why did the holocaust happen?

Answer 1

You really have to carefully study this in order to come up with an answer that even approximates the true reasons behind the Holocaust. There are so many, it is almost laughable to expect THE answer on Yahoo Answers.
The Jews have been victims of hatred for millenia. They were considered "different" hence it was okay to villify them. It goes back to the ridiculous concept that the Jews killed Jesus Christ. Silly - Jesus was a Jew - he was murdered by the Romans. Why? Because they were afraid of him. They had good reason to be in the long run. Christianity took hold and, despite the Romans best efforts - it stuck. (Think Christians v. Lions in the Colliseum.)
Back to Herr Hitler. He needed a scapegoat - people everybody either outright hated or had a funny feeling about them. They (Jews) also tended to be rather wealthy and the bastard wanted their assets.
So off you go to a Labor Camp - along with Gypsies, Priests, University Professors, Communists and Gays. Anybody who was DIFFERENT!!
As the War took a definite turn for the worse, after his ridiculous decision to invade Russia, the maniac (don't forget he was seriously mentally and physically ill and addicted to just about every illegal and/or legal substance available at the time), he really turned his hatred on the Jews, blaming them for the fact that Germany was losing the War.
Ever hear of the Wannsee Protocol - look it up and read it.
Don't forget that it was a totalitarian state and if you disagreed about anything you took a bullet to the back of the neck. Everyone was afraid of everything. People turned in their own mothers if that mother provided a loaf of bread to a starving Jew.
If Mom was lucky - she got the bullet. If unlucky - Auschwitz.
Hitler was determined to rid Europe of all Untermenschen - undesirables - primarily Jews. He was almost successful. He had in his twisted mind a happy land of little blonde, blue eyed children running through beautiful fields in their little uniforms. He, and a lot of the German people thought he was God.
Germans had been programmed for generations to obey authority. Period. They didn't know they could say NO! And then when the people who did were shot - no one dared.
The Holocaust is a result of a combination of the above and many, many more reasons. You have to STUDY it. I don't think anyone will ever really understand.
Now - tell me the Jews aren't entitled to a homeland in Palestine. And further, that they have every right to defend it - Israel was founded by the survivors of the Holocaust. They are determined, and will, keep it - and you'd better not get in their way. God Bless them ...
p.s. I'm Catholic and half German.

Answer 2

The holocaust happened because of hate. Jews were blamed for a number of things that happened in Germany that caused Germany to lose the first World War. Someone had to be responible for the loss of this war because Germany was a superior race and should have won.

This hate had been going on much longer of course. Jews were thought to have been the ones who killed Jesus by Christians. Since Jews stood out as different in many societies and were focused on business, banking, and commodities trading they were suspected of not working for common goals with the rest of European societies.

These beliefs and hateful thoughts took off in much or Europe and climaxed with the holocaust during World War Two. Some of these thoughts were readily accepted by a number of countries and nobody was overly willing to help Jews.

Answer 3

Because of Adolf Hitler, he hated Jews. So he wanted to kill them. He wanted to become king of the world practically. What he did was wrong, because people of all ages were going through such a horrible lifestyle. They had to get their heads shaved and have no clothes on. As if that wasn't enough, they had bunks to sleep on, but there was no matress and they had to pile a lot of people onto just one bunk. Those bunks weren't very bigger than the average twin size bed too.
Hitler wanted them to shower but the shower had gas to kill 'em. I watched a movie in history a few years ago about them getting gased, and a lady talked about being a teenager then. She said that she remembered feeling very scared and she had prayed so hard that her life wouldn't end there. The showers never came on then. Plus, they had these ovens and they put you in there and burn you to ashes. It was awful. They had chimmneys and you'd die in there too. It was said by some people who were at the concentration camps, that they could hear the screams and yells of people while they were dying. There was one boy who was a Nazi solider and he to put his own mother into the oven!
In the video he was crying and was saying that he just couldn't do it and he yelled at the Nazis and said, "You can't do this to people. I can't burn my own mother!"

Many other horrible things happened, including people being separated from their family and friends. One teen didn't find his family for a whole four years! Imagine not knowing if your family was dead or alive! Thank goodness that can never happen again, the holocaust was one of the most saddest history stories I had ever studied about in school.

Answer 4

I think it is a shame that we forget the other victims of the holocaust. Not only were Jews put to death, but the mentally ill, gypsies, gay people, any one who was up to Hitlers idea of a ideal person. I think we focus to much on the Jews, granted they were the focus of the holocaust but there were not the only victims. As to the cause, I think it is fear of what we don't understand. Fear taken to the extreme.

Answer 5

Hitler was dyslexic and misspelt thrill when he was trying to get them to leave Germany: "Take the Jews to camp and thrill them, make it real gas so they wont ever want to return".

Answer 6

I do think it was all a militaristic-personal gratifying-strategic plan to spur greater controversy into WWII.

Answer 7

so speilberg could make many off it.

Answer 8

ask hitler