The members of the SS, the elite guard of the Nazi regime, were key players in the "Final Solution,
How many were there? Were all of the Nazis part of the SS?
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and determined in “selections” at killing centers which prisoners should live and which should die.
Mercy was not all gone. Some people maybe felt bad or empathised for the Jewish and other religious groups that were being killed. So they found a small solution that saved multiple lives.
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with transportation and supplies.
I feel like the Central Idea of this article is that World War II was a bad time for a lot of people other than the Jews. Some Germans were forced to kill people, probably leaving them traumatised from the experience. Other religions and cultures were also hurt from World War II. The lives lost during the time was huge and nobody should disrespect those who died fighting for their cause.
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The implementation of the “Final Solution” required cooperation from and participation of the military bureaucracy and the German civilian authorities.
Were the German civilian's forced to do this, or were they frightened into willingly doing it without any complaints? I surmise some of the people did it without complaint either because they believe in German supremacy, or they were frightened. Some others probably disagreed and felt like the mass murder of Jews were not humane so they didn't help the SS carry out the "Final Solution".
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killing centers equipped with gas chambers to facilitate assembly line mass murder.
This makes me think how racism and discrimination can lead to horrible things such as war. War leads to even worse things such as what the Germans did to the Jews. If war ends people, then why don't people end wars?
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Toward that end, the SS perpetrated countless acts of mass murder.
The SS would have been all really merciless, having absolutely no mercy and heart to the Jews. The fact that they had so much power and they were all willing to mass murder innocent people makes me think how World War II was a really horrible time, not just for the Jews, but for most of the world.
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the Germans and their Axis partners murdered between 250,000 and 500,000 Roma. View This Term in the Glossary And between 1939 and 1945, they murdered at least 250,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, mainly German and living in institutions, in the so-called Euthanasia Program.
Central Idea is that killing people is never correct for whatever reason it is. Nobody's life doesn't matter, especially the ones that were innocent and put under a label by how they were born. Nobody can change who they are and if you want to judge someone based on who they were born as or what they can't change, then you are a horrible person.
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The marches continued until May 7, 1945, the day the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.
If they are a threat then why not just kill them. Why do you have to make their life worse than it already is? The fact that they want to end the Jews just because they are a threat to Germany seems like a lie. They are just having fun torturing 6 million Jews and using them for labor.
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2.7 million Jews were murdered at the five killing centers: Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Don't the Germans even try to put themselves in the Jew's perspective? They were forced from their family, then forced into labor, and then thrown to the gas chambers just from being born a Jew. You shouldn't judge people for what they cant change.
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In addition to shootings, these units also used specially designed mobile gas vans as a means of killing
Why are the Germans solution to everything just killing. People with disfunctions? Killed. People that are poor? Don't even need to think about it. Germans that have different beliefs? Gone. Innocent Jews? Throw them to the gas camps. Why can't they try to be diplomats and solve things without mass murder?
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German authorities persecuted homosexuals and other Germans whose behavior did not conform to prescribed social norms (such as beggars, alcoholics, and prostitutes), incarcerating tens of thousands of them in prisons and concentration camps. German police officials similarly persecuted tens of thousands of Germans viewed as political opponents (including Communists, Socialists, Freemasons, and trade unionists) and religious dissidents (such as Jehovah's Witnesses). Many of these individuals died as a result of maltreatment and murder.
They even have the audacity to kill their own! why are they saying that Jews are the cause of danger when no one is safe when Germans are around. Not even other Germans. I feel that the Germans are trying to wipe out anyone not to their liking without any ounce of empathy towards them
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The Germans shot tens of thousands of non-Jewish members of the Polish intelligentsia, murdered the inhabitants of hundreds of villages in “pacification” raids in Poland and the Soviet Union, and deported millions of Polish and Soviet civilians to perform forced labor under conditions that caused many to die.
It looks like they are just killing anyone that gets in their way. Do they not understand what it's like to lose family and life? Why are the Germans so merciless even to those that are non-Jewish. It seems to me that they just enjoy killing and are trigger happy.
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biologically inferior or dangerous
The Jews did nothing anything dangerous or even threatening to the Germans. They even helped them fight in World War I what changed the Germans thoughts?
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the Nazis adopted measures to exclude Jews from German economic, social and cultural life and to pressure them to emigrate.
What made the Germans become more serious about killing the Jews and basically making their life hell?
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the Germans and their allies and collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution."
War is started by people's different beliefs, but how can so many people believe that there are inferior people and decided to slaughter them?
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racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.
Just because the Germans thought that the Nazis were inferior, they decided to massacre them?
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threat to the so-called German racial community.
What was the German racial community?
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state-sponsored persecution
Why is it state-sponsored? Did the German government approve of this? If they did, why would they approve of the slaughter of 6 million people?
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They were delirious, begging for water. Those whose backs were burned lay on their stomachs, and those whose front was burned lay on their back. They could not even move to change their position. Their wounds and burns were covered with countless flies laying eggs there. Those eggs hatched into maggots, and these crawled all over their bodies causing them infernal agony.
A central idea is that war is never the right solution for problems because it causes innocent people to die, and it causes suffering in the winning side and the losing side.
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These people puzzled me until I suddenly realized that they had been burned and were holding their arms out to prevent the painful friction of raw surfaces rubbing together."
Did the Americans know the pain that the Japanese civilians experienced from these bombs? If they knew the destructive power that the bomb had on the civilians would they have changed their mind on using the bomb on Japan.
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I was probably burned at the back of the head, on my back, on both arms and both legs. My skin was peeling and hanging like this."
How did survivors live like this with all their skin peeling off? Did many die after this event or were their skin healed? Either way this was a horrible time for the Japanese.
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hair was literally fried and human shadows were etched onto stone.
