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2007-01-18 20:49:40 · 15 answers · asked by ? 1 in Arts & Humanities History

Ok, some good answers - so why then do we ONLY talk about the Jewish holocaust even though more numbers have died from other nationalities as one of you has just answered?

2007-01-18 21:04:40 · update #1

Ok, some good answers - so why then do we ONLY talk about the Jewish holocaust even though more numbers have died from other nationalities as one of you has just answered?

2007-01-18 21:05:10 · update #2

Okay, so minimising the holocaust makes me an accomplice according to one of the answers,, does that make most Americans accomplices in the genocide of Iraqis on the hands of the American military? What kind of logic is that. The holocaust happened but not on that scale, and the Jews DID not suffer any more than other races. ENOUGH abuse of history to gain sympathy

2007-01-18 23:02:46 · update #3

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BECAUSE WITHOUT IT THEY WOULDNT HAVE THE SYMPATHY CARD TO PULL. EVERYONE LOVES BEING VICTIMIZED AND IT IS ALWAYS MY (WHITE MALE LIVING NOW) FAULT. FUNNY, I THOUGHT I WAS AN OK GUY TILL I FOUND OUT OUT I HAD ENSLAVED MILLIONS, MURDERED MILLIONS, AND RUINED THE ENVIRONMENT. I MUST BE BUSY WHEN I SLEEP!

2007-01-19 04:28:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

What a question. I knew a a person who lived through this time and he told me once how can later generations ever understand what happen when the generation that it happened to can not understand it.

It is pitful that the sacrifices made by our grandfathers to end the evil of Nazi Germany is being belittled and forgotten. What Nazi Germany did lowered the bar upon all humanity, and those that seek to belittle and earse what happened are accomplices. You become as guilty as those that closed their eye and told themselves that they did not see anything.

I live in Germany and have travelled quite a bit. I have seen these places where these things "never happened" have seen human bones fragments in the soil and the smell of death that once you have smelled it you will never forget that smell. Come to Europe, vist Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Belzec, Sobibor, Bergen Belsen, Dachau, Treblinka and the thousands of other camps. The place are still there, walk on the grounds were families were slaughtered, men, women, childern, for the simply crime of being born. Then tell me that it did not happen.

You are right about one thing the Jews were not the only ones murdered by the Nazis. But if you go back since 1932 the Jews were the ones that were in all the Nazi propaganda as the enemy of Germany and how the jews must be removed for Germany.
The Nazi machine took what it wanted and either you were for it or against it. If you were not part of it you were sent of to a forced labor campand you worked until you died. The Nazi goal was to rid first Germany then all of Europe from the Jew and other "sub human beings" some camps were builit for slave labor others simply for extremination.

2007-01-18 22:48:58 · answer #2 · answered by DeSaxe 6 · 1 0

EXCUSE ME! I guess all the pictures were made on a Hollywood back-lot. I guess the people I saw that had numbers tattooed on their forearm just enjoyed getting them burned onto their arms when they were little kids. I guess all the witnesses who saw the death camps and all the dead bodies were paid to say so. And all the history books must have been written by Jews, who wanted to fool everyone and make them angry at the Nazi's. How old ARE you? Were you even alive when this happened? And, if you think it didn't happen, what makes you think anything else in history is the truth? After all, none of us were around when George Washington was president. How do we even know he existed? There were no cameras back then. But, even if there were, I guess they could have been made up, right? You're just talking foolishness. How can you discount something so horrendous? That would be as bad as someone saying, 30 years from now, that the civil rights riots never happened and that they made it all up. Just because you don't care for a group of people doesn't give you the right to question their history. There are volumes of books written about the holocaust, many by non-Jews. I guess they're all liars, according to your question. <*)))><

2007-01-18 21:11:02 · answer #3 · answered by Sandylynn 6 · 4 0

Oh boy... I have talked to people who are survivers...Not only that, the reason that the Holocaust is largely associated with the destruction of the Jews is because they were the MAIN target. they were the first on the list. It was Hitlers number one objective to remove them first. He called it the "Jewish Solution" Jewish people were blamed for every ill thing that happened in that society. Many people died during that time. Not only Jews. If your nationality was specifically targeted to be wiped out, and millions of your nationality were killed, including many people in your family, would you be quick to forget? It is burned into there souls. Weather or not you like the Holocaust will not be forgotten. It will be grieved by Jewish individuals for a long long time. And rightfully so.

