I understand that so many people (6 mill. Jews, and 5million non-jews) were killed and tortured in the Holocaust. What I don't understand is why teachers don't teach kids about what was going on while troops were sent over to help. Like why after Americans saw how fucked up it was to kill people for their ethnicity, physical features, race, religion, etc... but then Americans still had the nerve to beat blacks, spit on them, sick dogs on them, spray them with fire hoses, segregate things, lynch them for making eye contact with whites, bomb churches with children in them, etc... AND we keep stressing the fact that the Holocaust was NOT THAT LONG AGO... well neither was the genocide in Rwanda, and the civil war that's happening right now in Sudan. WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE NOT TEACHING YOUR KIDS THIS??? "Never Again, REMEMBER the Holocaust!" so history doesn't repeat itself, well guess what America, history is repeating itself. I'm so angry, WHY ARE U NOT TEACHING YOUR KIDS ABOUT WHATS GOING ON
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What makes you think this isn't being taught?  Sure it is.
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Hi.  This is a very interesting question and one that is close to home for me. I am a home educator and when I first began home schooling my children, like the year before, I brushed up on history.  So many things were difficult to tell my children, namely, the beginning when so many lives were lost during the Europeans taking over the land. I think what we walked away with year after year (now 10 years of teaching this topic) is that the native americans at first were quite puzzled as to why anyone would want to fight over this land, as they did not even view it as their own. The land didn't belong to them any more than the white man. If I am correct, they believe the land was there by \nGod(s) and we are to replenish it and respect it. White believed what ever they could take by force, should be theirs. Now I do not set around blaming Europeans any more than I hold present Native Americans responsible for the killings that some of tribes attributed to. But I do believe that lack of compassion is taught in our school books, when introducing America to our children. There are many Christian history books that I have bought and read and taught from however, that do teach this compassion to the original people, the Native Americans.  Interesing also is that some folks do not believe "native Americans" were the native people, but that vikings such as Leif Ericson were the first in North America.  Or maybe the Asians, who came across the Bering St. before the ocean covered it...and that is where native americans come from?  Sorry to be so lengthy. I just love history of America and this topic is near my heart.  God bless!
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It will never be clean, because blacks won't let it. My grandfather came from Hungary, and my father was the first one born here. So I have absolutely no ties to what happened, yet I have to get glared at by blacks (as if I owe them a food stamp because I am white). The real kicker of it all is that if they would tap into their intelligence just a bit, they would realize the real focus needs to be on AFRICA. AFRICA sold these people to the Americans, AFRICA made a handsome profit from the slave trade. AFRICA pulled these people out of their homes to collect a commission. Slavery did not last long in America until the majority of the whites said, this is wrong!, and chose to fight... to the death.... to free them. Where was AFRICA when it was time to fight for their people?! AFRICA sold them, got rich from their misery, abandoned them, and did not fight for them. Thousands of white men fought and died for their freedom, I think the part of "penance" has been paid. America has bent over backwards catering to the blacks, bending the laws to accomodate them, making things like black radio stations (although white radio stations would be a hate crime), the black expo (although the white expo would be a hate crime), and banning the use of the N word (although if they could not call us honky or craker that would be depriving them of freedom of speech and expression). The white people have done more than enough to say sorry for what happened, but sorry is not what they want. They want to sap off of the misery that people suffered 200 years ago. It is too inspiring to be a victim. Being a normal person isnt fun, you have to work and you get no special breaks. I am glad that my roots are in Hungary, because I seriously doubt the Hungarians would tolerate this kind of ignorance that we are tolerating. Its time to ask AFRICA for some answers.
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General European prejudice against Jews was already centuries old, and it had carried over to North America because the US was founded by European immigration. This is a prejudice against any "outside" group, and also extended to other people who were not local (new foreign immigrants, Gypsies, etc.). For more information on the Holocaust and the factors leading up to it, try the links below.
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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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America is not alone in their disregard of African atrocities. It's got nothing to do with being Muslim. It has to do with the fact that there isn't an economic necessity to go in there and do anything unfortunately. Unless we stand up as humans and say something our governments won't do anything about it.
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Because those who are imprisoned are human, and are entitled to basic human rights, like a fair trial.  Only the innocent would be released, so your "logic" escapes me.\n\nInterning the Japanese and German Americans during WWII was a horribly racist crime.  Everyone who belongs to a particular race is not the same - that is cruel stereotyping at its worst.  You are doing exactly this.
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it's impossible to speak of Zionist aggression without someone whipping out the Anti-Semitic card.  Also, if you notice, preceding any major push by the Israeli army, we Americans are inundated with reminders of the Holocaust.  It's a horrible fact of history that these Jews were mercilessly killed by the Nazis. But that does not give the Zionists the right to commit genocide against an entirely different population.
