What is your view of the Holocaust?

When do you think it started and why?





I think there was no long term planning. However in 1941 Goering gave Heydrich a order to find the "complete solution to the Jewish Question." So I think there was short-term planning, and the actual Holocaust started in the Autumn of 1941, due to the strucutral pressures of the war, Hitler's government, and the Mommsen's cumulative Radicalization.





Whats your view?
What is your view of the Holocaust?
I was born in the 80's so I don't really have any. I wasn't around to help them/ neither did I know the reason for Hitler doing what he did. It might have been justified. ???
What is your view of the Holocaust?
absoloutly disgusting makes you want to kill every nazi and send them to hell as well as every other racist.
Reply:"absoloutly disgusting makes you want to kill every nazi and send them to hell as well as every other racist"





I do not support the statment above.





I would like to announce before I continue on that I DO NOT IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM FOLLOW THE BELIEFS OF NAZISM. I am simply adding historical facts/ Information





It was proven that over 90 percent of the Germany ARMY did not want to be where they were. It was not that they wanted to be there, granted some of them did, but they had an obligation to serve their country just as US servicemen fight for theirs.





I currently live in PA, USA and I had a great Uncle in the German Army, i have pictures of him with his kids and his wife, did he survive the war??? Nope, he was killed by the Russians who had a one point view. Would I have stood up for Hitlers doings? HECK NO. Would I serve my country in a time of calling as stated in your oath? Yes.





I think that the only people you could really call Nazi's are the ones who are responsible for the actions or further more who supported the actions and undertook in gruesome slaying of millions of people. The ones fighting on the ground, fighting for their country, are soldiers. They had lives too, they had family to go home to. I collect pictures from World War II, currently over 300 original black and white photographs of both the American and German countries. They are both the same, just differant uniforms.





The point I am trying to get accross, with respect the the creator fo this question, is that more than 90% of the German ARMY did not want to be doing what they were doing, but they had to because it was their duty.
Reply:The Holocaust had as its beginnings the folklore of Scandinavia and the Germanic peoples that was prevalent for hundreds of years prior to Hitler. It was called the "Volkish" ideology and held up racial purity as an ideal. The other problem was the history of the Jewish culture as the money lenders - a profession that was considered "dirty" throughout history - and often as magicians and witches because they were also often the doctors and surgeons of any locality. They were widely hated and pushed out of towns so regularly that they carried their wealth in gems and gold so it would be readily portable.





When Germany was reeling from inflation and poverty after World War I, Hitler and his men took advantage of these ideas to further their cause. So my answer would be that it was a long time coming and Goering and Heydich just took advantage of the economic and social ideas of the time and used them to their own devices.
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The International School for Holocaust Studies


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The following links are provided as a study reference.


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The Leo Baeck Institute


http://www.lbi.org/ - (New York)


http://www.leobaeck.org/ - (Jerusalem)





Calvin College: German Propaganda Archive


http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/i...





CDJC-Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine: The Research Center


http://www.memorial-cdjc.org/





A Cybrary of the Holocaust, remember.org


http://remember.org/





The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies


http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/...





The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dinur Center: Holocaust Study Resources


http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/Dinur/internet...





The Holocaust History Project


http://www.holocaust-history.org/





The Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust


http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/holo.ht...





Meyer's Holocaust Links


http://pw1.netcom.com/~jdmeyer/shoah.htm





The Nizkor Project


http://www.nizkor.org/





Shoa.de - Ein Projekt zu Shoa, Holocaust und Antisemitismus


http://www.shoa.de/





SICSA - The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism


The Hebrew University of Jerusalem


http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/





Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation


http://www.vhf.org/





A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust


http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/defa...





TeacherNet: The Holocaust - Links page


http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Holoca...





The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum


http://www.ushmm.org/





The Wiener Library


http://www.wl.u-net.com/index.html





Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center


http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/





Yale Law School: The Nuremberg Trials


http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/im...





YIVO Institute for Jewish Research - Holocaust Study Resources


http://www.yivoinstitute.org/archlib/arc...











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