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while the fact that the jews were killed is well-known, others killed by the Germans were totally forgotten?

2007-01-14 03:34:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

Also, allied countries did brutal things as well, but this fact is also forgotten. It's like only the Germans can be brutal?!?!

2007-01-14 03:35:34 · update #1

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The Nazies were responsible for over 12 million deaths in the camps during their "Reign of Terror". about 6 million Jews, which was the largest single group. There were also Gypsies, communists,physically or mentally challenged individuals, homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses & German political individuals and ordinary Germans who spoke out against Hitler or tried to protect others from being murdered.
People judge the Germans, but there isn't any nation that couldn't be caught up the same way.
In the US today, the government is doing a great job of whipping up hatred of Islamic peoples. Only history will show what if any terrorist acts committed against US or their allies was actually committed by Muslims. A lot of Americans think what is happening at Guantanimo Bay is ok. It is widely accepted that less tha15% of detainees had anything to do with fighting Americans in Afghanistan, but that doesn't matter. They have become a symbol and therefore the scapegoats that are needed, to justify maintaining that prison and others around the world.
There is not a major power that has not committed atrocities of some kind.

2007-01-14 04:08:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

The others who were killed by the Nazis aren't totally forgotten. I think everyone who knows at least a bit about history knows that millions of others were killed too, including East Europeans, Gypsies, homosexuals, handicapped people, political opponents and Christians who resisted the Nazis. It is simply not true to say no one knew that. I have never met anyone who didn't know that or denied that. But it has to be noted that what was done to the Jews was systematic genocide, and the only other group of people who were victim of that were the Gypsies, but they were less in number.

About the Allies, you can't compare that, they fought a war to stop Nazi Germany, and didn't do anything that comes close to the crimes of Nazis. At no time of the war Germans were systematically murdered. I am German and I heard about the bombings of German cities, my grandmother was in Berlin during the war and my mother was there as a baby, and I also knew people who were expelled from East Prussia, but you know normally people don't complain because they know what Nazi Germany did during the war and that Hitler and Nazi Germany were responsible for the war and not the Allies, and they know what the USA and Britain did for Germany after the war, so no one is bitter with them.

2007-01-14 05:40:03 · answer #2 · answered by Elly 5 · 0 0

The Nazis also sought to exterminate the Roma (gypsies), homosexuals, etc.
There may have been some things that could be deemed attrocities commited by the Allied forces such as the fire bombing of Dresden. But nothing as horrendous as the planned cold blooded murder of millions of people in the name of ethinic cleansing.
It is true that the Soviets under Stalin killed millions of Ukrainians and others too. Stalin was a ruthless dictator and not much better than Hitler if at all. The fact is little studied and not as well known.
It's to bad that the rest of the Allies needed the Soviets to help crush the Third Reich. We would have done the world a great service if we had let Patton drive on through Berlin and keep going until he captured Moscow. There never would have been a "Cold War". But then again, we may never have set foot on the moon. Our space program was driven by the fact that the Soviets had one too. We couldn't let them have any type of military advantage so we spent hundreds of billions of dollars keeping ahead of them in technology. We eventually bankrupted them by out spending them. That's the main reason for the collapse of the U.S.S.R.

2007-01-14 04:13:38 · answer #3 · answered by smilindave1 4 · 1 0

Some were very rich, most less so. In Germany and Austria, the rich ones mostly left in advance but in Poland, France and the other countries occupied by the Germans in WWII, they had little chance to escape and were rounded up like the poor ones.

2016-05-24 00:18:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Besides Jews, the Nazis sought to exterminate gypsies, homosexuals, and the mentally retarded, among other "undesirable" groups.

If the allies committed atrocities, they were nowhere near the depth and breadth of those of the Nazis.

2007-01-14 03:44:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

War is a filthy place to be especially so for civilians--When ever & where ever in history, war exists--many innocent humans ceased to exist. It seems as if your question is in the form of a statement, and a good one.
If I may I would like to provide an answer to your statement, that you may not have considered.
If you are a tracer of history look at Bible history that has happened,-- ( most people prefer to relegate this to never-never land-)-try viewing the Bible as a record that had many definite peaks of peace. Do this as an experiment--you might find the results quite interesting.

For instance try this, rather than relegate Bible History to some obscure thought. Try listing incidents in the Bible that had major results ,some of peace some of more waywardness,once God intervened, even though you may not prefer to believe the accounts! Then do some actual research as to the possible authenticity of the scenarios. both in a secular & Biblical way.

You might find that hope can indeed be imbuded with strength by considering these accounts realistically--then you will have to decide if you will allow yourself to benefit by the actual occurrences.-if indeed God did really act as a rescuer of the innocent. I found in my investigation of the full picture of history, of over 50 years, that it indeed has the ear marks of truth. Try out these incidents:

1. God rescuing Noah and his family, from a violent world.
2. God rescuing Lot and his 2 daughters from Sodom.
3. The rescuing of over 1 million Israelites from Egypt.
4. The march into the promised land , and the judgements upon depraved nations, Jericho, and other Cananite lands, and the sparing of the innocents(Even at times actual nations: Gibbeonites, Nineveh(Whom Jonah preached to) etc.
5 During the period of Judges of whom Samson, Gideon, Barak were, there was a time of protection for the Israelites when they did not act like the nations around them.

These are just a few of the many interventions my the Almighty
that did bring a measure of true peace for the peoples involved. God acted as the chief executioner himself, in most of the cases by far--showing , if you wish to believe it, that it indeed was His judgements.

I suggest you follow a similar plan as Former chief justice of the U.S.A Supreme Court Salmon P. Chase carried out. He had doubt of the Bible being an accurate record and in the inspiration of it by God. He decided to examine it as he would any matter in court, taking evidence for and against, he said:
"It was a long, serious, and profound study: and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural book, tha is has come from God".-- " A Book of Books": An Introduction 1948 p194.

I think I can relate to uou with your thinking this thought of history having meaning, not just being a vicious circle of happenings, seemingly going on & on please note:

(Romans 15:4) “4 For all the things that were written aforetime were written for our instruction, that through our endurance and through the comfort from the Scriptures we might have hope.”

This might be a way to determine if indeed we could look forward to the the "war to end all wars"(Coined for WWI)--Armaggedon(Rev. 16:14-16)

2007-01-14 05:25:23 · answer #6 · answered by THA 5 · 0 1

I am nowadays National Socialist, who actually knows the true story of Nazis.No, they did not kill jews, no they did not kill gays, no, they did not kill any other race. We are surrounded by lies.

2014-07-04 01:51:52 · answer #7 · answered by ? 1 · 0 0

It´s not the Germans alone who killed people it was the NAZI´s.

I have german blood (the nazi blood which really scares me.) My Grandpa´s ancestors were German Nazi´s (not all of them) and me and my brothers have the nazi german blood it´s realy sad but my cousin who also has the blood doesn´t like to say that he has the blood in him because he thinks we may have hitler´s blood which i totally doubt...

2007-01-14 03:41:43 · answer #8 · answered by Luna Winter 7 · 0 2

I think also political oponents were killed.

2007-01-14 04:44:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

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