The Benefits of the Holocaust for the Jews
The Benefits of the Holocaust for the Jews The Holocaust and the murder of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazi Germany during World War II was and is till now one of the few genocide attempts, which were precisely organized and planned for total annihilation of the Jews. Many other plans such as this one were attempted before, taking as an example by Alexander the Great, but first: the idea never occurred to Alexander's mind. Why? Because "the technology of his time did not make such a thought conceivable" (Cargas, 132). So, ethnic violence has not been uncommon in world history, but the Holocaust stands out as the only systematic effort by a modern government to destroy an entire people. Not only Jews were killed by the Nazis but also Slavs, Gypsies, Polish intelligentsia, resistance fighters from all the nations, German opponents of Nazism, homosexuals, Habitual criminals, and the "anti-social" such as beggars, vagrants, and hawkers. Every Jewish community in occupied Europe suffered losses during the Holocaust solely because of the fanatic Nazi belief that they were the carriers of a genetic inheritance that threatened German and Christian values. But how was Adolf Hitler able to convince the German populat
The created state -which is sometimes seen as a result of the guilty conscious that the western countries were trying to get rid of- had relations with the Federal Republic based on the background of the Hitler regime's extermination of the European Jews during World War II. Many Germans "felt they had had no part in the destruction of European Jewry and that no blame therefore attached to them" (Lavy, 2). "Official Germany was prepared to exercise patience: the healing process would need time and the Federal Government would not press the issue, but would wait until Israel is ready" (Lavy, 32). The Holocaust also resulted in the constant German and United States constant aids and economic supplies during the past 50 years. Dawidowicz, in her 1975 definitive book, The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945, states that in the years of 1907 to 1910 [ ], anti-Semitic organizations proliferated, anti-Semitic writing and propaganda poured forth in an unending stream" (Cargas, 16). The term "Final Solution" refers to Germany's plan to murder all the Jews of Europe. "Only in January 1944 was an agency, the War Refugee Board, established for the express purpose of saving the victims of Nazi persecution" (Cargas, 18). In the same year West Germany started helping Israel economically, which in one way or another helped increasing Israel's war potential. Yet the Jews always made it clear that "material restitution could never completely repay such a debt" (Lavy, 72). These questions of responsibility are a major cause for the feeling of guilt that non-Jews have since then. These payments of large sums of money and the military aid given to the Jewish State are ways by the Germans to win the forgiveness of the Jews for the Holocaust. One Egyptian political scientist said that during his stay in the United States for 10 years he learned that propaganda was very important for the Jews. But then Bauer concludes that the Holocaust itself did not cause the creation of the state of Israel, rather the impact of the Holocaust did. Back in the 1960s Israeli politicians wished that Germany's aid would continue "as a mark of the German's moral debt for the crimes committed against the Jewish people during the Second World War " (Lavy, 137).
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