How could the Atomic bomb have that much power it can make human shadows etched to the stone? With this power a full out nuclear war can wipe out millions and level out entire countries.
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dazzling flash of light, brighter than even the sun," and then "an earsplitting roar" followed by a seismic explosion that shattered glass everywhere.
How did Yasuhiko Taketa survive if he was so close to the explosion and even witnessed a seismic explosion?
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The simple fact of the atomic bomb's awesome power went on to shape a half-century of Cold War geopolitics.
I think that creating the atomic bomb was not a really smart choice. Even though it brings military dominance, it can kill hundreds of thousands just by using one of them. More and more countries will have nuclear power and they will keep creating them until they have the most. These bombs are not just for display, they will be used and the effects will be devastating.
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It almost instantly leveled most of the city and killed as many as 140,000 people. Three days later, on Aug. 9, another American bomber dropped a nuclear device on the city of Nagasaki, killing 40,000 to 80,000 people.
Is what the United States did with the bombs in Japan really necessary, or could they have found a better way that protected 200,000 civilians from death and many others from severe health problems?
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Several days later, on the 14th of August 1945, Japan gave its unconditional surrender to the Allies.
If America had shown the Japanese the destructive power of the bomb, they never would have let the Americans use it on their own cities and killed more than 200,000 people.
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The explosion was devastating and instantly wiped out the entire city. 140,000 people were killed at the time of the explosion and by the end of 1945.
So the bomb was able to wipe out a whole city and kill hundreds of thousands. Was this enough to make the Japanese surrender?
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The Americans targeted Hiroshima because it had not yet been hit by their air raids.
So the civilians will not be ready or that they want to even out the damage or both.
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The Japanese wanted to negotiate the conditions of surrender and refused to give in to the demands of the Allies.
Did the Japanese know that the Americans had an atomic bomb though, their negotiation would have been different.
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He knew that the bomb had now been completed and effectively tested in the New Mexico desert and was ready for use.
Even though President Truman and the scientists knew the destructive power of the bomb, they still carried on with the mission knowing that Japan would surrender no other way.
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Many of the people on Oppenheimer’s team were scientists who had escaped Nazi Germany.
Did the scientists that had escaped the Nazis have more insight on the atomic bomb?
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none of them were able to make the bomb before the Americans.
Why were they not able to make the bomb before the Americans, when they had all the technology, money, and power to do it?
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The idea only really got going after the Japanese bombed the American Naval Base at Pearl Harbour in December 1941.
If America didn't go to war with the Axis powers, would the atom bomb never have been created?
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He told him about their ideas and the danger of the Nazis in Germany developing such a bomb for military use.
Did the Nazis know before the Americans and were already preparing a bomb? If they did how come they didn't use it on the Americans?
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Albert Einstein
Sometimes referred to as the smartest man alive, how did he also figure out the energy that atoms could release
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Before the war, many scientists had been investigating the possibility of generating energy and even weapons from the atom
How did they realize that the atom could be broken apart and can generate so much heat energy?
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Other individuals assisted the victims by purchasing food or other supplies for Jewish households to whom shops became closed; by providing false identity papers or warnings about upcoming roundups; by storing belongings for those on the run that could be sold off little by little for food.
Small acts of kindness during and not during war can make a big difference to someones life.
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material gain or rewards
To some people rewards and riches weigh more than being humane and saving ones life from death. This makes me think how these types of people probably were what made the mass murders of Jews so much easier.
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Many ordinary Germans became involved when they acquired Jewish businesses, homes, or belongings sold at bargain prices or benefited from reduced business competition as Jews were driven from the economy. With such gains, these “bystanders” developed a stake in the ongoing persecution of the dispossessed.
Selfish and greedy people just took the Jews pain and suffering as an opportunity to make money and to bring more luxuries to their home.
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Jews, anti-Hitlerites, or gays.
A central idea I came up with is that your culture never defines who you are, it is you personality and your character. The fact that the Nazis mass murdered people just because they weren't "normal" in the eyes of the Nazis makes me think that the world is unfair and what you are born into doesn't define who you are. You cannot change what you were born with so nobody you should bother you or treat you differently just because you were born different.
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Refusal to take any responsibility for what happened, however, obscures the reality of the involvement of people at all levels of German society and beyond.
Was the term bystander a term that can pardon a German or Nazi from their bad actions during war?
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passive” and “indifferent” themselves have distinct connotations. “Passive” implies “inaction.” Passivity could derive from a range of quite different feelings: from a sense of powerlessness, fear for one's physical safety, social pressures within one's group or community, or tolerance or support for the perpetrators' actions.
Were these people considered bad, or were they considered fine? Maybe the Jewish felt the fear that runs through many of these bystanders and forgave them.
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Nor were they among the tiny minority of “rescuers” of the “victims.”
Not everyone was merciless, some people still stood out to the Nazis despite knowing that they were putting their own lives at risk. This shows people also learn to stand up for people during war.
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“bystanders” to this ever-radicalizing program long before the mass roundups and killings began.
If you are a bystander during this time of Jewish mistreatment, no matter what your excuse is or who you are, you are a horrible person. You could have saved lives, you are a person that lacks of any empathy for if you even thought about the pain that the Jews faced, you would have shivered with fright knowing what they were going through. Just saving one of them is making a big difference to many people.
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including anti-Jewish measures, which culminated in mass murder and genocide.
Death is not the right way to solve problems. If you have a problem, then you need to solve the solution through diplomacy and peace. World War II was caused by racism and people that believed in German supremacy, this little group somehow expanded into the killing force we know as Nazis. This shows however small the act of racism can be, there is still a consequence to it.
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one who is present but not taking part in what is occurring.”
Were there bystanders during World War II that had a chance to save the Jews but didn't take action in the littlest way.
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