Holocaust Discussion

excellent post reckoning...top stuff

while the holocaust was terrible in its scale...at one point 500,000 hungarians were killed in 2 months...and at the height of aushwitz "production" it was "processing" over 30,000 people a day

but even in the context of sheers numbers that died in all the concentration camps...it is only about 12% of all the people that died during WW2...90,000,000 people perished in the war...50,000,000 of which were Russians...

that is an unbeleivable number of people

since then we have had the same kind of ethnic destruction in cambodia,rwanda,bosnia, sierra leone and many other places around the world for reasons that all boils down to beliefs of race or religion that are completely false

and pushing the Palestinians to the brink of extinction with their illegal wall.

The holocaust was a terrible tragedy in the history of humanity. There is little doubt about that fact. But, like someone said, its the most remembered because it happened so recently. It isn't even the last time it's happened, since then. Things like this are happening in the world today. The Nazi holocaust is just remembered here with such animosity because it was something we fought against. It has little to do with the tragedy of human rights. Look at all the places these things are happening today, or in recent history. America did nothing to stop it.

It should also be remembered that it is hard to keep a cover on things like this. Especially in a modern country, like Germany was in the 1940s. It is true, that most Germans developed a resentment for jews during the Nazi regime. But it's also true that, at the start of it all, they thought the jews were simply being relocated. That was the political climate at the time. I have read accounts from German citizens who lived in towns near the camps. They recall how ash from the smokestacks would settle all over the town, like snow. And the smell of burning flesh would hang over the towns when the wind blew it in from the camps. At some point, it had to become apparent that the Nazis were killing the people they were sending to the camps. But, what could they do at that point? How easy could it have been to even accept the concept that their own government was burning people alive?

Originally posted by Renio
i can not explain how sad the holcaust was for the whole world except for those damn nazis but for all those people that died all those INNOCENT JEWS that died i just cant belive some one could be that cruel to a certain race of people

this thread is not funny and will not tolerate any funny coments

yeah the holocaust was a terrible thing snd the people that iniciated the holocaust were evil and desirve to die a very painfull death, people can be extreamly evil and through history there has been a number of examples, Hitler, Stalin and even at this present time with people like Mugabe and Hussain, there is just no way of seeing how a certain person can be so cruel and evil...

even america is seen as evil to many well the goverment at least, they wan't to get rid of comunists, heathens and people classed as "terrorists" even though there is no proof... so evil in some cases (not in the case of hitler) can be seen as evil to some but not others

the american government and army = terrorists

they put innocent people through fear and death. for fales reasons.

The Armenian Genocide.