Could it happen again?

Question

What do you think? I'm doing a project for WW2 and I wanted to know if you thought the Holocaust...or any holocaust...could happen again? do you think that it is possible in our society today?

What do you think? I'm doing a project for WW2 and I wanted to know if you thought the Holocaust...or any holocaust...could happen again? do you think that it is possible in our society today? why or why not?

i think i could rephrase this a little bit. do you think a holocaust of that magnatude is possible in our world today? most of your are totally right, there is so much going on right now, right under our noses. and thats how this holocaust went on. really, im looking for opinions, qoutes even, so that i can place them on my sheet.

Answer 1

anything can happen, in some far off place, some bizar thing could happen, we cant see everything that is going on

Answer 2

The holocaust has happened many times since Nazi Germany and is a hallmark of marxist thought. National SOCIALISM (or the nazis) originated in marxist thought and its were they got the idea for the holocaust from. Since then, hundreds of millions of innocent people have been exterminated in many genocides in countries like Russia, the Ukraine, China, Cuba, Vietnam (the anti-war movement was very much about forcing the United States to let this happen), North Korea, Darfur etc. etc. etc. What all these countries have in common is a government based on marxism. A disturbing development in recent decades are marxist traitors in our own country who aid these murderers and prevent enlightened societies like ours from intervening. Currently, the democratic party is controlled by these people and in conjunction with the communist anti-war movement, are trying to make a genocide happen in Iraq. They hope that, if they can get us to leave, the fledgling government there will be overthrown by rabid islamics and millions of people will be put to death. That is their motivation.

Anyway, the two points I'm making is that a holocaust is not an isolated event from WW2 by any stretch of the imagination and that you can trace back the cause to a single propagating factor....marxism.

If you want an exhaustive treatise on the facts surrounding this issue, buy a copy of this book and read it. It is, of course, a horror. But it's well worth your time for a school project. It is also the responsibility of all to bear witness. Who else will speak for the dead?

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/COUBLA.html

Answer 3

Most definitely. Po Pot of Cambodia killed so many he was able to build a 3 foot tall fence along some roads with human skulls. In Africa, they killed so many in the Too Too (sp?) Wars that the natural dams formed in the rivers from the human bodies that were thrown in.

One of the big precursors to a holocaust is international apathy. That is always present. It is one thing to say we must end the slaughter of innocents, it is another to send you fighting men and women over to die to actually stop it. It always falls to someone else should take care of it because we don't believe in stopping it enough to die for it.

Another precursor is economic strife or social ills that can be blamed on one segment of society.

When these two things combine it directly leads to holocaust conditions. People have the tendency to be violent and if the conditions hit just right a whole society can be swayed. It has happened many times in history.

Answer 4

There have been substantially more than one example of genocide taking place in history. In fact, genocide is taking place today in many parts of the developing world.

There are also many governments who through their own ignorance and budget cuts are starting to cut back necessary services for older people and people with disabilities. While such folks are not being led to the gas chambers, we are seeing many examples of people in these classes living on the streets or being "euthanized" for a lack of supposed quality of life. We have to be very careful in how we assess quality of life and what we believe is the line in the sand.

Answer 5

Yes. Something like the holocost can happen again. Some would argue that it is occuring as we speak in the Darfur region of the Sudan.
Genocide is something that happens more than most governments want to admit. (anyone remember Serbia?)

I do not think it would ever get as bad as it did in the Nazi regiem, but that is pure speculation on my part.

Answer 6

A "holocost" has already happened several times since WWII, it's just been in a different form, but still involves mass killings, starvation etc. for no logical reason.

Read about Cambodia in the 70's? Millions died.

Answer 7

Yes. I think it is happening in Africa rigtht now where millions are dying from man made famine, war and disease caused by a handful of people who want to be in control. Is it by accident or design? You would have to do more research into that.

Answer 8

It happened in Cambodia in the 70's, It happened in Rwanda in the 90's, It's happening right now in Sudan.......P.S. nobody's doing anything. The U.N. won't even call the Sudan situation what it is- genocide.

Answer 9

After WWII everybody said:" NEVER AGAIN", but it happened so many times: Bosnia, Somalia... As long there are humans on this planet it is big possibility that it will happen again. Unfortunately,

Answer 10

Duh. It will happen again. Wars, exploitation, and suffering will ALWAYS happen. We'll just have better weapons next time. Look at history: there's no shortage of wars or genocide there! The very fact that we have a World War TWO says that it will happen again. Hopefully, I'll be dead by then.

Answer 11

Genocide is still going on in many areas of the world. Africa for example.