Which was worse - The jewish holocust in Germany or slavery in America?

Answer 1

~Frankly, I'd have to go with Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Mao or Joe Stalin.

Which was worse - Pearl Habor or Hiroshima, Dresden or the Warsw Ghetto?

Given that slavery was universally accepted by every civilization the world has known (and most of the slaves captured in Africa were captured by rival tribes), can US slavery be called an atrocity, at least in the context of the times in which it was extant?

Given that the Jews were not the only ones exterminated in the camps (and overall, don't even constitute a majority of those killed) and the world was aware of what was happening and chose to look the other way, are the camps only an atrocity in hindsight? Leave us not forget that the camps were inspired by the US reservation system and the US Bureau of Indian Affairs systematically wiped out entire tribes and killed (proportionately) more Native Americans than the Nazis did Jews, why is that not included in your querry?

What is the point of the question? Wouldn't your time be better spent on doing something about contempory injustices, such as the illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq or the anticipated illegal invasions of Iran and North Korea? Or even something more mundane, like the continuing subjugation of Blacks (and others) in America?

Answer 2

The Holocost

The Holocaust is generally regarded as the systematic slaughter of not only 6 million Jews, (two-thirds of the total European Jewish population), the primary victims, but also 5 million others, approximately 11 million individuals wiped off the Earth by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. It is hard to grasp the idea that it isn't just 11 million deaths, but 11 million people whose lives were cut off because of racism and hate, all in a period of 11 years (1933-1945). There are actually two main phases to the Holocaust, the period between 1933 and 1939, the Nazi rise, and the period between 1939 and 1945, the period of war, or more specifically, World War II. The first concentration camp opened in January 1933, when the Nazis came to power, and continued to run until the end of the war and the Third Reich: May 8, 1945.



Not to discredit slavery but it was NOT about salughter... It was very wrong too.

Answer 3

While it would be nice if neither had happened, I think the Holocaust was worse. I say this because the goal of the Final Solution was to exterminate the Jews. There was no gray area that I'm aware of. If the Nazis had had their way, all Jews would have been killed.

I just took a college class about slavery in the South. While it was certainly no treat for the Africans that were forced into the institution of slavery, the goal of the slave owner was not to kill them. In many cases, after their work was done, slaves were allowed to have their own lives in the slave quarters. Families & kinship networks were formed. While their lives were far from good, they did have some freedom of movement.

Answer 4

The United States should never forget the way black people were denied basic human rights we are all entitled to. Hitler intended to destroy all Jewish people and was responsible for the murders of 600,000 men, women and children before he was stopped. The horror of the Holocaust reached across continents which probably makes it worse than slavery.

Answer 5

Well 6 million jews died in the holocust but 2.8 millian slaves were killed during transportation of the slaves and 11 million in total soooo....

Answer 6

Well lets see... Jews are still scarred to even think about Germany and Blacks in America seem to be doing just fine for themselves now, so I'll go with Holocust.

Answer 7

Interesting question.

On the one hand you have "quick genocide" ... on the other hand you have "slow genocide". Both were enforced by law, and both used fancy rhetoric to disguise their horrors. Reparations cannot and have not been paid to either Jews or African Americans, as far as I know.

With my limited understanding of both "events", if you will, I must conclude that slavery was worse. Why?

Well, the Holocaust has been well documented. It is commonly taught that it was a "bad thing." Memorials have been erected in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Insufficient as this type of "apology" might be, it is an apology nonetheless.

But slavery has not been portrayed for what it was. Were slavery not such a massive thing, it would probably not be mentioned at all in history textbooks. I have yet to see a memorial to the victims of slavery.

I do not discount the horrors of the Holocaust, as they were atrocious, but in order for healing to begin, fault must be recognized.

God bless.

Answer 8

Slavery. The reason being because there is some serious doubts that the holocaust was the way it is said to be. In fact, a Jewish born man from Germany explained on a radio station why and what the Jews did to deserve being ostracized. The speech is available online. I think it was called -a warning to the American people. The speech goes on to detail and illustrate what the 'plans' to infiltrate America are- and guess what- most of what he warned us about has happened exactly the way he said it would.

Do you ever hear anyone telling us that slavery never existed?

Answer 9

impossible question.

IMO racial cleansing is worse than slavery,
The holocost was downright evil,
there has never been an evil like it.
The holocost was a factory process.Like a bottling plant.
It was a conveyer belt with the sole purpose of wiping out a race.
Collect the jews,transport the jews,gas the jews,make socks and soap from the jews,Here comes the next batch.

Treblinka didnt even have billets,They were told when they got off the train to wash themselves before the settled in,they didnt even get to sleep the night,men ,women,children,boys and girls.Into the oven.

medical experiments.

Answer 10

Definitely the holocaust.

With slavery, the point was to exploit the slaves for labor, not kill them, although a lot did end up dieing. With the Holocaust, the whole point was to kill the Jews. So in my opinion, that makes it a lot worse. That is not saying, however, that slavery wasn't bad.