Do you believe in Holocaust?
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there are films, photos, hundreds of thousands of testimonies by survivors and others and the physical death camps themsleves that still exsist... Is that NOT enough evidence????\nonly intolerant hate filled muslims and a handfull of kkk types deny reality
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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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1. That the Holocaust really did happen.\n2. The people it affected (not just the Jews).\n3. When and where it took place (time line and maps).\n4. The major players (Hitler, etc.)\n5. Sensitivity and respect for those who are different.\n\nGood Luck!
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Hypothetically speaking ... yes they do.\n\nThe Jews used the remorse over the Holocaust as justification for their genocide against the palestinians and the making of Israel. Without it, they're not victims, just killers.
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I find the fact that you're even posing this question to be deeply offensive. Whatever your views, it is highly revealing that you'd even wish to post such an asinine question at all. Are you just trying to stir the pot or are you a deranged anti-Semite seething with hatred for a race not your own? Either way, you should be ashamed of yourself.\n\nAfterword: I originally thought not to dignify your insensitive query with an answer, but then I remembered that silence in the face of evil or injustice is like tacit approval. And if you think my words harsh or that I'm "overreacting," I'd suggest you spend an afternoon at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC as I and countless others have done. Talk to some actual survivors while you're at it... assuming you have the courage, which I seriously doubt.
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Paperclips is a very powerful documentary and I agree, EVERYONE should watch it.  It should be a requirement in school.  As should be Schindlers List.  All through my childhood I heard my fraternal grandparents talk about Hitler and the Nazis.  They came to the state not long after he came into power and started persecuting the jews.  While not jewish themselves they had many close friends that were and couldn't stand to watch them suffer.  Knowing this was only the beginning they left Germany and came to the US. If Hitlers name was mentioned around my Grandma tears welled up in her eyes and she called hi the worst evil that had ever happened to mankind.  But by far the most powerful and moving thing I have ever felt was when I was 16.  I was visiting relatives in Europe with my Aunt.  Knowing what I was studying in school that semester we took a side trip and she took me to Auschwitz so that i could truely understand what I was being taught, though we weren't Jewish she wanted me to understand.  As long as I live i will remember that, seeing the ovens and hearing what happened there.  It was almost as if that place screamed in pain still for the evil that was committed there.  No member of our tour group was left dry eyed by the time it was over.  The most vivid memory of it was seeing the ovens then hearing the older lady next to us break down in tears.  Turns out she was dying of cancer and before she departed this earth she had to see where he parents and brothers had perished.\nTo so many of us evil of this enormity is hard to grasp and fathom but every day of our lives we see or hear a small part of it.  Every time you utter a racial slur, make a biggoted remark, show intolerance to anothers religion or belief system you are perpetuating Hitlers legacy.  Because that is what it was, hatered and biggotry and intolerance.  It took 6 million people dying for the rest of the world to understand that lesson, of what that mindframe and and those views can bring about.  And the worst thing we can do is forget it or glorify the kinds of acts or thinking that brought on all of those deaths. Because it wasn't hitler alone that killed them all, it was people who felt the way he did and thought nothing of it.  Look around you and i bet you have met people like that.  Or maybe you are yourself, so none of this has gone away and all the lessons have not sunk in. Six million people, our minds truely can't wrap around that number.  All because of intolerance and biggotry.  As you read through the answers to some of the questions on these pages you can see it here as well.  Intolerance to other peoples view or religions, a supreme and superior attitude because 'I am right my religion is right the rest of you are wrong'.  That attitude is what helped take 6 million people from this earth.  That is what ALLOWED the nazis to do what they did.  They saw those in those camps as wrong and not as good as themselves, that they were superior.  Those camps still exhist today as a reminder of that evil.  And believe me if you walk through the gates you can feel it, you can feel the pain and anguish that went on there.  It screams at you from every inch of it.  6 MILLION people killed because someone else was sure they were right and they were superior.  \n\nThose shows on the History Channel SHOULD upset you!  They should upset you every time you see them and never should you become callous to them or what they show.  That is about the only reminder this world has left of what can come from biggotry and hatered.\n\nNext time, before you write out from your superior point of view and point out how everyone else is wrong, or laugh at an ethnic joke or make fun of someone because they are different think about Hitler and what that kind of mindset can cause...\nSIX MILLION SOULS TAKEN FROM THIS EARTH BECAUSE THE NAZIS THOUGHT THEY WERE BETTER AND KNEW THEY WERE RIGHT!
