Why is the Holocaust so predominant in WW2 history compared to the entire scope of the conflict?

Question

Why is the Holocaust so predominant in WW2 history compared to the entire scope of the conflict? Many blacks, muslims, gypses, catholics and other minority groups were persecuted. Out of the 62 million dead in the war (conservative), only 5.5 million were Jews. About 30 million civilians (excluding the jews) were killed as well. Did the Jews just shout louder or somthing? Or does noone care about the other groups that had simlar treatment? Also does the Holocaust detract us from the other atrocitiys that happend?

Answer 1

The Holocaust was such a massive, focused and planned program to destroy the Jewish people completely and other groups like gypsies, the disabled, people of African decent, in Europe.
In the1930's and 40's in Europe the Nazi destroyed a large segment of the human population of seemingly healthy human beings for a murderously crazy or psychotic purposes.
There is enough of the record left in pictures, diaries, equipment and first hand stories that the holocaust is a complete picture of man kinds ability, willingness, and propensity to kill as a tool of State.
It is the focus and complete picture of innocent people walking to their death never imagining what would happen to them. It is one group of humans treating another group of humans like they did not have any spirit, or body or life.
The holocaust is a case study of the dark side of Homo Sapien abilities, but lacking any sapience.
But it is a also a picture of human beings in the most horrible of situations maintaining there dignity and human goodness under conditions that would break any individual one would think. It is a story of individual families and individual people who were sucked up into the power of a history that systematically destroyed them, but somehow people did survive.
The holocausts is after all a survivors story.

Answer 2

1. It was a God awful sight the camps that held the Jewish prisoners so no wonder it is a punctuation mark on the end of the war. It should be. It was ghastly.

2. the rest of the war was about soldiers and civilians fighting for a cause near and dear to them. The holocaust was about one group being singled out, isolated, tortured, starved and killed . It is like every horror movie you ever imagined only it is really happening.

3. A great many people died, that is true, but; that is war. What happened to the Jews was not part of the war. These people were not soldiers, they were not criminals, they were not even bystanders. These people were hearded off like cattle, treated like human guinea pigs, like slaves, and like fools for your amusement without protest, without cause, and without recourse.

4. No. The soldiers who found the prison camps shouted the loudest. If ever there was a time when a soldier could see why it was that he had fought so long and sacrificed so much for a battle, this was that time. This was the smoking gun. This was the waking call that said humans can be dispicable to one another. Civilians from nearby towns were forced to view the attrocities left behind by the soldiers who left these camps. The soldeirs felt it just to let them see what it was that was happening right under their very noses. So, No, it was not the Jews yelling the loudest.

5. No one was treated the same. The closest you will find to the treatment the Jews received was what happened to the Poles and Russians in similar camps. What happened to the Catholics could hardly compare. The Blacks, the Muslims, the Gypsies, they may have been killed but they were not persecuted in the same manner. Granted they were discriminated against and in the case of the Gypsies even subjected to some disgusting policies, but; they were not in those camps. Those camps where killing playgrounds for the truly depraved.

6. Again, I stress the holocaust punctuates the attrocities in that war. It is not to say that these are the only people killed and tortured in the war but by far these are the most agregiously mistreated individuals this world has ever been sick enough to dishonor with our presence.

Answer 3

The Europeans have been infighting for hundreds of years. WWII had its roots in the 30 years War and the Napoleonic War. The Jews have been the whipping boys of the European Nations for well over 1500 years. Back at the time of the first Crusades when the Crusaders couldn't get to Jerusalem and fight the Muslims they would kill as many Jews as they could find. Anti-semitism was rampant thoroughout Europe in the 19th century. The result of that Anti-semitism culminated in the Nazis attempting to carry out genocide on the Jews. All of Europe was responsible because all of Europe had allowed that situation to develop - it only needed one madman to cause a disaster and with Hitler they got that madman. So that is why the Holocaust is especially important. You can, of course, point to figures and say that more of this or that died but if the numbers are given as proportions of the population of each race the Jews suffered most. And, of course, if the Nazis captured American, British, Russians etc. they did not send them to the gas chambers - that specialty was reserved only for the Jews and for people who were physically or mentally deformed. Of course it is unfortunate that the attempted genocide against that Armenians by the Turkish in WWI is hardly ever remembered although it was just as vicious and despicable as the Nazi treatment of the Jews.

