chookrooter
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There is plenty of evidence of it occurring and we need to make sure it never happens again. |
That is a wonderful ideal sadly, genocides have occurred before and after the Holocaust and will probably continue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history
Relatively recent examples;
Armenia,about which Turkey as a nation remains in denial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
Rwanda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide
Cambodia under Pol Pot
The war in Bosnia.
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My view as a gentile:
I think the Holocaust was a special case in that:
Hitler did not invent anti semitism. The Holocaust would not have been possible without over 1000 years of European anti semitism, the direct collusion of the German people and the indirect collusion of the allies.
Allied collusion was through its indifference,to begin with. When the Nazis disenfranchised German Jews via the Nuremberg race laws of the 1930's,no other nation said a thing. After the Holocaust was under way,allied and neutral nations closed their borders to Jews. Millions could have escaped.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_race_laws
That claim that the allied national governments did not know about the camps and the treatment of the Jews is a bald faced lie. The link below gives a list of camps in Germany alone, during WW2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_concentration_camps_of_Nazi_Germany
The indifference of almost the entire world and lack of any effective international protests, including countries such as the US and the UK explains to a degree, current Israeli belligerence. Israel is the only nation on earth which has been literally fighting for its existence for 60 years.
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A couple of references:
"Hitler and The Holocaust; How and why The Holocaust happened" Robert S Wistrich, Phoenix press,2001.
"Hitler's Willing Executioners; Ordinary Germans and The Holocaust" Daniel Johah Goldhagen,Abacus,1996[b] |
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