Why did the Holocaust happen to the Jewish ppl. only and not to others??
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Jews weren't the only ones, there were plenty of others killed by the nazis in their quest for world domination and the perfect race.  But the jewish people were predominatly the ones that were victimized and had the largest numbers killed.  The why is simple, hatred of something they didn't understand and scapegoating a race of people just so they could have someone to blame for germanys ills.
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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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Arguably the answer to that question is: "to prevent similar incidents from happening again".\n\nHowever, similar incidents did happen, and will happen as long as the scope of the event is limited to a single specific case which has an article and a special name for it: "The Holocaust"\n\nNo matter how painful and unforgettable the events of the Holocaust may be, it is -one- of the genocides that happened in this century, if not in the known human history. However one always has to keep a sense of proportion. Proportionately, the genocide of the jewish population in Europe somehow becomes the only genocide that warrants mass publication, exposure. Ultimately the Holocaust itself becomes the specific case of the crimes against jews, and anti semitism, rather than the crimes against humanity and fascism.\n\nMeanwhile the Armenian genocide, Genocide in Rwanda, the genocide against Gypsies and such other events receive very few and limited exposure.\n\nWhat the new generations learn from the Holocaust as it is presented today is limited to the simple moral: antisemitism is bad. But the genocide of the Jews was not made possible through antisemitism but through fascism, through disregard for human life. \n\nFor that reason even only 10 years ago the genocide in Rwanda went relatively unnoticed.\n\nGuess the Tutsi's weren't human enough.
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I don't believe your "faithfulness" notion here.  Where was your god during holocaust days?\n\nYou can't tell me there weren't any god-fearing jew / people in those camps.  \n\nDon't bother with the "well well" + explanations about the permissive will or any other sort of will of god, and all the other explanations that amount to "too bad for them glad it wasn't us" rationale.\n\nAll over the world, people suffer terribly through no fault of their own.  Your god doesn't seem so faithful.  \n\nPerhaps you're simply lucky!
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It was when Hitler was a dictator in Germany during World War II, and he took it in to his own hands to wipe out the society of what he felt was inferior beings, messing up and ruining the Aryan race. He was a huge racist and in other words, commiting genocide on millions on innocent Jewish civilians. The Holocaust was the event where the millions of Jewish people were being put through torture, being murdered, and were dying in concentration camps because he did not like them. He was actually Jewish also, but he made this like one of the earliest forms out a hate crime, but in such a more degrading, sick twisting way. He was insecure of his artist abilities and it was said because he got kicked of art school, he decided to hate Jewish people from them on. Holocaust one of the worst events that happened in our history other than slavery, and the land stealing of Native Americans.
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I'm not a real scholar on this but I'll give it a shot.  Jews have always been discriminated against.  I think in some european countries they were barred from holding land, so over time they became involved in finances and banking.  When people in Germany were getting their homes forclosed during the depressions there, they blamed the banks, and therefore the Jews.  Political leaders were able to stir up this hatred pretty easily and from there I don't know what the heck happened.  It's like everyone suddenly lost their morality!  \n\nI welcome corrections from anyone, I just repeating what I think I read.
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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.
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Hitler was crazy and I bet he didn't even know he was partially Jewish. He needed the support of Germany, so he needed to blame a weak part of the population. He chose Jews because they were not Christian, which the majority of Germans were. They did not fit the regualar German "LOOK" and he felt there was room for discrimination. I am not saying the Jews are weak, and it was a bad move on Adolf Hitler's part. Later during the Liberation, they had to evecuate dozens of overcrowded camps and try to kill everyone without klling the soilders they would need later. Hitler had taken it too far and evacuation was a nusiance. He did it because of various diseases inside him, and because he was a wrongly prejudiced man. He was also against those in wheelchairs, African Americans, homosexuals, bisexuals, gypsies, and partially woman  and other minorities in his point of view.
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I don't care who they are.  During the Holocaust, not all Germans were bad and hated the Jews.  The Jews had to trust the ones offering them homes.  It's somewhat the same.
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both are very real. the holocaust was hitlers way of gettin rid of people of jewish faith.idealisticly hitler wanted a superior race,blonde haired blue, eyed men and women possibly under the age of 35.he was a satanic man and had the urged to rule the world.he started in the german army as a corporal but,rose to the top leader of nazi germany.he executed the jewish people simply because they were and are GODs chosen people according to the old testament {KJV}. im a christian and i have my own opinions and understandings which i wont go into now, but, hitler was not a godly man and since he did not beleive in GOD, i figure he didnt want anyone else to.now palestine is a country and a arab one at that.they are like their sister countries.always fighting about something and always in a state of unrest.arab nations have fought with each other or against each other for centuries and will till the end of time.i never understood the arabs really until i could halfway understand thecivil war.father against son,brother against brother.i know nothing of the term Palestine Murderer. could be the killing of a person or people or of the country.just my  simple understanding
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What's "The Reality" of the holocaust?  Are you saying that  A. It didn't happen, B. It was a good thing, or C. Other.  Help us out a little.
