Why Did The Holocaust Happen
Did the Holocaust really happen? Most of the world say yes but there are several groups of people who say no. Both of these sides are backed up with facts and information. People who believe that the Holocaust did not happen say, in general, that it is impossible for that many people to disappear and nobody do anything to stop it. But what if people did know what was happening and still did nothing to stop it. What then? There were international headlines discussing the disappearance of a race of people in Europe so deniability isn't an option. But why did the people in Europe do nothing to stop the Holocaust? Was it because of the same beliefs that Jews were inferior or was it because if they did they would be thrown in jail or even killed.
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Only 1.7% of that number was the Jewish population. So why did the other 98.3% of the population do nothing to stop the Holocaust? The main reason that people turned a blind eye was because the population of Europe was terrified that they would be harmed, jailed, or killed if they attempted to help victims or stop the Nazis. People of the world knew what was happening but made the decision to do nothing. Some people denied that it happened although there were world news headlines in 1941 talking about Jews missing in Europe, especially Germany. By the end of 1942 it was impossible for people all over the world to deny the fact that millions of Jews and others were disappearing. The excuse of ignorance from other countries suddenly became invalid. So why not do anything else? Great Britain refused to allow Jews to emigrate to British-controlled Palestine even though the alternative was the sentence to gas chambers at concentration camps. The reason behind this is that the British government was worried about angering Arab leaders. This is why allied leaders remained reluctant and sometimes downright refused to help Jews escape persecution (Facing
Only 1.7% of that number was the Jewish population. So why did the other 98.3% of the population do nothing to stop the Holocaust? The main reason that people turned a blind eye was because the population of Europe was terrified that they would be harmed, jailed, or killed if they attempted to help victims or stop the Nazis. People of the world knew what was happening but made the decision to do nothing. Some people denied that it happened although there were world news headlines in 1941 talking about Jews missing in Europe, especially Germany. By the end of 1942 it was impossible for people all over the world to deny the fact that millions of Jews and others were disappearing. The excuse of ignorance from other countries suddenly became invalid. So why not do anything else? Great Britain refused to allow Jews to emigrate to British-controlled Palestine even though the alternative was the sentence to gas chambers at concentration camps. The reason behind this is that the British government was worried about angering Arab leaders. This is why allied leaders remained reluctant and sometimes downright refused to help Jews escape persecution (Facing