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Jewish people call the Holocaust the 'Shoah', which means 'destruction' or 'catastrophe'. It's estimated that 6 million Jewish people died. The Nazis also:
exterminated half a million Roma gypsies
put a quarter of a million mentally ill and disabled people to death
sterilised deaf people
imprisoned homosexuals
considered that Slavic people were sub-human and intended to starve up to 30 million Soviet civilians and prisoners of war
Jewish people reacted in different ways:
in some places, the Jewish people resisted, eg the Warsaw Uprising of 1943
some of them fled from Germany and other countries such as Poland.
Some put their children on Kindertransport trains, which took them to Great Britain, where they were fostered
some hid
in some places, the Jewish people accepted their fate and even cooperated with the Nazis
some survived the concentration camps, often against all odds
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Jewish people call the Holocaust the 'Shoah', which means 'destruction' or 'catastrophe'. It's estimated that 6 million Jewish people died. The Nazis also:
exterminated half a million Roma gypsies
put a quarter of a million mentally ill and disabled people to death
sterilised deaf people
imprisoned homosexuals
considered that Slavic people were sub-human and intended to starve up to 30 million Soviet civilians and prisoners of war
Jewish people reacted in different ways:
in some places, the Jewish people resisted, eg the Warsaw Uprising of 1943
some of them fled from Germany and other countries such as Poland.
Some put their children on Kindertransport trains, which took them to Great Britain, where they were fostered
some hid
in some places, the Jewish people accepted their fate and even cooperated with the Nazis
some survived the concentration camps, often against all odds
Many Jewish people were saved by acts of bravery and compassion carried out by Jewish and non-Jewish people alike, eg Oskar Schindler. Schindler was an ethnic German and credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews, despite being a member of the Nazi party. His moving story was made into the film, Schindler's List in 1993.
After the war, Nazi leaders were put on trial at the Nuremberg War Crimes trials (1945‒1946). Many were sentenced to death. War criminals continued to be found and put on trial, including high profile cases such as Adolf Eichmann in 1960 and Klaus Barbie who was put on trial in 1987. It is universally believed that such a genocide must never be allowed to happen again.
In 1948, the nation of Israel was established as a state for Jewish people.
27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD). The date was chosen as the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Holocaust Memorial Day is an international day of remembrance – not only for the Jewish Holocaust, but for subsequent genocides in places like Cambodia, Bosnia and Rwanda. All over the world, people honour the survivors and reflect on the consequences.The first historians of the Holocaust, such as Raul Hilberg (1961), studied the development of the Holocaust and its leaders and administration.
Hannah Arendt (1963) blamed the Jewish leaders for not resisting the Nazis.
By the 1960s, historians were arguing about why the Holocaust happened. The 'intentionalists' claimed that Hitler always intended to mass-murder the Jewish people. The 'functionalists' argued that that the Holocaust arose out of the chaos of the war.
Daniel Goldhagen (1996) suggested that anti-Semitism had turned ordinary Germans into 'Hitler's willing executioners'.
The Holocaust deniers
In the 1970s, holocaust denial started to hit the headlines after Arthur Butz (1976), an electronics engineer, published a book claiming that the Holocaust was a hoax. The thousands of Jewish people who witnessed the Holocaust, said the holocaust deniers, had all lied. Holocaust denial is against the law in 16 European countries.
Recent Holocaust debates
Nowadays respectable historians debate many aspects of the Holocaust: What caused it? What role did other people play, including the Soviets, Poles, Lithuanians and Hungarians? Did it gradually evolve over many years, or was the Final Solution a change of policy?
Martin Gilbert (1985) has described the many human ways in which Jewish people reacted to the Holocaust and has proved that they did not, as Hannah Arendt claimed, simply allow themselves to be massacred.
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