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In Jan. - Quote from Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, publisher - Julius
Streicher - "... the time is near when a machine will go into
motion which is going to prepare a grave for the world's criminal
- Judah - from which there will be no resurrection."
Jan. 25 - Nazis choose Oswiecim (Auschwitz) for a new concentration
camp.
Feb.12 - first deportation of German Jews into Poland.
Apr. 9 - Nazis invade Norway with a Jewish pop. of 2,000 and Denmark
8,000.
Apr. 30 - Lodz Ghetto in Poland is sealed off with 230,000 Jews
locked inside.
May 1 - Rudolf Höss is made kommandant of Auschwitz.
May 10 - Nazis invade Belgium with a Jewish pop. of 65,000, Holland with a Jewish pop. of 140,000, Luxembourg with a Jewish pop. of 3,000, and France with a Jewish pop. of 350,000.
June 14 – Nazis occupy Paris.
June 22 – France signs armistice with Hitler.
In July – Eichmann presents Madagascar plan to deport all Jews to Madagascar.
July 17 – Vichy France takes the first anti-Jewish measures.
Aug. 8 – Romania introduces anti-Jewish measures restricting education and employment.
Sept. 27 – Germany, Italy, and Japan sign Tripartite (Axis) Pact.
Oct. 3 – Vichy France passes own version of Nuremberg Laws.
Oct. 7 – Romania invaded by Nazis: Romania’s Jewish pop. is 34,000.
Oct. 22 – 29,000 German Jews deported to Vichy France.
In Nov. – Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary become Nazi allies.
In Nov. – Krakow Ghetto formed and then sealed off with 70,000 Jews locked inside.
Nov. 15 – Warsaw Ghetto sealed off with 470,000 locked inside.
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1941
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In 1941 – Hans frank states, “I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear.”
In Jan. - quote from Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, publisher – Julius Streicher – “Now judgment has begun and it will reach its conclusion when knowledge of the Jews has been erased from the earth.”
In Jan. – 2,000 Jews killed in Romanian pogrom.
Feb. 22 – 430 Jewish hostages deported after Jews kill a Dutch Nazi.
In Mar. – Hitler’s Commissar Order authorizes execution of a suspected Communist.
Mar.1 – Himmler makes his first visit to Auschwitz and orders Höss to begin expansion
(Birkenau) that can house 100,000 prisoners.
Mar. 2 – Bulgaria occupied by Nazis; Bulgarian Jewish pop. 50,000.
Mar. 7 – Jews ordered into forced labor.
Mar. 26 – German Army High Command approves RSHA and Heydrich on SS mudersquad tasks.
Mar. 39 – ‘Commissariat’ for Jewish affairs formed in Vichy France.
Apr. 6 – Nazis invade Greece with a Jewish pop of 77,000 Jews and Yugoslavia with a Jewish pop of 75,000.
May 14 – 3,600 Jews are arrested in Paris.
May 16 – French Marshal Petain issues radiobroadcast approving along with Hitler.
June 22 – Soviet Union invaded by Nazis; Soviet Jewish pop. 8 million.
June 29/30 – Romanian troops conduct program against Jews in Jassy; 10,000 people are killed.
Summer – Hitler summons Höss and tells him, “The Fürer has ordered the Final Solution of the Jewish question. We, the SS, have to carry out this order … I have therefore chosen Auschwitz for this purpose.”
In July - SS Einstatzgruppen conduct mass murder of Jews in seized land, as German Army advances.
In July – Kovno, Minsk, Vitebsk, and Zhitomer Ghettos formed.
July 17 – Alfred Rosenberg appointed Reich Minister for Eastern Occupied Territories.
July 21 – Majdanek concentration camp becomes operational in Poland near
Lublin.
July 25/26 – during a pogrom by Lithuanians a Komo 3,800 Jews are killed.
July 31 – Heydrich is instructed by Göring to prepare for the Final Solution.
In Aug. – Romanian Jews forced to Transistaria. 70,000 die by Dec.
In Aug. – Bailstok and Lvov Ghettos established.
Aug 26 – 18,00 Jews rounded up at Kamenet-Podolsk by Hungarian Army.
Sept. 1 – German Jews forced to wear yellow stars.
Sept. 6 – A Ghetto at Vilna established with 40,00 Jews locked inside.
Sept. 17 – German Jews start getting deported.
Sept. 19 – Keivis taken by the Nazis.
Sept. 27/28 – 23’000 Jews are killed in Ukraine at Komenets-Dodolsk.
Sept. 29 – 33,771 Jews killed at Babi near Keiv by SS Einstatzgruppen.