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First, if you are going to try to raise a fundamental question about the authenticity of anything, try to do it in good English.  I hate having to wade through bad grammar and poor sentence structure in order to delve someone's meaning.  And second, if you are referring to that tired old argument about the holocaust being fake, then you are barking up the wrong tree.  The Holocaust happened and there is nothing you or your deluded friends can do about it.  I suspect that you know this and are just using it to stir up sentiments about something about which obviously you know nothing.
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In 9th Grade World History, we had to watch doumentaries on the Holocaust. It showed footage of the mass graves, emaciated bodies being dumped into the pits; other prisoners being forced to do the dumping and burying. It showed the crematories and pictures of the experiments. It was horrible. The teacher even warned us a week beforehand, and told us we didn't have to watch it if our parents signed a form saying they didn't want us to. I thought if these people went through something so horrible, the least I could do was to try to understand just how horrible it was. So, I watched it. \n\nAnyway, the year before, I had gone to Europe, and one of the places I visited was Dachau (near Munich, one of the first concentration camps). There were pictures and all at Dachau about what went on, but nothing like this documentary. So, when we watched the films in class, I remembered where I had gone, and I realized what had happened on ground that I had actually walked over. It gave me nightmares. Horrible nightmares... But I'll never forget it, and if I could go back, I would still watch it. No matter how bad it was for me, it was infinitely worse for them.\n\nI still don't understand how so many people could have believed that it was OK to kill and dehumanize so many people. I don't get it. I know all the theories and all the reasoning, but it still doesn't "sink in." It was just so vast and incomprehensible. What scares me even more is that there are still groups of people here and there that glorify the Nazi movement and agree with it, even try to emulate it in some ways. There are people that don't believe it happened... and that just blows my mind.
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It is a crime in Germany to deny the Holocaust, but I don't believe that is the case anywhere else.\n\nThe primary reason overall is that too many misguided persons want to rewrite history and, as Kierkegaard said, "Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it."
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One person claims that " you certainly have to avoid a huge amount of evidence to make such a claim." The same is true in reverse! \n\nMany people are ignorant and believe anything the government tells them. Truth is the holocaust industry is a billion dollar industry that also provides much revenue for the government. If the truth were known it would kill this huge industry of propaganda.\n\nMany people choose to be ignorant and don't know that there education is picked for them and they are trained to learn only what the government wants you to learn. Then comes the internet wereas we can no longer fool our children and they are learning the truth about hoaxes and other lies our government told us. Yet some people refuse to learn or even gather enough intestinal fortitude to even desire to know what is and what is not.\n\nThe links below will show that some people are so ignorant that even while they claim that one would have to avoid a hugh amount of evidence  to make such a claim would also support that they also would have  to avoid a huge amount of evidence to the contrary in order to substantiate such a ridiculous claim.\n\nSome countries are prosecuting people for holocaust denile. during their trial they are not alowed to provide any evidence agaisnt the so-called holocaust or they will be charged again. Once found guilty and denied any real defence they will serve 3 or more years for holocaust denile. Their attornies are not alowed to use anything that debunks the holocaust or they also will be charged with holocaust denile. See how morbidly insane this is! There is literally no defense , once you are charged there is no manner in which you can defend yourself because it is illegal to deny the holocaust. They have a win-win situation and you have the lose-lose situation. \n\n This is morbidly insane and only insane minds would support such a trial. Any government that supports this kind of trial  ceases to be the governemnt of the people and has selected one event over all events in history to protect. It has become a religion of the sick minded and surely will evolve in such a manner in the future that those who perpetrated this insane witch hunt will become the victims of their own insane hoax upon their people they swore to government with honesty.