2007-01-18 22:21:28 · answer #4 · answered by caleb d 2 · 3 0

Somehow, as terrible as your question is, as of course there was a Jewish holocaust- I don't even understand how you can say such a thing to start with- there have been many other genocides.
It is that which is horrific.
Not only Jews then and even sometime now, were persecuted, but all kind of folks have suffer from the hate of others.
Just because they were the OTHERS.

2007-01-18 21:40:04 · answer #5 · answered by klaartedubois 4 · 2 0

So ignorant jackass, where did all of these people go? Let me guess, they were abducted by UFO's.

Millions of other minority members also perished in the Holocaust. About 220,000 Sinti and Roma were murdered (some estimates are as high as 800,000) — between a quarter to a half of their European population. Other groups deemed by the Nazis to be "racially inferior" or "undesirable" included Poles (6 million killed, of whom 3 million were Christian, and the rest Jewish), Serbs (estimates vary between 500,000 and 1.2 million killed, mostly by Croat Ustaše), around 500,000 Bosniaks[2], Soviet military prisoners of war and civilians in occupied territories including Russians and other East Slavs, the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Africans, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists and political dissidents, trade unionists, Freemasons, Eastern Christians, and Catholic and Protestant clergy, were also persecuted and killed.

Some scholars do not include the Nazi persecution of all of these groups in the definition of the Holocaust, rather limiting the Holocaust to the genocide of the Jews. However, taking into account all minority groups, the total death toll rises considerably; estimates generally place the total number of Holocaust victims at 9 to 11 million, though some estimates have been as high as 26 million.[3]

2007-01-18 20:54:48 · answer #6 · answered by chadluquette 2 · 6 0

To answer your second question, we don't only talk about the Holocaust of the second WW. But we talk about it most often because it was the first one where people saw the devastation of the German concentration camps and more importantly, where the killings were clearly outlined in the Leader's book. "Mein Kampf", if you ever read it, clearly stated Hitler's intentions but no one took him at face value. I think that there was a lot of guilt in the West after they saw what had happened at Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and Aushwitz.

2007-01-18 21:47:34 · answer #7 · answered by Holly R 6 · 0 0

The Holocaust never happened, The US Never landed on the Moon< we have UFO'S hidden in Nevada, The CIA killed Kennedy
any other lame a** Therories you wnat to spout?

What you need is a dose of reailty and get away from your Hate mongering buddies and look at real life. I suppose that Hussien didn't order all those excutions either in you twisted mind.

2007-01-18 21:46:33 · answer #8 · answered by iamright2 4 · 3 0

I personally knew survivors of this atrocity before their death. sad to say they were unable to comprehend such acts proving mans inhumanity to man. if the Jewish survivors were unable to understand why they were hated and treated inhumanely how can other generations. sad but think you have a point that in another generation or two many of us older people will die and then there will be people like you who will convince the younger generations that the Holocaust simply was a propaganda stunt against the Nazi Regime and didn't happen. this scares me.

2007-01-19 00:24:58 · answer #9 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 1 0

I keep talking about it because I miss my Grandfather, a peaceful old shoemaker who never harmed anybody and was imprisioned by the nazi and died in the Terezin concentration camp, I miss my Uncle, who was gassed in Auschwitz; my aunt and four year old nephew who where also killed by the nazi, but I have been unable to determine were; my mothers uncle and his wife and two daughters who where deported and sent to unknown destination in poland....
I will stop talking about it when I put them to rest.

2007-01-19 00:17:57 · answer #10 · answered by Rodolfo Max 4 · 1 0

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