Isn't it sad that millions of people were killed in the holocaust..?

Question

what would have to go thru someones head to make them justify killing millions of people for "ethnic cleansing" it's just terrible, why would a country do that? It makes me not want to take german.

Answer 1

My father was a judge on the Nerburg trials, where they tried the Natzis for war crimes. You have to understand that post world war I Germany was in an economic crisis. People had no jobs and no money. The Jews had a lot of money, and if Hitler could convince peolple that they were not the kind of people you want in your country ( you know doctors, scietists, accountants, smart people) they he could kick them out and take their money. So he offerered all the countries in the world to take the Jews, like America and England and Africa and South America. Everyone said NO to the one ship of Jewish people he sent out. Belive me if he could have shipped everybody off to Australia and kept their money and property he would have, as it would have been cheaper. It costs money to kill people too. I am being a bit sarcastic, but just know that when the jews went to the camps, few Germans knew they were being killed. Lots of the camps were in countries like Polland. Did you know that the Americans, put people in prison camps too? (thats us) We rounded up all the Japanee living on the west coast, stole thier money and houses and business, and put them in camps till the end of the war? Why, because someone thought they might aid Japaneese troops if Japan invaded the US. We didn't kill them, but you didn't see Californians or Orgonians marching in the streets for Japaneese Justice either. People sat quietly by and let all these families get taken.
Or wait, it gets better. After the war was won, and the US had dropped an atomic bomb on japan ( we were the first to do that) and kille thousands..... we killed a ton more from being really sick from the radiation, so it took much longer to die. Oh and we refused to give back any of the stollen propery or money or businesses, back to the US American born Japaneese people we held in the camps for a few years.
No it gets better than that: Before the United States got into world war II, when it was just the British and the French fighting the Hitler, America went to South America, and KIDNAPPED families of german decendants, mostly rich Germans the South American goverments were happy to get rid of, and held them in camps in Texas to "trade" for any Americans who might be held captive in case we got into the war. Which we did, and so we traded these hostages, who never had anything to do with Hitler, but were just living out their lives in South America. Some of them turned out to be Jewish, so we ended up mistakenly shipping them to Hitler to kill.
So was it right to kill 6million Jews, gypsies, retarded and handycapped people, homosexuals, and other mal contents the Hitler regime wanted to get rid of. No. But you know what, war of any kind seems to lead people in very dangerous directions and no side gets away clean in the history of how man forgets his humanity.

Answer 2

Realize, first of all, that the Germans were blamed for World War 1 when it was no more their fault than any other country. Hitler then rose to power and needed someone to blame all Germany's problems on (because the Great Depression was also occuring at this time), so he blamed the Jews, because very few people at that time approved of Jews, particularly the ones living in Europe. And after these feelings were common throughout Germany, it was then that the thoughts of "ethnic cleansing" and "Aryan supremacy" came along.

Answer 3

then don't, Yes it is horrible, it has happened all through out history, but the holocaust was the worst by far. It has happened to the Armenians in WWI (about 1,500,000 killed) by the Soviets. the Japanese did it in China in the 1930s (over 600,000 killed in Nanking alone). the United states did it to the American indians (est over 148,500 killed)in the 1850s-1880s spain did it to Mexico,Peru and cuba numbers in the millions over decades. So gorget English,Spanish,russian,Japanese and lets not forget the African nations since the 1960s till the present time that conduct genocide on there own people, and Iraq which did the same in the 1880s. If you keep digging, the only language might be Icelandic or samoan, becasue most places, including Austrailia and the aborigines, have tredi to wipe out other locals . It's one big ball of genocide over time. and the Holocasut was the worst in modern times that we know of.

Answer 4

It really was a terrible, horrible thing and I can't imagine how anyone could justify having any part in it, other than trying to save people, like Oskar Schindler.

Not all German people were involved, though, so don't let it keep you from learning German. Germany is a beautiful country. I enjoyed visiting it and was glad I'd taken German in school so I could ask for directions and order food.

Answer 5

I wouldn't hold it against all the germans either. One thing comes to my mind when i think of the holocaust and that was the 4 1/2 tons PER MONTH of Zyclon-B supplied by the pharmaceutical conglomerate IG Farben. After the war, their international firm was broken up, one of the succeeding firms being Bayer Aspirin. When i learned of this, all of a sudden i lost my appetite for anything involved with that company...go figure.

Answer 6

It is not sad. It is criminal and despicable. It was not just ethnic cleansing, either. Homosexuals, political dissidents, POWs, misfits, such as the "Swing Kids", who didn't want to be in the Hitler Youth, etc. etc. also suffered and died in what is called the Holocaust.

Answer 7

honestly yes it is sad. but not all germans are to blame. And if you ask me the Nazis had it right in some areas but they could have found a different way to solve their problems.

Answer 8

well, try reading his work and studying psychology to learn more, also, hitler was on drugs and very charasmatic, a potent combo

Answer 9

Duh, millions of innocent lives were killed by a dictator but the german race shouldn't be blamed cuz of a dictator's orders they couldn't refuse.