10 Facts About Holocaust | 10 Interesting Facts

The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, throughout Nazi-occupied territory. Of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds perished. More than one million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust, as were approximately two million Jewish women and three million Jewish men. However, there are so many mysteries hidden behind it. Here are Holocaust facts that could make you feel horrified.

1. Once Adolph Hitler took full charge in Germany in 1933, Holocaust was start effective immediately and it haunted the live of innocent Jews and Hitler’s opposition until 1945 after coalition forces beat the Nazi power.

2. Adolph Hitler adopted the term of Holocaust from a Greek language “holokauston” which means, “Sacrificed by fire”. The target was to persecute the entire population of Jewish from Germany and the Europe included gypsies, homosexual, disabled person and Jehovah believers.

3. After Hitler fall, investigators found that 11,000,000 people had lost their live. Six million of them were Jews and one million of them were children. Holocaust wiped estimated two thirds of all living Jews in Europe.

4. April 1st, 1933 was the first day of Holocaust order and the target was to boycott Jews businesses. In September 15, 1935, a Nuremberg law was established and it limited German Jewish to merry non-Jews. Several years later, Hitler established new anti-Jewish policies and it cornered Jews on a position where they could not have a job in the government, they could not hang out on Parks, and they had difficulties to find synagogues to pray.

5. When World War II began in 1939, all Jewish were ordered to stitched yellow star emblem on their shirt so that Nazis could easily identified them and targeted them. View months later, before concentrations camps introduced, Ghettos were set as properties to group Jews in one place so that they could be controlled and monitored easily.

6. A Ghetto was same as prison and Nazis built Ghettos in Bialystok, Lodz, Minsk, Vilna,Warsaw and Kovno. The biggest ghettos among all the ghetto was a ghetto build in Warsaw, which prisoned around 445,000 Jews and innocent people before April 1941. A Ghettos was a transit to concentration camp or death camp and it was administered by Judenrat (a Jewish council).

7. Dachau concentration camp was the first Nazi concentration camp and it imprisoned Nazis enemies started in March 20, 1933. From that year until 1938, most inhabitants of Nazi concentration camps were Hitler political enemies. It became center of desperate Jews started from 1939 after Hitler initiated Kristallnacht /”Night of Broken Glass” at November 9 and November 10, 1938.

8. Inside Nazi concentration camps, Nazis forced prisoners to do inhuman physical labor and they did not threatened well. If they got sick they were beaten and often to death. Some Nazi doctors also used them as their sadistic medical experiments.

9. Hitler built concentration (The Auschwitz) camps no other else than gathering Jews on concentration sites so that Nazi could exterminated them easily. The prisoner’s health and life was a battery to support Hitler passion of war and hatred. In Auschwitz alone, Nazis had exterminated 1,1 million people.

10. In the last day in the prison, five years enclosing to the fall of Hitler, Nazis had 6 extermination camps and some were functioned as concentration and extermination camps. Once Nazis transported prisoners from transit camps, they herded those people and then asked them to before they told them to shower into a gas chamber or gas vans. Most already know the chamber would be the last place of their life.

Are you horrified of these Holocaust facts ? Or do these surprise you?

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