"_______ is responsible for the Holocaust!"

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All you have to do is replace "Fascism" with "Right Wing of the Catholic Church" and the statement is still correct. Keep in mind that the holocaust was caried out by many other nationalities besides the Germans. Almost all were Catholics, and anti-semitism was rampant in Catholocism at the time.

Yeah when say it that way your right we all have the ability to commit evil and if the the right mixture of events happen a whole society can tuirn into somthing like the nazis and considering rwanda its was a former belegian colony when they left control to the tutsi ethinc group and they mistreated the huttu group but in the 1990'sthe power shifted to the huttus and they saw it nesscearry to seek revenge of the mistreatment at the hands of the tutsi's but still thats not excuse but thats what learned about it but i dont know if its true or even the events in the balkans in the nineties. Sorry if i spelt anything wrong.

Al Gore invented the holocaust. JK.

Adolf and his fascist pig-dogs!

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There are many roads to the Jewish genocide known as the Holocaust.
There are many roads that lead to any genocide. This is a very complex topic and one I have been studying for forty years.

Characteristics of states and nations prone to racism and genocide.


The following characteristics were developed from my extensive research over a forty year period, and written after reading the highly informative book by Dwork and Van Pelt entitled Holocaust: A History (2000). No one characteristic can be viewed in isolation, and such generalities may invite criticism. However, taken as a whole, these characteristics can serve as a warning to those studying conflict-prone countries and governments in a contemporary context.

1. Recent Statehood (especially less than fifty years).

2. Arbitrarily set geographical borders (e.g. Balkan states)

3. Political and Economic instability (internal and external regimes influencing each other)

4. Small or non-existent middle class, large underclass and small, yet very wealthy upper class. Clash of classes can and does occur

5. History of political violence and rapid change of government via military coups; one party states without free elections

6. Xenophobic, isolationist and militaristic government policies

7. Perceived threat of cultural minorities (leading to scapegoating)

8. Confusion of state and nation; trying to regain a perceived loss of identity/culture

9. Belief in right to annihilate perceived political/economic threat, either internal, external, or both. Such ideas are often entombed in books such as mein kampf

10. Loss of territory due to war and/or land concessions

11. Weak/non-existent domestic Bill of Rights and/or refusal to concede to Universal United Nations Human Rights

12. Tendency to revise history to suit prevailing mythology, no separation of church/state, i.e. that the church is the state and vice versa

One of the posters made a statement at the bottom of his post that Baby Boomers are the cause of all the world's ills. I could say the same thing about my parents.

An interesting topic, MissPickwickian.

I don’t think it’s possible to identify a single philosophy that lead to Nazism. It was definitely a combination of a bunch of cultural elements. With such a vfickle subject it’s difficult to get a true honest intellectual analysis. Everyone likes to use the Nazism as tar baby to stick the political opposition.

People on the right tend to paint materialism and Darwinism as the root of nazi ideology while people on the left like to paint military nationalism and social conservatism as the root. In reality I think all of these ideas were partially responsible, but the people making the arguments aren’t always too intellectually honest IMO.

While there was definitely was a strong element of materialism in the eugenics movement, the right is mistaken when they make the claim that Nazi materialism was a secular movement. The Nazi’s may have perverted some Christian ideals, but they certainly didn’t oppose the Christian religion. Christian anti-Semitism was still alive and well in Nazi Germany.