Why didn't the world seem to react to the Holocaust before it did?

Question

It was observed that the Jews went to their death submissively and why was it they didn't react? Could this sort of submission be possible again? Granted, at first they didn't suspect anything, but wouldn't word get back via underground sources and if it did, why didn't they react? Why did the world let it go on as long as it did? And while we're on it, why did it take so long for the Wall to come down?

Answer 1

Simple answer = The 'world' was not aware of the holocaust until after the fact.

Better question is:
Why did the world take so long to react to Hilter continuing to ignore requests to stop invading other countries?

I watched a PBS documentary on this... the USA really dropped the ball on that one because at the time, we were trying to stay out of it. It wasn't until Pearl Harbor that we finally got involved.

Answer 2

there have been numerous Jews that fought back. Therewas plenty that attempted to run and help others to realize this besides. Why the western international did no longer react became because of the fact they did no longer understand. They KNEW approximately it. they only did no longer understand. They knew Jews have been being remoted in society and finally deported. They knew the Nazis weren't precisely friendly jailers, yet once you're struggling with a conflict to your very survival and thousands and thousands upon thousands and thousands of individuals are dying regardless of your ethnicity, it would be fairly undemanding to lose six to eight million human beings interior the way that they did. As to the underground. What underground? no person got here back from places like Auschwitz of Treblanka. the only those that survived those places have been the slaves the purple military stumbled on while the liberated the camps and hung the Nazis that have been left there. interior the intervening time absolutely everyone that had a raffle to do something underground had to handle between the main efficient political police agencies the international has ever seen (specifically the Gestapo) i assume what i'm asserting is as quickly as the Holocaust became occurring, it became already too late to react. there became no longer something absolutely everyone outdoors that gadget might have executed previous what they did to stop it. Had we been extra proactive long earlier it have been on condition that undesirable even nonetheless, properly that's a diverse tale.

Answer 3

There were Jews who did fight against the Holocaust.

There was the Warsaw Ghetto uprising where the Jews fought valiantly against the German army, although they did not win.

There were uprisings in the death camps: Treblina (August 1943), Sobibor (October 1943) and Auschwitz (October 1944).

There were Jewish partisan groups in many countries (mainly Eastern Europe) that fought back.

Jewish volunteers from Palestine also tried to organize resistance - Hannah Szenes is the most well-known person who tried to do this.

This quote is from Wikipedia sums up the Jewish spirit in the Holocaust:

"In every ghetto, in every deportation train, in every labor camp, even in the death camps, the will to resist was strong, and took many forms. Fighting with the few weapons that would be found, individual acts of defiance and protest, the courage of obtaining food and water under the threat of death, the superiority of refusing to allow the Germans their final wish to gloat over panic and despair.

Even passivity was a form of resistance. To die with dignity was a form of resistance. To resist the demoralizing, brutalizing force of evil, to refuse to be reduced to the level of animals, to live through the torment, to outlive the tormentors, these too were acts of resistance. Merely to give a witness of these events in testimony was, in the end, a contribution to victory. Simply to survive was a victory of the human spirit."

The Holocaust or genocide against the Jews can never happen again because we have our own State (Israel) now that defends and protects all Jews in the State and worldwide.

As far as why the world let the Holocaust go on for so long, perhaps they separated the Holocaust from the idea of winning the war - and winning the war was a priority rather than stopping the murder of the Jews and other people in the death camps.

Answer 4

The first to know about the Holocaust were the american via the IBM company. IBM provided the nazis with a sophisticated automated system for numbering , stealing and collecting data on the Jews being exterminated. This is the reason the world knows the exact number of jews that died. at the worst time the atrocities were committed against jews : IBM was sending customer support in the concentration camp..

sources: see the movie the corporation

also GWB gran-papa help the nazis build the death camps, gran papa Bush made a fortume helping the nazis..

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/bushnonazi.html

the american did not reat becuase they didnt care.

Answer 5

once reports started to come in about the holocaust they were not believed as similar reports had been made during WWI that were invalid...and there was also a major war going on and being prepared for against Germany and there really wasn't much being reported on what was happening to the Jews and others who were victims of the holocaust (led by Hitler, who ordered the Holocaust) so inadvertently there was fighting against the holocaust... there was also so much to sort threw after WWII and the holocaust ended that there wasn't all the details and facts we now get in our classrooms.....
what wall? the Berlin wall? that's kind of related .... but more so 2 the aftermath of the end of WWII

i could say a lot more of this but don't feel like typing or going into more specifics

Answer 6

Here ya go. You have no gun, you have trustingly left your car door unlocked. You are on your way to the mall to buy a hot CD and waiting at a red light when a crackhead with a "9" points it at your head and tells you to get out of your car. What do you do?

I run up to you on the passenger side and yell for you to roll down the window. You press the button and I tell you this crackhead will kill you if you don't do what he says! What do you do?!?

As for why the world let this go on so long; I think it was b/c we didn't have satellites and such for communication. We tried to validate everything we were told before we took action and that takes time. Lots and lots of time back in the 40's.

I believe the Berlin Wall came down when it was appropriate to come down.

Answer 7

Boy, you got your five points worth. That is a string of questions.

Our president did not want us to go to war. A lot of influential Americans were friends of Hitler. These include Joe Kennedy, Henry Ford, and Prescot Bush. So, we only got involved when we were forced to.

I never could understand why the Jews did not rebel. Perhaps because it began gradually and not suddenly.
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Answer 8

Most people are submissive when a gun is pointed at them.

Also remember, the entire continent was at war. And denial by the population is a very powerful tool in the hands of any totalitarian regime.

Answer 9

They were in disbelief.

Answer 10

Because it's a farce PERIOD