Could nobody stop hitler in Halocaust?

Answer 1

Well, at first no one believed the stories. Then it took a while for the Americans to get into the war. Then the Allies, mostly the Americans, British and Russians, had to defeat Hitler's army.

Answer 2

I think everybody was pretty much brainwashed from all the "Heil Hitler" crap and nobody knew that concentration camps even existed until they found them. And I guess if someone asked about why the Jews were missing, they would be killed. But yeah, it's pathetic that it took such a long time to stop a crazy loser like him.

Answer 3

We did! A little late into the war, but we were successful. The "what ifs" are a bit moot now..60 yrs. after the fact. Just hope that the world has learned from that terrible, tragic time in our history and will never let it be repeated again.

Answer 4

Tara - I have answered other of your questions. Please do work on your spelling. It will help your grades when you turn in the papers. "Holocaust." It means ferocious, out-of-control fire. (And just because I made the remark about spelling, please don't give me gas about my many typos, especially in that other long answer. I just wrote fast and didn't go back to correct after posting!)

Now about the efforts to preven the Holocaust. of course, at the time this word was not used. It was applied long after the war - although not certain, I think it was Simon Wiesenthal who coined the term in this usage. That would be worth extra points in your paper if you looked it up - try the Oxford English Dictionary, which gives the origins of words and terms as well as definitions and examples of usage.

In Hitler's administration the term the Nazis used was "endloesung," or "final solution." It came out of the Wannsee Conference, a meeting in a lodge along the shores of Lake Wannsee in Berlin. I haven't looked htis one up, recently, but recall it was in 1942. DO check that out. In any event, the wholesale slaughter of Jews in the concentration camps began following this meeting - well into the war.

However, the Nazi philosophy had always espoused if not elimination than at least removal of "undesirable" peoples of many types from the envisioned "pure Aryan race" of NSDAP idealism. The Holocaust did not just involve Jews. While Jews were targeted particularly because of their religious and ethnic character, so also were many Christians opposed to Nazism, people with birth defects, homosexuals, cripples, Gypsies, and persons of "inferior races." In the latter group the Nazis included not just Blacks but also Slavs and others.

The collection of such people into concentration camps began in 1936 and accelerated in 1938 after "Krystallnacht," the epic night of nationwide assault on Jews and their properties. For a time it was not a death sentence to go to the camps - many political dissenters were taken, and later returned. Their return helped spread the fear of the Nazis and the government, and aided in suppressing open resistance.

By the time war began in late 1939, the Nazis had managed to suppress most resistance. Some continued throughout the war, but at a terrible cost. Even people of conscience would publicly smile and cheer for Hitler, and only with great caution express their feelings in privacy. Spies were EVERYWHERE.

Nonethless, the great majority of Germans endorsed Hitler and the Naxis. It may be true that many people not involved in events did not realize how entirely evil and corrupt the party was, but it was known widely enough. Despite that Hitler combined his personal charisma, political oppression, physical terror, and despotic state system to keep the nation under his thumb, obedient to the very bitter end.

Early in the war some people managed to smuggle photos and descriptions of the horrors of the camps out to first Churchill and then Roosevelt. Churchill was eager to use the information for propaganda, but afraid of inflaming anti-semitic sentiment in England that might have helped Hitler. Roosevelt faced similar problems, particularly early in the war before the US got involved. He faced a tough election in 1940 and need the German-American vote, which demanded neutrality. There was also a VERY large anti-war Catholic sentiment that saw Hitler as a tool against "Godless Communism," and was substantially anti-Semitic.

In any event the Allies neither took action on the public opinion level nor on the physical level to stop the Holocaust. Russia, a powerful anti-semitic state, was rather happy about some of the results - and just as happy, later to employ the Holocaust as a propaganda tool.

Poland might have writhed under the Nazi boot, but even Catholic Polish partisans fighting the Nazis were indifferent about the fate of Polish Jews. Only later did those Poles realize that what was done to the Jews would be done to them, too.

I have mentioned Catholics here numerous times. Catholics were also strong in the resistance against the Nazis. So were European Protestants. People of all forms of Christianity strove to protect and hide Jews from the nazis. It is not fair to paint all with a stereotype. Even some Nazi officials were sickened by actions of their party.

But no one, ultimately, did anything about the Holocaust of any significance until the Allies destroyed Nazi Germany. What a tragedy it took so long.

Personal note: I am sure once again there are typos here. No time to go back and revise. And I am an American Irish Catholic - not Jewish at all, in case some readers of this message think otherwise.

Answer 5

actually someone did stop all the killings. yess it was the americans! we started the War Refugee Board which was this thing where we help the Jews that went through the whole experience. however, we didnt find out about all the torturing until 4 months later..

Answer 6

Europe could have, but they buried their head in the sand instead. The really sad thing is that they (with the possible exception of England and Italy) are still doing the same thing today.

Answer 7

Let's face it Hitler was a genius. A sick and demented genius, but nonetheless. He knew how to work a crowd. He had them either convinced or terrified. Things had to happen that way I think.

Answer 8

several of his officers tried to kill him.

german students organized, the white rose i think their group was killed, to fight him.

heck, sadly enough, a german police officer stopped hitler from killing himself after wwi.

we definitely knew about the concentration camps during the war - we were asked to bomb them or the tracks leading to them and declined to do so.

the russians stopped hiter. not usa.

Answer 9

George Bush wasn't in office yet. Apparently he can/would stop anything even someone from blowing their nose wrong.

stupid moron...Bush that is...

Answer 10

Ultimately, he was stopped or we would all be speaking German right now.