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David asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 3 years ago

Why were there such varying survival rates of Jews between occupied countries during WWII?

Countries such as Germany which I had assumed would have been the most dangerous for Jews had much higher survival rates than much if not most of Eastern Europe. Can anyone explain the reasons behind this?

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  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Contrary to the claims, there were no gas chambers in Germany. This means that the huge death rate was due to disease such as typhus, mainly, but included typhoid, influenza, and others. Naturally, as you moved East, the death rates would be exacerbated.

  • 3 years ago

    A great deal depended upon the Gentile population of the towns and cities with a Jewish Community there.

    One of the least known events, during which Jews were saved, happened in the city of Paris. A group of Muslims converted some Jews to Islam and thus the Germans eventually backed off.

    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=world...

  • The Jews of Denmark were almost all gotten away, to neutral countries by Danish citizens working in league with the underground. Over a period of just a day or two, they were all sprited out of the nation.

  • 3 years ago

    Some Jews in Germany were able to hide. The Jewish population in Germany was small compared to that in Poland and Russia; I'm not sure your statement about survival rates is accurate.

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  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    the Holocaust Usually refers to Nazi Germany where Hitler had 6 million Jews and 9 million other Civilians murdered in death camps

    Here are 22 Known Death camps please try and Prove anyone was Not Or prove they never existed

    there were 25,000 camps in the Reich Transit camps Labor camps Prison camp and death camps

    Operation Reinhard Transit Camps: They Were Death Camps | Holocaust Denial on Trial

    Dont challenge me I have put up the Challenge you prove them wrong or never existed if you cant then shut up dont Challenge me to prove anything

    1.Auschwitz–Birkenau,Poland 2.5 Million including 1.2 Million Jews

    Dr. Johann Kremer witnessing the gassing of victims at Birkenau

    2.Bełżec, Poland 600,000 Jews

    2.Bergen-Belsen, Nazi Germany Liberation day there was 13,000 corpses Not burried

    4.Chełmno, Nazi Germany

    5.Dachau, Nazi Germany 43,000 died

    6.Gross-Rosen, Poland]

    7,Koldichevo, Belarus

    8.Majdanek, Poland

    9.Mauthausen, Austria

    10.Natzweiler/Struthof, France

    11.Neuengam, Nazi Germany

    12.Plaszow, Poland

    13.Sobibor, Poland 250,000, the majority being Jews.

    14.Stutthof, Danzig

    15.Theresienstadt, Czech Republic

    16.Treblinka, Poland 1,000,000 Jews Murdered here

    17.Sajmiste in Serbia,

    18. Logor Jasenovac in Serbia,

    19.Maly Trostenets in the USSR,

    20.Janowska, in Ukraine and

    21.Gornija Rijeka

    22.Jasenovac was Croatia’s largest death camp. And the worst in WW2 they Murdered some 700,000 serbs and the Bodies were thrown in the River

    Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Jasenovac were retrofitted with Zyklon-B gas chambers and crematoria buildings as the time went on, remaining operational until war's end in 1945

    these were all the Camps in Croatia

    Jadovno concentration camp

    Jasenovac concentration camp

    Sisak children's concentration camp

    Stara Gradiška concentration camp

    Lobor concentration camp

    Sajmiste concentration camp was run by the Germans

    Tenja concentration camp

    These sites were used to test the best way of exterminating People and Zyclon B was chosen as the best all from their own Mouths and Documentation and those that refuse to believe need Psychiatric help or are Closet Nazis it was called Operation Reinhard the designer of the Final solution

    Bełżec 600,000 deaths

    Sobibór 250,000 deaths

    Treblinka 900,000 deaths

    Lublin/Majdanek 130,000 deaths all from the German? Nazi records

    Poles 3 million +

    Yugoslavians 1.5 million +

    Gypsies 200,000 – 500,000

    Mentally/Physically Disabled70,000- 250,000

    Homosexuals Tens of thousands

    Spanish Republicans Tens of thousands

    Jehovah's Witnesses 2,500 – 5,000

    Boy and Girl Scouts, Clergy, Communists, Czechs, Deportees, Greeks, Political Prisoners, Other POWs, Resistance Fighters, Serbs, Socialists, Trade Unionists, Others Unknown

    The six million figure used in the Jewish death toll is an estimate for total lives lost. These Jewish lives were taken by a number of groups, not just Nazis. The six million figure includes Jewish lives lost in other countries as well, not just Germany, and by the various modes of killing, not just camp deaths. Ukrainian deaths were due to Russian and Nazi perpetrators alike, some killed on "acquired" German soil, others killed on Russian soil, some killed outright, others worked or starved to death.

