Actually, some things were and were not known about the Holocaust. The basic thing known was all Jews, some European P.O.W.s, and anyone that defies the Gestapo that they catch, the Nazi government first sends to ghettos. Ghettos were overcrowded, slums, very few business if any and a place no one wants to live in! They were then commonly sent by train to a bit more secret of a camp, the concentration camp. But the true horrors of starvation, disease, and the treatment of prisoners was far unknown until the lucky few escape or were let go...if you watch the movie "Schindler's List", you will get a good idea of the Holocaust and how well it was known. ___ The official line at the time was that the German Jews were being "resettled in Eastern Europe". Many ordinary Germans had some vague idea of what was going on and didn't want to know more. They were in good company: the Allies didn't really want to know, either.
Yes, but being Jewish in the Holocaust was not judged by one's self, it was determined by the Nazis.
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there are many thousand of them
From January 1944 on they were sent to camps.
The Holocaust refers to the highly mechanized and organized murder of primarily the Jewish people of German-occupied Europe during World War II. Although Jews were the main focus of the Holocaust, the Nazis also sent the following groups of people to their deaths at concentration camps and death camps: * Jews * Socialists * Jehova's Witnesses * Opponents ofNazi regime * Homosexuals - among other people. ___ The Holocaust wasn't about religion, it was about race and politics.
German Jews, non-German Jews and people who weren't actually Jewish but were considered Jewish by the Germans.
holocaust
Primarily the German Nazis.
Jewish people were treated horribly during the holocaust
Jewish people
I'm sure that (A) Jewish People fought back at some point during the holocaust, and (B) there were Jewish troops fighting for the allies.
Yes, but being Jewish in the Holocaust was not judged by one's self, it was determined by the Nazis.
In the late 1930s and the 1940s, the German SS soldiers killed millions of Jewish people in the holocaust camps.
The Jewish people had absolutely no rights during the Holocaust.
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to liberate people of the Jewish faith
it was one of the principles of Nazism.