In Oct. – 35,000 Odessan Jews are shot.
Oct. 2 – German Army begins to drive to Moscow.
Oct 23 – Jews from Reich forbidden emigration by Nazis.
In Nov. – A folly by SS Einstazhgruppe B says that 45,476 Jews killed.
Nov.24 – The Reisenstadt Ghetto established near Prague, Czechoslovakia, Nazis use it as model ghetto for propaganda proposes.
Nov. 30 – Mass shootings of Latvian and German Jews near Riga.
Dec. 7 – Pearl Harbor attacked by Japanese.
Dec. 8 – U.S. and Britain declare war against Japan. Chelmno deathcamp operational.
Dec. 11 – Hitler declares war on U.S. Roosevelt then declares war on Germany saying, “Never before has there been a greater challenge to life, liberty, and civilization.” 90% of the U.S. power will be used to stop Hitler.
Dec. 12 – “Sturma” leaves Romania for Palestine with 796 but is turned back by Britain.
Dec. 16 – Hans Frank, Gauleiter of Poland, states, “Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feelings of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and wherever it is possible in order to maintain there the structure of the Reich as a whole…”
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1942
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In Jan. – Auschwitz-Birkenau uses Zyklon-B to kill the Jews in mass numbers.
Jan.20 – Wannsee Conference meets to organize the “Final Solution.”
Jan. 31 – Tally by SS einstazgruppe reports 229,052 Jews killed.
In Feb. – “Sturma” tries again but is intercepted by a Soviet submarine and sunk as an ”enemy target.”
In Mar. – Belzec extermination camp operational..
Mar. 17 – Jews deported from Lublin to Belzec.
Mar. 24 – Slovak Jews deport to Auschwitz begins.
Mar. 27 – French Jews deport to Auschwitz begins.
Mar. 28 – Fritz Sauckel made Chief of Manpower for the expedition of slave labor.
Mar. 30 – Jews from Paris arrive at Auschwitz by train.
In Apr. – First transports of Jews arrive at Majdanek.
Apr. 20 – German Jews forbidden to use public transportation.
In May – The New York Times reports “Nazis machine-gunned over 100,000 in Baltic States, 100,000 in Poland, and twice as many in Western Russia.
May 27 – Heydrich mortally wounded by Underground Czech agents
In June – Riga uses gas vans
June 1 – Jews in Holland, Belgium, Romania, Slovakia, France and Croatia forced to wear yellow stars
June 4 – SS leader Heydrich dies of his wounds
June 5 – SS report: “97,000 persons have been ‘processed’ in mobile gas vans.
June 10 – Representatives from France, Belgium and Holland meet to coordinated deportation plans
June 30 – Bunker II (the white farmhouse) made operational at Birkenau for new Jews arriving
June 30 & July 2 – New York Times (via the London Telegram) reports: “1,000,000 Jews have already been killed by the Nazis.”
Summer – German industrialist gives Swiss representatives of World Jewish Congress word about Nazi plan to exterminate Jews. The pass the information on to London and Washington.
July 2 – Theresienstadt receives Jews from Berlin.
July 7 – Auschwitz receives permission from Himmler to perform sterilization experiments.
July 14 – Auschwitz begins receiving deported Dutch Jews.
July 16 – 12,887 Paris Jews rounded up and sent to Drancy Internment Camp. Approximately 74,000 Jews (11,000 children) will end up ant
Drancy, Majdanek, Sabinoor, and Auschwitz.
July 17 & 18 – Himmler visits Auschwitz-Birkenau for inspection. Kommandant Hess promoted.
July 19 – Himmler orders Operation Reinhard, mass deportation of Polish Jews
July 22 – deportations from Warsay ghetto to new Treblinka; Belgian Jews deported to Auschwitz.
July 23 – Treblinka extermination camp opened
In Aug. – Coatian Jews deported to Auschwitz
Aug. 23 – Germany attacks Stalingrad
Aug. 26 – 7,000 French Jews arrested
Sept. 9 – Aushwitz burns bodies in open pits instead of burial; 107,000 corpses dug up and burned to prevent pollution of groundwater
Sept. 18 – Food rations reduced for German Jews
Sept. 26 – SS “cashes in on possessions and valuables of Jews from Auschwitz and Majdanek
Oct. 5 – Himmler orders all Jews in German concentration camps to be sent to Majdanek and Auschwitz
Oct. 14 – Jews in Mizoez ghetto in Ukraine are killed in mass numbers
Oct. 22 – revolt at Sachsenhausen by Jews about to go to Auschwitz is stopped by SS
Oct. 25 – Jews from Norway are deported to Auschwitz
Oct. 28 – transport of Jews from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz
In Nov. – 170,000 Jews killed in and around Bailystok
In Dec. – Belzec extermination stopped after an estimated 600,000 Jews killed; Belzec dismantled
Dec. 10 – first transport of German Jews to Auschwitz
Dec. 17 – British House of Commons is told by Britain Foreign Secretary Eden: “The Nazis are now carrying into effect Hitler’s oft-repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people of Europe.”
