pet Jews" and when she got tired of them, she'd send them off to their deaths. Disgustingly enough, Maria Mandel also enjoyed selecting children to be killed.

-Some ask why the Jews didn't flee. Some tried. The SS St. Louis sailed from Germany to Cuba with a thousand refugees on 13 May 1939 but were denied entry and had to return to Europe.

-Some who found refuge in France and Belgium ended up in the Concentration Camps.

-The worst POW camp in Germany held American Jewish Troops who mined coal for the duration. It was Stalag IX-B at Berga.

-The term Holocaust was first used in 1944.

-The great composer, Richard Wagner is credited with the terms "Jewish Problem" and "Final Solution".

-All females or any gender with long hair, had it cut-off and used for boots or shoes/socks for some people. Plus, they put people in a line and all the un-able people or people who couldn't do much work were put in one line (mostly children and elders), and the people who could work were put in another. The line with the non-workers were sent to the gas room to get gassed. The others were put to work. Most would rather be put to death. (they only did this in some of the camps)

-The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by the Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945.

-In 1933 approximately nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that would be occupied by Germany during World War II.

-By 1945 two out of every three European Jews had been killed.

-Jews were the primary victims -- six million were murdered; Roma (Gypsies), the handicapped and Poles were also targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic or national reasons. Millions more, including Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents, homosexuals and Jehovah's Witnesses suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny.

-The Nazis believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that there was a struggle for survival between them and "inferior races."

-Jews, Roma (Gypsies) and the handicapped were seen as a serious biological threat to the purity of the "German (Aryan) Race" and therefore had to be "exterminated."

-The Nazis blamed the Jews for Germany's defeat in World War I, for its economic problems and for the spread of Communist parties throughout Europe.

-Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians and others) were also consi dered "inferior" and destined to serve as slave labor for their German masters. Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals and Free Masons were persecuted, imprisoned and often killed on political and behavioral (rather than racial) grounds .

-Sometimes the distinction was not very clear. Millions of Soviet Prisoners of War perished from starvation, disease and forced labor or were killed for racial political reasons.

-The United States and Great Britain as well as other nations outside Nazi Europe received numerous press reports in the 1930s about the persecution of Jews.

-By 1942 the governments of the United States and Great Britain had confirmed reports about "the Final Solution" -- Germany's intent to kill all the Jews of the Europe.

-influenced by antisemitism and fear of a massive influx of refugees, neither country modified their refugee policies.

-Their stated intention to defeat Germany militarily took precedence over rescue efforts, and therefore no specific attempts to stop or slow the genocide were made until mounting pressure eventually forced the United States to undertake limited rescue efforts in 1944.

-In Europe, rampant antisemitism incited citizens of many German occupied countries to collaborate with the Nazis in their genocidal policies.

-There were, however, individuals and groups in every occupied nation who, at great personal risk, helped hide th ose targeted by the Nazis.

-One nation, Denmark, saved most of its Jews in a nighttime rescue operation in 1943 in which Jews were ferried in fishing boats to safety in neutral Sweden.

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20 things that you can say about the Holocaust are:

1) The Holocaust took place under Hitler's leadership.

2) About six million people died in the Holocaust.

3) Two types of gas chamber were developed independently of each other.

4) As it was so large no single person can be said to have planned it.

5) The main architects were Himmler and Heydrich.

6) The Germans would get foreign volunteers and the victims to assist.

7) The Germans would rely on local forces to round up the victims for deportation.

8) Only one (involved) country did not lose anyone to the Holocaust.

9) A year into the Holocaust bodies of the victims were exhumed and cremated, after that all bodies were cremated.

10) The Allies knew what was happening within a year.

11) The Allies did nothing about it (there was not really anything that they could do).

12) There was no formal order for the Holocaust to start and very few written orders existed.

13) Most of the Murders took place in Poland.

14) The Gypsies suffered a very similar genocide at the same time.

15) The names of about 75% of the victims are known.

16) Many people wrote of what they experienced and buried their testimony underground.

17) At liberation the Allies did not know what to do with the survivors as no one had seen people so ill treated before.

18) There was an Exodus of survivors to Palestine after the war.

19) The second most popular destination for survivors was the States.

20) The Holocaust is used and abused by people and nations alike trying to promote their own agenda.

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* Jehovah's Witnesses were placed in many of the prison camps in Germany before the Jews were imprisoned, because they refused to take up arms against another human being. * Jehovah's Witnesses were the most trusted of the prisoners, because the Commandants knew that they would not try to escape, or steal, or attack any of the guards. * Many of Jehovah's Witnesses that were imprisoned could have been released and sent home if they would simply sign a typed statement saying that they 'renounce Jehovah as God' and would 'inform on and turn in' their fellow Witnesses on the outside. This statement also said that Hitler was their 'salvation' (The 'Heil Hitler' greeting means, 'Salvation belongs to Hitler'), and that they would give their lives for the 'Furhrer' (Leader). Many were executed because they would not sign.

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The Holocaust occurred at the time of World War 2.

Though Holocaust mainly targeted Jews, other groups were targeted as well.

Millions of Jews were killed in the Holocaust.

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http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/holocaustfacts.htm

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I don't have any questions, I answer them. :D

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