Holocaust

Examples of Holocaust in the following topics:

• The Holocaust

• The Holocaust

  • The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews during World War II.
  • The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews during World War II. 
  • Holocaust scholars draw a distinction between extermination camps and concentration camps.
  • Some historians suggested that this was an inspiration for the Holocaust.
  • Explain the costs inflicted by the Holocaust and Hitler's Final Solution.

• Reaction to the Holocaust

• Obedience

  • Following the Second World War—and in particular the Holocaust—psychologists set out to investigate the phenomenon of human obedience.
  • Early attempts to explain the Holocaust had focused on the idea that there was something distinctive about German culture that had allowed the Holocaust to take place.
  • The Holocaust resulted in the extermination of millions of Jews, Gypsies, and communists; it has prompted us to take a closer look at the roots of obedience—in part, so that tragedies such as this may never happen again.

• Homophobia

  • One notorious example of homophobia and extreme discrimination was the persecution of LGBTQ individuals by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
  • After the rise of Adolf Hitler, homosexuals were one of the many groups targeted by the Nazi Party and became victims of the Holocaust.

• Stereotypes in Everyday Life

  • A classic example of an us versus them mentality is the Holocaust.
  • A classic example of an us versus them mentality is the Holocaust.

• The Final Ledger of Deaths

  • Civilian casualties include deaths caused by strategic bombing, Holocaust victims, German war crimes, Japanese war crimes, population transfers in the Soviet Union, other war crimes, and deaths due to war related famine and disease.
  • An estimated 11 to 17 million civilians died either as a direct or as an indirect result of Nazi ideological policies, including the systematic genocide of around 6 million Jews during the Holocaust, along with a further 5 to 6 million ethnic Poles and other Slavs (including Ukrainians and Belorussians), Roma, homosexuals, and other ethnic and minority groups.

• Genocide

  • The preamble to the CPPCG states that instances of genocide have taken place throughout history, but it was not until Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin coined the term during World War II and the prosecution of perpetrators of the Holocaust at the Nuremberg trials that the United Nations agreed to the CPPCG, which defined the crime of genocide under international law.
  • Helen Fein showed that pre-existing anti-Semitism and systems that maintained anti-Semitic policies was related to the number of Jews killed in different European countries during the Holocaust.

• Characteristics of Members of Different Religions

  • In addition, many Jews immigrated to the U.S. as a result of WWII and their persecution during the Holocaust.

• Experiments in Latin America

  • In response to WWII atrocities such as the Holocaust and the atomic bomb, the artists of Nueva Presencia shared an anti-aesthetic rejection of contemporary trends in art and a belief that the artists had a social responsibility.