Dec. 28 – Birkenau begins sterilization experiments on women.
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1943
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In 1943 – Jews killed by SS Einstatzgruppen exceed 1,000,000. Nazi slave laborers dig up and burn bodies to remove traces.
Jan. 18 – Jews in Warsaw ghetto resist being locked up.
Jan. 29 – Gypsies are to be arrested and sent to extermination camps under order of the Nazis.
Jan. 30 – Heydrich successor to the head of RSHA, Ernst Kaltenbrunner
In Feb. – Romania proposes to transfer 70,000 Jews to the allies in Palestine. They receive no response.
In Feb. – Jews in Greece ordered to ghettos.
Feb. 2 – Hitler’s army suffers first major defeat at Stalingrad.
Feb. 27 – working Jews in Berlin armament industry sent to Auschwitz
In Mar. – deportation of Greek Jews to Auschwitz; 49,000 persons killed by August
Mar. 1 – American Jews hold rally in Madison Square Garden to get government to help European Jews.
Mar. 14 – Krakow ghetto liquidated.
Mar. 17 – Opposition to the deportation of Jews by Bulgarian states
Mar. 22 – Auschwitz opens new gas chamber/crematory IV.
Mar. 31 – Auschwitz opens new gas chamber/crematory II.
Apr. 4 – Auschwitz opens new gas chamber/crematory V.
Apr. 9 – Chelmno ceases exterminations; reopened in spring of 1944 to liquidate ghettos. 300,000 Jews killed there.
Apr. 19 – April 30 – Warsaw ghetto resistance attacked by Wafen SS.
In May – SS doctor Joseph Mengele arrives at Auschwitz/Birkenau.
May 13 – Italian and German troops surrender to allies in North Africa
May 19 – Berlin declared “Judenfrei,” (cleansed of Jews) by Nazis.
June 11 – Liquidation of all ghettos in Poland ordered by Himmler.
June 25 – Auschwitz opens new gas chamber/crematory III. Now crematories have 4,756 daily body load.
July 9 & 10 – Allied nations land in Sicily.
Aug. 2 – 200 Jews escape Treblinka during revolt. Nazis hunt them down.
Aug. 16 – Bailystok ghetto is liquidated.
In Aug. – Treblinka ceases exterminations after 870,000 estimated deaths.
In Sept. – Minsk and Vilna ghettos liquidated.
Sept. 11 – Rome occupied by Germans containing 35,000 Jews
In Oct. – 7,220 Danish Jews taken to safe Sweden by Danish underground.
Oct. 4 – Himmler talks about “final solution” openly at Posen.
Oct. 14 – massive breakout at Sobibor; 300 get to woods, 50 survive. Extermination ceases after 250,000 deaths. Traces removed and trees planted.
Oct. 16 – Roman Jews rounded up; over 1,000 sent to Auschwitz.
In Nov. – Liquidation at Riga ghetto
In Nov. – Congress holds meetings to discuss its inaction despite reports of mass killings.
Nov. 3 – Operation Harvest Festival in Poland occurs; 42,000 Jews killed.
Nov. 4 – Quote from Nazi newspaper, Der Stümer, Julius Streicher publisher, “It is true that the Jews have, so to speak, disappeared from Europe and that the Jewish ‘reservoir of the east’ from which the Jewish pestilence has for centuries beset the peoples of Europe and ceased to exist. But the Füher of the German people at the beginning of the war prophesied what has now come to pass.”
Nov. 11 – Höss made chief inspector of concentration camps.
Dec. 2 – Jews from Vienna arrive at Auschwitz.
Dec. 16 – Auschwitz chief surgeon announces 106 castrations have been preformed.
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1944
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Jan. 3 – Soviet troops arrive at former Polish border.
Jan. 24 – Roosevelt creates War Refuge Fund.
Jan. 25 – Hans Frank dairy entry concerning fate of 2.5 million Jews originally under his jurisdiction, “At the present time we still have in the General Government perhaps 100,000 Jews.”