Answer 4

This is a very politically incorrect answer so you may not like it.

You are right in questioning why one particular group is always heard about when in fact millions of other people died equally horrible deaths. The Russians lost far more people. The Chinese and Koreans were subjected to terrible massacres that the Japanese still deny to this day.

Our view of WW2 and many events following it right up to what is happening in the Middle East has been overwhelmingly shaped by hard core Jews who dominate the media and entertainment industry. This is reality even if it is a taboo subject in the US.

Think of the movies you have seen depicting the events in WW2 in Europe and look at who produced, directed, and financed them. Look at news articles that continually harp on the Jewishness of the Holocaust and see who the authors are and where the articles appear. What is the single most influential newspaper in the world and who owns it? What is the single most influential financial newspaper in the world and who owns it? Who owns News & World Report?

None of this is a secret but it is simply not discussed. At least not in this country. The politicians are all bought off and/or scared sh*tless of the Jewish vote so they say nothing. The media obviously says nothing since it would only harm their own self interests.

None of this denies in any way what happened to the Jews in Europe nor does it make it less offensive that one group in particular was singled out. What is perhaps the cruelest irony of the entire domination of the subject of the Holocaust by Jews is that is it the very descendents of the survivors who today are the world's worse terrorists and racists. If Hitler were alive he would probably smile and be a member of Israeli society stealing everything he could from the poor Palestinians and murdering any that got in his way. Labeling people based on their ethnicity, restricting movement, controlling all aspects of the infrastructure, abusive labor practices, a complete lack of criminal justice, torture, theft in the name of the State, these are all part of the daily life of those who historically like to complain about discrimination against them.

Answer 5

It is a long running spiritual thing. The spirit Antichrist has tried ever since being cast out of heaven (He was known as Lucifer at the time) to kill all of God's chosen people (He promised Abraham that Messiah would be his decendent) because , if he could eliminate the jews, there could be no Messiah(Satan is in denial about Jesus being Christ/Messiah). Hitler was possessed and obedient to his father the devil (ironically, his mom was a jew) and so, he tried to kill every Jew he could.. All murder is atrocious, whether it is one or 5.5million. The holocaust gets all the press because the devil has been trying forever, and none of his people are able to get it done.. When Jesus was born, the king had every Jewish boy up to age 5 murdered. Pharoah tried to eliminate them by murdering all the boy children, but he missed Mosses.. Adolph Aychmodinnajabbit (that Iranian nut) now thinks he is the 12th E!mom, and thinks he is under orders from HIS god to murder all the Jews;;;; so, here we go again!!

Answer 6

Not just WWII, but no other genocide, mass killings, etc etc in history has gotten as much attention. The Armenian Genocide, the killings in Serbia, the genocide in Darfur, and dozens more... none of them receive as much attention as the holocaust, because quite frankly, too many other jews talk about it everytime they need sympathy or want to feel good about themselves. Even if none of their relatives or anyone they knew died in the Holocaust, they rant about it. Most sensible Jews wont do that, but they are a minority.

Answer 7

A lot died in the war but it was through battle. The Jews were singled out and eliminated in a most horrifying way. If you want to be incredibly technical the most any group lost was the Soviet Union with around 20 million, but they at least got to fight and die on the battlefield and not in concentration camps.

Answer 8

The reason is it was an organized killing of the Jews. They were specially marked for extermination. Though there were other groups, Hitler's ambition was to get rid of the entire Jewish world. This is why it became so predominant.

Answer 9

I tell ya what; count 5.5 million relatives of yours, and see them all dead by torture, gas, starvation, medical experiments, have their skin made into lamp shades, their bones made as buttons (this would necessarily include you being one of the only living person of your long blood line, of course, mother, father, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.) the women turned into whores, see them freeze and starve to death if they aren't shot, you get it, watch them die and if you make any comment, you are dead too, get branded so they can at least take your number down in case you happen to die at any point during your torture time, and, then, see if you just "shout" louder than someone else; let me know how it turns out.

Answer 10

I must say that the Holocaust is distinctive in the fact that it was a uniquely determined effort to effect genocide.

Answer 11

Actually, it gets a lot of press because of anti-semites who still deny the Holocaust happened.