Lesson from history: 12 million people, 6 million of whom were jews, died during the holocost, did you learn?

Question

Have we, as a society, learned that there was during the 1930s and 1940s, concentration camps set up in Germany, where over 12 million human beings were executed, and we know this from the tens of thousands of survivor stories,

Have we as a society learned this and how to avoid it from happening again, or will we suffer the propoganda of hate and fear in this century.

Who will take a stand against hate?

Answer 1

Do you think anyone has ever learned anything from war?
All of it is unnecessary death.

Whether one person was killed or millions, it is wrong. One person's death is no more tragic than another.

Answer 2

I took history class in 1985/86 when I was a Junior in high school. Other than a few odd facts here and there they did not cover the holocaust. My high school history did not teach anything that had a lot of controversy. So my father took that part of my education over and he didn't hold anything back and what I saw and read sickened me.

While I think that society has for the most part learned the lesson there are others that don't care what the lesson entailed and are willing to do it again with full knowledge of what they are undertaking. In their own sick sense they look at it as something to aspire to rather than something that should never ever happen again on this earth.

It is up to each and every one of us who finds it ghastly, heinous and evil to stand up against it. One person alone can't do it.. only strength in numbers.

Answer 3

"We thought it was 'Never again', but it has been again and again - over and over again - ever since... the innocent have been massacred and the perpetrators have walked away scot free."

- Benjamin Ferencz, chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg World War II war crimes trials, speaking in 1997

Bangladesh 1971: 1 million killed.
Cambodia 1975-1978: 1 million killed.
Rwanda, 1994 1 million killed.
Democratic Republic of Congo, 1998-2002: 4 million killed.

No one did anything of any consequence. The holocaust denialists are at best ignorant, and at worst maliciously evil. But the rest of society has to shoulder the blame for pretending that these other events in our recent past didn't occur.

After saying that Rwanda shouldn't happen again in 2004, the world is conscientiously ignoring the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, and the continuing massacres in DRC. The only explanation I can think of is that the people dying are not white.

Answer 4

There are people who don’t think there is anything wrong with these actions.

In Germany in the 1930’s, all adolescents were required to join the Hitler Youth organization. Young women in the Hitler Youth spent a year in a different part of the country on agricultural and other work assignments. They lived in dormitories separate from the young men. But, the young women and young men (we’re talking teenagers, here), worked on many of the same assignments, and the frequent rape of female Hitler Youth by male Hitler Youth was a problem. Many parents tried to keep their daughters out of the Hitler Youth for this very reason. What was the government’s response? To take away the jobs of the parents if they didn’t comply. And to write down official policy that it really wasn’t a problem if females were raped in the Hitler Youth, because that meant more pregnancies, which meant there would be more Germans coming along to build the strength of the Reich.

It clearly wasn’t “wrong” in the eyes of the law to rape if you were a Hitler Youth. It clearly was wrong in the eyes of the law to try and protect your daughter from such rape.

It is quite easy to sit in North America in 2006, and say this is absolutely wrong, based on the law and based on the standards of our society. But law and societal standards are fleeting things, and the same standards don’t hold the world over. After all, they are constructed and shaped by those in power, those with might.

You can substitute in any “crime” or “sin” that you please. If you think King David was evil, then I can refute you by saying his subjects didn’t think he was evil by the standards of his day. If you think the traveller or the friendly older gentleman or the rapists in the account of the Benjamite civil war were doing wrong, then I can refute you by saying you’re trying to hold them to 21st century North American standards.

If you do not agree that there is such a thing as absolute right and absolute wrong, then you don’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to railing against injustice or crimes against men or crimes against women, or anything at all, really.

Because nothing under the sun is wrong. It is not possible to do wrong to someone, because there is no such thing as something that is always wrong. You can always find someone that thinks it is okay, and who are you to say that you are correct, and they are not?

Answer 5

Genocides and human atrocities have happened through history, are currently happening, and will probably continue to happen. Take a look at Africa sometime. It is good to be ever vigilant, but sadly we can save everyone, and protecting the world from itself is somewhat of an impossible goal. But let's all do what we can to work together and preach understanding and sympathy for each other regardless of our racial, cultural, and religous differences, and have the will to protect each other.

Answer 6

I'd love to use the slogan "Never Again" but unfortunately genocide has been occurring in different parts of the globe for centuries.

One could only hope that people begin to realize that, and we actually take a stand against the genocide of today, rather than simply congratulating ourselves for standing up for it in the past.

Answer 7

Look what happened in WW2. Look how many suffered and no one did anything for the longest time.
It does happen in the world today. Look at Africa look at North Korea. People are suffering world wide. And what does the world do? Turn away and hope it goes away much as they did when Hitler was invading countries. Very few are paying attention as far as I can see.

Answer 8

DID U MEAN HOLOCAUST. I dont believe that history will repeat itself like that again, because we wont let it happen again. Maybe we should worry about all the mass destruction of wild life and the rain forest, because the way this world is going we wont have 2 worry about anything cuz this world will be gone. Frankly we should worry about our own country, nobody sees all the murder, starvation, poverty in our country!!!!

Answer 9

not enitrely sure if your statistics are accurate,

but anyway

i think we have learned this but the only way to stop it is to go to a country and stop it, but we only do that if the country has something we want, and thats the sad truth.

i think there will always be hate, but if we truly try and take a stand, as you said, then we will be able to fight it and prevent it from hurting people anymore.

I WILL TAKE A STAND AGAINST HATE

Answer 10

Read some history of other parts of the world - this was not a unique event

want an example? how many native Americans were killed in the Americas during the "Indian Wars"?

I don't think humans will ever learn - will ever stop hating each other.