Did the Holocaust really happen?

Answer 1

First of all, this is not a stupid question. The holocaust is so fundemental to the west's understanding of history and morality that its basic nature should be investigated and questioned whenever possible.

The simple answer to your question, and the answer you have allrady had many times over, is 'yes, it did'. Detailed historico-demographic research into the Jewish population of Europe before and after the second world war suggests that about six million Jews dissapeared between 1939 and 1945. What is more, it seems hundreds of thousands of romany gypsies, and tens of thousands of political disidants, gays and disabled people also disapeared during this time. The only reasonable explanation for this is provided by the Nazi camps which 'processed' (to use the Nazi term) enemies of the Nazi regime during this period. This means that they were killed.
The evidence is readily available, but admitidly is some what obscured by the amount of texts, sites and so on which take the figures and facts for granted. There are two major centres for holocaust studies in the world, the Holocaust museums in Jerusalem and New York. If you are able to visit these places you will be exposed to some of the most horific revelations you are ever likely to experience.
The Holocaust stands as one of the greatest endightments of humanity's capacity for evil, but it should be rememberred that it was not a unique event. During the same century, perhaps 10 million died in Stalin's russia and 12-15 million died during the Sino-Japanese war. A larger proportion of the totality of the Armenian people were killed during the Armenian genocide purpertrated by the turks than Jews died during the holocaust. The same is true of East Timorese that dies during the Indonesian occupation. Genocide is still all to common, and is happening even today as Iraq decends into civil war, and Indonesia brutaly surpresses the rights, aspirations and lives of those living in Indonesian New Guinea.

Answer 2

Yes, the Holocaust really did happen...twice in fact...the first one was the Catholic Church with the Spanish Inquisitions and was against non catholics and Jews; the second one was during WWII against the Jewish people. And lets not forget the Americans against the First Nations People, or the Serbians in former Yugoslavia, or Russia. Probably more countries also guilty of Holocaust as well, but none come to mind at this time.

Answer 3

It's confusing for me because I remember but no one was around. I was the 'first one in the building' and I was 5 yrs old and the test the Nazis devised was to see if the other Jews could tell I had been raped in there. They kept me isolated so I didnt see anything happen to anyone else. I think they hypnotized me and made me look like a Nazi so now that is in the collective unconscious probably affecting the way people feel when they are around me. I still think Hitler was also hypnotized, that he was a tool of the Nazis but I could be wrong. I still feel like it could be going on now because, where are all the Jewish people? And people seem to be uncomfortable if I am thinking of converting to Judaism, I get really paranoid and it's not like they even understand what Jewish IS because the Nazis altered everything to make Jews look evil. What I remember is never having to eat, playing with toys, and lots of love; which I havent been able to feel in this lifetime unless I see a Jewish person because I still need healing and it cant happen any other way. Also even though I remember living with Jewish people maybe I was just a tool of the Nazis but my heart says not. Either way, maybe I have to earn love now

Answer 4

Go to Poland and see the death camps! If you think they were erected by the allies after WW2. Look at the films taken by journalists with the allies. How you account for all the art work taken??? It must of been taken by somone.

You must also ask the question what Holocaust are you talking about? The one carried out by Germany, the Soviet Union or the one s in China, Burma or even in parts of Africa as shown on television in the past 10 years????

Answer 5

Of course. But there are many holocaust's now. Rwanda, Sudan, The former Yugoslavia. Instead of reliving the past, we should work on the future so it does not happen again. Jewish people need to realize that they are causing the death of many Lebanese. That is also a holocaust.

Answer 6

Of course it did and more than just the one that occured in Nazi Germany. There have been many, Iraq, Afganistan, Rwanda, South Africa are just a few more, the biggest was in Russia but it happened at the time of the cold war so very little is known about it. How can you not realise the travesty that happened to the Jewish community was real, do me a favour and read schindlers list 'its a book' and that will give you a better idea.

Answer 7

Of course it did. For plenty of evidence, check out:

The Shoah Foundation or Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation or Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a non-profit organization established by Steven Spielberg in 1994, one year after completing the Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List. The original aim of the foundation was to record testimonies of all of the remaining survivors of the Holocaust (which in Hebrew is called the Shoah) as a collection of videotaped interviews.

The foundation proceeded to collect over 50,000 interviews over the next few years. Testimonies were received from many different survivors, including Jewish, homosexual, Jehovah's Witness, Sinti and Roma survivors, political prisoners, and survivors of the eugenics policy.

In addition to survivor testimony, interviews were also conducted with rescuers, aid providers, liberators, witnesses and participants in war crimes trials.

As of 2001, the foundation announced its new mission: "To overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry and the suffering they cause through the educational use of the Foundation's visual history testimonies."

In January 2006, the Shoah Foundation partnered with and relocated to the University of Southern California and was redubbed the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.

Answer 8

If it didn't I would like someone to explain where all the films and newsreels came from. What happened to over six million Jews, gypsies, gays and individuals who did not fit into the German "standards." Asking a question like that is paramount to asking if Jesus really existed; did World War I or II ever happen; did Elvis really die; was John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King really assassinated.

Answer 9

Hello!! :o) YES - the Holocaust really did happen. It was one of the most horrific displays of what can happen when 'man' pushes aside God and follows himself. It's amazing what 'man' can do when he buys into the lie that he is not accountable for his actions. To be very honest with you - I'm not surprised that it happened. For it is in 'mans' nature to be self-serving. [At any cost] Craig!! :o)

Answer 10

Yes