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 Berlin Wall to come down?

Answer 1

The Jews cried out for the Allies to bomb the areas where the concentration camps were, but not only was this inconvievable to the allies who did want to be responsible for thousands of deaths, but they did not have the long range bombers to do this. Other experts on the Nazi war machine also knew it would be no time at all before more camps and ovens were erected. Today Israel is armed to the teeth and will never again adhere to their religious rule of "thou shalt not kill". Defence of oneself or ones family cannot be deemed murder anymore, not by today's Jews - thank God.

Answer 2

There were lots of Jews that fought back. Therewas lots that tried to run and help others to do so as well. Why the western world didn't react was because they didn't understand. They KNEW about it. They just didn't understand. They knew Jews were being isolated in society and eventually deported. They knew the Nazis were not exactly friendly jailers, but when you're fighting a war for your very survival and millions upon millions of people are dying whatever your ethnicity, it would be so easy to lose six to eight million people in the way that they did. As to the underground. What underground? No one came back from places like Auschwitz of Treblanka. The only people that survived those places were the slaves the Red Army found when the liberated the camps and hung the Nazis that were left there. In the meantime anyone that had a chance to do anything underground had to deal with one of the most effective political police organizations the world has ever seen (namely the Gestapo) I guess what I am saying is once the Holocaust was happening, it was already too late to react. There was nothing anyone outside that system could have done beyond what they did to stop it. Had we been more proactive long before it got that bad however, well that's a different story.

Answer 3

The Holocaust wasn't really know about until after the war. It wasn't something Germany advertised to the world. Many Jews did fight back, they were immediately killed.
Watch the pianist for what I think is a great portrayal of what happened during the Holocaust, it shows how they tried to fight back. It's not the usual story and the concentration camp prisoners look a little too healthy but starving actors wasn't really the point here. A strong stomach is recommended.

As for the Berlin wall, that was about the cold war more so then WWII.

Answer 4

I really want to answer this but I can't just go on, or compare exactly things of the past to tendencies in existential history or the now. Just safe to say it's going on to some extent now, absent the sociological circumstances that were requisite for the holocaust to happen...on western soil.

Conversely, squads are running around Iraq right now, killing gays and dudes who, well, are different dudes fo whatever reason. Israelis are whacking kids for ill reason, and such. It's gonna happen--it's just all about the right time and right place that makes a holocaust possible. For the jews, Europe and Russia were for a long time going on about the "jewish question" way before Hitler was born. He was the guy, at the right time, who wrought that all that to s*** and beyond. Never forget that he killed lots of other people too. It's all about politics, the same stuff that happens today, sadly.

Nobody notices. It's life as usual, though your generation and creed it might not hit.

Answer 5

I wasn;t there, but I think there was a vast misconception as to what was happening until the Allies actually saw it. Rumors and such of the activities in the camps must have seemed outragious. Even the Jews and othrs that were transported did it ike sheep, expecting humane treatment.

As an example of what can happen under your nose. There is a prison a mile from my house. I have NO idea what goes on there. I suspect most Germans were the same. RUmors would be rumors if you essentially trusted overnment.

Answer 6

well, before i answer your question, let me ask you this. if the secret prisons being run by the CIA to extort info from the suspected terrorists wasn't splashed all over the news, would u have known about them? it's the same way w/the concentration camps. when governments *want* something to stay secret, they get their best ppl on it to keep it that way until someone's conscience pricks them, and they say something, irregardless of the consequences. the only reason we know about the Holocaust, really, is bc the Axis Powers lost the war. if they had won, we probably would still be in the dark that it ever happened.

Answer 7

there have been Jews who did combat against the Holocaust. there grew to become into the Warsaw Ghetto revolt the place the Jews fought valiantly against the German military, regardless of the reality that they did not win. there have been uprisings interior the dying camps: Treblina (August 1943), Sobibor (October 1943) and Auschwitz (October 1944). there have been Jewish partisan communities in lots of international locations (specially eastern Europe) that fought back. Jewish volunteers from Palestine additionally tried to establish resistance - Hannah Szenes is the main nicely-generic guy or woman who tried to try this. This quote is from Wikipedia sums up the Jewish spirit interior the Holocaust: "In each and every ghetto, in each and every deportation prepare, in each and every exertions camp, even interior the dying camps, the desire to stand as much as grew to become into sturdy, and took many varieties. combating with the few weapons that could desire to be discovered, guy or woman acts of defiance and protest, the braveness of acquiring nutrition and water below the prospect of dying, the prevalence of refusing to allow the Germans their very final desire to brag over panic and melancholy. Even passivity grew to become right into a sort of resistance. To die with dignity grew to become right into a sort of resistance. to stand as much as the demoralizing, brutalizing tension of evil, to refuse to be decreased to the point of animals, to stay by way of the torment, to survive the tormentors, those too have been acts of resistance. only to grant a witness of those events in testimony grew to become into, interior the tip, a contribution to victory. just to stay to tell the story grew to become right into a victory of the human spirit." The Holocaust or genocide against the Jews can in no way ensue lower back using fact we've our own State (Israel) now that defends and protects all Jews interior the State and international. so some distance as why the worldwide enable the Holocaust pass on for consequently long, consistent with danger they separated the Holocaust from the belief of triumphing the conflict - and triumphing the conflict grew to become right into a concern extremely than combating the homicide of the Jews and persons interior the dying camps.

Answer 8

The so-called "Holocaust" wasn't widely known about until after the war. The death toll has risen by a million since then.

Answer 9

A lot of them thought they were just going to be interned or relocated, just like the Japanese Americans were.

Answer 10

As i said before it was a farce.

Aliied bombers bombed Germany into the grave..taking away their ability to produce food, medicine ect ect.

If you had limited supplies..would you not feed and help your own people first?

What would happen to the rest?

They would of course die from starvation and disease.