WHO is to BLAME for the Holocaust?

Question

Who IS Responsible for the Holocaust? And To Blame?

A) Hitler
B) Jews
C) Both A & B

Explain Fully WHY you think your choice is Correct!

Answer 1

How does Michael know "the Jews" didn't fight,and bowed their heads and marched to the gas chamber? Were you there?
Simply refer to any number of websites (ie, "Jewish Resistance.com, Auschwitz, Wikipedia, or the many sites devoted to resistance in the camps, and you will see info to the contrary.) Why do you think the SS specifically employed people to deal with insurgents and escapees?
What about the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto, who fought for their lives with nothing but their own bare hands, and a few guns and stones? What about people like my grandfather, who smuggled himself back into nazi germany to rescue his family (would you have had the guts to do that?) before joining the british army and risking his life for six whole years?
Nazi Germany was a DICTATORSHIP. People didn't march freely to their deaths, they were forced, their families were taken from them, and Hitler and his mob had mounted a campaign of dehumanisation against the jews, the blacks, the slavs, etc - how much fight do you think they still had left in them after 7 or 8 years of repression? More to the point, people were not told, "you're about to be gassed." They were duped into thinking they were entering a shower. That is pretty basic stuff, most people learn that at secondary school.
As for the person who blames "the jews who voted for hitler," I wonder where he gets this from, and remember, after 1932 (when the nazis polled a paltry amount) Germany became a dictatorship, not a democracy with general elections!
The reason Israel, rightly or wrongly, is stronger is that they are a democracy backed by America, with a nuclear weapon.

Hitler was responsible, along with his assosciates, and the SS.
Evidence proves that it was all a carefully constructed plan - not just to kill people, but to demonise them also. How anyone can blame the victims of the scheme suggests, tragically, that the plan its self did not entirely fail.

Answer 2

Hitler gave verbal orders to Goering sometime in the fall of 1941 to once and for all settle the "Jewish question." Goering then ordered Reinhard Heydrich to carryout the order. In Jan. 1942, at the Wansee Conference, Heydrich convened a meeting of the leaders of the SS and top government bureacrats of the major agencies to discuss how to implement high volume genocide commonly referred to as the holocaust. No documents exist showing Hitler's direction, but historians agree that is where the order originated...ie the blame of which you speak.

Prior to the Wansee Conference, an estimated 1 million Jews died from the time period of 1935 to 1941 (6 years). From 1942 to November 1944 (3 years) some 5 million Jews were exterminated. The Nov. '44 date coincided with Himmler's order to destroy the crematoria at Auwswitz as the Red Army approached from the East.

High volume genocide involved all parts of the government and private sector, from the pharmaceutical giant IG Farben which supplied 4-1/2 tons/month of Zyclon-B, to the contractors who built the death camps/crematoria, to the trains and transportation systems.

Answer 3

The Humans that allowed it to happen by action or denial.
Both and then some.
We agree to go to war, we agree to let people be slaughtered we agree by disagreeing or by lack of concern for fellow inhabitants of the planet Earth.
So The Nazi Party, its supporters, and those that chose to ignore it are as to blame as the all the Citizens of every Country that were killed in the Death Factories.
It was not just Hitler-v-Jew, It was the National Socialist German Workers' Part, or NSDAP v The World.
The Nationalists and Fascists took or were elected to power by citizens. The Jew that voted for Hitler or Mussolini is as much to blame as the American or British subject that did not take a stance against the terror that was a factual event.
A&B&C

Answer 4

Do you know that over 10 million Germans died in the East front only? What about the Polish? What about the Russians (which, after Hitlers attack had another problem - Joe Stalin!)? What about the Gypsies, Serbs, black people in north Africa? The only thing that makes the Jews such big martyrs is that they really didn't fight back!

Answer 5

The German people clearly share a lot of the blame. Hitler was their elected public servant. They continued to re-elect him even as ominous signs of consolidation of power and official de-humanizing of the Jews was apparent.

In fact, I believe the Holocaust cannot be blamed completely on Hitler. The atmosphere in Europe and in Germany had to allow this man to rise to power and push his agenda.

Now, the fact that you include the Jews on your list of people to blame is really twisted, man. There is no people that deserves to be rounded up like rats -- starved, tortured, gassed and burned.

So, I don't really know where you are coming from there.

Now, if you really want to get into the roots of anti-Semitism, that's a different discussion. Even if you could prove that Europeans had a right to be upset about the behavior of the Jewish community -- brother, you are still not justifying genocide.

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Do we blame a woman when she is raped, saying "she should have put up a decent fight." GIVE ME A BREAK. What in God's name is wrong with you people. Bunch of inbred animals or something.

Answer 6

World Jewry

Answer 7

D. both A&B and various countries around the world (USA incl-
uded for turning their collective backs on the whole situation that
could have been stopped before it happened. The Holocaust was
a result of hatred for Jews and other selected groups. With the
exception of the ovens, one might note have the USA dealt with
Japaneses-Americans during the same time period.

Answer 8

You don't have enough choices. Hitler is the one that commanded, encouraged, and demanded the murder and torture of over 6 million Jews and over 4 million blacks, scientists, teacher, businessmen, and various other groups. But while Hitler came up with this and demanded its enforcment, the other countries in the world also allowed it and did not do enough at the begining to stop the eventual accomplishment of Hitler's orders.

Answer 9

a) Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany's loss in World War I. He signed a declaration that the Jews must be executed in order to avenge Germany's loss in the Great War.

Answer 10

The German people allowed this to happen. Hitler should have been in a padded cell.

Just as we share in the guilt of the continuing genocide in Darfur. We ignore these things at our own peril.