Really, for whoever is guilty of these crimes, which almost everyone at the time was in some way, there is no adequate punishment.  I suppose you could take their families out in the street and kill them slowly, but then we would be as bad as them.  There is no plausible way to punish these people for these crimes, so all we can do is protect the memories of the Jewish people who lost their lives in the war, and never let any atrocities like these happen again.

But how can we protest visible minorities from these sorts of things.  We have proven ourselves un-productive in protecting the Muslim, and Arab people from such persecution in light of September 11.  The Americans themselves have implemented strict guidelines reducing freedoms of people of Middle Eastern decent.  What is the world coming to?  We must prevent a second Holocaust from occurring by standing up against the strong to protect the weak.  We cannot allow people to be pushed around because of their beliefs or the actions of a few.  The more and more governments restrict the freedoms of specific groups of people the closer we come to a second Holocaust.

Hate crimes will continue until we make it unacceptable in our society to see any difference in people of different backgrounds other then our own.  Holocaust timeline A second holocaust can be prevented but only we can do it, and we must do it.
Blame.  It’s easy to pass, difficult to give, and near imposable to accept.

People outside his party he dealt with accordingly. He wasn’t stupid, and knew he couldn’t just go around killing everyone, so I would expect he had less upfront ways, not necessarily any nicer, but different.

Hitler showed clear retaliation against the Jewish people when a Jewish boy shot The Third-Secretary of Germany in Paris. The Nazis had waited for their chance and leapt at this one by destroying synagogues and shops of the Jewish people. Now how many ambassadors were assassinated after that? Hitler was a political genius and this was one of the ways he showed that fact off.

You also have to take this attack on the Jewish people in context. Anti-Semitism was at an extreme high; this act further alienated the Jewish people from the rest of Germany, and when you make one group feel like that the group that isn’t alienated feels like more of the group. Hitler also forced the group closer together; by killing off important people within the party he forced the people under them to turn to him instead.

Through all of these acts Hitler once again demonstrated his political savvy. Even though he was a murderer, racist and cheat, no one can accuse Hitler of being a bad politician. He did almost everything right. He gave the people what they wanted, demanded respect, and was a great public speaker, what else can you ask for?

I can only imagine how the person who shot the ambassador of Germany must have felt. He gave the Nazis a good excuse to lash out at the Jewish people. It goes to show you how any little thing can have a great effect.