Questions tagged [holocaust-shoah]

Questions relating to the Holocaust, the period of history between 1941-45 which saw the systematic genocide of 6 millions Jews.

The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings; by a policy of extermination through labor in concentration camps; and in gas chambers and gas vans in German extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka in occupied Poland.

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Can I buy products that are made in Germany?

Is there an accepted practice among Jews to not buy products from Germany because of the behavior of the German people as a whole during World War II? Was this ever legislated in any way by any Rabbinic leaders and therefore has some Halachic…
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Is the holocaust divine punishment for the wrongs Jews have done?

Just wanted an evaluation of this question from a Jewish standpoint.
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