{"id":402,"date":"2010-05-26T09:27:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/?p=402"},"modified":"2010-08-16T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T14:40:42","slug":"interesting-facts-about-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thehistoricalarchive.com\/happenings\/402\/interesting-facts-about-the-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Facts About the Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"147322a129097e1fa44d6732c925fd6d\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-8134560547846945\";\r\n\/* 468x60 tha *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1487607395\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Nazi Holocaust &#8211; a signature program of Hitler&#8217;s Master Race  program &#8211; began with Hitler&#8217;s rise to power in January of 1933 and ended  on VE Day (May 8, 1945). During this time, more than 6 million Jews and  millions of people in other ethnic groups were exterminated by Nazi  Germany. While all the murders were devastating to native populations,  none were so devastating than that of the Jews. During this period,  thousands of Jewish communities were completely wiped out and it is  estimated that a full 1\/3 of all Jewish people in the entire world were  destroyed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Due to a series of events, Hitler assumed dictatorial  powers in March 23, 1933 when the Enabling Act was passed. With total  power available to him, he quickly developed a sophisticated police and  military force and used them to squelch anyone who criticized his  authority. From this authority stemmed the first concentation camp,  Dachau, just outside of Munich which started as a political prison camp  but evolved over time into a full scale <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jewish-Concentration-Holocaust-Death-Collection\/dp\/B000NLS6XY\">Nazi  concentration camp<\/a> to exterminate Jews and others.<\/p>\n<p>By the end  of 1934, Hiter&#8217;s campaign against the Jews was in full force. The Nazis  were claiming them to be mongrels who were corrupting the pure German  race and persecutions of the Jewish grew in strength. Those who could,  fled Germany to other European countries which gave them safety for a  while.<\/p>\n<p>The next major event that led towards the widescale  destruction of the Jews was the Meeting in July of 1938 where  representatives of 32 countries met in the French town of Evian to  discuss the refugee problems created by the Nazis &#8211; but since no  conclusive action was taken, Hitler took that as defacto notice that no  one would act against him while he worked to purge the Jews from his  territories.<\/p>\n<p>Germany started World War II with the invasion of  Poland in September of 1939 and in 1940 established Jewish ghettos in  Poland where they could be isolated from the rest of society and kept an  eye on. Conditions in the ghettos were deplorable &#8211; not enough food,  water, space, sanitation facilities, etc., and many died from the horrid  conditions.<\/p>\n<p>In June 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and  began the implementation of the Final Solution &#8211; the beginnings of the  systemized destruction of the undesirables. At first they were just  gathered up, shot and thrown into mass open graves. It is estimated that  over 1 million people died in this manner. But it wasn&#8217;t efficient  enough so more and more <a href=\"http:\/\/thehistoricalarchive.com\/products\/NAZI-Concentration--61.html\">death  camps<\/a> sprang up.<\/p>\n<p>From this point, the Germans worked on more  and more efficient ways to profit from and liquidate the undesirables,  They were brought to death camps to be systematically killed. The Nazis  would also recycle any valuables for the war effort. And in this  instance, a valuable was a healthy person &#8211; so the Germans would work  the prisoners until they had no more energy to be a useful worker. In  effect, they had millions of slaves being forced to work to death to  help the Nazis in their war efforts.<\/p>\n<p>This atrocity continued to  the end of the war &#8211; with liberation not happening until July 1944 and  later. In July 1944, the Soviet Union liberatated Maidanek concentration  camp and then in January 1945 &#8211; Auschwitz concentration camp and so on  until Nazi Germany was totally defeated and all peoples were freed.<\/p>\n<p>All  told, there were only about 200,000 Jewish survivors by the end of the  liberation and the death counts from the holocaust were estimated to be  around 6 million Jews and millions of other people who did not fit the  Aryan mold.<\/p>\n<p>The Holocaust was truly one of the great horrors of  the 20th century. The <a href=\"http:\/\/thehistoricalarchive.com\/products\/NAZI-Concentration--61.html\">NAZI  Concentration Camps, Holocaust Camps &amp; Death Camps Film Collection<\/a> highlights liberation at many concentration camps, including Leipsig,  Penig, Ohrdruf, Hadamar, Breendonck, Harlan, Arnstadt, Nordhausen,  Mauthausen, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thehistoricalarchive.com%2Fhappenings%2F402%2Finteresting-facts-about-the-holocaust%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nazi Holocaust &#8211; a signature program of Hitler&#8217;s Master Race program &#8211; began with Hitler&#8217;s rise to power in January of 1933 and ended on VE Day (May 8, 1945). 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