Did any Jews have any responiblity for the Holocaust?

Question

Consider this analogy. A group of children get stung by a bees. A group of angry parents go and sue the bee keeper for damages and demand that he remove the obviously dangerous bees. The children were stung that is all the proof the parents need that bees are dangerous. The bee keeper is at a loss. He has kept bees in the same place for 30 year without a problem. What all the parents and all the children know, but aren’t saying is one of the children was throwing rocks at the bee hive.

Shouldn’t the rock throwing child bare some of the responsibility?

Answer 1

Ah ... this is called "getting all the facts" and Yes that is a factor.

Answer 2

I'm confused, is your question about bees stinging a rock throwing child? or is about Jews being responsible for the Holocaust?

1. If the parents know the child threw stones at the bees then they should drop the suite.

2. Jews responsible for the Holocaust? no it was pure and simple the poor (at that time most of the Germans were POOR, and poorly educated, and out of work) they saw the Jews as wealthy, well educated and separate or untouchable to some degree.
Pure and simple envy, and they were scapegoats. The fact that they existed does not make them responsible for the Nazis behaviour! Hitler lead them on to the Holocaust.

Answer 3

don't know about your analogy, but some jews actually did, believe it or not.

In Switzerland, the jewish bankers who controlled all the money acted as bankers for the nazis, funding indirectly and in some cases, directly, the holocaust.

Did you ever wonder why Switzerland was never invaded/

Hitler was also part jewish, 1/4 or something,like that.




oh.
for your analogy,
The germans blamed the jews for quite a lot of things, including but not limited to:
1- money laundering
2- murders on large scales
3- governmental coups
4- a jew and a communist were the people who signed the treaty of Versailles. They were assassinated in the early 20's.

The jews were also the money lenders from the middle ages. Christian law forbade christians fro charging interest, so money lending was unprofitable. But the jews could, and they exploited via interest for around 200 years, until the reformation, that money lending became acceptable for christians. But if you blame the jews for inciting the holocaust, that really isn't true. Although antisemitism had run strongly in Germany and in all over Europe since the reformation, and even earlier than that, the jews ought not be blamed for the slaughter of 6 million of their kind, as well and 6 million others(gypsies, collaborators, POW's, etc.)

Answer 4

I believe your analogy is ignorant. You can't compare the death of millions of people to bee stings. Now if these bees invaded a country and killed targeted people because a hand full of them threw stones then you can compare those two things... but that still doesn't make it a fair outcome...

Answer 5

I see three ways to look at this question. On the one hand, the Holocaust was born of tremendous anti-semitism - the desire to eradicate Jews from Europe (and eventually, one would presume, the world). As such, it would be utter foolishness for any Jew to participate in the conception of the Final Solution.

Then again, in another sick little bit of mental torture, the Nazis lured Jewish prisioners into being block leaders called capos by offering them privileges such as extra food rations (a significant privilege for people quite literally starving to death). Many capos helped to encourage and nurture their fellow prisoners, but some became cruel and sadistic task masters.

But the question that your analogy seems to infer is "weren't the Jews asking for it." The appropriate response to that question is "Are you bleeping serious?" Nobody "asks" to be tortured, dehumanized, and exterminated. Nobody deserves the treatment that they were given. Whether you are referring to individual men and women who were Jewish (not all of whom were saints, of course), small groups of Jews, or the great mass of humanity that was ushered through the gates of those killing camps never to emerge again, there is no justification for the actions taken against those poor souls.

Answer 6

Only if you accept the idea that Jews are humans, capable of rational thought and control, while Germans, Nazis in particular, are nothing but unthinking animals, incapable of free will or any rational thought of their own.


You might as well blame every crime victim, what next you'll claim those little Asian boys were just asking to be dismembered and devoured by jeffrey Dahmer?

Answer 7

that is a very insightful analysis. however, the holocaust did not involve misbehaving children, angry bees, and a beekeeper.
it did involve genocide of millions of people.

no, Jews did not have any responsibility for the Holocaust.
the people who perpetrated the atrocities did.

Answer 8

No, the Jews had no responsibility for the Holocaust. I can't understand how your analogy stands with the Jews and the Holocaust.

It was the fault of Hitler and his psychotic henchmen.

Answer 9

yes.. or is it....