Holocaust?

Question

Well I took a course on the holocaust this week and i found it to be very interesting and I would like to hear how u all feel about it, and mabe if some of you have stories u could tell me them. thanks

Answer 1

The stories are very chilling...i read one account of a top nazi in the extermination - Dr Christian Wirth at Auschwitz who not only supervised gassings and experiments, but who took a real sadistic joy at his work. In one account, he gave a jewish child a gun and had him shoot his own parents....

When u read stories about Josef Mengele, Christian Wirth, the use of vans to gas people, the unimaginable cruelty and suffering...you really pity the human race. How really cruel we are to one another - people are no better than animals

Answer 2

Aside from the terrible anecdotes describing the treatment of the jews, homosexuals, gypsies and dissidents, probably the most shocking aspect of the holocaust was the "mind control" that the Nazis were able to use in the "final solution" as it was called.

Men and women, who would not, under ordinary circumstances kill another human being, suddenly felt it was their DUTY to exterminate members of their own race.

It is somewhat less difficult to see members of a DIFFERENT race as so inferior that they should be imprisoned or killed (Columbus for example was a ardent Catholic but ordered the killing of EVERY Arawak Indian , in his discovery of the new world) but the Germans performed these acts upon members of their own WHITE RACE, just because they were a different religion.

And the saddest fact is that World War ll did not halt this dreadful practice. In Rawanda more than one million people were killed by THEIR OWN. And the same thing is happening as we write in DAFUR and the CONGO.

Sociologists have striven for a lifetime to describe thes actions. The best definaition they have come up with so far is:

MAN'S INHUMANITY TOWARD MAN.

Answer 3

I grew up in Chicago, where there are alot of Polish immigrants. I remember at about 4 years old going to grocery store with my mom and having to go to the butcher while we were there. At that age I knew nothing about it and asked the butcher why he had numbers on his arm. My mom pulled me away and told me to not ask again, then when we got home I got my first lesson about the Nazi atrocities.
Also, when my husband was taking some graduate history courses he volunteered on a project that was still sifting through information that didn't even make to the Nuremburg trials. Halfway through he dropped out of it due to the nightmares it gave him.

Answer 4

On my first job, many years ago, I worked with this beautiful woman. I didn't know her well but know that she was married with six children. She had the numbers tatooed on her arm. She would have been a child then. She had nothing to say. . .The horror of going through that period is unimaginable. I remember when I did some reading about it and when it got to the torture and experimentation on humans, the piles of gold fillings and the lampshades made of human skin with tatoos on them. . .unbelievable that one human can do that to another. . .My family is black German-dark hair, dark eyes, olive skin and came from Prussia in the 1800s (half Germany, half Russia then). I wonder how many relatives that I don't know went thru that. . .

Answer 5

it's so tragic! Those pictures still haunt me! I had to do a project on mein kampf and the book was plain sick and unreasonable! Speakers came ub and told us how they'd get shot if they didn't walk at the right pace. gas chambers, killing pregnant women and old men. Ugh! Hitler was way too smart. He knew that if they captured him alive, he would be tortured. He knew too much...

Answer 6

People forget it all started with the murdering with mental patients, considered part of the "natural selection". As we know it got worse from then on.

Answer 7

I bet not everyone feels the same about it that it was bad. How about Neo-Nazis, Borat, im sure the pope secretly thought it was awesome.

Answer 8

wow ive always wanted to do that. ive always been interested in the sort of thing. what a horrilbe event though. very interesting though. those poor poor people. good for you though.

Answer 9

sorry i don't really know much about this topic but for what i do know i think it was very devastating and degrading also people deffinitely don't deserve to be treated that way

Answer 10

I'm pretty sure everyone feels the same way about it. It was bad.