What was so important about the Holocaust?

Answer 1

imagine this:

you are a young, Jewish child during the holocaust. you and your family have just been moved to a slum by the Germans. you and your family live a room with one small cot in a 3 foot by 3 foot room. you live in your own filth. many Jews in this slum are dying, including your family. you must scavenge for scraps of food because your family's rations are inadequate. Then, the Germans come, take you and your little sister to a concentration camp. They would have taken the rest of your family too, but they are now dead and lying in a mass grave. You, your sister, and hundreds of other Jews are standing together on a train with hardly enough room to breathe. You are not let out of the train car for the entire 10 hour journey and by the time you make it to the concentration camp, you can barely breathe and you have wet yourself. Because you have wet yourself, a German officer takes his baton, lifts it, and brings it down hard on your shoulder. You slap to the ground, struggle to get up, and hurry to get back in line. In the concentration camp, you dig trenches daily, have almost no food to drink, must take care of your sister, and are in constant fear for your life. Your sister becomes ill. Only a few days later, you wake up and find another Jew in your sister's bed. She passed away in the night. You never got a chance to say goodbye. The same day, you have inspection. You must walk in front of a doctor completely naked. You are weak and shaky from months of work, starvation, and now losing your sister. The doctor selects you. You and most of the concentration camp begin the much too short walk to the gassing chamber. You know that in a matter of minutes, you'll be dead.

does this seem UNimportant to you in any way?

Answer 2

The incredible thing about the holocaust is that a nation as civilized (or we thought) as Germany let herself be pulled by the nose to commit such atrocities against a nation ( 6 million dead) that had done some much to develop Germany and Austria, by an evident nut with napoleonic aspirations.

Nevertheless destiny determined that Hitler´s plan to annihilate the jewish nation would completely backfire.

After Germany´s defeat, the world was so shocked by the vastness of the massacre against the jews, that the international community decided that it was time this errand nation should have a territory of its own.
Something that hardly would have happened were it not for Hitler´s Holocaust .

Destiny decided that this intelligent and hard working nation, today is a world power and the best ally the US has in the middle east.

If Hitler had known his contribution to expand and create the Jewish State (Israel), to make it a strong and influential world power, he would have thought it twice.

Talking about importance, the creation of the "Jewish State" in the middle of fanatical arab nations has brought the current consecuences of Palestine, Gulf Wars, Afganistan, Iraq, Osama Bin Laden, terrorism, Twin Towers, and a headache for the world.

Answer 3

What was so important about the Holocaust?

Wow what a question.

Lets see, if something is important one should learn from it but you are questioning if the Holocaust was important. Well for our grandfathers in Europe, and America this was important enough to kill people over to and to die for in order to bring the holocaust to an end. For the millions of people that were slaughtered it was deadly important, for their children and the survivors it was important for it changed everyone it touched. For the German of the time and their children and their children's children it was important for it is a shame that every German that has been born since has had to face and bear.

It was a picture of evil upon earth, it put the once honorable name of Hitler on scale with the Devil or equal to or associated with a name of sheer evil.

If this is not enough to make something important then I gues that nothing is important.

Answer 4

The Holocaust was Hitler's attempt to "purify" the human race. People keep quoting the 6 million Jews killed figure, which is true but they also forget that Hitler also murdered political dissidents, homosexuals, and many others. That was ANOTHER 6 million, for 12 million in all. The thing is, Hitler's idea of the "master race" was everything he wasn't. He was child of a Jew, he was short, dark-haired and dark-eyed. He was a political dissident who began his crusade by rabble-rousing in gay bars. He envisioned the "master race" as tall, blond hair, blue eyed Christians.

What is important is that we learn that hate is not a healthy way of life. By stirring up hatred, Hitler is considered one of the most evil people to ever live. We most learn to oppose such hate, otherwise we will have the same thing happen again, and it has. One example is the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia after the Vietnam War. Pol Pot killed about 1.5 million through execution, starvation and labor camps.

As of recent statistics, the world Jewish population is 13.3 million, with almost no population growth. Had Hitler murdered so many, the population would be much higher.

Answer 5

It is a prime example of what can go wrong in a society when you have a psychopathic leader and financial difficulties.

The group think that went horribly wrong in Germany is an object lesson for any country with a strong dictator and facing financial problems.

The Soviet Union had similar periods of time, as did China; however none have matched the sheer brutality and single mindedness of the mass genocide that went along with Nazism.

Answer 6

It exterminated millions and millions of minorities (not only Jews though).

Death Toll (Approximate):

* An estimated 5 to 6 million Jews, including 3 million Polish Jews

* 1.8 – 1.9 million Christian Poles and other (non-Jewish) Poles (estimate includes civilians killed as a result of Nazi aggression and occupation but does not include the military casualties of Nazi aggression or the victims of the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland and of deportations to Central Asia and Siberia)

* 200,000–800,000 Roma & Sinti (Gypsies)
* 200,000–300,000 people with disabilities
* 100,000 communists
* 10,000–25,000 homosexual men
* 2,500–5,000 Jehovah's Witnesses

Answer 7

It killed 6 million people including Jews, priest's, teacher's, Poles, Romanians, gypsies and people who spoke out against the third Reich, whether they were Germans or any other nationality.

Answer 8

Six million people were murdured. Hitler tried to wipe an entire race of people of the earth.

Answer 9

It was an attempt to delete an entire race. You should read "Night" by Eli Wiesel.

Answer 10

because it teach us what intolerance, hate, prejudice can do. also what a sick man with horrible ambition of power and the people who follow him can do if no one stops them. its a sad history and everyone should learn about it to create a conscience in all of us of what war does.