After all did not 50 million Russians die and all the coutries armed forces soldiers.Dont you think Isreal should have a rememberance day for all these souls who gave their lives.Shalom.
2007-12-25 20:30:29 · 21 answers · asked by Francis7 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Juan R has phrased my question better than I did,Sorry for me being clumsey.
2007-12-25 21:09:17 · update #1
I was born jewish but am not religous or a zionist. I have to admit too much attention has been paid to jewish people during WW2. When you consider that 13 million people died in himmler's holocaust and ess then half were jewish, yet 90% of people believe jews were the only people to die in Nazi Germany
2007-12-26 12:41:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
This is an excellent question that deserves an proper ansewer!
1- If you are in a group of 20 million people, and over the course of just 7 years, through forced labor and brutal beatings resulting in death, as well as gas chamber extermination and insineration, you're group is left with only 14 million people, and families torn apart - how would you feel?
2- Six million deaths from one group is the largest human extermination recorded in history.
3- Over 50 million people includes ALL deaths during WWII - not just Russians. We are perfectly aware that homosexuals, gypsies, Catholics and any Natzi opposers were exterminated as well. However, Jews were in the larget group. That's all were saying saying, and nothing more.
4- Like the person above said, Jews had no defence.
5- I live in Israel - We have memorials several times a year for ALL the people who died in WWII. We invite guests from all over the world and honor them for courageous actions such as: hiding victims, resistance and fighting back with whatever arms they had. We do not think of ourselves as the sole victims at all!
6- Please don't forget that besides the purification of the "Arian race", Hitler had the goal of achieving a total annihilation of the Jewish race.
7- Very few "gave their lives" to save Jews during WWII. Soldiers were fighting to keep Natzis out of their country, not to protect Jews. Actually, most European countries were more than pleased to let the Natzis take the Jews to their death.
8- Did you know that ALL countries new very well what was going on in the Jewish gettos and in the Natzi war camps, and they did nothing abou it. - USA, England, Russian inculded. At first, they didn't want to get involved. Why do you think?
* There were gettos in just about every European country, but few tried to save the Jews.
Thank you for asking this question, I can tell you wanted to be better informed. I hope this shines some light.
Shalom to you!
2007-12-25 21:58:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
The Jewish people aren't saying that any other attrocity didn't happen or isn't worthy...but their concern is with their fellow Jews. Isreal should have a rememberance day to honor their own country men, you are right. They deserve as much respect as the rest. But to blame the Jews for Isreal not being concerned with rememberance their people...well, it's not their fault.
Anyone who suffered during that time has just an equal right to claim suffering and misery as the rest
2007-12-25 20:36:09 · answer #3 · answered by emtalex 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Russia does have a remembrance day for the dead of world war 2. They have it every year on the 8 May. Israel doesn't have an offical one but there are many Russians in Israel that do remember the dead Russian soldiers on the 8 May.
2007-12-26 01:45:52 · answer #4 · answered by BUST TO UTOPIA 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Possibly because they were the main target of Adolf Hitler, and I think you are asking another question, I think you are trying to ask why they have been a target of hate over the years? And why they sometimes claim about being repressed. Possibly because they have been hated for where they live, currently Israel is having problems with Muslims in Gaza and the west bank. Thousands of years ago after the Jewish Diaspora to Egypt, Jews became slaves because Egypt had several bad harvests and the jews became the scape goat for what happened. As for WW2 Hitler used the Jews as a scapegoat for the depression and the reason the Treaty of Versailles was hard on Germany. If you are saying they have a monopoly on misery its because they have been hated for misguided reasons. As for Israel having a day for Allied soldiers thats a great Idea.
2007-12-25 20:56:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 2⤋
Maybe because of the fact, they did not have a military Force fighting for them, the Jewish faith taught not to raise your hand against people who attacked you.
And also the fact from very early on in the war the countries of Europe and the U.S.A. were quick to impose a limit on the Jewish Refuges they would accept or even flatly refused to help, despite evidence of extermination Camps.
No other race were persecuted as such on the basis of their religion.
And Israel does remember the people they lost, because of the thoughtfulness of the Nazis who compiled lists of the Jewish victims, by nationality, Age, Profession, even home addresses.
2007-12-25 20:57:33 · answer #6 · answered by conranger1 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
hard not think that seeing as how over 6 million of your fellow people were gassed, shot or tortured to death in concentration camps or in the fields of poland and russia. but the jews didn't have a monopoly on the misery of ww2. the chinese were also brutally murdered, raped and pillaged by the japanese. and so were the philippinos, the poles, and the russians as well.
2007-12-25 21:05:35 · answer #7 · answered by dsm37127 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You are right and very observant Asker. I believe it is because those Jews influencing U.S politics are hard-core and very selfish, and think that by going on perpetually with the holocaust message, they can use it as both a front and a doctrine for committing atrocities against the Palestinians and other people in the Middle-east.
They also use it as an excuse to rampage through other areas of the world in support of US politics. The time has come for them to grow up and stop acting like little children. Israel is after-all 'middle-aged' and should start acting as such.
2007-12-26 01:42:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋
Just read the book Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust, you will find out what they had to suffer everyday
2007-12-25 21:01:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My grandfather had two aunts that perished under Hitler's reign, and we have a remembrance for them and the other victims too. There were Polish Jews. The number of people killed is entirely too many to really know. Your figures are reflecting what exactly? Which war and which countries are you referring to? Israel has so many memorial services a year that I think they do give remembrance to all that lost their lives in wars.
2007-12-25 20:40:42 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 6⤊ 2⤋