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Question

How can we benefit by studing the Holocaust???

Answer 1

we can benifit by studying the holocaust because it teaches us just what prejudice does when ignored. An entire nation's ignorance to prejudice caused 11 million people to die. We benefit simply for the reason that we have the ability to stop things like this from happening and help shape a better world where prejudice and the horrors it sparks dont exist.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
-Martin Luther King Jr.

Answer 2

We learn from history because history is what happened and it is the experience of humanity. Just like in everyday life we learn from our own and other's experience so we learn from history. We learn so as to know if it is right or wrong that is being done in these cases and the practical lessons of morals and tactics to use in the future with same or similar situations. We also gain knowledge, wisdom and understanding from such.

You see there is something very very interesting about the HOLOCAUST. It is unique in history. It was butchery. And there were other butcheries in history. But it was the REASON why it was done. You see, other conquerers and butchers did butcher for various reasons. For power, glory, money, fame, territory, rescources or ego and pride. But they always had an eye out for the increase of their strength. If you joined them they welcomed you. Even that butcher of butchers in history, Ghenghis Khan recieved gladly submittion. In fact one of his greatest ORLOCKS (Marshals) was a person named JEBE who met Ghenghis on the roadway and expressed a desire to join his rising star. And the Romans-that empire of empires welcomed the additon to their strength and dominion. However in the case of Hitler you didn't have a choise like every other case in history. If you were a member of an undesiralbe race, that was that-you were gone. No matter. And ruthelessly too- as other conquerers had made slaves of at least part if not all of the defeated survivors. But under Nazism you didn't even have a choise to submit. And furthermore it decreased rather than increased the strength of the conquerer-very stupid. Imagine 6,000,000 could have concievably made up to 100 divisions if Hilter had have played his cards right and not had such a lunatic ideology. Those 100 divisions would have certainly won the war for him.

But the most important lesson is that Hilter did not, in January 1933 start rounding up Jews and others, killing them and boasting about it on the airways. He did it slowely by stealth and gradually so people got used to it. The Germans were apathetic and the Jews and others were accepting. The two great pillars of tyrannical power-APATHY and most of all ACCEPTANCE. People got use to it . Then all of a sudden, it was too late. After a little, a little more then somewhat more-bingo- THE DEATH CAMPS. It was so gradual that the logistics were only planned at a conference in a suburb of Berlin-WANASEE in January 1942. When people accept and are apathetic they are saying to a tyrant-we do not care enough for our freedoms, way of life, prosperity, rights, childredn or beliefs to lift a finger to prevent you from taking all of them from under us. A good lesson is learnt there. If the first Jew had killed the first Nazi that came to his door-the holocaust would never have happened.

For the most important thing in history is to learn why it happened and the most important lesson we learn from the holocaust is that acceptance and apathy to tyranny only encourages it. And tyranny does not have any limits. For it is said that those who do not learn from history are condemmed to relive it. And we learn from this so there will not be a holocaust II. When we see the signs we are warned. So let us make the right choises this time. For if we make the wrong choises we know very well where it will end. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

By learning from the Holocaust, it will cause a tolerance of others and making wiser decisions in the future.

Answer 4

The best answer was given by Pastor Martin Niemoeller:

When the Nazis came for the Communists, I remained silent. I was not a Communist.
When they locked up the Social Democrats, I remained silent. I was not a Social Democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out. I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.

Answer 5

To learn that tolerance is something to be desired. That killing millions of people because of a belief or trait is horrendous. That we can not make the same decisions and become monsters ourselves.

Answer 6

by studing tradies of the past

Answer 7

By learning about history, hopefully we can prevent history from repeating.