In Feb. – Auschwitz visited by Eichmann.
Mar. 19 – Hungary occupied by Nazis with a Jewish pop. of 725,000.
Mar. 24 – Roosevelt issues statement blaming Germany and Japan for “crimes against humanity.”
Apr. 5 – Jewish inmate, Siegfried Lederer, escapes Auschwitz and gets to Czechoslovakia. Lederer tells the Elders of the Council at Treresienstadt about Auschwitz.
Apr. 6 – French home raided for Jewish children.
Apr. 7 – Rudolf Vrba, an escapee of Auschwitz, sends report to Papul
Nunica, Slovakia.
Apr. 14 – 5,200 Jews transported from Athens to Auschwitz
In May – Himmler’s agents secretly propose to Allies to trade Jews for trucks and money.
May 8 – Himmler orders Höss to Auschwitz to oversee extermination of Hungarian Jews.
May 15 – Jews from Hungary deported to Auschwitz.
May 16 – Hungarian jews arrive at Auschwitz; 100,000 gassed by May 24; 381,661 by the end of June.
In June – Theresienstadt visited by Red Cross delegates. Nazis hide evidence of exterminations.
June 6 – D-Day – Allies land in Normandy.
June 12 – 40,000 Polish Children (10 – 14) kidnapped under order of Rosenberg.
Summer – Auschwitz sets record of 9,000 killed and burned in one day.
In July – Rauul Walenberg, Swedish diplomat, establishes ‘safehouses’ in Budapest and Hungary; nearly 33,000 Jews saved.
July 24 – Majdanek liberated by Soviet troops; over 360,000 were murdered at the concentration camp.
Aug. 4 – Gestapo arrest Anne Frank and family; then send them to Auschwitz.
Aug. 6 – Lodz Ghetto liquidated; this was the last Ghetto; 60,000 sent to Auschwitz.
Oct. 7 – Sonderkommando revolt at Auschwitz destroys crematory IV.
Oct 15 – Hungarian Pappet Gov. seized by Nazis; Jewish deportation starts again after a temporary cease.
Oct. 17 – Adolf Eichmann arrives in Hungary.
Oct. 28 – 2,000 Jews from Tresienstadt arrive at Auschwitz; these will be the last to be gassed.
Oct. 30 – Last time Auschwitz uses its gas chambers.
Nov. 8 – 25,000 Jews forced to march 100 miles, from Budapest to Austrian border, followed by second of 50,000 to
Mauthausen.
Nov. 25 – Auschwitz crematories ordered to be destroyed by Himmler.
Late 1944 – Oskar Shindler moves 1,200 Jews from Plovata to Brunnlitz and all are saved.
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1945
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In 1945 – Death Marches take place.
Jan. 6 – Budapest liberated by Soviets; 80,000 Jews freed.
Jan. 14 – Eastern Germany invaded by Soviet troops.
Jan. 17 – Warsaw liberated by Soviets.
Jan. 18 – 66,000 evacuated from Auschwitz.
Jan. 27- Auschwitz liberated by Soviets; by now 2 million people (1.5 million Jews) have died there.
Mar. 15 – Anne Frank dies of typhus at Bergen-Belsen
Apr. 4 – Ohrdruf liberated; General Eisenhower later visits the camp.
Apr. 10 – Buchenwa;d liberated by Allies.
Apr. 15 – 40,000 freed at Bergen-Belsen by Britz who report, “both inside and outside of the huts was a carprt of dead bodies, himan excreta, rags, and filth.
Apr. 23 – Soviets reach Berlin.
Apr. 29 – Dachau liberated by US seventh Army.
Apr. 30 – Hitler commits suicide.
Apr. 30 – 33,000 inmates freed by Americans.
May 5 – liberation at Mauthausen.
May 7 – General Jodl gives Germany’s unconditional surrender at
Reims.
May 9 – US Seventh Army members captures Herman Göring.
May 23 – Himmler commits suicide.
Nov. 20 – Nuremberg International Military Tribunal opened.
1946
Mar. 11 – Höss captured and found guilty in trial at Warsaw. In prison he writes, “History will mark me as the greatest mass murderer of all time.”
Oct. 16 – Göring commits suicide 2 hours before his execution. Hans Frank states in prison “A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.”
Dec. 9 – 23 SS doctors and scientists on trial; 16 found guilty, 7 hanged.
1947
Apr. 16 - Höss hung at Auschwitz next to crematory I.
Sept.15 – 21 SS leaders on trial; 14 sentenced to death, 4 actually executed.
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1960
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Israeli secret service captures Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.