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The Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945\n\n\nhttp://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~dgraf/holocaus.htm\n\nhttp://www.greenepa.net/~wgsd/computerlab/Holocaust/Holocaust.html\n\nhttp://www.shamash.org/holocaust/\n\nhttp://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/Holocaust.htm\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/holo.html\n\nhttp://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-holoc.htm\n\nhttp://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/\n\nThe Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial.\n\nhttp://www.holocaust-history.org/\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/12663/?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0312\n\nhttp://www.ushmm.org/\n\nOur site is not the only one on the World Wide Web dealing with the Holocaust.  Certainly an event of such tragic magnitude deserves as much coverage as possible from a wide variety of angles.  Here are some other sites that you can visit for more information.\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/12663/ref.htm\n\nWebsites for Holocaust Education\n\nA comprehensive list of links for you to explore.\n\nhttp://www.cumbavac.org/Holocaust.htm\n\nConcentration Camp Listing\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cclist.html\n\nThe image galleries on this site have been grouped into ten sections for your convenience. Click on the sample thumbnail photo to view all of the galleries in any section.\n\nhttp://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/gallery.htm#1\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Most of them wanted the "perfect race", but perfection was imperfect, this mean they had to destroy some human beings trying to find the correct human being, of course they were not perfect thats why they tought that the phenotypical aspect, the physic, eyes color, skin color, hair color, even weight and height did influence that concept of perfection.\n\n   Some of them did experiments with them, thinking they were inferior, some really morbid and bad experiments, including genetic experiments trying to find their goal, they used some people, and of course there were no human rights.\n\n    That was just a justification for their masacres and killlings of kids, adults, etc.\n\n     On the other hand, people like H. Himmler will build schools, houses, and institutions to protect their "perfect" or their own people. \n\n    Indeed there was a hate to Jews, slaves and homosexuals, they tought they were not as perfcet and should earn Hell, Holocaust has roots in the word: "fire", thats why they used to burn human beings, valuable people.\n\n    I know 2 museums one in Houston the other in Europe, the pictures and videos are like the most horrible capacity of a group of people to try to destroy other´s, they may destroy their bodies but never their dignity.\n\n     Interesting, some authors say A. Hitler was homosexual, what a paradox...\n\n      Jews and homosexuals are so strong they still alive giving love and respect to other´s, something many of them or some of their old gnerations didn´t get in the Holocaust.
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There was a Zionist movement as far back as the late 1800's but because of Hitler, thousands moved to what was then Palestine either before the Holocaust began in earnest or as survivors and created a Jewish state of Israel. The Arabs have been trying to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth ever since. \n\nSecondly, it was Nazi scientists who were ahead in the race to discover nuclear power and the destruction that goes with it. Again, many great scientists either got out of Germany when they could or came to the States after the war. Some, I believe, were even "smuggled" out of Nazi Germany during the war to work on nuclear power for us. Both the development of the Atom Bomb and the pivotal role in the war that Hitler started made the US a super power. Before that, the US army had been down-graded to almost non-existence after the first world war. \n\nWho knows how many great artists, musicians, scientists, doctors, etc. were murdered or prevented from being born because their parents were murdered during the Holocaust. Six million Jews is a lot of people. Six million non-Jews is, too. Who knows what these people might have been and might have done for the world if they had survived?\n\nI hope this helps. Good question!
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The Holocaust is the name applied to the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews and other minority groups of Europe and North Africa during World War II by Nazi Germany and its collaborators\n\nThe Jews of Europe were the main victims of the Holocaust in what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". \n\nThe commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million, though estimates by historians using, among other sources, records from the Nazi regime itself, range from five million to eleven million. Many non-Jewish people were killed as well.
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I believe you mean "Shoah", which is the Hebrew word for the Holocaust. Just remember to substitute Shoah for Holocaust (or vice versa) as you read the article. \nIf you want more sources, look up Holocaust; there will be a lot of information.
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Why is anyone even asking this question?  The level of ingorance that one has to have to doubt it happened - only serves to perpetuate the root causes of this holocaust and create more in the future.\n\nSee the movie The Man in the Glass Booth, about Eichmann's trial in 1966.  If you get to travel in Europe, go see the sites of Sobibor, Auscwitz, Treblinka, Madenek, Dachau, read up on Babi Yar in Russia and talk to any Jewish person from Europe.