Why do YOU think the Holocaust and the camps were allowed to happen??

Question

I would like to know some reasons why YOU all think the Holocaust and the camps were allowed to happen. I am doing a research paper on this and need people's opinions so I can include them in my research paper. Remember, the reasons have to be your own and noone elses... Thank you!!

Answer 1

It was the same reason people allowed sadam to terrorize Iraq, Fear. Nobody dared stand up and say it was wrong, or else the SS would have drug them off to join the jews. Fear is a great tool in a dictatorship type of government, I'm sure people back then knew it was wrong, But fear made them turn a blind eye to the plight of jewish, and other unfortunate souls.

Answer 2

Allowed to happen...? Everything happens due to a long chain of events that is formed by the culture, beliefs, and value system that is in place at any given time - in any given place.

You may ask about the Holocaust, Slaves, or any of the like but these things in there own time and place were acceptable and very much the norm!

At the time it is happening - it is happening for a reason and everyone agrees with it - so there is no problem with the morals, judgement, or ethics. It will continue to happen until it meets an equal or opposite reaction to change its course.

If Germany had of Won WWII we would all be speaking German and the Camps would be renouned for their ethnic cleansing of the non-perfect race.

If the South had Won the Civil War Slavery would be widespread and the only people without slaves would be the poorest of the poor - as slavery would run the economy and be the pillar of our Nation!

Everything happes for a reason...
We only decide if it was right or wrong years later - when our opinion doesn't reflect the time in question anyway.

There are 2-sides to every coin just because 1 side gets noticed doesn't mean the other side wasn't there.

Today - they were horrible torture holes
Back then - required for the good of Germany.

In Short - the camps were there because they were needed.

Answer 3

The Holocaust was "allowed" to happen for the same reason that gangs, violent crime, and road rage are allowed to happen, today:

1) "Decent" people are too afraid, powerless, or unwilling to act (i.e., it's always someone else's problem). Speeches are made, but people either listen with a deaf ear, or actually comprehend the vitriole, but assume that someone else will stop the lunatic.

2) Laws protect the guilty more than the innocent or victims (which media darling, today, will get a slap-on-the-wrist for abusing drugs?). Furthermore, revolving door prisons do nothing to rehabilitate prisoners, and practically foster the notion of "learning to become a better criminal"; IMHO, "lifers" and recidivists are a waste of space, and should be executed to save the police and courts time and effort, if not taxpayer money (for those of you who just want, "Tsk!", watch some of the documentaries on the "inside" of our jail system; it has failed, miserably, and the only solution is a radical one. And, please, spare me the dubious comparison between me wanting to annhiliate criminals versus Hitler's death camps, which were targeted at innocents-made-scapegoats; and, for the record, I also believe that violent and drug-dealing gangs should be exterminated off the face of the Earth, as well; they are no better than cockroaches, unworthy of a "second" chance).

3) Police are powerless to act unless they actually witness a crime occurring (unless they can piece it together from obvious clues and evidence, which could take hours, days, weeks, months, and sometimes even years!). Eventually, the criminals "win", so, in essence, crime becomes law. Likewise, the code of the military states that whoever is in power rules, even if that power is obviously evil, and may end up destroying that very same military (did you know that Saddam never allowed his military advisors (or anyone else, for that matter) to carry sidearms in his vicinity? can you guess why?).

Granted, all this makes the war on Iraq seem "appropriate", since Saddam had been in the process of killing thousands of his own people, but then, where is the "swift sword of justice" or "enduring freedom" against the same atrocities occurring in the rest of the world, right now, most notably in Africa?

'Nuff said?

Make sure you attribute me in your paper!

Answer 4

A lot of people were very fearful of how powerful the Nazi Regime was. Hitler blamed the Jews for all the ills of Germany and if you were living in Germany during this time period you would see how fear can rule a whole nation into saying nothing .
You can read The Holocaust Chronicles on line ...686 pages.

Answer 5

I believe that all the other countries were too involved and concerned with their own matters and that they merely weren't paying attention to Hitler and his antics. Also, I don't think that anyone really knew the severity of the Holocaust. Therefore, they didn't bother to interfere.

Answer 6

The Jews were too afraid to fight back because Hitler was in a state of immense power.

This site might help
http://www.hatikvah-center.org/ask/fight.html

Answer 7

It was allowed in Germany because Hitler Hated Jews, I think it was all about how they killed his friend or something, but I think it was hitler=revenge rather than segregation by religion