What do you think of the Holocaust? Are you glad or mad?
491921
coming from a Romani back ground I think its nice that you have mentioned the gypsies that died too.\nso many bad things happen in the world and its hard to see the point of it all, I do however remind myself, if its getting me down, that there has to be more good in the world than bad else it would be alot worse and its only the bad stuff that we get to hear about, when was the last or only time you heard how someone did something nice or selfless? but i know they happen.
947523
I am incredibly pleased that there is a school somewhere in the world that teaches its students about the reality of the holocaust, and that only 1in3 people killed during it were Jewish.\nHitler was a Roman Catholic, and his Nazi Germany was endorsed by the Papacy, and as a result the Nazis persecuted anyone whom the RC church was against. The nazis not only rounded up Jews, but also Slavs, Gypsies, Communists, the Disabled and Gay people for their concentration camps. All these people were seen as unsavioury by the church, and as unbeneficial to the German society. During 1943, the Nazis started killing people in the concentration camps, for several reasons, one simple one being that too many people meant too many guards, who could be fighting on the frontline. The first people to be butchered in these camps were Russian prisoners of war, then Slavs. Finally, Jews, Gays and disabled people were also slaughtered. Approx 1/2 a million gay people were killed in the Death Camps.
945668
I am not politician but I find your question is very easy to answer. Thank you for asking and you deserve a good answer cause your question is a good question, not only because it has good intension to wake up sense of humanity but also it deals with our day to day lives in 21st century.\nIf we say Hitler then we are dealing with history,I pressume not all of us we were there to witness, I fear there was too much propoganda against him, If we talk about Sadam Huseein, we can blame on his ignorance but our great fear should be diverted to the man who is a leader of a great country USA, a democratic elected president, we witnessed his leadership and his destruction to humanity in our times, as I am writting to you this message someone (very innocent) is dying somewhere...!\nGeorge Bush (May God save us from this man)
18314
I'd go with no, http://www.holocaust-history.org/questions/hitler-adolf.shtml
89624
Being mad is pointless, but remembering the lessons is important, just as remembering the lessons of slavery is also important.\n\nThat's where the similarities end:\n\n1. For one, many Jews that suffered in the holocaust are still alive. \n\n2. Others are from following generations that know what happened to their parents and grandparents and have visible reminders (tatooed numbers, yellow stars of David)\n\n3. Lessons have NOT been learned.  We see anti-semitism alive and well in Germany, Russia and the mid-east.  Especially in the mid-east there are nutjobs calling for their extermination on a daily basis. \n\nFortunately, Blacks in America do not have the same kind of similar open issues that relate so closely to slavery.
215809
JEWS ARE AWESOME. how else could they have survived when just about the whole world are for their destruction... then and now. i am not jewish but i like and admire the Jewish people.
877292
I would love it if someone with a knowledge of history would answer this question in an unbiased manner.  Just of what little I remember (I'm 63), US citizens felt compassion toward the Jews after the war due to what happened to them.  They struggled for years to make it work.  Later on, the US may have kept it up for various other reasons also.  But that's the reason I remember.
201338
You are wrong on so many levels. To begin with, it very much is allowed to research the holocoust in europe and the usa and even to deny it, if that is what you wish. In ONLY ONE COUNTRY is it illegal to deny the holocaust. Not in all europe, and not in the usa... \nIf you wish to be ignorant then you can continue to deny historical facts, but if hundreds of thousands of testimony from various individuals involved, including survivors, those who ran the camps, those who transported jews etc, Thousands of films and photos of camps, victims etc. And finally the camps themsleves still exist.. If that doesnt convince you.. then I feel sorry for you..
317481
Bless? the Nazis? Wow!. Because he's crazy. Or because he blamed the jews for jesus's dying, and liked the nazis idea.
899893
I feel fabulous, thank you very much!\n\nPS. I'm glad you can "LoL" about how the country is going to hell, it is always  best to put on a happy face :)
641453
People who feel that way are responsible for all kinds of atrocities, because your religion devalues life.  There are even people who think a nuclear holocaust would be a good thing, for the same reason.  It's absolutely nuts, and I would urge you to seek professional help before you start killing people.
166780
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??????
