why wasnt more done to stop the holocaust both inside and outside germany?

Question

history project please help!

Answer 1

Because a world war was raging around the planet with millions upon millions of people being killed and entire nations threatened and governments barely surviving, that's why.

Answer 2

One of the first things Hitler adn the Nazi party did when they came to power in 1933 was to ban all politcial parties. In doing this they effectively wiped out any political opposition. Although there were underground politial opposiiton, this was on the whole small and very feared. Which leads me onto my second point, fear.

The Gestapo and SS created fear and terror amongst the poeple of Germany. Some Germans although openly supported the Nazis they did not privately. To not support the Nazis or to openly disagree with their policies was a sure way of meeting a Gestapo firing squad.

The Nazis very slowly introduced more adn more measures which restricted Jewish freedoms so this was not an over night process.

Outside of Germany, there are reports of countries deporting Jews to Nazi concentration camps so some may argue this was tolersated. However I do nt know enough about this to give you a valid opinion on this although I suggest you could research this area more if it is of interest to you.

I believe that Britain was aware that something was happening although im sure the exact scale of the mass murder would never have been anticipated by anyone.

Answer 3

FROM THE INSIDE:
I think it is very unfair to say that no one did anything to stop the holocaust and Hitler. Many stories have come up of Germans that tried to do something about the Nazis. The history of the White Rose (college kids, all executed) or the Bomb Plot (soldiers and officers of Germany, and everybody executed or forced to commit suicide). Hitler was just too brutal and lucky to not get toppled by other people.

Now, why more people did not do anything else? Well, first it was the example of the deaths and imprisionment for disidents. And another was the Nazi propaganda machine that someone like Bush would love to have today to convince more Americans he is truly fighting for "freedom".

One thing is to "bravely" condemn it now in the 21st century, and another speaking up in a terror state who would have arrested you, brought you up to the People's Court, and let the coward who led the Court mock you:

"What holocaust? Everybody knows the jews are being resettled in the liberated lands of the Ukraine! Actually, we are being very tolerant to let them live there, given that those areas are the true motherland of all Aryans!

Besides, why do you think otherwise? The Fuhrer and his most important cabinet members have said no one has been harmed! Are you implying they are liars? Do you have an agenda? Are you a bolchevich, the true enemy of this war? (once we beat the communists, Britain will surely make peace!)"

FROM THE OUTSIDE:
The holocaust was a byproduct of the war. Horrible in itself, the main issue was stopping the Nazis, not just the killing of "inconvenient" minorities as these loonies would say. That is something people have to get to accept. We know it was a horrible thing to do. But that's not the main issue of bringing down herr Fuhrer and his cronies. It is the fact that the ruling elite of Germany would not stop until they had conquered the world.

So now, on to why Hitler was not stoped from the outside, you have to divide time before and after 1939. Before that, no one believed Hitler was that crazy, and everybody wanted to avoid another bloody war. It was until the invasion of Poland when some nations woke up to the idea that Hitler was megalomaniac.

And after that... well, you know there was a War, right? Many nations tried to stop Hitler, but it took some time to bring those Nazis down.

Answer 4

One reason is that there were a lot of very sick people like art_flood and you-know-I'm-right around the world at that time. Adolf Hitler did not invent anti-Semitism. Jew-hating and Jew-killing had been around for centuries. For example, Martin Luther was certainly a serious anti-Semite. Thus many Germans followed the Nazis' anti-Jewish programs. A well-known (and controversial) book, "Hitler's Willing Executioners," by Daniel Goldhagen, does much to reinforce that view.
But perhaps as good a reason as any is that people of different times often live by different moral codes. Until the Holocaust, it was generally held that whatever a country did inside its own borders was not really any other country's business.
As you can see by such things as the Balkan wars of the 90s and the current Iraq war, that idea has changed.

Answer 5

That's an outstanding question. Remember, everyone wanted to APPEASE Hitler. If you give him what he wants, he'll stop. Neville Chamberlain was the absolute antithesis of this. We don't want to fight and its not our problem. Why wasn't more done is just what I said. No one saw it as their problem. No one "took up the cause" and No one really knew, i think, just how bad it was until they found the Death Camps. What could have been done was Stopping Hitler Earlier instead of giving in. If America had entered the War At the get go, I don't think it would have lasted as long nor would as many lives been lost. WW II before Pearl Harbor was a European War and no one wanted to get involved. The biggest mistake was when Japan attacked and "roused the sleeping Lion". They made a calculated move that ALMOST paid off.

as to the why not inside Germany? Oh my. You want to try and fight the machine called the Third Reich. You would have been killed. You were either for him or against him. No in between. and you never knew who your friend was or your enemy.

Answer 6

First, to be against the holocaust in Germany was an offense against the government, punishable by death if convicted of treason.
Second, the Allies were already doing everything they could to defeat Germany...they had no further effort to give, and could not stop internal politics of Germany without defeating them.

Answer 7

Germany did much to keep it a secret, Just as President Bush tried to Keep Abu-Ghraib and treatment at Guantanamo a secret.

Additionally, many outside of German held territory knew but turned a blind eye on it because it either suited their own purposes or was not advantageous to do so politically.

Answer 8

The war was hitler's cover up, along with his thirst for domination, for the holocaust, and his "final solution"
the fact is the US really didn't know details on the supposed camps being put up all over Germany. There was little they could do regardless but continure to push, and fight until they reached and liberated these camps.

Answer 9

quite alot of people in germany actually didn't realise it was happening, unless they were involved and they would be nazis and agree withit, until 1944 when Auschwitz was unveiled by the russians and those who did know were to scared or in england/russia/america and wher too far away to be helpfull

Answer 10

Cause most of the world actually agreed with Hitler. They really just did not want him ruling them.

Even Jews collaborated with the Nazis in an effort to establish a Jewish State - Isreal.