2006-09-24 20:29:10 · 14 answers · asked by doggylegsniff 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Most likely not. But there were definately unjust atrocities.
2006-09-24 20:30:09 · answer #1 · answered by X 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
What do people look for when they ask a question like this? Are you expecting to learn the truth, here? Only a lazy mind would look for an answer "here" to such an incredibly important question. Your question is too generalized too. History accounts differ, one historian writes such & such and another writes something else. Read Mein Kampf, where Hitler blames the loss of the 1st WW on the Jews and what he will do to them if he gets the chance. Would you have wanted to be a Jew in Germany, Poland, Russia between 1933 & 1945? Think about it, use your own mind. Did Hitler want the Jew's removed? Yes he did, so why would he only try to kill one million when he could kill all of them if he could? According to Hitler there were many undesirable groups in Europe, mentally retarded, physically handicapped, all sorts of ethnic groups. The Jew's topped his list but they were not the only people he considered subhuman. He thought the Russians were subhuman. Never did one leader of an attacking Nation ever underestimate an enemy as Hitler did Russia. Hitler was a nut case. The war was lost to Germany as early as 1942. And could have been prevented all together if France & England had called his bluff when Germany began to rearm or when they entered the Rhineland or Austria or the Sudetanland and Chekoslovakia. WW2 was completely unnecessary. See what 1 lunatic can do when he is not challenged?
2006-09-25 00:56:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it was probably much worse than your high school history text books say. They have been censored and castrated by politically correct morons who don't want to "offend" anyone.
Lots of the sad and gory details have been left out. The 700 pages of your history text books could easily be filled with atrocities committed by German, Russian, and Eastern European soldiers toward Jewish prisoners during World War II.
have a nice day.
2006-09-25 10:33:43 · answer #3 · answered by mjtpopus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More or less. During those years and later, similar atrocities also happened in several other countries, such as the Soviet Union, the Popular Republic of China, and to a lesser extent, the US too. Too little is being said about these other "holocausts", in proportion to the number of victims.
2006-09-25 05:49:55 · answer #4 · answered by jarynth3 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most people who read this will have only been ableto read history book for there information so this is a little circular however yeah I think it pretty much did the area is extremely well researched and if there were any major inaccurtes they would have been exposed by now
2006-09-25 09:37:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No of course not. All the Jews who used to live in Europe just decided to leave their houses and their businesses, give up their jobs, abandon their synagogues and have a huge, international game of hide and seek. I think they've take it too far and they should come out now.
Look in the wardrobe and, if you find any, tell them to stop at once!
Idiot!
2006-09-24 20:51:27 · answer #6 · answered by scotsman 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
there was definitely a systematic effort to rid Germany of the Jews but i think its possible that the systematic effort by the Nazis to eradicate them may be exaggerated. I've heard if you look at the census reports that were done before and after the war and take in the consideration the number of Jews who were killed in the Holocaust, the numbers don't add up.
2006-09-24 20:44:50 · answer #7 · answered by ramzi602001 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, sadly it did. Adolf Eichmann's defence was that he was just following orders when he implemented the holocaust. Albert Speer's defence was that he didn't know the holocaust was taking place at the time. Goring's defence was that the holocaust wasn't his department. You would think that if anyone was going to be a holocaust denier those three would be, but they didn't dispute the facts of the holocaust at their trials.
2006-09-24 20:49:28 · answer #8 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
nothing happened the way it's reported in history books. 'the winners write the history'
what we do know is that jews died, lots of jews died, and the nazis (and hitler's view on life) were to blame for it. the rest is interpretation.
2006-09-24 20:52:04 · answer #9 · answered by ilya 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no they would most likely will sugar coat it for most of the history books you would have to get accounts from the survivors for the best facts.
2006-09-24 20:40:16 · answer #10 · answered by Kevin E 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