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When did the holocaust start?
There are many different view points on when the holocaust started because there was no definite
time. Many believe the holocaust started when Hitler became chancellor in 1933.
When did the Holocaust end?
May 8, 1945,V-E day, the end of the war in Europe.
How many Jews were murdered durring the Holocaust?
Statistics indicate the total was over 5,860,000.
Which groups of people in Germany were considered enemies of the
state by the Nazis and were persecuted?
Jews, Gypsies, Social Democrats, other opposing politicians, opponents
of Nazism, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, habitual criminals, and "anti-socials" (e.g. beggars, vagrants, hawkers), and
the mentally ill, and any individual that was concidered a threat to the Nazis was in danger of being persecuted.
Did the Jews try to fight agains the Nazis?
Many engaged in armed resistance against the Nazis (ghetto revolts, resistance in concentration and
death camps, partisan warfare).
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Austria 50,000 -- 27.0%
Italy 7,680 -- 17.3%
Belgium 28,900 -- 44.0%
Latvia 71,500 -- 78.1%
Bohemia/Moravia
78,150 -- 66.1%
Lithuania 143,000 -- 85.1%
Bulgaria 0 -- 0.0%
Luxembourg 1,950 -- 55.7%
Denmark 60 -- 0.7%
Netherlands
100,000 -- 71.4%
Estonia 2,000 -- 44.4%
Norway 762 -- 44.8%
Finland 7 -- 0.3%
Poland 3,000,000 -- 90.9%
France
77,320 -- 22.1%
Romania 287,000 -- 47.1%
Germany 141,500 -- 25.0%
Slovakia 71,000 -- 79.8%
Greece 67,000 -- 86.6%
Soviet
Union 1,100,000 -- 36.4%
Hungary 569,000 -- 69.0%
Yugoslavia 63,300 -- 81.2%
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April 1, 1933: A boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
by the Nazis.
April 7, 1933: The law for the Re-establishment of the Civil Service expelled all non-Aryans
(defined on April 11, 1933 as anyone with a Jewish parent or grandparent) from the civil service.
April 7, 1933: The law regarding admission to the legal profession prohibited the admission
of lawyers of non-Aryan descent to the Bar. It also denied non-Aryan members of the Bar the right to practice law.Similar
laws were passed regarding Jewish law assessors, jurors, and commercial judges.
April 22, 1933: The decree regarding physicians' services with the national health plan
denied reimbursement of expenses to those patients who consulted non-Aryan doctors. Jewish doctors who were war veterans or
had suffered from the war were excluded.
April 25, 1933: The law against the overcrowding of German schools restricted Jewish enrollment
in German high schools to 1.5% of the student body. In communities where they constituted more than 5% of the population,
Jews were allowed to constitute up to 5% of the student body. Initially, exceptions were made in the case of children of Jewish
war veterans, who were not considered part of the quota. In the framework of this law, a Jewish student was a child with two
non-Aryan parents.
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