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At first this question offended me.  I suspected a touch of anti-semitic bias.\n\nThen I went on the web to look at some facts regarding the number of non-Jews who were also victims of the holocaust.  The facts lend legitimacy to the question.  There may have actually been MORE non-Jews killed in the death camps.  \n\n(For a quick read on this, go to the Wikipedia link below)\n\nSo, back to the original question..."Why is it that we only hear about the Jews killed in the concentration camps?"  \n\nMy guess is that they exist both as a homogenous group (Jewish) and as a nation (Israel) that is a close ally of the U.S.  All through the cold war years when we were writing our version of the history of the holocaust, many of the non-Jewish populations that were affected had fallen behind the iron curtain (Poland, Hungary, Romania, etc.).  For nearly 40 years the interests of these people and the stories of how they too suffered at the hands of the Gestapo were not foremost in our national awareness and empathy (let alone our textbooks). \n\nOther under-represented victims included the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists and political dissidents, trade unionists, Freemasons, and some Catholic and Protestant clergy, many of whom were also persecuted and killed.  All of these were also less politically viable after the war or were also victims of our own ignorance and bias here in America.\n\n\nTo sum up, I don't think that there is some "devious plan" to manage the perception of the holocaust as an exclusively Jewish persecution.  I think that the rest of the various (and many) groups that were targeted simply didn’t engender anything like the unified outrage of the Jewish community and the state of Israel. \n\nGood question…made me think.
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For God's sake - when will all this whining and whinging end?  Why should the people of today be responsible for the actions of people hundreds of years ago.  You cannot equate the culture and way of life during the times of slavery with the world we live in today.  The African people themselves were selling their own people - not only to Europeans and Americans but largely to the Arabic countries so shouldn't the African governments be apologising to their own people!!!!  Do we blame the young Germans of today for the Holocaust - NO we don't!  We can only learn from past mistakes and MOVE ON!!  This is another example of people trying to make financial gain in todays compensation culture!
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Whether the Holocaust really happened or not only matters for Israel, and Germany, cause Israel benefits from that claim, and i think that Germany is still compensating for Israel..\nBut what matters for all of us, is the possibility of such a terrible thing to happen to any one, or any group.\nA lots of terrible things like the Holocaust are happening in the world right now.. Like the hunger in some african countries, the diseases, and lots more.\nSome estimate that 100,000 people have been killed in Iraq. Isn't that a Holocaust?\nI hope we work to prevent Holocausts, rather than argue about an ugly part of our human history..
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Many people were killed in WWII including the Jews.\nbut the story of holocaust was made up by the Zionist Jews to pretend they were not safe in Europe and they needed their own homeland. That was the main pretext for invading and occupying palestine, a country that had no role in the war. But let it be said that there are some Jews who oppose occupation of Palestine.
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Americans are not properly educated and taught not to think. I am a naturalized citizen from another country, and it's amazing how hostile people, especially from the Midwest, get at you for having your own opinion on an issue, independent of what the news media or even ESPN. I've seen people hate me for coming to a certain conclusion, then agree when the news media comes around to it too. It's depressing. Lots of these people don't even know their history, so I find it embarrassing when they talk about terrorists and don't even know what the Six-Day War was about or Munich.
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oh !john c. America doesn't have any interest there. What products does the eastern part of africa export to the usa? can't think of anything ? and that is why america won't do anything. if we were a country that was focused on humanity then yes we would be over there in a new york minute.It makes me so mad! because there are millions of people dying there! it also has a lot to do with race wheteher we want to admit it or not.Throwing a million dollars to them means nothing if a evil dictator gets it!
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I agree with you. I find it distressing that so soon after the Jews had been horribly excluded and killed in their millions by Hitler and the Nazi's (up to 1945) they then went on to persecute and exclude, kill and humiliate another race of people, literally from about 5 years later. Do you think we will ever learn that persecution and violence only leads to more persecution and violence. And for all the people who went on about palestinian suicide bombers, obviously you do not get the papers that report the thousands of palestinian men women and children killed by Israeli soldiers everyday, walking to and from school or to their homes. The Israeli state started this persecution and it is the lack of action by the U.S (who have too many links with powerful and rich Jewish companies) and other democracies such as the U.K which allow this blatantly illegal occupation to carry on. We still supply israel with aid and arms so they can continue killing.
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Nobody wants to examine their own sins.  Look how many years it took before school books admitted some of the horrible things the U.S.Calvary did to Native Americans.  And it is not just the Armenians.  Turkey and Greece are "allies" but are constantly at each others throat.  As long as one people believe they are better than anyone else in the world, there will be this stupid, mass destruction.
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well i have nothing against them. imean.. a lot of people after the 911 incident may think oh yeah don't trust them blah blah they're bad people etc. but think twice about it. hitler killed a lot of jews.. does that make all german's bad? no. the japanese from japan bombed pearl harbor. did that justify the internment of the japanese americans? no. there are bad people of every race and religion & there are good as well. so people has got to stop discriminatin & hatin.