Do you believe the Holocaust could happen again? Why or why not?

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Do you believe the Holocaust could happen again? Why or why not?

For some reason, I have this intense interest in the history and psychology of the Holocaust.

The mass murders of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and other "undesirables" at the hands of the Nazis was one of the most methodical, well-organized complete breakdown of millions of people in history.

Do you think it could happen again? Under what circumstances? If you don't, why not?

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2 days ago
To the person who said that about Muslims, aren't you basically doing the same thing as they did to Jews there? The "Aryans" were convinced the Jews were a threat to them. The adults spoke in ways that led the children to believe they were monsters, and the children were often shocked to see that Jews didn't look that much different than themselves.

It's easy to put blame on a race or a religion in general because of bad acts of a few of its members. If we allow ourselves to make those generalizations, that's the first step towards ignorance and blind hatred.

2 days ago
Keep in mind, too, that at the time, Germany was considered one of the most civilized countries in the world. They were not the horrible pigs people would imagine, they were intelligent, and talented, and they had more cultural history than most countries do even today.

It wasn't a bunch of mindless drones following Hitler because they were feeble minded or uneducated. These were well educated, widely read people who bought into the belief that certain groups and people held no importance and they themselves were the "master race".

2 days ago
Hello There: good points, but I must point out that it is not at all the same thing as the fight against gay marriage. No, it's not exactly fair that they can't marry, but that level of prejudice doesn't come close to the prejudice felt by the Jews and other undesirables. They were not allowed to walk on public streets, sit outside in their own gardens, own weapons, vote, shop, buy food, own businesses, work in civil service, practice medicine or law or dentistry, sit on a park bench, go to the movies, go to a cafe, go on holiday, use public bathhouses or swimming pools, associate with non-Jews. There were no laws or law enforcement regarding how they could or could not be treated, so any Aryan could justify killing a Jew for something as simple as looking at them. And that's when things were "good" for them. Get into the stories of the ghettos in Warsaw and Krakow, labor camps and gas chambers, and it becomes quite clear the persecution anyone in the US has is mild comparitively

2 days ago
Jack: I didn't mean Jews in general.

I guess what I mean is could something on that kind of scale happen again? And not just the murders themselves, which, of course, was bad enough. For years before they started deporting and gassing Jews, the methodical way they just broke down their spirits and made them completely bend to their will, so that millions of people went quietly to their deaths, because they were so broken... THAT, I don't think, has ever been duplicated, although there have certainly been genocides since then.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: 2 days ago
To the person who said that about Muslims, aren't you basically doing the same thing as they did to Jews there? The "Aryans" were convinced the Jews were a threat to them. The adults spoke in ways that led the children to believe they were monsters, and the children were often shocked to see that Jews didn't look that much different than themselves.

It's easy to put blame on a race or a religion in general because of bad acts of a few of its members. If we allow ourselves to make those generalizations, that's the first step towards ignorance and blind hatred.