thoughts on the Holocaust

After teaching today some students about the holocaust of Nazi Germany I felt quite moved to share some feelings here.

Edited by AtomicCrimsonRush - October 07 2010 at 08:17

I agree it sucked hard. 

thellama73 wrote: I have a thought on the holocaust. It sucked.

QFT

AtomicCrimsonRush wrote: What was the one thing that they could not burn?

The determination & memories of those who survived.



The Holocaust 'sucked' and 'sucked hard'? No - some films 'suck' & some tv programmes 'suck hard'. Those words come nowhere close.

The Holocaust was one of the most immoral, inhuman acts in human history (as was the less well documented Armenian genocide 20/25 years earlier, from which Hitler formed his blueprint), wiping out the entire Jewish (and other 'untermench') population from villages, towns, regions and in the case of Poland, almost an entire country.

The Nurenberg trials are well documented, but although only 11 were hanged as a result of Holocaust investigations immediately following the famous trial, investigations, trials & sentencing continued (and still do continue)... it took 2 more years to track down, sentence & hang Auchwitz's commandant, and the architech of the 'Final Solution', Adolph Eichmann was eventually brought to justice 17 years after the war, in Jerusalem in 1962.

Much has been said of the need to forgive in the cases of those involved who still come to the public eye, given their extreme old age, but in my opinion, they should be given as much leniency as they gave those of a similar age in the 1940s

Jim Garten wrote: AtomicCrimsonRush wrote: What was the one thing that they could not burn? The determination & memories of those who survived. The Holocaust 'sucked' and 'sucked hard'? No - some films 'suck' & some tv programmes 'suck hard'. Those words come nowhere close. The Holocaust was one of the most immoral, inhuman acts in human history (as was the less well documented Armenian genocide 20/25 years earlier, from which Hitler formed his blueprint), wiping out the entire Jewish (and other 'untermench') population from villages, towns, regions and in the case of Poland, almost an entire country.

Did the question really need to be asked? Was someone going to come in saying they thought the holocaust was anything less than horrendous?

Holocaust = the biggest ever crime against humanity, as simple as that. It was a hideous crime, far beyond comprehension for most of us. 

It is pretty pleasing to notice that Germany has been voted the most popular land for Jews to live in for the last five years. There is now a net emigration from Israel to Germany. That is something the Germans should be proud of. 

It does worry me now that the "race hygiene" issue has popped up again in the moderate right wing movements in the Scandinavian and other countries (with notable exception of in Germany). Obviously, the lessons from Holocaust has not sunk in yet. I am vehement right winger myself, but the issues of "race hygiene" and "the Aryan race" is something we as human beings should had been finished with at the Nuremberg trials. This whole "race" and "Aryan" matter thoroughly disgusts me. In this matter, I share the views of the new Germany.  

Edited by toroddfuglesteg - October 07 2010 at 10:28

^ interesting fun fact of not so fun people Idi Amin, Fidel Castro, Augusto Pinoche and Pol Pot is born on the almost the same year 1925-28 (and Robert Mugabe is born in 1924

Edited by aginor - October 07 2010 at 12:52

Bach, Handel and Scarlatti were all born the same year. !685 I think. And two of them were German, so that relates to the Holocaust.


Edited by thellama73 - October 07 2010 at 12:59

Something about the Holocaust just rubs me the wrong way.