can someone help me i need some reasons why the United States didnt help the Jews during the Holocaust?
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I don't think there is a reason, but apathaty and criminal indifference.\n\nIt is known for a FACT that the United States of America knew  about the Holocaust, about the death camps, gas chambers, massacres, death marches etc and did not do anything to stop it (so did the United Kingdom, by the way).\nWhen the Americans were asked for the reason they did not bomb Auschwitz and the railroads, their answer was as following:\n1) We did not want to harm the prisoners of the camp, and any effort to help them would only harm our fights against the Germans.\n2) We did not have enough human resources and money to get to the area and do so.\n\nBoth statements are very questionable:\n1) The prisoners were about to die anyway (and quite sufferingly if I may). Bombing the area would ensure the deceleration of the annihilation. Bombing Auschwitz would distract the Americans from their fighting with the Germans? Sounds a bit strange... The survivors of Auschwitz told that every time they heard the American planes and bombs they wished they would bomb the camp. What leads us to the second strange statement...\n2) Despite the formal response of the USA, many of the pilots who were sent to the battlefront told that they passed over Auschwitz and its railroads many many times on their way to bomb the Germans. Auschwitz was indeed reachable and bombing it would not require any special effort.\n\nActually, the question either to bomb it or not was not eveb up to sidcussion, as one of the pilots said.\n\nThe sad truth is that America was not so keen to save the Jews as much as the Germans were keen to kill them.\nMaybe it's because Anti-Semitism in America was not the taboo it is today, and many important people in the army and government weren't all into saving the Jews. I read that some of them did not even bother themselves and to pass the information they've got about the massacres further.\nMaybe the US was afraid of the refugees problem and did not want to accept any more immigrants.\n\nThis way or another, the Americans do not have a satisfying and reasonable explenation for the blind eye they've turned.
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The holocaust is not an idea. It is history and we better not forget it.\n\nThe worst event in man's history.
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Many reasons why US govt considers important.\n\n1.  Base in Middle East - Israel is the ally that keeps the power of the arabs in check and offers unquestionable support to US for that privilege. Oil is a serious issue, and Middle East is the largest supplier of oil. As long as the Arab states keep fighting each other, the OPEC is weak. Offering permanent solutions to Middle East problem is very harmful for world economy. So we keep stirring the pot once in a while.....to keep our SUVs going!\n\n2.  Finance and Academics : Jews control 40% of the FInancial and Educational Sector in the US. The economy would collapse without their support. FLight of capital and intelligence (brain drain) is a very serious and detrimental phenomenon in the modern world.\n\n3. Jews have nowhere else to go but the handful of Palestinians can be absorbed by the arab world. Should Israel caese to exist, the failure of US govt to support will create a civil war within US!\n\n4. There are more, many more reasons...but these are the primary IMO.
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Go here, it might help.\n\nhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/cc.html
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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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It depends on the time frame.  Straight after the war the USA took in afew thousand refugees but left tens of thouusands stranded in countries hostile to them after the war.\n\nThe USA was also pretty silent on the British treatement of Jewish refugees that tried to kae their way into the British mandate of Palestine- they restricted immigration to a trickle and threw the rest into internment camps (so from concentration camp to internment camp, very humanitarian!)\n\nThe USA did lobby for the implementation of the UN partition plan that ked to the creation of the state of israel, but did not prvide the state with much support (in fact for years they had an arms embargo that left Israel very vulnerable to the surrounding Arab nations.).  it was only after Israel's success in the Six day war in 1967 that th&#92;at began to change.  Their current level of support did not really occur for another decade- even after Israel was attacked in 1973 (The Yom Kippur War) and nearly destroyed- they threatened israel with retaliatory action if they did not pull back (The Israel army, after beating off the initial invasion against ridiculous odds, and the war seeing the largest tank battles in history, turned the tables on the invaders and were on their way to Damascus and Cairo when the US forced them to turn back- who knows what the world would look like today if Syria and Egypt had been forced into signing peace treaties in 1973, as oppossed to the fact that Syria has NEVER receognised Israel and still has an open state of war against Israel!)
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The holocaust could have been averted if more people had spoken out and had united against the Nazis.  The allies could have bombed even one of the railroad tracks to the camps.  Those who knew what was going on did nothing.  They allowed the atrocities to continue.\n\nThe same thing is happening today, on *our* watch in Darfur, Sudan.  What are your doing about it?  Are you speaking out against the first genocide of the 21st century?  Write your legislators.  Demand that the U.S. use diplomacy to place U.N. troops in Sudan!!!\n\n“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”\nMartin Luther King, Jr.. Baptist minister who led the civil-rights movement in the US, 1929-1968.\n.
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Persecution of the jewish faith.\nHitler was after power and wanted all possessions to belong to him.  \nOthers were also persecuted, such as Catholics or Polish citizens.  \nHorrible war.  \nShindler's List to me shows that not all germans were bad, just frightened of Hitler and his army.  \n\nAnother movie to help you would be "The Boys from Brazil."  It was a book first and I believe it was written by Ira Levin.  \n\nAnother book would be "Exodus" by Leon Uris.\n\nBest of wishes on your essay.
