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Position:Home>History> How did the Holocaust happen?Question: How did the Holocaust happen!? Was it less to do with a few evil minds (Hitler and the Nazis) and more to do with how naturally obedient society is!?
Why did all those Germans blind follow Hitler's laws!? Do you think the problem is that people never question authority!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: For centuries Jews were considered "Christ killers" by the Christian world which led to much persecution, the Inquisition, pogroms, burning of synagogues,books, Torahs, the Holocaust, the Ku Klux Klan, et al!. However, amidst all this turmoil few Christians understood that above all else that Jesus Christ was first and foremost a Jew!. Martin Luther railed against the Jews after they rejected Christ and, as a result, he wrote treatise after treatise advocating their destruction!. Methods he suggested included burning them alive after locking them in their synagogues, destroying the Torahs, driving them out of their homes, etc!. This would provide the impetus for the Holocaust 5 centuries later!. It wasn't until 1879 when a German newspaper editor, Wilhem Marr, coined the phrase anti-semitism!. That's when the notion of a Jewish race was promulgated throughout Germany and eventually all of Europe!. In the past Judaism was considered to be only a religion that under significant pressure, such as the Inquisition, could be changed if needed!. I would like to add that many of those who converted to Christianity did so under duress and fear, but continued to practice Judaism in secret, crypto-Jews!. On the other hand, when the term anti-semite began to be used the entire picture changed because while in the past one could change their religion, they could not change their ethnicity or race!. As a result this left the door open for the Holocaust!. Jews were believed to be a pestilent race and as such must be destroyed!. If any person or country is overrun by a pest you need to call in the Orkin man!. Hitler was the Orkin man!. A Jew is a Jew provided their mother is Jewish!. No, one does not have to be a practicing or a religious Jew to be a Jew!. There are Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, Hasisdic, agnostic and atheistic Jews because of the Abrahamic covenant!. When one has been born into a Jewish family you are considered to be a Jew whether you practice it or not!. It is perhaps for a gentile to understand Judaism unless they take to study the religion!. My interest was first stimulated to study and familiarize myself with the faith because my parents had Jewish friends and my mother worked at an accounting firm owned by Jews!. My knowledge of Judaism stems from extensive studies at the university as a history major with an emphasis on Jewish history!. Shalom, gatita_63109Www@QuestionHome@Com Hitler was like a dictator !. !. !. he hated Jews !. !. !. He convinced Germans that Jews didn't deserve to live !. !. !. And so it was that Germans hated Jews as well as Hitler!. Not all Germans were bad though!. Some were normal and not sick minded freaks who are a disgrace to all man kind like the Nazis!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The main part was the Guilt Clause in the Treaty of Versailles, which blamed the Germans for WWI!. And, they had to pay back $33 billion for repercussions!. When Hitler named the Jews, etc!. as scapegoats, the Germans found it easy to blame someone!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |