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What is the Holocaust?The Holocaust was thesystematic annihilation ofsix million Jews by theNazi regime during WorldWar 2. In 1!!a""roximately ninemillion Jews li#ed in the21 countries of $uro"ethat would be occu"ied by%ermany during the war.&y 1'( two out of e#erythree $uro"ean Jews hadbeen )illed. The $uro"eanJews were the "rimary

#ictims of the Holocaust.

&ut Jews were not theonly grou" singled out for"ersecution by Hitler*sNazi regime. +s many asone,half million %y"sies-at least 2(- mentallyor "hysically disabled"ersons- and more thanthree million /o#iet"risoners,of,war also fell

0uring World War2scar

/chindlercontinuallyris)ed his life to "rotectand sa#e his Jewishwor)ers. He s"ent e#ery"enny he had bribingand "aying off the Nazisto get food and bettertreatment for his Jews.Nobody was hit at hisfactory- nobodymurdered- nobody sentto death cam"s li)e thenearby +uschwitz.

scar /chindler earnedthe e#erlasting gratitudeof his /chindlerews. No

matter why- no matterthat he was an alcoholicand a womanisor of theworst sort , whatmatters to his Jews isthat he surfaced fromthe chaos of madnessand ris)ed e#erything forthem. +nd generationswill remember him forwhat he did. No matter

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#ictim to Nazi genocide.Jeho#ah*s Witnesses-homosexuals- /ocial0emocrats- 3ommunists-"artisans- trade unionists-4olish intelligentsia andother undesirableswere

also #ictims of the hateand aggression carriedout by the Nazis.

How many Jews weremurdered during theHolocaust?While it is im"ossible toascertain the exactnumber of Jewish #ictims-statistics indicate that thetotal was o#er (-5!-./ix million is the roundfigure acce"ted by mostauthorities.

What does FinalSolutionmean?The term FinalSolution60ie $ndlosung7refers to the %ermans*"lan to "hysicallyli8uidate all Jews in$uro"e. The term wasused atthe Wannsee3onferenceheld in &erlin on January2- 1'2- where %ermanofficials discussed itsim"lementation.

How many children

were murdered duringthe Holocaust?The number of children)illed during theHolocaust is notfathomable and fullstatistics for the tragicfate of children who diedwill ne#er be )nown./ome estimates range ashigh as 1.( millionmurdered children. Thisfigure includes more than1.2 million Jewishchildren- tens ofthousands of %y"sychildren and thousands of

institutionalizedhandica""ed children whowere murdered underNazi rule in %ermany andoccu"ied $uro"e.

Why did Hitler hate theJews?Holocaust ha""enedbecause Hitler and theNazis were racist. Theybelie#ed the %erman

how many businesses/chindler failed in- hewas a success in life ..

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"eo"le were a 9masterrace9- who were su"eriorto others. They e#encreated a league table of9races9 with the +ryans atthe to" and withJews- %y"sies and blac)

"eo"le at the bottom.These 9inferior9 "eo"lewere seen as a threat tothe "urity and strength ofthe %erman nation. Whenthe Nazis came to "owerthey "ersecuted these"eo"le- too) away theirhuman rights ande#entually decided thatthey should beexterminated.

How did the Naziscarry our their policyof genocide?

In the late 1!9s theNazis )illed thousands ofhandica""ed %ermans bylethal inection and"oisonous gas. +fter the%erman in#asion of the/o#iet :nion in June1'1- mobile )illing unitsfollowing in the wa)e ofthe %erman +rmy beganshooting massi#enumbers of Jews and%y"sies in o"en fields andra#ines on the outs)irts ofcon8uered cities andtowns.

$#entually the Naziscreated a more secludedand organized method of)illing. /ix exterminationcenters were establishedin occu"ied 4oland wherelarge,scale murder by gasand body dis"osalthrough cremation wereconducted systematically.;ictims were de"orted tothese centers fromWestern $uro"e and fromthe ghettos in $astern$uro"e which the Nazishad established. Inaddition- millions died in

the ghettos andconcentration cam"s as aresult of forced labor-star#ation- ex"osure-brutality- disease- andexecution.

When was the firstconcentration campestablished?0achau was the firstconcentration cam"

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established and waso"ened on y)lon,& began at+uschwitz- whereextermination wasconducted on anindustrial scale with someestimates running as highas three million "ersonse#entually )illed throughgassing- star#ation-disease- shooting- andburning.

!id the Jews resist?

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reduced- conditions werehorrible and the Jews didnot ha#e the strength-"hysically- emotionally- ormilitarily- to resist. Therewere u"risings in thecam"s- but it was

incredibly difficult andrarely successful.

$lie Wiesel "ut it thisway="The question is notwhy all the Jews did notfight, but how so many ofthem did. Tormented,beaten, starved, wheredid they find the strength- spiritual and physical -to resist" Thoseattem"ting to resist facedalmost im"ossible odds.

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War 3rimes and %enocide

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The Holocaust 3hronicle web site Holocaust %uide at about.com

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