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1961
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Apr. 11 – Aug. 14 – Eichmann on trial in Jerusalem for war crimes, crimes against the Jewish people, and crimes against humanity.
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1962
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May 31 – Eichmann hung at Ramleh, a fellow Nazi reports Eichmann once said, “He would leap into a grave because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction.
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| Country |
Initial Jewish Pop. |
Estimated % Killed |
Estimated # Killed |
Estimated Survivors |
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Austria |
185,000 |
35% |
65,000 |
120,000 |
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Belgium |
77,850 |
44.5% |
34,450 |
43,400 |
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Bohemia/Moravia |
118,310 |
60% |
71,150 |
47,160 |
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Bulgaria |
57,500 |
11.5% |
7,500 |
50,000 |
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Denmark |
7,900 |
.4% |
30 |
7,870 |
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Estonia |
4,500 |
44% |
2,000 |
2,500 |
| Finland |
2,000 |
.015% |
4 |
1,996 |
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France |
325,000 |
26% |
83,660 |
241,340 |
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Germany |
566,000 |
36% |
200,000 |
366,000 |
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Greece |
76,190 |
83.5% |
63,500 |
12,690 |
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Hungary |
725,000 |
71.5% |
523,000 |
202,000 |
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Italy |
42,250 |
18.5% |
7,840 |
34,410 |
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Latvia |
95,000 |
84% |
80,000 |
15,000 |
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Lithuania |
168,000 |
85% |
143,000 |
35,000 |
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Luxembourg |
4,250 |
37.5% |
1,025 |
3,225 |
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Netherlands |
145,000 |
75.5% |
110,000 |
40,000 |
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Norway |
1,850 |
42.5% |
781 |
1,069 |
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Poland |
3,320,000 |
89.5% |
2,970,000 |
350,000 |
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Romania |
596,000 |
67% |
356,000 |
240,000 |
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Slovakia |
89,475 |
79% |
70,500 |
18,975 |
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USSR |
2,935,000 |
40% |
1,176,000 |
1,759,000 |
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Yugoslavia |
76,500 |
77% |
59,150 |
17,350 |
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Total |
9,618,575 |
63% |
6,024,590 |
3,608,985 |
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The Holocaust will probably be considered “History’s Greatest Travesty” for several centuries or possibly even several millennia to come. The thing that is most shocking was the fact that several million people died in a very short period of time. One other shock was that most or even all of this came from inside one single man’s head. |
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The first that you must always do before you go say that something is a cause is make sure that is indeed a cause and not an excuse. It sounds complicated but all you do is one simple step. You take away the “problem” and if the effect disappeared then you have a genuine cause. But if the effect remains after you take away the “problem” then all you have is a worthless excuse someone made up so they wouldn’t get in deep. |
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Anti-Semitism is a fancy way to say “hatred of the Jews.” It was developed by Europeans centuries ago and it is still practiced today. This monster is almost as much to blame as Hitler. If Hitler had not read so many anti-Semitist materials when he was young maybe he would not have hated the Jews so much, and those nearly countless innocent people would have lived. But what caused anti-Semitism to rear its ugly head in the first place? These six fallacies are the most likely culprits.
· Economy – Jews possess too much wealth and power.
· Chosen People – Jews arrogantly claim to be the chosen people.
· Scapegoat – Jews are easy to single out and blame.
· Deicide – Jews killed Jesus.
· Outsiders – Jews are different.
· Racial Theory – Jews are an inferior race.
Anti-Semitism doesn’t make sense at all and these are the best answers you’ll find to explain this stupidity. |
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Obviously certain things were needed to cause the Holocaust to take place besides anti-Semitism. Look at any problem and there are multiple reasons that it happened in the first place. The following four items caused the Holocaust to take place.
1. Nazis – Under Hitler’s leadership – had to decide to undertake the executions.
2. Nazis needed to gain control over the Jews and especially were they lived.
3. Organization of the extermination and devotion to its success.
4. Nazis needed to induce a large number to carry out the killings.
If the Nazis had missed even one of the following things there plans would have fallen down around them. |
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There are thousands of documents on the Holocaust, hundreds of eyewitnesses and survivors of the Holocaust and yet a small group called the Reasonists claims that the Holocaust never even happened! How could they deny all the evidence around you and not and not think that something this horrible actually happened? Quoting Professor Klaus P. Fischer: “These must be grouped with the sort persons who insist that America never really went to the moon, that it was all a deception staged in
some Hollywood studio.” It is also ironic that the people who use no reason call themselves “Reasonists.” |
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