Why do people blame the nazi government for the holocaust when german people and prot
"On the Jews and Their Lies" by Martin Luther was the basis for mien Kemp and because it was taught right along protestantism the German people were absolutely willing to commit such atrocities.
why does history absolve the German people, yet blame their government?
is it because America is mostly protestant?
Aryan eugenics.
Luther writes that the Jews are a "base, whoring people, that is, no people of God, and their boast of lineage, circumcision, and law must be accounted as filth."[1] Luther wrote that they are "full of the devil's feces ... which they wallow in like swine,"[2] and the synagogue is an "incorrigible whore and an evil slut".[3] He argues that their synagogues and schools be set on fire, their prayer books destroyed, rabbis forbidden to preach, homes razed, and property and money confiscated. They should be shown no mercy or kindness,[4] afforded no legal protection,[5] and these "poisonous envenomed worms" should be drafted into forced labor or expelled for all time.[6] He also seems to advocate their murder, writing "[w]e are at fault in not slaying them."[7]
so the German people just happened to fail to listen to any of Hitler's speeches or read his book? they were just like "god, i love that mustache, chanccellor for life!"
the germans diddn't just kill the jews. gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally disabled, the mentally ill, the unruly, pretty much anyone who wasn't blonde with blue eyes.
this had nothing to do with darwin. try again christians
christians are always willing to blame the EVIL evolutionist darwin, but completely ignore luther. wow.
Germany's experience gets the most notice. But there is only one holocaust. It has been going on for much longer than modern Europe has been in existence and it will continue as long as sanity is in existence. (Probably at least the first half of this century!)
EXCUSE ME! Hitler and the Nazis were responsible for the holocaust. Luther did not kill all those Jews. Please don't blame Christianity for what a few HORRIBLE people decided to do. Hitler is guilty and so are his henchmen.
I don't think the German people knew what was happening before it was too late. By that time, they had no say because the Nazi power was too great and Hitler would just kill them if they tried.
b/c white Pol don't want to acknowledge that their race is consistently the cause for mass murder and enslavement. Everywhere white Pol have gone in history has resulted in the demise and death of other races
Most Germans didn't hate Jews you fool. the reason many of them participated in the atrocities was because of fear. also check this article out, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
The Nazi party, while governing Germany, attempted genocide against the Jewish people during the holocaust. Regardless of their justification, they are directly responsible. The Nazis are blamed because history bears out that they are responsible.
Anyone who pays attention to things knows that Antisemitism was nothing new. But what the Nazis did was put those words into one horrific action. They are to blame for the holocaust. No one blames them for the rise of Antisemitism.
A people does not commit crimes against humanity.
In order to commit crimes against humanity you've gotta be in power. Thus, it's governments who do them.
You are wrong in a couple of key ways. The Nazi government was wholeheartedly supported by all major academics, all major journalists and all major protestant denominations. The intellectual, economic and social elite of Germany all supported Hitler.
Martin Luther's treatise was not the basis of Hitler writing his autobiography 'My Struggle'. The key influence on Hitler was Darwin. My struggle has serious Darwinian implications. Hitler was just trying to help evolution along by removing the less evolved races.
Darwin of England and all of Germany were responsible for the holocaust. Maybe President Wilson of the USA also because he had the ability to make WWI treaty of Versailles much less offensive to Germany and he chose not to. That treaty had a lot to do with Hitler's ability to motivate the German people.
They forget that the Christians blamed the Jews for killing Jesus, and Hitler used that fact and the assistance of the Catholic church to incite hatred and eventually...war.
Germany to this day has a vast majority of its citizenry pointing out that due to their inn action or moral failure as a populace it allowed that horror to happen. This has been labeled "German guilt" and Neo-Nazis' are trying to change it.
One of the key things any person can learn about the holocaust is the effect of the population not questioning enough, feeling too powerless to stop it or being swept up in a questionable movement.
In fact Darwin and Luther are only vaguely the start of any of it.
Nietze and Eugenics and Nationalism are argued to have been the largest influences for the most evil parts of the Nazis rise.
Many academics have found flaws with the "Luther to Hitler" progression and it is widely discredited.
I don't even know where to start with your question.
First of all, history doesn't in any way absolve the German people. They were willing or silent participants in the Holocaust. The fact that most Germans didn't' personally kill any Jews doesn't make them any less culpable.
Second, the Nazi government from it's first days in power under Hitler in the early 30's began discriminating against the Jewish people in Germany. That means they put laws in place to begin excluding Jews from German society.
in 33 he excluded Jews from public service, in 35 he outlawed mixed-marriages, and then there was gristliest in 38 and then the real horror begins (as if this isn't horrible already).
It was always Hitler's goal to get rid of the Jewish people in Germany, it was basically a plank of the Nazi party's platform, spoken and acknowledged.
To your point: true, there's never been a shortage of anti-Semites in Western Europe, but the Holocaust (that is the systematic attempt to destroy a people) as we know it, wouldn't have been possible without the Nazi Party. The best proof of this is that the genocide only occurred in areas under Nazi control. Your question is dangerously uninformed.
Go read Hannah Arendt, go read any piece of history on the Holocaust. The Nazi party was the brain of the Holocaust. The German people were the body that carried it out. Deal with the facts.
You are wrong to state that Luther's views about the Jews was "the basis" for Mein Kampf. Have you ever read that book by the way? I do not doubt that Luther's views played a part in the general anti-Semites in Germany however. Can a person be right about some things and wrong about others? Luthers views were probably the product of his Catholic upbringing and how he was taught to view the calcification of Christ. Luther did not drop all his Catholic teaching and brought a lot of it into his theology. Catholics often miss that point. Yes it was the Nazi racial beliefs that led to the holocaust by these beliefs rested on several pillars in Nazi thinking, not just Luther. They believed in
"eugenics" see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics for a VERY through discussion of this subject.
Yes the German people should bear much more of the guilt. See this movie, "The Triumph of the Will" on Youtube. You will not get very far into it before you see the utter worship Hitler received.
Keep in mind Hitler was a nominal Catholic as well. Yes there is a lot of blame to go around. By the way Hitler speaks far more of using the tactics of the Catholic church in Meim Kampf than just about any other subject he talks about! Give it a read, if you can stand it.
Why do people blame the nazi government for the holocaust when german people and prot
