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.

Even before World War I the Jewish people faced hardship. Since the death of Jesus Christ they have been prosecuted, especially in Europe. Prejudice and immoral acts had been committed against the Jewish people for over 1900 years before the time of Hitler.

During the first stages of World War I the suffering for the Jewish people grew even greater. The Nazis forced them into small ghettos, where the Jewish people were crowded in small houses and given just enough food to survive. It was a routine thing for S.S. soldiers to march into these ghettos and open fire on any of the Jewish people they saw. If you think this is bad the Jewish people were just here to wait until they were brought to the Nazi prison camps.

Everything about the prison camps was horrible, even the trip there. The Nazis would come to the ghettos and round up a large group of Jewish people. The Jewish people would be packed into a truck and anyone not in the truck was forced to run behind it. If anyone running fell no one could help them p, and the soldiers would shoot them on sight. When the truck reached it destination, the train station, the Jewish people would be packed, standing up into a boxcar, there was not even any room to sit. The train ride would last for days and many people died on the ride because we were not fed or given water. When we got off the train the terror really began.

The Jewish people were divided into two groups. One group was the young fit men, and the other was the women, children, old, and sick. The later group was immediately brought to the gas chamber and killed, but they were the lucky ones. The men were forced to work in awful conditions, and were poorly fed. The men worked just long enough, about three months, for them to become weak, and thus useless. They then joined the women and children to be gassed. The men that did the particularly awful jobs like cremating the bodies of their dead brothers were promised more food and their lives, but the Nazis were deceiving them.

Some of the most heinous crimes known to man were committed in these holocaust concentration camps. The Nazis showed here that they were truly a disgusting, evil race. What an awful life it must have been for the Jewish people.

How are people so evil? Everyone that isn’t evil seems to be clueless to what they are doing.

Hitler’s weakened state also hurt the Nazi morale.  He was always considered the backbone of the party, after all ha made it what it was.  Hitler knew that he could not let on that anything was wrong though.  No, he had to keep a tough face on and show that he was still going strong. 

We are particularly shown the state of the party with the attempt on Hitler life.  Some of his Generals planted a bomb in Hitler’s conference room; although the attack fails it certainly must have had a somewhat detrimental effect on Hitler’s health.  We can also see here just why the Nazis have begun to lose the war.  When you cant kill one person with a bomb there’s something wrong.  Hitler must have been doing all the thinking himself.

With the Americans growing more and more heavily involved, Britton’s air force pounding German cities, and the Russians tightening their stranglehold on Stalingrad.  The final blow came to the Nazis at the hour of Hitler’s death.  Without Hitler to lead and keep the party going the Generals surrendered.  The great Nazi party had fallen, and yet again the feeling after the defeat in World War I must have been present. facts about holocaust

One gust of wind can topple an entire house of cards.  Thanks God for miscalculation and human error.  Some people make the biggest mistakes because they are looking for such small problems.

Hitler knew that all he needed to do to conquer Europe is take England, the only real power at the time. He knew also that they would join the war almost immediately. He didn’t want to divide his forces by fighting on two fronts so he aligned himself with Stalin and Russia to protect his back. Once he conquered the weaker European countries he planned on mobilizing against France and once he had taken that he would move on England. Finally his last real adversary in Europe was Russia, who he didn’t expect to hold out for very long. He then would have conquered all of Europe, and effectively the entire world.

To his enemies he showed no mercy and gave them no quarter. Since he had the complete loyalty of his troops there was really no threat from within, although his paranoia often kicked in and he felt the need to have a commanding officer shot.

The real loss to Hitler’s reign came in two parts. First his loss to the Allies came in Great Britain when his air force was decimated, giving the Allies the new advantage in the air, but he still have the most powerful army in the war. His second and probably most foolish loss was to the “weak” Soviets. He miscalculated terribly and sent his troops into Russia not realizing that they had a great advantage, the winter. Hitler’s men froze to death, food was scarce, and morale was low. After these events the war was not looking so good for the Germans, so Hitler did what he has always done best pass the blame. He blamed the Jewish people and foreigners for the loss and went after them with a renewed passion.

Smart people do dumb things. Napoleon did it as did Hitler. One miscalculation can holocaust concentration camps throw off the whole picture no matter how clear it is. History also does repeat itself. Like a caring mother, it keeps telling us things until we learn.

Peace. What a wonderful thought, we’ve been striving for it for millions of years now, but has it come? No! We need to stop thinking of peace as the only choice. With every act of submission we make towards Germany peace doesn’t come closer, it becomes less obtainable.

Germany is trying to once again take control of the world; we cannot stand idly by and let this happen. We must fight the tyranny. We must fight the oppression. We must fight Hitler. The Nazis cannot win, they must not. We must not yield to them. Violence is rarely the answer, but here it is the only choice.

