The Holocaust
- Adolf Hitler hated Jews with all of his heart not because he was rumored to be a Jew but because after World War 1, he thought that it was the Jew’s fault for Germany's loss. Hitler designed concentration camps and death camps for Jews during World War 2. Concentration camps are where the Jews would be overworked, starved, froze, or even executed. The death camps were designed to kill millions of Jews by gassing them, performing experiments, and executing them. When Germany would take over a country, the Nazi would extract all of the Jews and put them in either concentration or death camps. One of the most notorious doctors in the death camps was Aribert Heim (a.k.a Dr. Death). He was famous for pulling experiments on Jews, especially on twins. Dr. Death would take organs out of conscious Jews, gas them, and inject them with various liquids, including petrol, phenol, water and poison, all in the interests of seeing which killed them fastest. People would help the Jews by sneaking them out and taking them to their home to live there. The figure of 11 million people dead is often given but it is completely unclear where this figure comes from, and how it is calculated. It is far too low. One also encounters the range 11-17 million.
- 6 million of these were Jewish (close to two thirds of Europe's Jewish population) and about one quarter of these were children under 15.
- Up to 270,000 were Roma/Sinti (Gypsies).