\n\nIf the holocaust is such a true event then it needs no laws to protect it because it will stand on its own merit. TRUTH NEEDS NO LAWS TO PROTECT IT ,ONLY LIARS AND DECIEVERS NEED LAWS TO PROTECT THEM AND THEIR LIES. That is why this needs laws to protect it, because it is flawed and most certainly a hoax.\n\nIf the holocaust were a true event it would defeat any denier in court on its own merit. It can't, therefore it is a lie that needs laws to keep certain people from questioning and investigating it for truth. It is insane, and any who do not thrive for the truth and search the other side of the story insanely follow the insane.\n\nTell me how insane it is that Hitler only wanted an aryan race of people whom are blue eyed and blonde hair when he alone had dark brown eyes and black hair and was half Jew himself. Look it up, don't trust Google but look it up under "HITLERS JEWISH ARMY." If this is true and history shows it to be true then the Jews are responsible for it alone and the burden should be lifted off everyones sholders.\n\nOh here it is (added at a later date) Hitlers Jewish Army :\nhttp://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/righit.html\n\nAlso: http://www.hfienberg.com/kesher/2002/09/were-there-jews-in-hitlers-army-if.html\n\nProof Hitler was a Jew NOT A GERMAN :http://worldwarll.www4.50megs.com/ahlife.htm\n\nThis is documented fact so now we can put it to rest and say that Jews are responsible for the so-called holocaust upon their own people. Shame on them! They did it to themselves , end of story, they owe us all reparations for hoaxing us and taking our much earned money to support their fraud upon America and the rest of the world
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He was a professor of History (as I remember it).  Who happens to be one of those people who deny the Holocaust.  He has been for a while, I guess he just did it in the wrong place this time.
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This is one of the greatest theological questions of our time, especially for Jews.  \nMany people say that you can't blame G-d for the evil that men do.  \nSome say that the Holocaust was so evil that trying to find reason in it is just too much and we shouldn't try.\nI can't answer your question, but if you're actually interested in a variety of answers I strongly recommend that instead of yahoo answers you read the following book:\n Good and Evil After Auschwitz: Ethical Implications for Today, edited by Jack Bemporad, John T Pawlikowski, Joseph Sievers\nWhen bad things happen to good people by Harold Kushner is a down-to-earth book that tackles a difficult question.\nYou should also read Rav Soloveitchik (Joseph Dov Soloveitchik) and Eliezer Berkovits, as well as the Lubavitche Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson.\nI just googled this and got the following:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_theology\ntry that, too/
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I know you will not believe this but there has been a holocaust in this country (I mean other then what we did to the native Americans) take a look at Johnson s Island (northern Ohio); Camp Douglas (Chicago); and Elmira (New York). \n\nThe official U.S. position on the treatment of Confederate prisoners of war during The War for Southern Independence would shock many modern Americans.  The data, facts and statistics have been thoroughly eliminated from American history books.  One must research the original documents to discover the horrible truth.\n\nDuring the Civil War (1861-1865), the U.S. House of Representatives passed the following resolution: "Rebel prisoners in our hands are to be subjected to a treatment finding its parallels only in the conduct of savage tribes and resulting in the death of multitudes by the slow but designed process of starvation and by mortal diseases occasioned by insufficient and unhealthy food and wanton exposure of their persons."\n\nOne Yankee prison commander boasted that he had killed more Confederate soldiers than any Union officer on the front battle lines.\n\nThe story of Confederate prison camps, especially Andersonville, has been misrepresented.  There was no deliberate attempt to mistreat northern POWs.  The South asked the North to send doctors and medicine, and they tried to exchange the prisoners. \n\nThe North refused and finally the Confederacy offered the North cotton and gold as payment to take the men without exchange.  Again, the North refused to do so.  They knew the Confederate States of America would be honor bound to try to feed and house the Union POWs and to do so would hamper the Confederate war effort.  Yankee prisioners got the same rations as our boys, and one of the responders was correct Wirtz was the only person hung for war crimes and that was for Andersonville.