What lessons did people learn from the holocaust.?

Answer 1

The biggest lesson is to never doubt that good people can be led to do evil things if they don't think for themselves. Adolf Hitler was a single man, yet he convinced millions of German citizens to do horrific things to people because he gained power and then gave the order to do those things. Many upper level German officers after WWII defended themselves against war crime charges by saying they were just following orders; the defense didn't work and many were sentenced to life in prison for their actions.

Another lesson is to speak up and make a stand when the rights of one minority are threatened. The Nazi party was able to control German society by only moving against one unpopular minority at a time - the Jews, the Roma people, homosexuals (or those who were believed to be homosexual), dissidents, etc. Had the German people resisted when the Nazi party first started clamping down on the Jewish people, the Holocaust may have never happened.

Answer 2

Hopefully to not treat people as sub-human and have no more genocide in the world, ever. The phrase "Good Nazi" has taken on a meaning of blindly following orders, when you know it's wrong. Personally I think some sort of mass-hysteria overcame the German Population before and during WWII, your common foot-soldier was just "following orders" but had become indoctrinated, convinced that theirs was the "Master Race" by Hitler's unparallelled oratory skills, he was a genius and a psychopath at the same time. Hermann Goering (pronounced Gair-ing) had an IQ of 138 but was still a psychopath. Monsters they were. Real genuine monsters with no conscience. Himmler, and Mengele were so evil it's indescribable. Field Marshall Rommel was a military genius. I seem to be going on a tangent, but let's answer your question--Never allow people like these to have any power, ever again.