What lessons can we learn from WW2?
Aparently we haven't learned anything, because we are still fighting in a war overseas.( the bible does say there will be rumors and rumors of wars ).
Why hasn’t the Holocaust been enough to stop genocides?
Because the sad reality is that many areas of the world are still filled with groups of people who are boiling with ancient hatreds of other groups of people — hatreds that are so ingrained to their cultures for so many generations that all it takes is an opportunity — some spark of emotion — to set off mass murder.The human race is still in a relatively primitive state. It was just five thousand years ago that the first written words appeared. In terms of evolution, that’s the blink of an eye. Evolution, in my opinion, has not affected all humans equally. While many people have evolved to the point where they would never murder a stranger without a compelling cause, there are many millions willing, ready and able to stick a knife into a member of a rival clan as soon as violence breaks out.One of the reasons why the Nazi-Jewish Holocaust is the most troubling one, is that the German people were supposed to have been among the most evolved and cultured people in the world. Many, many observers have commented how shocking it was that a nation that produced a Beethoven, a Bach, a Brahms and a Goethe could commit genocide against innocent civilians. The answer, of course, is that their ancient hatreds lay just below their cultured surface, and all it took was the right opportunity (which was WWII).Many people thought the world would “learn a lesson” from WWII about the horrors of war and hate, but unfortunately those lessons only impressed the kind of people who were already opposed to war and hate.
After the Holocaust, why did Jews need a Jewish state?
This question somewhat misconstrues the chronology and cause-and-effect relationship. There were already 553,600 Jews residing in the Palestine Mandate at 1945, versus 806,000 around the time of independence in 1948. The in-gathering of European refugees after the Holocaust prompted major discord and ultimately political violence between British officials and the groups that would become Israel’s government and military, but the “New Yishuv”began in the 1860s, predating the 1896 publication of Herzl’s “Der Judenstaat” pamphlet as well as the 1917 Balfour Declaration. The Jewish National Fund began purchasing land in 1901, in what was then Ottoman Palestine. So Jews were in broad agreement of the necessity of a Jewish state well before the Holocaust, which was not necessarily the catalyst or primary cause behind Israel’s declaration of independence. To suggest that Israeli independence was a result of the Holocaust overlooks decades of swamp-draining, land purchases, power-plant construction, and creation of healthcare infrastructure that had been achieved by Jews in the Palestine Mandate prior to the Holocaust. Israel didn’t need the manpower of concentration-camp survivors to defeat the British or the British-equipped-and-led Arab Legion in the War of Independence.To address the question more narrowly, post-war British officials would interdict boats full of Holocaust survivors and send those survivors back to the concentration camps. It was not realistic to expect post-war European countries to feed and shelter the victims of Nazi terror, whose property had often been stolen from them. Emigration to the Palestine Mandate was the only pragmatic course of action, both for Holocaust survivors and for the Europeans that had confiscated their property.
Ramadan:What are your thoughts on...THE HOLOCAUST?
Were Muslims killed in the holocaust when Hitler had a Muslim ally: The mufti of Jerusalem. Haj Amin al-Husseini worked with Hitler to kill all the Jews in Jerusalem. He also provided Muslim-Nazi units, e.g. the Hanjar was the 13th Waffen SS division. Hitler also had great respect for the Islamic faith (due to its similarities with Nazism): "You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion...The Mohammedan religion (Islam) too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?" - Adolf Hitler Muslims praise Hitler (muslim) for it. They invaded over 47 countries and now they want full control over Palestine which isn't their country. Are they really feeling sorry for the Palestinians on whose blood and bones they have made settlements on? NO.
