Why didn't the Germans or US intervene while Hitler was killing Jews? Do you think beheading of Hitler's wax

Question

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Why didn't they do anything to stop the brutal genocide? If that Genocide hadn't happened would the world have been a different place?

Answer 1

Why didn't anybody stop the annihilation of an entire continent,  as the Spanish, Brits and French killed systematically 98% of the native population of North America.

Why did nobody interfere recently in Dafur?

There have been genocides, since Humans walked upright.

I can go to certain areas of a certain "free" country and see hate to no end against people of color. Its only 40 years ago, that blacks in the USA got lynched for no reason.

And Stalin, with Roosevelts support killed far more then Hitler (30 Million to 4 Million)

Answer 2

Same as now, the anti war liberals of those days insisted the USA stay out of Europe's war.

The German people allowed Hitler and the Brown Shirts to disarm them through gun control, and so had no means to resist or fight back.

There are lessons there for us, if we choose to open our eyes.

Answer 3

Money.

Answer 4

For the same reason that the Americans didn't intervene when their armed forces were killing Iraqis.

The people don't have much of a say, not even the UN could do anything about it.

Answer 5

The extermination of the Jews of Europe was pretty much common knowledge by 1944-there wasn't much the US could do to Germany that they weren't already doing.

Although publicizing what Hitler was up to may have had an effect.

The beheading of Hitler's wax statue was a non-event. Its the type of meaningless, headline grabbing non-event that the left is known for. It changed nothing.

Answer 6

I've been to the camp at Dachau, and learned a great deal from my visit. The camp is run by a committee based in Paris, and is a not for profit place aimed at educating people, rather than pointing the finger of blame. The regime at the camp went to great lengths to conceal the horrors of what went on inside, and would even allow independent inspectors in from Switzerland in an apparent gesture of transparency, though they would obviously remove any signs of prisoner abuse prior to any such visit, and the gas chambers at the back of the complex were well concealed.

In n**i Germany, there simply was no avenue to legally challenge the Hitler regime-you spoke out, and you ended up in a camp, end of story. Some were re-education camps that you would spend six months or so in, but if you were considered a political enemy you might well end up somewhere like Dachau...or if you were really unlucky, an extermination camp such as Treblinka. I always imagined that Jews made up the majority of inmates in places like Dachau, but apparently that's a media myth. The biggest (and worst treated) population at around 50% were Russian prisoners of war, who suffered most at the hands of the experiment doctors. Then it would be a fairly even mish mash of political opponents (almost all German), homosexuals, Jews, and common criminals, all making up around 10-15% each. Each inmate wore a particular coloured star on their uniform to denote which section of the populace they belonged to.

When the US Army arrived at Dachau in 1945, they found a train at the sidings at the back of the camp, filled with thousands of malnourished corpses, as the camp authorities had attempted to basically kill off as many inmates/witnesses as possible before fleeing and leaving teenage officers in charge to take the blame. And take the blame they did, with outraged US soldiers executing most of them in a reaction to what they had found at the camp. This entirely understandable reaction gave future n**i sympathisers & Holocaust deniers ammunition, and allowed them the chance to pervert history and say that the US Army has been the criminals at Dachau, executing unarmed n**i officers.

The best thing would be for all of us to learn from Dachau, and all the "ifs" and "whys" and apportioning of blame won't change a thing.

Answer 7

Most of the world was unaware of the extent the "Final Solution". Those who were partially aware approved. No country in history, starting with Egypt, welcomed a jewish community. While the extent of atrocities was a secret most of the world  thought it a good idea to isolate jews from public life.

Answer 8

First of all, one question at a time. In regard to why the U.S. didn't intervene in the holocaust, there are multiple factors. One, most Americans were not aware it was even happening. Even the U.S. officials that had received intelligence reports indicating that genocide was occurring, were probably dismissive of them, as the idea would have at the time seemed so fantastical, because nothing like it had ever occurred in the modern world before. Secondly, it was not as if the Americans could have really done much about it. The U.S. would have had to create support among the populace first (not to mention among the millions of Americans who were either German expatriates, or of German descent). Secondly, after having rallied support for this supposed early intervention, the government would have had to work out the massive logistics of undertaking such an operation. The U.S. had a relatively small volunteer army at the time, so there would have needed to be massive recruiting. Additionally, astronomical sums of money would have needed to be allocated to this operation for war materiel (not "material", for those who do not know) such as tanks, ships, uniforms, planes, fuel, food, etc, etc... and then ship it across the Atlantic, presumably to England. Then, it would take time to formulate an actual plan. Remember at this point (1941, when the genocide began),  the Germans still had millions of soldiers, universally recognized at the time as the best in the world, as well as far better tanks, and military equipment than the U.S. The U.S. would have lost far more soldiers in the second world war if it had intervened before millions of German soldiers were killed in operation Barbarossa in  Russia. So to sum it all up, the U.S. didn't intervene, because there wasn't a lot it could have done at the time.

As for the wax beheading, well, Hitler is an emotional topic... but it was a historical wax museum, and to act like Hitler doesn't belong in a wax museum about Germany's history would seem to want to gloss over a bit too much of the past don't you think?    

And, if the genocide didn't take place, the world would be drastically different. Perhaps better, but, that would alter the time continuum so vastly that none of us would exist here today (yes, regardless of whether or not your ancestors were actually in the camps... as who can say whether all of our parents would have met under the same circumstances, if at all, to conceive any one of us?)  =)

Answer 9

The Germans didn't intervene because Hitler was their leader.  The people didn't intervene for fear of their own lives.

And the US wasn't much of a global force in the 1930s.