Haulocaust?

Question

Obviously the treatment in concentration/extermination camps was unimagineable. But where there any instances when victims got their own back (gaurds/owners suffered, for instance), and out of intrest -
what do you think let those involved in this tortue think it was acceptable? obviously, some wont have, but how could Adolf justify all this in his mind?!?! Is there any sort of mental illness that could explain why he thought as he did, or was he just - evil?

Answer 1

Hitler was certainly evil, but of course HE didn't think so.

Like all evil men, he justified his point of view by believing his victims were subhuman -- i.e., a form of animal that don't have the same reason or right to live that "true" humans do -- "true" humans being the members of the Aryan master race, of course.

Vengeance upon camp guards was certainly feared by the guards, but was more rare than you might think: the prisoners were generally in too poor physical shape to take their revenge, and the guards generally escaped in the face of oncoming Allied troops.

Answer 2

What has Northern Ireland got to do with the Holocaust?

The Concentration Camps set up in the Boer War were believed to be a means of gathering together captured prisoners. Hence the title "a concentration of prisoners" I don't recollect gassing/poisoning,/ritual beating. as went on in Hitler's Germany to be part of it.

Gt Britain/England has made mistakes - but which country hasn't. We gave 2/3rds of the present world a language, a judicial system where there was previously none, engineering, a railway system where there was none previously. There are countless things that we have given the world - so let's move on and be glad that we live where we live with clean running water that just comes out of a tap. copious amounts of food, heating and lighting.

If people are not happy living in England with its "shameful" past and all its faults and weakness, may I suggest that they live elsewhere.

Answer 3

Now before we start I am in no way defending Adolf Hitler, but
who invented the Concentration Camp?
We Brits did in the Boer War. Are we Evil? Well Are We?
And what about the Native Americans who were ethnically cleansed by Brits (who became Americans) in the 1870s were they Evil?
Yes we bloody well were Evil on both counts.
The difference was that eventually the Native Americans rounded on their oppressors.
Unlike the Jews who went like lambs to the slaughter.
But you try it on with the Jews now and they fight back and other in the Middle East do not like it. Tough.
Don't ask sanctimonious questions whilst WE still have blood on our hands. Read your history about Northern Ireland.

Answer 4

That mentality is alive and well in places like "Gitmo" and other countries such as Egypt were the US sends prisoners to be tortured. We all saw the pictures taken in the prisons in Iraq. It's scary to think how far things would digress if it weren't for the "Internet" and "TV" keeping people honest and civilized to a point. After all, the "West" has dehumanized the "Arabs" as Hitler had the "Jews".Also check out the "Death Squads" that murdered Thousands in Guatemala, Chile, after the CIA installed their dictators. This applies to other countries as well. I dare say the "Blackwater" goons would have a field day, given the chance.

Answer 5

boy or boy he was evil through and through and the camps that the people got captured and got killed in wd be undescibable to this day ,imagine when he wd only be nice to the ones i think that were blonde headed and blue eyes and he wd shoot the others with dark hair.it must of been horrid when they wd take the men away from there vives and kids and u wd see them all getting onto trains to be taken away for the gas chambers.yes i think he was mentally f...cked up and no regrets,i wd love to here if some of the germans got the same treatment,and kids these days need to respect the older generation as if it was,nt for them we wdnt be here i take my hat off to all service personell that fought in the 1st and 2nd war

Answer 6

Some of the guards at the camps were set upon by the soldiers and in some cases by the prisoners once freed by the allied forces, and killed, there's documentary proof of this which i have seen. And Hitler was a madman, and evil beyond words.

Answer 7

There is some evidence to suggest that Adolf Hitler was infected with syphilis by a Jewish prostitute. Syphilis does affect the brain and behaviour in latter stages and goes some way to explain his irrational hatred and suspicion of Jews.

Answer 8

hitler did it because he could.who was going to stop him?everyone was scared.it could happen again.the jews were not seen as human by the nazis so to them it was probably like slaughtering chikens or cows.it was a terrible thing but theres nothing we can do about it now except hope it never happens again to anyone.i know its still going on a bit for other reasons like in africa and such like but not like that.

Answer 9

The Germans were brainwashed by the madman Hitler who was obviously the most insane person to have walked this earth

Answer 10

Having been born prior to World War II I consider this less history than personal life experience, that is, things I grew up understanding. Understanding about Hitler is part of that experience. Even so, there is a great deal of information available to understand Hitler and his personal view of the world and one such source is ‘Mein Kampf’.