Peace will come when one of two things happen, when we beat the Germans into the ground and don’t let them up, or when they do the same to us. It’s a dog eat dog world. Only one can survive, will it be them or us?

If Germany is allowed to enter Czechoslovakia untouched then nothing will stop them from trying their luck with France, and then England, and then the world will be theirs, this is something we cannot allow to happen, we will not allow to happen. We have two choices stand and fight, maybe die, or we can run and live, for a while at least, but one day when your sitting at home do you want to be teaching your grandchildren that their parents were killed standing up to Nazis. Perhaps though you would rather have your children tell them you died saving them from the Nazis like a hero. I know what I will choose.

God bless,

Justin

When people stand by and watch things happen they are helping weather they think so or not. I just now had an epiphany that that was the real problem with Canada’s stand in Iraq. I have never supported the war in Iraq, and never will, but by standing on the sidelines we are almost standing with Iraq. holocaust concentration camps

Churchill and Hitler both saw many things about the war in common. They both knew it would be a hard fought battle and a struggle. They both agreed that Germany was very powerful. Now the fact they didn’t both agree on, which no one ever agrees on in war, is who is on the morale side. Hitler thought he was right and Churchill thought he was a madman. Churchill thought that Hitler was being unfair by breaking the treaty, but Hitler saw the treaty as unfair in the first place.

Most people weren’t threatened by Germany probably because of World War I. Germany was defeated then, and they will be now. Many people were also naive to the actual size of the German Army. People assumed that Germany had kept its word in the treaty of Versailles, keeping its men down, and not acquiring an air force. We know this was not the case.

Churchill was right about everything, he knew Hitler was no fool, and wouldn’t invade Poland without sufficient forces to fight of Poland’s Big Brothers. Churchill refused to underestimate the power of the Nazis, but really I don’t think even he could see them for the power they truly had.

Although not underestimating the Germans Churchill dint get that confused with respecting them, he saw them as less then the English, much like Hitler’s opinions on other races. Churchill thought the Germans were being foolish in their demands, but he didn’t see the determination in the faces of the men willing to fight and die for Germany, and Hitler.

Once again we are going into a world war with both sides assured of victory, and this one is truly impossible to call. If the countries wish to defeat Germany they will have to band together, and stand up against Germany. One thing is for sure the Germans weren’t prepared to accept the terms of the treaty any long, and were willing to fight against it holocaust timeline.

Churchill is a refreshing reminder that not everyone is to pig headed to see what the truth in something really is. Thanks God there are people who can think for themselves.

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.

First your place in the nation.  The Nazis made it clear that men needed to work and fight for the glory of Germany.  If you weren’t in the army, then you should be in a factory slaving away.  You should do both things to the best of your ability, and strive to be better at all things you do.  Since the men all weighed their honor on their contribution to their country they did this.

Women were told that their place was to serve men and make babies.  The Germans supported the stereotypical housewife, with many children, a neat house, and dinner ready for her husband when he got home from work.

Children were told that they need to learn about what was right and what is wrong.  An emphasis was placed on being stronger and standing out among the other children.  A good child was good to his parents and loved the Fuhrer.

Secondly the Nazis said that Hitler under all circumstances was right.  No ifs ands or buts.  The people accepted this because they liked, trusted, and believed in Hitler canadian currency.  Hitler essentially established an absolute monarchy with many of the regulations his government implemented.

The Nazis taught people what to think and how to act, creating a group of cold hearted, almost robotic people.  Holocaust timeline There is no question that these rules will bring about something big, good or bad something will inevitably happen.

Most people are sheep.  When Hitler or someone like him is put at the head of the flock it is disastrous.  One day I hope people might make decisions on their own.

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.

Another front the Nazi’s would have to be criticized on is their most powerful tool, Hitler. He’s not a German. By his own teachings he’s not as good as us, he’s of the weaker people. How can he be trusted? He doesn’t have our best interests in mind. How could they deny this? Really no one could. In a struggle to keep Hitler from power it would turn into a vicious mudslinging campaign, and in his mental state I have no doubts he would retaliate showing the people what he’s really about. What would he do, send in the storm troopers? That would remind people of the war and re-emphasize my first point of how Hitler is nothing but a warlord.

Not everyone has fallen for the propaganda of the Nazi’s. Not everyone is that gullible. I’d try to make sure that people saw the lies behind what Hitler was saying. I’d simply tell the truth. Hitler can do nothing about the economy; it is the Americans’ problem. We need to simply all work hard for Germany, making it rich. Noting else will improve our economic situation. We must pay for our country with our own sweat. Will Hitler do go take our spot in the fields or in the factories? No! We must do it ourselves.

All it would take is to expose one lie and people might finally see Hitler for the liar he truly is. Just one gust of wind could topple his entire tower of cards.

Ahh yes. We here are reminded yet again by the people that do resist the Nazi movement that not everyone is foolish enough to be fooled by the tyrants of the world. Thank God for that.