\n\nThe yankees sold our blankets and uniforms as souvenirs, charged civilians a nickel to view a “Confederate” at Camp Douglas they stood us outside until we froze to death, we would raise vegetables only to have the yankees take and sell them.\n\nUntil the German Death Camps in the 1940s nothing would remotely compare, something else, yankees should be proud.\n\nMedicine was not as we know today but it was not lie pictured in the movies.  They knew little about germs but practiced reasonable sanitation in fact, there were groups dedicated it just that.  The biggest problems were infection and medicines they used mercury for many cures, which of course kills you.  For instance once a soldier got to the actually hospital they had over a 90% survival rate.  If you look at picture of casualties, their pockets are inside out and many erroneously think people were stealing from them and left their pockets inside out.  Most had nothing or very little to steal what it was the wounded were searching to find where they were wounded.  Look at a Minnie ball and imagine that hitting you.  It is so heavy it does a lot of damage you would off your feet in unimaginable pain and you looked to see where you were hit in the arm, stomach, etc.\n\nAncient Egyptians were doing brain surgery thousands of years ago, most people feel their era is superior and these who came before were dumb.  You can surprise your classmates by telling them there are still sons and daughters of Civil War veterans (especially Confederate) who are still alive.   \n\nLife in general was harsh compared to the way we live but at the same time they had time for leisure things, enjoyed art, music, fashion, riding and everything just about that we do.  Yankees had it better than we did when it comes to disease; like visitors to remote tribes in South America and Africa they have carries diseases in that have killed the whole population,  Yankees usually lives in populated areas and had been exposed and developed immunity to some of the diseases while we dies.  Make no mistakes mumps, Smallpox, bad water and dysentery killed more boys on b
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Yep, and the Nurmberg trials alone had 7 freightcars loaded with affidavits documents and testimony supporting the holocaust... then came the real investigation.\n\nThe nay-sayers (anti-Simites) evidence so far comprises only a small bookcase full of tainted opinion.        \n\nSee (http://blog.myspace.com/gunnyrant)
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Here's a link for a good site if you want to research it.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust
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The Holocaust is the name applied to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and genocide of the Jews of Europe, along with various ethnic, religious and political groups during World War II by Nazi Germany and collaborators. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, progressing to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to murder every possible member of the populations targeted by the Nazis.\n\nThe word holocaust originally derived from the Greek word holokauston, meaning "a completely (holos) burnt (kaustos) sacrificial offering" to a god. Since the late 19th century, "holocaust" has primarily been used to refer to disasters or catastrophes. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word was first used to describe Hitler's treatment of the Jews from as early as 1942, though did not become a standard reference until the 1950s. By the late 1970s, however, the conventional meaning of the word became the Nazi genocide. The term is also used by many in a narrower sense, to refer specifically to the unprecedented destruction of European Jewry in particular.
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Holocaust is true???? Exactly how many people died??? was it millions or thousands???\n\nWho ever says that Holocaust is as true as 2 and 2 makes 4 is totally out of mind. My friend! History is something that has always been researched into. People have always had theories about history. If it is something painful, then US Nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was also very painful but it was researched and documented to every detail and it is commemorated even till today.\n\nJews have their own ways of controlling the world. they are so few in number but they control every one else's life line i.e. Money. They can even buy the minds of governments in Europe not to let anyone speak what to say research about this event in history.\n\nI HAVE A QUESTION: ISNT IT THAT HOLOCAUST WAS USED AS A RATIONALE TO CAPTURE A PIECE OF LAND IN ISRAEL TO MAKE A JEWISH STATE WHICH WOULD BE A CENTRAL COORDINATION PLACE FOR ALL JEWS??????