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Politics plays a huge role, mostly because jews will actively support politicans that support Israel (or more importantly, will support those who run against people who support Israel).\n\nThis has little to do with a jewish conspiracy beyond that jewish americans are actually concerned about some place beyond here.  The average school kid couldn't point out where Darfur is on a map, and probably would only be guessing as to what continent it's on.  \n\nSo you have an active ally,  with strong grass roots support in the states and seems to be our only ally in the region that isn't totally insane and teaching their children to hate along with their formula.   Read the link to get an idea of what we're talking about.  I'm not jewish, but I can see the need to support anyone who opposes the level of depravity and evil that many of the muslim cultures have stooped to.
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I am sorry to notice - you have a wrong understanding of 20th century history...\n\n1.  If the Alias wouldn't have helped the USSR, and Hitler had manged to win the war with USSR, the US would be able to win the war against Germany (Japan has lost the war after the Germany was defeated, and USSR has started the war against Japan).  And in that case the process of genocides (not only Jews, but also of African Americans, Native Americans, etc. would have taken place...)\n\n2.  Stalin was brutal, but he didn't kill everyone who was smarter.  That was an issue of politics.  He killed everyone who could get stronger than he is (in political meaning) - but the scientists who were inventing things were working (although not being free) and they invented a lot... beginning from thermonuclear bombs - finished with AK47, tanks, airplanes etc.\nbut what Stalin did, he made up a certain hierarchy... and collected all the sources in the country - which made it for USSR possible to win the 2nd World war... and USSR become a SUPERPOWER... \n\nP.S. I don't want you to think I agree with what Stalin did... that is the positive part (there is too much of negative).
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The war would of never started.  If hitler was president we(usa) wouldnt be controlled by isreal.  There would be no jewish influence in america for war to happen.
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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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Long story short :\n\nThe land used to belong to the Jews, a few thousand years ago. Romans kicked them out. They, in turn, were kicked out by the Arabs. Islam spread. The area became a part of the Ottoman Empire. World War I happpened.\n\nBritain told the Ottomans to support them, if they did, they'd make the whole land one happy large Arab country.\n\nBritain told the Jews to support them, if they did, they'd give them a nice spot where they used to reside in Biblical times.\n\nWhoops. Conflict between Arabs and Jews breaks out, Britain says "Heh". Refers matter to newly created UN. UN splits Palestine up. Arabs weren't happy, attacked Israel.\n\nRepeat and rinse, and we're still fighting for over 50 years.\n\nclumsyguy : Yeah, because the Arabs were there for a few hundred years. No wonder they're angry. \n\nIt's like if the Native Americans started bombing themselves up and demanding the US be returned to their control. While they have a point, it's not our generation's fault, and they should seek a more peaceful way.
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In 1936, Jews were banned from all professional jobs, effectively preventing them exerting any influence in education, politics, higher education and industry. On 15 November of 1938, Jewish children were banned from going to normal schools. By April 1939, nearly all Jewish companies had either collapsed under financial pressure and declining profits, or had been forced to sell out to the Nazi-German government as part of the "Aryanization" policy inaugurated in 1937.\n\nAs the war started, large massacres of Jews took place, and, by December 1941, Hitler decided to completely exterminate European Jews. In January 1942, during the Wannsee conference, several Nazi leaders discussed the details of the "Final Solution of the Jewish question" (Endlösung der Judenfrage). Dr. Josef Bühler urged Reinhard Heydrich to proceed with the Final Solution in the General Government. They began to systematically deport Jewish populations from the ghettos and all occupied territories to the seven camps designated as Vernichtungslager, or extermination camps: Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Maly Trostenets, Sobibór and Treblinka II. Sebastian Haffner published the analysis in 1978 that Hitler from December 1941 accepted the failure of his goal to dominate Europe forever on his declaration of war against the United States, but that his withdrawal and apparent calm thereafter was sustained by the achievement of his second goal—the extermination of the Jews.\n------------------------------------------------------------\nJews were the main victims. One could say their role was to be rounded up like cattle to concentration camps or death camps.\nAdded:\nAs for communities, they were started in other countries where the Jews fled to. After the second world war.
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I don't agree on any country turning their backs on another holocaust (that is what is happening in Darfur). As the most powerful nations we owe it to help these people get out of the suffering and torture. If we turn our heads away we are no different than those who torture because we see it and did nothing. We cannot afford to do nothing and say we are fighting for peace and stabilization in Iraq.
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look up world war 2 you will get the facts.also if you know any jewish people who had relatives in germany poland and other countries ask them and their parents and if possible their grandparents.
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Because nothing can justify the holocaust. Many also believe that if something so horrid is justifiable then those who still believe in hard right politics (fascists) will rise again and take over and begin another holocaust/World War.\n\nAlso every country in Europe lost a lot of civilians, military, money, etc. due to the war. There is no reason why any country should allow themselves the humility of justifying the holocaust.