Did anything good come out of the Holocaust?

Question

I'm not normally an optimistic person, but what the hell. More out of the Holocaust than World War II in general. Thanks!

Answer 1

At the expense of the Holocaust, I like to think that future generations became much more aware of crimes against humanity. But thats just an opinion and not an actual fact. Sorry.

Answer 2

Sorry, but the intial idea for a state for Jews resulted from the Dreyfus trial in France where a jewish captain was framed. One of the journalists attending then suggested tht to stop the persecution of Jews as scapegoats for the ills of domestic problems (Jews being a minority always were blamed for the incompetence of the natives) a jewish state be created. it led to the first meeting of what became known as zionism. During World War One, Lord Balfour promised a homeland to the Jews who weere helping the Allied cause against Imperial Germany. it became known as the Balfour Declaration. So back then long before Wolrld War Two and the Holocaust because initially of the Dreyfus case in france the idea of a homeland for Jews was developped. it became reality in l948, voted by the United Nations . But the Arab nations then attacked Israel. Today, they wished they had accepted then. Today, the Arabs would like to go back in time to 1948.. many who survived the Holocaust concentration camps became displaced person. Those who returned to their former homes, for example, in poland, in some instan ces, were then killed by poles who refused to surrrender the homes that once belonged to the Jews. So , in light of the prevailing period, it was onlya c hoice for a survivor . it was to go to a homeland where he would feel secure. Many did then go to what became Israel. But the origins of a homeland for Jews being persecuted was not the Holocaust, but to repeat once more: The Dreyfus case. But then, that would be too complex for people to understand. Simailarly the reason other ethnic groups being persecuted flee it is to avoid being murdered. Thus armenians also the victims of genocide, fled and are dispersed all over the world, many emigrated to the US as so many other persecuted people have done. Come to America, where at least there is less persecution than rhe rest of the less saferpcountries. Today, the inhabitants of those unnamed countries blame America for all their ills. But , a thinking person would know better.,

Answer 3

I wouldn't consider "medical break-through" a positive outcome of the Holocaust seeing as to how the "patients" were relentlessly tortured for mediocre experimental findings, which could have been investigated on a higher moral level.

Global recognition and prevention of genocide is one excellent outcome of the Holocaust. Balance of power in Europe, intolerance for dictatorships, among many other things are also good outcomes.

Sometimes the horrible events that transpired during the Holocaust overshadow the benefits of learning from it but sometimes knowledge tends to be the most powerful weapon.

Answer 4

That question has a lot of potential to incite hatred... however:

You might say the Holocaust was a catalyst, or at least encouraged WW2.

War always stimulates the economy and brings technological breakthroughs as money is suddenly allocated for "necessary" research;
Advances in rocketry.
Advances in atomic reactions (whether this is a true plus is not really clear)
Advances in weaponry
The formation of the United Nations
Advances in electronics; computers (the Univac that replaced slower relay systems)
Some advances in medicine - specifically prosthetics (just like during and after the US Civil War)
Germany's trains and transit, and postal services were never more efficient.
*(I'm not talking about Germany's exterminating the Jews), overpopulation reduction of ALL nations.
*The formation of a Jewish nation.
Exchange of culture and ideas - so many cultures clashed, but they also studied each other.
Mengele did make several medical and psychological advances, (I don't condone the methods or cost at which this is done).

Answer 5

It made anti-semetism unacceptable in Europe due to the outcry it caused. Before WWII anti-semetism was rife throughout Europe and the world in general. After the discovery of the holocaust the jews were given their own country (which turned out to be quite a bad idea in hindsight) and anti-semetism, although it continued, was dealt a severe blow.

Answer 6

Yes. It led to the "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide" in 1948, which led to among other things the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (1993) in The Hague, Netherlands, and the International Criminal Court (ICC), established in 2002, also in The Hague..

Answer 7

Are you insane, what kind of question is this, how in the world could anything positive ever, ever have come from the holocaust???

Answer 8

Yes, more Jehovah's Witnesses came out of the Holocaust than went in meaning that Hitler's attempts to rid the world of us didn't succeed, we flourished.

Answer 9

1. Jews got their own land.
2. Hitler died.
3. France was exposed as a very weak nation of pacifists.
4. Women went to work creating a future environment where men don't have to support inferior females.
5. The word "America" became the answer to the world's question of, "Who's your daddy"?

Answer 10

Yes -- the Jews then ended up taking back their homeland. This would not have happened without the Holocaust.