In this book Hitler expressed his beliefs and his goals for the future. There is at least a dozen references to Jews in the book covering a number of subjects. The following cite from Mein Lampf in the chapter on Nation and Race, expresses Hitler’s basic feelings about Jews:

“ . . . The Jew forms the strongest contrast to the Aryan. Hardly in any people of the world is the instinct of self-preservation more strongly developed than in the so-called ‘chosen people.’ The fact of the existence of this race alone may be looked upon as the best proof of this. Where is the people that in the past two thousand years has been exposed to so small changes of inner disposition, of character, etc., as the Jewish people? Which people finally has experienced greater changes than this one – and yet has always come forth the same from the most colossal catastrophes of mankind? What an infinitely persistent will for life, for preserving the race do these facts disclose!

Also the intellectual abilities were schooled in the course of centuries. Today the Jew is looked upon as ‘clever,’ and in a certain sense he has been so at all times. But his reason is not the result of his own development, but that of object lessons from without. For also the human mind is not able to climb the heights without steps; for every step forward he needs the foundation of the past, and, moreover, in that comprehensive meaning which can be revealed only through general culture. All thinking will rest only to a very small extent on one’s own realization, but to the greater extent on the experiences of the time past. . . . “

This continues as an extensive documentation of Hitler’s belief in the subspecies status of the Jews and I only offer it here as a foundation to support that which subsequently to the war at the Nuremberg Trials, some small selections follow:

Note: the German word Aktion is the rough equivalent of the English word Action and that is mentioned because a number of official ‘Aktions’ are part of the record and were known to Hitler and even initiated by him.

The extermination camps began relatively small (small only in the context of the ultimate numbers) and can be traced back to a written order by Hitler.

Berlin, September 1, 1939
Reichsleiter Bouhler and Dr. Brandt are charged with the responsibility for expanding the authority of physicians, who are to be designated by name, to the end that patients who are considered incurable according to the best available human judgment after critical evaluation of their condition can be granted mercy killing.
Adolf Hitler

With this order Hitler doomed about 100,000 Germans. More significantly this set in motion the machinery that produced the extermination camps in which millions of Jews perished.

Since no system existed for the carrying out the secret order, new systems had to be improvised. This began with a questionnaire being sent to German hospitals requesting information about patients suffering from a number of medical problems. Those which received a ‘red’ mark (as opposed to a blue mark) were slated for death. This was a totally secret operation and the operation had the code name ‘Aktion t 4.

At first these patients were rounded up, herded into prisons and abandoned castles, and allowed to die of starvation. These first camps came into operation in November of 1939. A more systematic method was required, and by early December (1939) Aktion t 4 had evolved a primitive gas chamber fed by exhaust fumes from internal combustion engines. This was not a preferred method because it took people a long time to die. However, by the spring of 1940 this ‘gas chamber’ had evolved into nearly its final form with the chamber disguised as a shower room. The patients were ordered to undress completely and told they were to take a bath. To make them feel more at ease they were given fake medical examinations during which they were examined for gold teeth and there chest was then stamped as to whether they had gold teeth or not.

All of this and far more is recorded in absolute detail from the Nuremberg Trials and those transcripts are available.

The point is, Hitler not only knew about this, but it was initiated by him and fit fully within his view of those (including Jews) that were undesirable. He was not insane or evil in the sense that he didn’t what he was doing or existed in some other philosophical world that had different values. He was little different than any of us and under the right incentives many would do similar atrocities. It is our individual responsibilities to understand and guard against such acts personally and by others and, most importantly, teach the young about this and the rights and wrongs of it. How many here has seen a child do some thing cruel to an animal and yet not corrected the child. Or, when having the chance, teach a child the correct way to view the world. It is our responsibility.

It is also true that the sins of the past impact current and future times. This is particularly true when those of the latest generations are not aware of these acts, or worse, do not seem to care enough to delve into the facts. For example, today there is a war occurring between the Western Cultures and the Eastern Cultures that does have a link to these times of World War II. Specifically, the uncle of the past dictator Sadam Housain was a officer in the German SS with the express duty of bring 20,000 Islamic soldiers into the war specifically to fight the Jews. We today, in part live with this legacy from World War II.