    The total Murdered By the Nazis in WW2 was 15 Million including the 6 million Jews

    The Nazi Euthanasia Centre at Bernburg operated from 21 November 1940 to 30 July 1943 in a separate wing of the State Sanatorium and Mental Hospital Bernburg on the River Saale It was one of several euthanasia centres run by the Nazis under their official "Euthanasia Programme", later referred to after the war as Action T4. A total of 9,384 sick and handicapped people from 33 welfare institutions and nursing homes as well as around 5,000 prisoners from six concentration camps were killed here in a gas chamber using carbon monoxide gas.

    Each extermination camp operated differently, yet each had designs for quick and efficient industrialized killing. While Höss was away on an official journey in late August 1941 his deputy, Karl Fritzsch, tested out an idea. At Auschwitz clothes infested with lice were treated with crystallised prussic acid.

    The crystals were made to order by the IG Farben Dupont chemicals company for which the brand name was Zyklon-B. Once released from their container, Zyklon-B crystals in the air released a lethal cyanide gas. Fritzch tried out the effect of Zyklon B on Soviet POWs, who were locked up in cells in the basement of the bunker for this experiment. Höss on his return was briefed and impressed with the results and this became the camp strategy for extermination as it was also to be at Majdanek.

    Besides gassing, the camp guards continued killing prisoners via mass shooting, starvation, torture

    The first period of operation in Belzec and Sobibor lasted about three months, in Treblinka five weeks. After this initial phase, those holding key positions in Operation Reinhard decided to introduce "improvements" into the camps so as to increase their extermination capacity. This decision was brought on by Himmler's order of July 19, 1942 that all the Jews in the General Government, with a few exceptions, were to be eradicated by the end of that year.

    The main problem was finding a way to speed up the extermination procedure, i.e., increasing the absorption capacity of the gas chambers.

    Belzec was the first camp in which large gas chambers were built. The old wooden structure containing the three gas chambers was demolished, and on the same spot a larger, strong building was erected, which was 24 m. Iong and 10 m. wide. It contained six gas chambers. Statements differ as to their size; they fluctuate between 4 x 4 m. and 4 x 8 m. The new gas chambers were completed in mid July. (StA Munich 1, AZ: 22 Js 68/61, pp. 2602, 2613.)

    and is something we must never Forget if you cant prove any of this wrong then dont give me thumbs down

    Fact No Camps no Holocaust no Camps Typhoid would have not Killed so many no T4 rules no Murders

    Note:- The claims of deniers are grounded in flawed research, biased statements, and, in some cases, deliberately falsified evidence. Courts of law have also rejected Holocaust denial claims Fred A. Leuchter cole and David Irving all found Guilty of Lying under oath

    Irving's neo-Nazi views were very publicly exposed in 1996 when he sued Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books for calling him a Holocaust denier, leading to a £2million High Court case which he lost.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    3 years ago

    There was a serious typhus outbreak in Poland during WW1 and it resurfaced in WW2. The highest casualties started in the East and gradually worked their way West.

    Contrary to the claims, there were no gas chambers in Germany. This means that the huge death rate was due to disease such as typhus, mainly, but included typhoid, influenza, and others. Naturally, as you moved East, the death rates would be exacerbated.

    Exterminationists don't like to discuss the disease epidemics - it takes away from their extermination theme.

  • Jeff
    Lv 6
    3 years ago

    Because most of the Jews were taken out of Germany so the majority of Holocaust victims didn't die in Germany but wherever the camp was.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Apart from anything else the NSDAP were rather keen to keep the German population ignorant of quite what a final solution actually entailed.

  • 3 years ago

    The SS death squads did not operate in Germany. They were horribly efficient in the East.

  • Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Majority of all death camps were located in Poland. Germany had the highest concentration of work camps. Where jews were forced to work for the war effort. In poland those camps were created to exterminate. So jews had a better chance of survivial if they were sent to Germany, specificly the western part of Germany.

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