How did it happen?: understanding the HolocaustSnyder, D RChoice
(1). This quote may not reflect every survivor’s feelings but it does show that there was a feeling of resentment toward the God that allowed the horrors of the Holocaust to happen. The Jewish God is all knowing, so did He know and just let the people who choose to follow Him ...
The Holocaust was the murder of 6 million Jewish people, or other deemed undesirable by Nazi Germany. An estimated 12 million other people were murdered by Nazi Germany in the Holocaust Period—political prisoners, Soviet and Polish civilians, people with disabilities, Roma, Jehovah's Witnesses, ...
The biggest question I asked myself, “Why did Hitler start the holocaust?” This is what I found. Hitler did not make the Holocaust happen by himself, many Germans and non-Germans contributed to, or benefited from the so-called “Final Solution” (the term used by the Nazis for their ...
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, literally and figuratively, from the death camps that would come to define the Holocaust in the popular consciousness. And yet it is because of the mass shootings that happened in these places — many of them long forgotten — that the course of events that followed happened as it did....
I sat up in my seat and literally talked to my computer screen: “But, such economic integration was there at the time of the Holocaust – in fact, it fact didn’t it play a role in the narratives spun by Hitler which coaxed (if that is the word) people into playing their role in...
“I’m a first-generation American. My extended family was slaughtered in the Holocaust, and my parents were born in Europe shortly afterward. Therefore, on Shmini Atzeret, we can’t forget what happened and must make sure it will never happen again, but we also need to have Simchat Torah...
But when we move to cases of historic injustice, the default position is that the Ws will deny their liability (the payments made by West Germany to Holocaust victims stand out as an exception) and there is of course no mechanism—no international reparations court with enforcement powers—for...
Neo-Nazi protesters demonstrate near where the opening ceremonies were held for the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. Scott Olson/Getty Images In George Orwell's classic cautionary novel "1984," citizens of a future totalitarian society are required to participate in a group exercise...