Why was the holocaust the saddest chapter in history?

Answer 1

This is your opinion. It is very hard to decide which is the darkest, saddest, or sickest time in History. There certainly is too many. Man is a sick species.

One man convinced a whole nation that anyone who was different than them deserved to die. If you had the wrong hair color, eye color, were mentally or physically disabled, or a gypsy, you were dead. He wanted to create a master race. A race of all Germans. A race with no Jews. A race that was perfect, no flaws at all. Where no one was different.

It is sad because the world knew what was going on and didn't stop it. Not until he started invading other countries, countries that were allies of more powerful countries, and then they began to get involved. If he had never invaded Poland, he might still be alive today (as a very, very old man), still killing off many more people, people that are different in the smallest way. And the world would stand by, like there was nothing going on.

6 million Jewish people were killed. That does not include the handicapped, mentally disabled, or gypsies (those being the other main targets). I believe a total of 12 million were killed.

Not to mention how many more were killed in WWII.

Can you figure out why it was such a horrible time? People still live today who witnessed it. You can read stories about it. I suggest you read some, as long as you have a strong stomach. It's a sickening story. It's a horrible time in History. It changed the lives of so many people. Many children died. Others survived, but ended up being orphans. People lost their entire families.

Those that hid Jewish people were executed if they got caught. So many were brave, and many died.

I think it's obvious why it's a sad chapter in History.

Answer 2

It's recognized as one of the saddest chapters in our history because it was one of the most well recorded atrocities we have. Much like slavery in America or the Trail of Tears, the injustice and cruelty was known but few cared and fewer still tried to do anything about it. The atrcocites commited in these instances are percieved as worse because, looking back, we are ashamed that those who could help chose not to. In the back of our minds we assume (and hope) that it was fear that held people back. Often, however, it was not fear, but just plain selfishness. Some (not just Nazi's) just took it as an excuse to take the property of others, regardless of the morality or consequences of their actions.

There was also the belief that those people deserved to be treated like that because they were less than human. Some people convinced themselves it wasn't their place to help.... that someone else would make it stop. The holocaust is an example of the horrific things humanity is capable of.

Answer 3

likely the reaction of someone who replaced into requested if the Holocaust replaced into worse than slavery does not be making an allowance for the slave commerce itself. speaking for myself I concentrated on the circumstances of slavery if you survived the trans-Atlantic vacation. it really is likely the reason. It also relies upon on how a lot study is done into both topics, and the excuses in the back of each and every. Slavery and the slave commerce replaced into not undertaken to kill a slave, although I agree that that is a horrendous violation of humanity. Had Hitler's very last answer persevered so long because the slave commerce and by no potential been reduce short the numbers of Jews who died might want to were a lot extra. and that is not consisting of the shown truth that over 10 million were killed in the course of the Holocaust, because to boot Jewish people, Catholics and many different non secular and cultural peoples were annihilated.

Answer 4

Because one group tried to kill of an entire race of peoplee. Jews were brutally killed or forced to work also anyone that tried to help them was sent to concentration camps. It is worst genocide in world history. Also most of the Nazis escaped so they were not prosecuted the way they should have been. Nazis and whoever helped them were not justified at all, people lives were changed forever. The world was forever changed. The US however didn't do anything about it for a while, only after the war was the truth uncovered about the Concentration and the mass murders of the innocent peopl.

Answer 5

The answer to your question is a matter of opinion. There have been many sad chapters in history, the holocaust being only one of them. To me, it was the period of U.S. held slavery in which many more died than those in the holocaust. History is crowded with very sad chapters. Man is not a peaceful animal.

Answer 6

It's not. It's only the most recent & most written about. It is because of the beginning of the media today as we know it. Imagine if they had TV's & radios back when Ghengis Khan was alive. We still talk about him today & there were no published reports back then. I forgot to mention the internet, if that was around when history as we know it was first being recorded imagine the things that could have been stopped before they even got started. Not just Hitler, but even before Christ was born. Information back in the days of the egyptians , Romans & before would have changed the course of history as we know it.

Answer 7

It is very sad that a country such as Germany which everybody considered a highly civilized country could be so controlled or should I say hypnotized or manipulated to support this madman in his plan to eliminate 6,000,000 common Jewish people, between 1934 and 1945

People who had contributed with Germany in the I World War, in science, industry, music,art,
engineers, doctors, lawyers, clerks etc.etc.

Many were dragged from their houses at midnight taken to concentration camps and gassed to death with their families.

Together with the Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and Communists were also butchered without mercy as part of a German policy to eliminate inferior races.

Its the saddest chapter in history and the Germans are the sole culprits.

Answer 8

Because innocent people, thousands of them, were killed for such a small insignificant reason. And people were controlled, brainwashed into thinking that this horrible genocide was okay. It's not. Just because you believe something different, doesn't make you the "inferior race". It's not okay for one mentally incapable, demented person to take control of many others and command them to kill even more, and scare them into hidding, hidding for their lives! If you were to put yourself in the shoes of the holocaust victims, you would feel sympathy,
What about the concentration camps? Starvation, people being killed in crowded rooms by poisonous gas, horrible living conditions, sleeping nothing but wood and straw, being cold and having barely any clothing, being seperated from your family members, not knowing wether they were still alive, all JUST because you chose to believe in something. All Just Because some demented person brainwashed even more people into believing you were the "inferior" race.....

sickens me terribly.

Answer 9

Because more people died for arbitrary reasons than in any other period.

That's not to say that the hate which caused it has only been around for the past 70 years, just that it was the first time genocide was technically possible.

Answer 10

I think because people around the world (the US included) knew what was going on and did nothing for several years. Plus, there were many people who applied to enter the US to escape the wrath, but were denied access.