How many people died in the Holocaust?
It is fairly well known that approximately six million Jews died at the hands of the government under Adolph Hitler in Germany and the countries it occupied between 1939 and 1945, before and during World War II. This is known as the Holocaust. Perhaps less well known is that another five million died who belonged to such disparate groups as Catholics, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Gypsies, homosexuals, and those who were intellectually disabled and permanently confined to mental institutions. I attended a lecture at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum given by Hugh Gregory Gallagher, author of By Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians and the License to Kill in the Third Reich. In it, he describes the, first official, later unofficial, government policy in Germany during World War II to systematically empty out the mental institutions and kill the patients. There was such an outcry when the policy was first implemented that the government officially rescinded it. Instead, they transferred
In 1933 Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. That was the beginning of the Holocaust (1933-1945). The Holocaust took a lot of victims. Most of them were Jews. Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany believed that there is a world conspiracy of Jew for dominating the World, so in order to prevent that he started killing not just Jews but also Slavs, Gypsies, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, homosexuals, people with disabilities, Jehovah witnesses and all political opponents. Hidden Children of the Holocaust, Dorottya Dezsofi: Hidden Children of the Holocaust, Sabina Kagan: Experts say that the exact numbers of people who died in the war may never be known, but the numbers that circulate in today’s history speak more than enough of the Nazi inhumanity. In the lines below we are giving you the numbers per nationalities. • Soviet prisoners of war – 3.3 million • Non-Jewish Poles- 1.8-2 million • Disabled – 200,000 – 250,000 • Romanis (‘gypsies’) – 220,000- 270,000 (might be even
No one knows exactly how many people died in the holocaust but they do know a lot of people died. About six million or more people were murdered in Nazi countries alone. Even Americans and Japanese died. The Germans (Nazis) killed about one fifth of the Jewish population in the world. Jews were not the only ones the Nazis did genocide on. The other ethnic groups were mutilated. Basically anybody that was non Nazi was captured. And about every two out of three Jews and poles were murdered or executed or killed or used for experiments etc…. And most of the Nazis plan was well thought trough at first (no matter how gruesome or cruel it was) but the people knew all about what was happening .but because of hope they did as the Nazis instructed because the Nazis lied so it looked as if the non Nazi people were going some were better when really they were going to ghettos and concentration camps. Even as they people walked to their death they still kept hope and thus the Nazis have yet anot
