I was talking to few Germans about the war crimes carried out by Hitler and upon the Jews and wanted them to share their opinion, but all of them kept quite and moved away. Are they also cursing Hitler like the rest of the world?
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I am sorry, but I keep hearing that students in Germany are not taught about WW2 and Hitler, and that is just not true. I am 32 years now, grew up in Germany and went to school there. It is ridiculous to assert that we were not educated about that issue, even if we would like to forget about it.\nThe reason why Germans don't like to talk about it is, that we are taught in school and our society, that it was all our fault. WW1, WW2, Germans cannot be trusted, we learn. Nationalism is bad, we learn. If you ever go to Germany, you will notice very few flags hanging up like you would here, in the US, because it goes back to "Nationalism is bad. Germans are bad." The Olympics or an international soccer game is the only place where you would actually see German flag-waving inside the country, apart from what we consider to be radical elements of our society.\nWe are very much allowed to talk about what happened. There is such a thing as freedom of speech in Germany, but people are afraid to look like "Nationalist," very much like people in the US try to avoid talking about the black/white issues in order not to appear racist.\nThere are a few things that are not being taught and understood correctly about history in Germany. Since we have that feeling of collective guilt, nobody wants to explore the possibility of other nations carrying part of the guilt due to what happened in WW1. You will find plenty of people talking about it in the States, but in Germany, people just don't even want to talk about it anymore. "It's all our fault, yes, can we stop talking baout it, please?" is probably the best description of the German mindset when you will bring up the topic.
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Brooke, I sympathize. They can't handle historical fact - all they have is their one book, and they believe everything in it. So outside fact has no meaning. If the bible told them the sky was pink, they would look at it and say "what a pretty pink sky". If you told them it was blue, they would argue forever about how the bible says it's pink, so it's pink. They still refuse to accept that Hitler was a Christian, even though we've provided tons of evidence that he slaughtered the Jews due to his religious beliefs. Don't take it too personally - the christers don't like people messing with their world view.
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"Why is Nazism so popular in slavic countries eg. Poland, Russia etc? \nI thought that Hitler considered Slavs to be scum of the earth\nand he wanted a war of annhiliation in Russia right?"\n\nWrong- Himmler considered Slavs "sub-human". The war in Russia was mostly political and economic, rather than "racial" (unless you were Semitic...)\n\nAnyway, why is Nazism so popular in Slavic countries? Because those countries got to suffer under Communism for decades! You also have to keep in mind that a lot of those countries were force-fed immigrants from non-European Third World countries. Now, those nations have to reap what the Bolsheviks sowed. Add to that a good dose of anti-Semitism, and Fascism/Nazism seems inevitable.
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This is more a response to your WW2 question but i messed up and it wont let me post\n\nI love the way people esp. christians never understand questions. Its f*ing obvious what you are asking. I get similar crap answers to my questions too. I once asked why other groups i.e non jews had forgotten the 'true' creation story, if indeed they are decedent from Adam and Eve. why did only the jews remember these events? I got answers like " well I'm a Christian and not a Jew and I remember the Adam and Eve story" f*king hell, that's what we are dealing with here dude.
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It's not just you.  I have also witnessed this and it greatly disturbs me.  You can go to a Muslim chatroom almost any time of day and find people insulting Jews.  If one wants to really insult someone in those rooms, they'll call them a "Jew" or "Jew-lover."  I get so mad.  They habitually deny the holocaust, and yet believe in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which has been proven to be a fabrication.  \n\nEarly in the Prophet Muhammad's career, there was a Jewish tribe that made a treaty with him.  But they broke the treaty.  Of course, they were probably not being treated as equals since they never converted to Muhammad's new religion.  But this set a very bad precedent, unfortunately for the Jews.  Because the Muhammad then recited verses of the Qur'an which were directed against "the Jews."  Of course, this more than likely meant THOSE Jews from that one tribe who had broken the treaty, and not Jews in general.  However, there are various verses in the Qur'an that seem like they are applying more generally to all Jews.  And there are some very very negative statements in there against Jews.\n\nFor example, the Qur'an says that the Jews had received a revelation from God, but that they twisted it and changed it, and to punish them, God turned them into detestable apes!  There is a statement in the Qur'an about the Jewish nose, implying it is crooked on account of sin.  There are whole suras (chapters) in there just going on and on about Jews and it is really NOT positive.\n\nThere ARE positive statements in the Qur'an about Jews.  But I do not think it outweighs the negative ones therein at all.\nThere was a time when Muslims and Jews got along better - when the Jews were subordinate to the Muslims.  As long as the Muslims were over the Jews, the Muslims were ok with Jews.  But when the Jewish state of Israel was created, everything went way downhill.  The Palestinians saw it as a takeover and an infiltration.  (even though it was Britain that had owned the land before).\n\nThere is a deep rift and it will take a lot to heal it, I'm afraid.
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We do speak of terrorists, and as you have pointed out seem to blame entire nations and religions for the acts of a few people, like people blaming the whole of germany for the war rather than just the nazi's etc
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Well, just to help you a little here, Hitler did not believe in Jesus.  He felt Christianity was weak and didn't want his power being challenged by religious authorities.  (If the basis of your question is, "Is it alright to kill those who don't agree with you?" I hope you know the answer already.) \n\nHitler wanted to exterminate every Jew on earth, not change their minds.  His reasons for killing Jews (which is part of what makes the Holocaust so remarkable) had nothing to do with their beliefs.  It was all about their birth, and many secular and converted Jews were murdered alongside their orthodox counterparts.\n\nYou should really read up more on the holocaust.  It is possibly the worst thing in human history, and the only thing we can do to prevent something similar is to know how it happened the first time.\n\nP.S.- Here's the really tough question you might want to ponder; After ordering the murder of twelve million innocents and waging a wart to conquer the earth, if Hitler had recanted on his death bed, would G-d have forgiven him.
