have helped people by hiding them, or would you have not got involved, or would you have obeyed the laws of the land and turned Jewish people in to Nazi's?
Would other peoples religion mattered to you their belief or lack of belief in your choice to help them?
2007-08-07 17:23:43 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
A Dog...your answer amazes me
2007-08-07 17:30:19 · update #1
Crazydude...good point
2007-08-07 17:31:30 · update #2
lilmissykato...very refreshing ..the truth..
you probably would have helped anyone who is truthful and has integrity always does
2007-08-07 17:33:14 · update #3
Lone Ranger...great point...I hope I would and I believe I would, but till you walk in someone else's shoe's you just don't know
2007-08-07 17:36:26 · update #4
cargentina0102...great answer..thanks
2007-08-07 17:38:26 · update #5
If research shows us anything (see Nuremburg Defense, Adolf Eichmann, and The Milgram Expirement), most everyone here would collaborate and submit to the Nazi power; it's survival instinct. Remember, not only your survival, but your family, kids, etc...
I hate to admit that the data and research shows that I would be one to submit. The probability is just too great. The pressure would be too strong.
I *WANT* to say I'd be courageous and would do the honorable thing, but that's easy to say sitting behind my CPU screen. The honest answer is none of will ever know unless we are put under similar circumstances.
2007-08-07 18:23:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I like to think that I would have helped out in anyway i could but thats easier said than done. I definitely know I would not have bought into the Nazi propaganda but whether or not I would have helped out the Jewish communities and other people pursued by the Nazis or whether I would have just followed the rules to make sure I stated safe I cannot say because thankfully I have never been in a situation that tests my core beliefs and morals so strongly.
2007-08-08 00:35:06 · answer #2 · answered by Billy M 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would have helped the Jewish people hide. Killing people because of their religion, or for any other matter, is wrong in my mind. What the Nazis did was genocide. Hitler just needed a scapegoat.
I'm Catholic, but part of my family is Jewish, and in fact my grandfather escaped from Poland and went to Argentina. The rest of my grandfather's family perished in concentration camps, and when I think about it I wish somebody could have helped them. But to me it doesn't matter if Hitler had ordered the persecution and torture of Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Cristians, Muslims, Atheists, or whatever other religion there is. I would help anybody that is nice, no matter what their religious beliefs are.
2007-08-08 00:35:04 · answer #3 · answered by cargentina0102 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I definitely would have found a way to help the Jewish get out of the area. I think I would have been a great spy. I think that we are all the same and hope that everyone else does too.
Read The Sunflower. At least the introduction and you will understand why it is so important. If you have not read The Terrible Things. . . you should as well
2007-08-08 00:30:23 · answer #4 · answered by just help ducky 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not really sure what I would do if I was born back then and had to go through that. I can't completely imagine what it would be like for me and everyone else.
But I know that if I went back in time with the same ideas and thoughts that I have right now, I would definantly be hiding and saving as many people as I could.
2007-08-08 00:29:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would have helped others by hiding them in a heartbeat. I would never obey a law that meant being an accessory of murder. My life is not worth more than anyone else's life.
I am a bone marrow donor. I have never asked what religion the recipient of my bone marrow is. My belief is what drives me to help others, not their beliefs.
"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill."
Gandhi
2007-08-08 00:53:07 · answer #6 · answered by Pangloss (Ancora Imparo) AFA 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am sure that I would have been afraid. I can't say how I would have reacted. I truly hope that I would have helped them. I know that the Nazis were very evil and wouldn't think one second about killing my family and me. The Jewish people's religion would not have mattered to me.
2007-08-08 00:41:08 · answer #7 · answered by 4HIM- Christians love 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As much as I'd like to say that I'd be some kind of hero and save the day in Nazi Germany, the answer is that I don't know. I'll help people now regardless of their faith (or lack of faith) and ethnic background, but I'm simply not in the same situation as those people were. There were many people who were heroic and stood up for what's right. I would like to say that I'd be one of them, but as I've already stated earlier, torture and murder are strong incentives to remain silent. It would be nice to believe that I'd be some kind of conquering hero, but I'm going to opt for honesty and give a real answer: I don't know, because I wasn't there.
2007-08-08 00:28:16 · answer #8 · answered by solarius 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
It is impossible for us in the USA today to even begin to comprehend the pressure on the people in Germany during that time to conform and to find a scapegoat for their problems.
No one, not even a Jew, can realistically say what they would have done in that situation, after all there were Jewish collaborators too.
2007-08-08 00:31:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to think I would have tried anything to survive, get out and save my loved ones. I'd like to think someone would help save me and my family...but who knows what life was really like then. The world was a bigger place. Chances are I'd be either fighting for my life, starving in a camp, being tortured or murdered like all my European relatives were.
2007-08-08 01:43:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