2007-10-31 08:38:55 · 10 answers · asked by sparkle 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Check court news, history and common knowledge.
FR Germany took the responsibility and paid billions.
2007-10-31 08:46:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Non-Jewish Germans were first to go to the camps, killed, raped, financially destroyed by the Nazi. There was a grand effort to fight Hitler. Ford Motor Company, and other American businesses provided Nazi dictatorship with goods and loans. Too many Germans supported Hitler, persecutions, genocides, to absolve them from blame, but There are probably more neo-Nazi supporters in any other country than Germany. Once Gestapo established, it was very hard to mount resistance. They kept trying though. The world will never know the extent of anti-Nazi efforts until end of war.
2007-10-31 15:50:51 · answer #2 · answered by peter s 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, the Nazi party stated in Germany by Germans. That could be one reason. If you are talking about Germans who were not members of the party, many of them knew the concentration camps existed and helped point out where the Jews were. Those who lived near the camps could smell the stench of burning flesh 24 hours a day. But they didn't know? C'mon!
2007-10-31 15:44:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
In the practical sense, the Nurenburg trials anwered that question. In the broadest possible moral sense, I suppose you could hold any German who was aware of the Nazi attrocities and did nothing to try to stop it, or in some way reduce the impact partially responsible. It's not really fair to do so, IMHO - I don't believe there's a clear line between resistance and collaboration. Most people are neither villains nor heroes
2007-10-31 15:48:17 · answer #4 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you asking morally or legally?
Legally they were prosecuted in the Nuremberg trials and justly so.
Morally I don't know if they had any choice. In the beginning, they could have united and rebelled. But as time wore on and the Nazi party grew larger, what were the citizens of Germany supposed to do? If it was a choice between protecting your children by joining the Nazi regime or having your family executed for disobeying, most would join and do whatever they had to do to keep their families safe.
I'm not saying what they did was right, but I often wonder what I would have done if I was in the same predicament.
2007-10-31 15:47:51 · answer #5 · answered by Lisa M 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
to Bush supporter:
Denying the holocaust and the existence of concentration camps is a crime in several countries (which includes also Germany)
To answer the question:
Unless one can prove who had knowledge of the camps and who not there is no clear number.
2007-11-02 04:00:30 · answer #6 · answered by Xenophon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't it racism to blame an entire ethnic group for actions of a smaller group within that ethnic identity, especially when many others from groups outside of that particular ethnic group supported those horrific actions?
At what point does the healing begin?
2007-10-31 15:53:08 · answer #7 · answered by poet1b 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Nuremburg trials held many of the leaders responsible.
2007-10-31 15:41:59 · answer #8 · answered by Colonel Sturgeon 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
The leadership of the nazi's were executed.
However, the german guards who actually abused the people remained free.
2007-10-31 15:43:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Germans did not have concentration camps. Its all lie.
2007-10-31 15:41:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 9⤋