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u my friend r quite mistaken. i am an orthodox  jew, im the first to admit it and very proud of it. what ur saying now is not only rediculous but insulting towards the christians and catholics alike. hitler, may his name be erased, was a psycopath. he was a monster who was out of mind and barely human. his beliefs and morals (or lack there of) had nothing to do with christianity. his focus was about killing the jew en route to creating the perfect nation. learn some history.
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I am not German, but English. I have read Mein Kampf in German and also the translation into english. You can read in parts how Hitler was a genious in his earlier days, but also the points where his reasoning went slightly astray. ie "Give me an army behind me, a minority to hate and I will rule the world"  Bit like Bush really, come to think of it !!!!
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Yes. You are obviously attempting to make a point that Hitler was not so bad as everyone thinks he was.\n\nHitler was bitter because he felt Germany was spurned by Europe in the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles. He was a strangely enigmatic man, and what he told people about Germany becoming great once again seemed wonderful to thousands of others who felt like he did.\n\nHitler used strongarm tactics (essentially, his hired thugs beat up anyone who stood in his way, hence the SA) to become Chancellor, and then he started the new Reich. \n\nHitler had announced intents to "regain" parts of the Fatherland lost in WWI, and this obviously shows his aggression. He started moving in quickly on Austria-Hungary and also he annexed other parts of Europe, over weak European protests. \n\nHitler built up German military forces, despite the re-creation of a strong German military banned in the Treaty of Versailles. This also shows his intent to start a war.\n\nWhen Hitler invaded Poland, he started World War II. He knew the consequences, he just thought that the English wouldn't hold true to their promise to fight. He knew he could beat France and Poland, and with Stalin as an ally he didn't have to worry about watching his back.\n\nHitler started WWII, no question about it. \n\nOh, one more thing. You cite Mein Kampf as a source. However, Mein Kampf is much more of a self-glorifying propoganda novel than an actual historical book. I read that book once, and I was sickened. It was truly a look into the mind of a twisted, evil man.\n\nIf you are sympathetic to the Nazi cause, reconsider. Nazis killed over seven million people in cold blood, and millions more for their own twisted motives.
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Although anti-Semitism had existed since the establishment of Christianity Jews were only one of Hitler's target groups for elimination. In his quest to purify and strengthen the German race Hitler ordered the killings of Jews, Blacks, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Handicapped persons, the mentally ill hospitals, the elderly, the homeless, Slavs, and even World War One Veterans who had lost limbs or had otherwise become dependent. The reason Jews seemed to have been singled out in the Holocaust is because Hitler used them as a scapegoat for the problems following WW1. Hitler gave the downtrodden German people a face to put the blame of their dire situation. He accused the Jews, because they were different, of bringing down Germany from the inside. You would have to admit that Hitler's greatest achievement was making a whole country believe that less than 1% of their population, the Jews, were to blame for WW1 and it's consequences. With everyone's attention and anger directed at the Jews Hitler was free to eliminate other "unacceptable" people, many his own countrymen, without opposition or even notice. The reason that it's usually a Jewish person who speaks at assemblies is because they made up the largest portion of the Holocaust therefore others didn't survive or have likely passed on.
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was this sort of on, sort of not on, the news tonight?  All I saw was them talking about an "incident" and not saying what it was.  \n\nWhat you describe is a horrific crime and brings shame on those men's families, combrades, country, and flag.   But the answer to the question is that everyone is capable of their very own acts of evil.  \n\nThe question here may be partly one of respect.   If you think you're part of the best nation on earth, what is everyone else?   If you can dehumanise the "others", regarding them as less than you, you can justify anything. That is not a uniquely American problem - aggressor nations very often commit horrible violations, with attitudes like that never far away from the action.\n\nBut it's also about self-respect.   If that were you doing that, could you look yourself in the eye afterwards?   Of course not.   So how can they?   People who have pride in their good qualities are less likely to descend to such horrible depths.\n\nNot much of an answer, more of just a train of thought.   Not much shocks me these days, but that does.   If I believed in hell, I reckon I would believe in it for that.
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i  ask the same thing and got nothing. \nhow are we to know what the hell we did if they don't tell us. is it some whiny bitch who got their feelings hurt or some loser who thinks you made a racist remark(which i never do). it would help if they just told us.......\n\nwhy is everyone so pissy about the word jews????
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The Nazi's wanted to be the dominent race and rule the world. The Jew's were an easy target. The Nazi's viewed them as inferior and were determined to wipe them out. It didn't work. There were a lot Jew's killed but the Nazi's died out. The Jew's are still here.
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Because at that time, Jews were the popular scapegoat for any problems, so it was natural to blame them. Even now, some fanatics out there still think that Jews control the entire world and are plotting to kill everyone. For these people, a war against Jews is good, and necessary. And Hitler used these people.
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i am a muslim and i dont know much about what ur saying but i would like to say that opinions are just that opinions, so lets just say that hitler could have been christian or not.  either way it doesnt change anything because he was psychotic anyway
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Hitler famously said "I decide who is Jewish or not." In this case he was being purely pragmatic - the man he was referring to was a General in the Luftwaffe, although there were at least two Generals in the Wehrmacht who were of Jewish origin. \n\nHitler may have been an insane racist but in some circumstances he was a pragmatist. On the other hand it can be argued that his antisemitism was purely a cynical political strategy to unify the German people by playing on Germany's history of anti-Jewishness. However, history shows that Hitler's personal feelings towards Jews verged on the pathological and lead directly to the Holocaust.