Is it wrong that I don't feel any guilt about the Holocaust?
im jewish and i can fully understand the differance between the actions of germans in ww2 and the actions of germans today... I dont believe in collective guilt and what happened in the holocaust was nearly 60 years ago.. the people that commited atrocities in concentration camps are nearly all dead so to blame the new generation of germans for the actions of your ancestors is completely silly and doesnt help anyone... ill be totally honest with you.. the german language sends a shiver down my spine and i guess on one level i do equate it with nazi guards .. but thats a personnal thing and i know not everyone feels that way.. you shouldnt feel bad as a german for not feeling guilty for the holocaust- why should you feel bad over things that happened before you were born... but as humanity i think we should all feel the shock that such things were allowed to happen at all - regardless of whether we experienced or contributed to them .. and i think all people should try to learn the lesson of the holocaust to make sure it doesnt happend again any way - my two cents ...
Why do the Jews make a billion dollar industry out of the "Holocaust"?
They keep making millions of books, movies, documentaries, museums, etc on this one single subject...I can't even go to the movie rental store without seeing a new movie on this all the time. Its all about Jewish suffering, they just want people to feel sorry for them and get on their side so the public will support them and anything immoral that they want to do, such as atrocities towards palestinians. And if Jews were so hurt in the Holocaust then why in the world would they ever want to see other people suffer and push other people off their homeland? And lets not forget that millions of gentiles were killed in the camps too and in the war in general, a number that goes far beyond the number of Jews that were killed, but yet the ONLY focus is on JEWS, why is this? And why try to make so much money off of this? Its easy to see how much the Holocaust it portrayed in the media just to the Jewish advantage.
Why is it important for future generations to remember Slavery, the Holocaust, and other acts of genocide and inhumanity?
Remembering these atrocities is not what keeps groups like neo -nazis going. Groups like that persist or arise because of human impulses for scapegoating. You’re going to see groups like that as long as there are people living near the bottom of the food chain who see themselves as belonging to the powerful majority. That whole psychology will be going on especially when there is a government and a culture that condones it and suppresses any information about the evils that mindset produces. That’s when you’ll see it going hog wild crazy.Be grateful, assuming you’re American, that you live in a country where the most visible minority was able to influence people in the dominant majority to hate like hell being called racists. Even when they are racist they hate being called it. It’s in countries where there is no equivalent ethos that you’ll see the worst blood and guts ‘racism.’ If you’re living in a kinder and gentler place that’s why.
Why is this generation of people so ungrateful?
Generations go through cycles. I'll explain them for you. Each phase lasts about 20 years. The first is called the High phase. The last High phase was the baby boomer generation, those born between 1946 and 1960. They are classified as a generation who lived their childhood in a time with good and strong government, but low individuality. The next is called the Awakening phase. The last Awakening phase was the 13th generation (a.k.a. Generation X). They were born between 1961 and 1981 and are described as those who lived their child hood in a time where people are starting to increase their individuality but the government is still strong. The next is the Unraveling phase. This is the phase those aged around 7 through 30 are in, and are called the Millennial Generation (a.k.a. Generation Y). We were born between 1982 and 2005 and have experienced or are experiencing our childhood in a time of declining government but high individuality and consumer consumption. The last phase is called the Crisis Phase and started in 2005. Children born from 2005 to present are considered to be in the Homeland Generation (a.k.a. Generation Z). The global financial crisis marked the beginning of this era and those part of this generation will be living their childhood during this time. This phase is expected to last until around 2025. Our generation is like this because of high individuality and consumption levels. We are skeptical of the government and often refuse to trust them. We people of Generation Y tend to share a "non-committal lack of attachment, free agency and media perceived directionlessness." According to this cycle, there is always a High time following a crisis. It eventually goes downhill until another crisis happens. This cycle has been happening like this since 1433. We will experiencing crisis(while probably not as bad as WWII suffered by the Silent Generation) untill around 2025. Around this time, people from our generation will be coming of the age to where they can run for office. We will bring us out of the crisis phase and into the High phase.
Is the Holocaust history taught in American schools?
Yes. I am actually being taught about WWII in two different classes currently. We do place the blame on Germany (obviously). But, we also go into detail about how it could have been prevented and how it was somewhat our fault and Britain's because we both didn't intervene.