It's on the History Channel now if you want to see it.
2007-06-01 06:21:45 · 23 answers · asked by elflaeda 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
No, I don't have any Jewish relatives but it shouldn't matter.
The image of a toddler chasing after its mother as she's marched off (to the gas chamber presumably) and the guard keeps picking the child up by the arm and throwing him or her back across the yard.
I know a Nazi doctor used to perform experiments on bairns, possibly that was the fate for this little'un.
2007-06-01 06:48:15 · update #1
I know its not the only example of how barbaric we are as a species but this was the systematic attempt to exterminate an entire race. Three million people were killed in the space of five years!
I don't condone any cruelty but I think attempts to downplay the Holocaust or airbrush it out of history should be a crime in every country.
I think downplaying the atrocities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should be a crime.
These are the two worst events in recent history in my opinion.
As some one said ... One person is killed - it's a tragedy; a million people are killed, its a statistic.
We are responsible for bringing up the next generation. Are we going to continue to teach them to hate or can we break the cycle of war that has plagued mankind since records began by teaching them to accept and that different is not wrong.
2007-06-01 06:59:52 · update #2
I feel the same way. I took a Holocaust class in high school so I've seen a lot of the things they did. It was horrible. But at the same time, a lot of those people were just following orders. If they didnt carry out the orders, they would have been killed also.
2007-06-01 06:25:13 · answer #1 · answered by Amanda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are all born with an empty brain, the interaction of what we perceive and ear, in that empty brain is what we became. the right conditions and circumstances can bring out the worst in any one e.g. the genocide in Africa Rwanda, people of the same race, only differentiated by the shape of their noses. The same could be asked about racism, I think its rooted in ignorance people not knowing other peoples cultures or basing their thoughts on a people on a single negative experiance, this may sound trivial but we all know how many people have died for being the "wronge' colour in the wronge country or place. Education is vital when people don't think and question things, racism and stupid preduces will continue to fuel wars and killings
2007-06-01 06:41:40 · answer #2 · answered by Allan k 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simply put, the German people at the time were convinced that Jews were something less than human, so there was no problem using them for experiments or gassing them. I might add it was the attitude of many white Europeans and by extension, early American colonists, in earlier centuries who believed Africans were something less than human thereby justifying slavery. And I believe it is also the way many modern people justify abortion, by saying it's a fetus, therefore not human.
If someone or something is seen as less than human, men can justify doing almost anything because deep down, we all understand that human life is sacred.
2007-06-01 06:37:26 · answer #3 · answered by mikey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People like that are just power crazy and they have no emotion. As a previous answerer put some of those that carried out the crimes did it so they were saved from being killed also. I have seen newsreel of it andd it made me vomit. Also since world war two, there have been simular things happen in other parts of the world!! Just sickening!!
2007-06-01 06:29:46 · answer #4 · answered by j.pee69 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is very unfortunate but we do have a very sick world of individuals whose job it is to hate and who have minds that are warped and twisted and do not have love. Not only were the Jews taken to task in this horrible nightmare that lasted way too long, but there were others who had beliefs that were opposite Hitler's and his regime (those who carried out this deplorable inhumane treatment and death). Additionally, and most unfortunately, if you were to read 'The History of America", you would find that starting from the Europeans takeover (English landing on our shores) in search of a better way of life throughout history, man has forced his way onto the way of others who might be living happily among their own people. He has taken what was not his and forced others to do without. And when 'others' attempted to fight back for their own, they were murdered and made examples of. The Native Americans were driven off the land they discovered (they walked over glaciers from Russia to the Americas). Eventually, they were pushed and pushed until they are now limited to small plots of reservations. This is very sad. Additionally, when the English discovered the Natives could not function in the heat and had contracted the English diseases and could not recover, but died, they searched other countries like Africa to find 'workers'. They observed from their ships how these Africans would work in the heat and plotted and planned to steal them from their own land. It is truly sad how the plight of the Africans who were forced to change their names, their beliefs, separated from their families, sold, beaten and killed all for the sake of land. I hate any representation of hatred and murder of all men. I have seen this program before and have taught this to my 8th grade students.
2007-06-01 06:35:12 · answer #5 · answered by THE SINGER 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its easy just exchange Jews with paedophiles and what people say they would like to do to the child molester - check out the replies to any question on y/a about perverts and you find a grim category of torture . if you stop thinking somebody is human and deserves the punishment you can do anything.
I'm not saying paedophiles are not evil just trying to think who are the most hated people in the UK. in germany jews hated
2007-06-01 06:29:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Things like that happened before the Holocaust, and are still happening today ... it's just a matter of degree
dr bad
2007-06-01 06:27:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i was watching a similar documentary, and it stated that Hitler was a good artist, and was going to go to University, but (i cant remember who) turned him down, and this person was jewish. so, maybe hitler really loved art and hated the jews so much, he decided to kill 6 million. i know its absurd, but he was a derranged animal.
anothe totalaterian group where the khmer rouge in Cambodia, who did almost as bad things as Hitler did.
2007-06-01 06:31:33 · answer #8 · answered by Ben 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Theres been a lot of unfair torture in the world. Not just the Holocaust.
2007-06-01 06:26:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's why the Israelis are the way they. They went like lambs to the slaughter once but they are definitely not going again.
2007-06-01 08:31:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