What's a holocaust?
2006-07-25 12:33:01
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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Correct. The holocast never happened, but the Nazi led Holocaust did. :)
The big deal about it is that it is a horrific event in recent history, and should serve as a constant reminder of what can happen when a hate filled world leader has the means and theater to excersise their waring disease.
If you want to truly understand the Holocaust, there are museums which can give you an experience you will never forget. One is listed below.
2006-07-25 13:54:52
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answered by Gonzo 4
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i don't know what the holocast is but if you mean the Holocaust...then let me say this, until you have seen a holocaust survivor break down and cry then you should just shut up.
but then again, what do you care? would you care if 12 million people just dissapeared? clearly not. Gay people, Gypsies, no, there was no extermination. The thick haze that came from smokestacks in the camps, no... The fact that it still smells like burnt flesh, yeah, i'm sure it's a coincidence
and if you don't believe us you could always read the book by te leader at the time, you know, mein kampf...it's outlined in the thousand page piece of crap
2006-07-25 12:34:45
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answered by Michael J with wings 3
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You simply don't know that. While it is contested - what do you mean by the holocaust never happened? Do you mean that it was less than 6 million jews that were killed? OK I will buy that, maybe it was 4, or even 2 million, maybe it was 500,000, and yes maybe that means they shouldn't have gotten Israel after the war (keep in mind they were denied their former homes by axis-aligned citizens that took them and no organization was willing to get them back).
But that aside, far over 6 million of other races were murdered, and mentally ill and otherwise weak people. If you think the Jews got hit hard, the Gypsies, while losing less people, lost more of their population, proportionate to their total population. The Jews HAD people left over to run into problems. The gypsies were virtually forgotten about because they were Truly decimated.
So again, please clarify your question. Are you doubting Hitler's warmongering in the first place? It has certainly been shown that history is written by the victors, but there were simply too many witnessess (still alive, and i don't just mean camp survivors, but soldiers and the like) that saw first hand what he was doing.
So last time, please, re-ask your question and point out the specific detail you doubt about that period.
2006-07-25 12:38:23
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answered by TwilightWalker97 4
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You are an ignorant idiot. Millions of innocent people died! Because of what? Because Hitler was an asshole. Don't you pay attention in history class, or school at all? How would you like to switch places with one of the Jews in the holocaust. THEN THE HOLOCAUST MAY BE REAL TO YOU! Read, or better yet, since you are such a moron, watch the movie The Devil's Arithmetic. Some of my strongest hate is with Nazis, Neo-Nazis, and retards who think the Holocaust was not real or do not care. By the way, take a spelling class "genius".
2006-07-25 12:37:34
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answered by Anonymous
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I seriously concerned about the level of education you have achieved. I learned about it in middle school. The Holocaust has been documented by many sources. It encompassed more than just the Jews of Europe. 11 million people are estimated to have died as a result of the Nazi program's of extermination. While 6 million were Jews, there were another 5 million killed. They included the mentally retarded, the insane, Jehovah's Witness's, Gypsy's, homosexuals, political dissidents and Communists. I've probably missed a few.
2006-07-25 15:12:41
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answered by Caffiend 3
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You are ignorant. You're lucky our president is too stupid to decide to exterminate ignorant people in death camps! Have a nice day!
The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: השואה HaShoah) (Yiddish:האלאקאוסט Ha-lo-caust) and the Porajmos or Samudaripen in Romani, is the name applied to the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews and other minority groups of Europe and North Africa during World War II by Nazi Germany and its collaborators[1]. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom of the 8th and 9th November 1938 and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, leading to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
The Jews of Europe were the main victims of the Holocaust in what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (die Endlösung der Judenfrage or die Reinigung (cleaning)). The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million, though estimates by historians using, among other sources, records from the Nazi regime itself, range from five million to seven million. Millions of gentiles also perished in the Holocaust in addition to this figure.
About 220,000 Sinti and Roma were murdered in the Holocaust (some estimates are as high as 800,000), between a quarter to a half of the European population. Other groups deemed "racially inferior" or "undesirable": Poles (5 million killed, of whom 3 million were Jewish), Serbs (estimates vary between 100,000 and 700,000 killed, mostly by Croat Ustaše), Soviet military prisoners of war and civilians on occupied territories including Russians and other East Slavs, the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists and political dissidents, trade unionists, Freemasons, Eastern Christians, and Catholic and Protestant clergy, were also persecuted and killed. Many scholars do not include the Nazi persecution of all of these groups in the definition of the Holocaust, with some scholars limiting the Holocaust to the genocide of the Jews; some to genocide of the Jews, Roma, and disabled; and some to all groups targeted by Nazi racism.[2] Taking all these other groups into account, however, the total death toll rises considerably, estimates generally place the total number of Holocaust victims at 9 to 11 million, though some estimates have been as high as 26 million.[3]
2006-07-25 12:32:01
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answered by ndtaya 6
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Did the Nazis happen?
Did W.W. II happen?
Did we invade Germany?
Did our G.I. see and video tape, and free the concentration camps?
Do you believe our soliders and the video?
Are all the remains of the concentration camp system fake?
Did the Nazis really hate jews, or was that fake?
Was the Warsaw Ghetto fake?
Are the surviving jews liars and fakes?
Are ex-nazi officers fake when they talk about working at the concentration camps?
How can so many things be faked, and the people who where there, and worked there DON'T believe it was faked? Doesn't that seem strange to you?
2006-07-25 12:38:09
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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If you were looking to ask a smart aleck question that would get you a lot of emotional play...well then you picked the right one.
But, really, why ask it dude? There are so many other better questions to ask.
I think what really bothers me is that somehow I'm supposed to be as ignorant as you pretend to be. Unfortunately, I can't pretend that sort of ignorance....I've been to a concentration camp and seen the reality that cannot be covered over by wishful ignorance.
And I have seen your kind before as well....
2006-07-25 13:43:52
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answered by KERMIT M 6
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It's a little difficult to ignore history that has been carefully preserved on film, in photographs, in oral history, in writings, and memorialized internationally by so many people of diverse backgrounds. If you take a trip to Auschwitz, you can still see it and smell it for yourself. The stacks of rotted bones and old clothes which have been there for more than 40 years attest to something real. Why not take a trip to Poland and learn for yourself?
2006-07-25 12:36:45
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answered by sochiswim 4
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I keep hearing this idea pop up. I wonder how in day of photos, videos and mass communication, we can delude this down to a myth. Too bad so few WWII veterans are left alive. I would like to hear someone try to explain to those who cleaned up the camps about how they were brain washed.
Of course, pretending it never happened eases a lot of fear of what humanity can do to itself. It is the easy out and justifies allowing history to repeat itself.
2006-07-25 12:36:07
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answered by whozethere 5
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