1080604
Most of the Poles where just as cruel as the Nazis themselves. Some of them actually joined the Nazis. Others reported the Jews to the Nazis to be killed, told out their hiding places, watched thousands of children die of starvation daily and did nothing. Treatment? Obviously not too nice. \n\nThere were some exceptions of some righteous people who went out of their way to help some Jews. Some hid Jews in their homes, gave them food...Although there werent to many of those.\n\nEven after the Holocaust they were filled with hatred to the few Jews who survived. They moved into their homes and stole all their belongings. There are stories of Jews who survived 5 torturous years in concentration camps only to be killed after the war by their fellow Poles - many of them who used to be their friends and neighbors. Then some people complain why we associate the Holocaust with Jews when so many others like Poles died. As you see, I have absolutely no pity for the Poles. They were wicked people and had no problem killing other innocent people. \n\nEven today, when my grandmother returns to Poland, every 5 years, to vistit the remains of her family (about 25 people = 10 immediate family members + nieces, nepehws sister and brother in laws. This does not include all her cousins, aunts and uncles who were killed) She walks on the street and the Poles curse her out in Polish "Hitler should have finished you off". Unknown to them she knows a perfect Polish and understands all they say. May they rot in Hell!!
1092679
There were thousands of good decent jews rounded up, put on trains, sent to concentration camps and killed cruelly, heinously!  Nevermind how many. Nevermind those who conveniently "forget".  Hitler  was a dictator who ran Germany.  He was an insane man with senseless prejudices that blue eyed blonds are superior to brunettes and that jews should be annihilated.  Whole families were called to come...they knew not for what.  There were constant calls for certain people. When their names were called they were ordered into one of the buildings, told to disrobe and get into the showers.   If they were lucky, water came through the shower over their head. People who escaped the worst reported that men who ran the showers would play with freezing and boiling water, on people, but this was relatively kind.  When they weren't playing with the water, they had the gas jets on and people were killed.  Trenches were dug. Hundreds of bodies in a spot were thrown in on top of others.  Meanwhile loving family members were separated with no control over it at all.  And their only "crime" might be that they were jewish.  And the dictator, Hitler, in his insanity considered killing jews his right.\nI was an American in my teens living on the east coast, and I met a woman in her 20s with an accent I was unused to. She told me about being in the showers, and about the night she would have been killed in them with gas only she and her boyfriend had a chance to escape on bicycles and they did and they succeeded, and they  came to the United States and got married.  What I know, I "experienced" through her first hand description. But she was rare. Countless thousands of them never had a chance. She was jewish. Since then I have met many people,  a lot of them Germans who emmigrated to this country who insisted  Hitler wasn't so bad, and this mass slaughter did not happen. They were people who never would have been threatened with the ovens,  they were citizens of Germany and whatever they wanted me to believe they felt strongly about it.  It made Germany's fearless leader look bad,  Since then I have seen moving pictures on tv, taken from life --giant piles and thousands of these nude bodies in heaps  thrown from trucks down big slant shoots, and not acted by actors,  this was real. I have seen this repeatedly.  Even while watching this horror I have heard  Americans decide to accept the (fiction) viewpoint and insist everyone around them believe it. People can believe what they want. I value the truth, pretty or ugly.\nPeople like to fictionalize history a great deal, on many sujbjects. \nThey not only fictionalize the truth but they cite a contrived fiction of yesteryear and get multimillions to believe it for political reasons, for $$$ reasons, and aftter a time for majority reasons. And  then if you have a mind of your own appreciate it but keep your own council, unless asked for the truth.\n  That shameful example of Man's inhumanity to man is  in this case, the truth.  Don't let it be swept under a rug and don't let it happen  AGAIN\nagain.
272886
Excellent, tragic book.\nI loved it, but it was really intense.  I have not read it again, as I usually do with a good book.
951068
So many people are so ignorant that they dont care anymore.  I think some people can't get over the past. Well, myself, wasn't alive when a lot of it(the past)happened.  Just because I have German heritage doesn't mean that I had anything to do with the death of Jews and neither does my ansestors.  C'mon people, get real and figure it out!  We are all human and the only difference between us is the color of our skin or hair, we all bleed red, we all cry and guess what, we're all American. The past is just that, the past.
571118
It's a historical fact that the holocaust took place. The jews were blamed for the German's down fall, depression or whatever and so Hitler convinced the people by getting rid of them it would solve everything! So, yes they were tortured,starved and even beaten to death along with gays,gypsys and disabled people.