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.

Its simple really, but there were a few contributing factors.  First he eliminated other governments.  Of course you have power, popularity, and other things when there is no one to challenge the things you do.  Hitler successfully achieved this, and I have no idea what lead the other government groups to forfeit their power without so much as a second thought.  I suppose fear is a great motivator. 

I think the Weimar government’s biggest problem laid in their open fear of Hitler and the Nazi’s.  Sure they were scary, but it’s the whole bully theory.  If you stand up to a bully he will leave you alone.  Now we know this is often not the case, but what’s worse, to get beat up for standing up for your self or get beat up for your lunch money.

The Weimar government needed to stop retreating and fight back a little bit, they had the power to stop Hitler, but they let it slip through their fingers.  Someone would have come around eventually with the same thoughts as Hitler and succeeded in implementing them, were Hitler stopped, but better later than now, that’s for sure.

For the future I see many great struggles as long as Hitler is in power.  People might perceive things as getting better, but they won’t, just more propaganda will tell them it is.  Inevitably the Jewish people will be the target of much hate and prosecution, and they will receive little help from inside Germany.  People will have to stick together and rebel against Hitler before anything will get better.  Eventually the wool shall be lifted from people’s eyes, and they will see the wrong of their ways.

Lucky timing undeniably played a big part in the Nazis success.  Holocaust Timing is everything.  The sad part though is, the timing was when people were most willing to hate someone for no good reason.