How could the holocaust have happened in civilized Germany?

Answer 1

It happens in the civilized world all the time.
Shucks, those considered "civilized" are generally the ones who do it.

Look at history.
How many Europeans considered killing off the Native Americans "civilizing" the colonies?

Even today, Iran is handing "This is my religion" badges to Christians, Jews, and Baha'is.
How many stores down in LA were burned out or otherwise vandalized just because they were owned by Muslims?

Sad fact is, "civilization" has always been the calling card of prejudice.

Anyway, my P.O.V.

The Chronicler

Answer 2

Even a civilized nation can be pushed into doing things it would not normally do, especially when led by a charismatic leader who leads the people to believe that they are threatened by a certain group of people, and as a result, that threat must be done away with. After WW I, such severe sanctions were imposed on Germany that it was bankrupted. It took a wheelbarrow of marks to buy a loaf of bread. Hitler first reminded the people that they were starving. Then he claimed that the Jews did have money. Once they were convinced of this, he also convinced them that the Jews were the reason they didn't have any money, so therefore, Jewish property should be German property, and the Jews should be stripped of it. Anger against the Jews grew, no matter how unfounded, and a riot mentality was created.

Answer 3

Germany wasn't civilised in the 1930s/1940s, like Communism, I wouldn't call Fascism civilised either. A true democracy - and I mean true - is what I call civilised. The Nazis ruled with tunnel-vision and single-mindness sadly. Hitler became Chancellor thus Fuhrer by legal means, and after that, he could do anything that pleased him. Even though the killing of Jews started in 1940 with the T4 (euthanasia) programme and with the invasion of Russia, by the time the Germans realised they were losing the war after D-Day in June 1944, they stepped the Holocaust up a gear and liquated everybody they could. These actions are not the actions of a civilised nation. Even though, the Germans - alongside the French - have get politics just right now. Not interferring with international situations and putting their own people first, unlike my country, Britain.

Answer 4

There was a world-wide depression and people were eating from garbage cans.

You call that civilized?

The history of the Wiemar Republic is well documented, and it would be impossible to even summarize how the Nazi party manipulated desperation into war.

Here is a hint: Zionists supported Hitler; non-Zionist Jews bore the brunt of the "holocaust."

Answer 5

they were brainwashed, i don't think you were alive during the great depression, neither was I, but that was a very rough time for the entire world, on top of that the germans had lost the war a few years prior to that so when their people were at their weakest point the nazi party presented itself and created a false sense of hope and security that the other parties at the time could not create, so they bought into the whole nazi scheme of things, it was basically brainwashing conducted by a mastermind of the art of rhetoric, if you've never seen hitler give a speech let me tell you he is a very convincing person, and i dont even understand the words he says

Answer 6

Holocaust was coined after the war when it was revealed that millions of Jews were killed in the gas chambers, under the barrel of guns and violence including hunger. Although the term holocaust was referred to the act of annihilating Jews by the Nazis, the idea actually came from Martin Luther long before the war who preached the annihilation of Jews when the Jews did not follow him when he tried to convert them. Most Christians of today may not have known this, but the truth cannot always be kept unearthed.

Luther's views on the Jews have been described as racial or religious anti-Semitism, or as anti-Judaism. Earlier in his career, Luther argued that the Jews had been prevented from believing in Jesus by the actions of Christians, and the proclamation of what he believed to be an impure Gospel. He suggested that they would respond favorably to the evangelical message if it were presented to them gently. When they did not, he furiously attacked them. The most notorious of Luther's Jewish polemics is found in his pamphlet "Von den Juden und ihren Lügen" (On the Jews and their Lies), published in 1543. In it he wrote that Jewish synagogues should be set on fire, their prayerbooks destroyed, their rabbis forbidden to preach, their homes "smashed and destroyed", property seized, money confiscated, and that these "poisonous envenomed worms" be drafted into forced labor or expelled "for all time". These remarks by Luther were used by the Nazi party in Germany as part of their effort to justify the "Final Solution to the Jewish Problem", their systematic effort to exterminate the Jewish population in lands under their control.

In the opinion of Dr. Robert Michael, Luther also appeared to SANCTION THEIR MURDER: "Jerusalem was destroyed over 1400 years ago, and at that time we Christians were harassed and persecuted by the Jews throughout the world . . . So we are even at fault for not avenging all this innocent blood of our Lord and of the Christians which they shed for 300 years after the destruction of Jerusalem . . . We are at fault in not SLAYING THEM."

While some scholars have attributed the Nazi "Final Solution" directly to Martin Luther, others have refuted this theory, pointedly taking issue with the thesis advanced by Shirer and others. British historian Paul Johnson called On the Jews and their Lies the "FIRST WORK OF MODERN ANTI-SEMITISM, AND A GIANT STEP FORWARD ON THE ROAD TO THE HOLOCAUST." Four centuries after it was written, the Nazis cited Luther's treatise to justify the Final Solution.

Since the 1980s Lutheran church bodies and organizations have formally denounced these writings, though they do not characterize Luther as an anti-Semite.

Answer 7

Nazi Germany was under the control of an evil spirit creature called "Satan the Devil". It was part of Satan's plan to try to eradicate true worship from as much of the earth as possible.

We can understand wars and atrocities as part of the composite sign that we are living in the last days.

(Matthew 24:3) The disciples approached [Jesus] privately, saying: “Tell us, When will these things be, and what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?”

(Revelation 12:7-12) Michael and his angels battled with the dragon, and the dragon and its angels battled but it did not prevail, neither was a place found for them any longer in heaven. So down the great dragon was hurled, the original serpent, the one called Devil and Satan, who is misleading the entire inhabited earth; he was hurled down to the earth, and his angels were hurled down with him. And I heard a loud voice in heaven say: “...Woe for the earth and for the sea, because the Devil has come down to you, having great anger, knowing he has a short period of time.”

Learn more from the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses:
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2002/6/15/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/library/t22/who_rules.htm

Answer 8

How could slavery have happened in civilized America? How could the annihilation of Native Americans have happened? How could any reprehensible act or practice happen? They all happen the same way: humans, having free will, are perfectly capable of committing the most despicable of acts. They are also capable of not committing them.

Answer 9

1. It was wartime.
2. High politics got far from everyday life.
3. Human nature. Such things still happen, even in the most democratic states.

Answer 10

Be careful Jennifer!....your questions could be understood as anti-semitism and holocaust denial ....you are in danger :-)
see systematic torture in AboGhreeb and Guantanamo in CIVILIZED USA only quantitative differences ...these **** happen