What were the effects of the Holocaust on the rest of the world?

Answer 1

The Holocaust has had innumerable effects across the world. This is just a small sampling of them:

1) End of European Judaism: This is a very sad thing to admit, but the Holocaust effectively erased Judaism and a Jewish future in most places in Europe. European Judaism used to be the center of the Modern Jewish Experience with the seeds of almost all Jewish movements (from Modern Orthodoxy and Hasidism to the Conservative and Reform Movements). The debate as to whether a Jew could be a "proper" European, which dragged on from the Renaissance times, was effectively ended because there was no longer a sufficiently large Jewish population in Europe to matter. Jews who returned to their hometowns after the Holocaust found their homes settled by squatters and were attacked in many instances by the non-Jewish residents because of the anti-Semitic brainwashing they had both during and after the War.

A number of Jewish groups did not exist outside of Europe and were almost completely wiped out like the Romaniot Jews of Greece (which today number less than 100 people).

2) State of Israel: The Zionist project existed long before the Holocaust. (The first Halutzim came to the territory of the British Mandate of Palestine while it was still under Ottoman control -- late 1800s and early 1900s and Ze'ev Jabotinsky encouraged Polish Jews to immigrate to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1937.) However, after the Holocaust, it became clear to the International Community that the Jews needed a place to exist freely and without fear of persecution where previously this sentiment was confined to radicals in the Jewish community. (Most Jews were anti-Zionist or at least not pro-Zionist before the Holocaust.) As a direct result of the Holocaust, the United Nations convened and proposed the UN Partition of the British Mandate in 1947 which gave Israel a legal claim to statehood in 1948.

3) America as a Jewish Center: The United States had always been considered to be on the periphery of the Jewish World until the Holocaust. However, as the American Jewish population was the only reasonably large Jewish population to survive the Holocaust intact, it suddenly had to take on the burden of being the center of Jewish education and identity formation.

4) The Crime of Genocide: The Aftermath of the Holocaust described the horrific events therein as a genocide and led to much international law concerning Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide. The Nuremberg Trials further solidified what genocide was (the intentional slaughter of civilians belonging to a specific ethnic group, religious group, or racial group).

5) German Guilt: The Holocaust has had a profound effect in shaping the Modern German Identity. It is one of the few cases in the world where an entire nation of people feels guilty for actions taken by their parents, grandparents, and in some cases, great-grandparents. It also shapes how Germans view their economic obligations (reparations) to Israel. Germans today debate whether they have the right to feel the same patriotic fervor that is very much at home in most countries (like the United States) and use national symbols and songs.

6) Massive Immigration to Latin America: Jews and former Nazis alike had difficulty sometimes gaining entry to the United States and Canada. (In the case of former Nazis, they also wanted to hide their identities.) As a result, many immigrated to Brazil and Argentina to live out the rest of their lives. As a result, there are many ethnic Germans in Argentina to this day.

As concerns the Middle East and Arab World specifically, the following are two lasting effects in addition to the creation and maintenance of the State of Israel:

1) Nazification of Arab Nationalism: This is usually glossed over, but the root causes of the Holocaust like the Nazi ideology were important in the development of Arab Nationalism. During the Colonial Period in the Arab World, the Arabs felt that while they were the sons of conquerors who ruled vast empires, they were now humiliated and conquered by the British and the French. This feeling of subjugated superiority matched the Nazi profile and as a result, Arabs began pilfering Nazi doctrine and adding it to their own Nationalist sentiments. This caused Arab Nationalism to have a more militaristic and violent character in addition to giving it a more anti-Semitic character. Pogroms and violent persecution of both Jewish and Christian minorities ensued, especially in nations that had direct dealings with the Axis Power like Iraq. The legacy of the Nazification of Arab Nationalism is still quite strongly ingrained in the Arab World.

2) Mizrahi Jewish Exodus: Because of the two above results of the Holocaust, the overwhelming majority of Jews who lived in Arab countries were forced out of their homes or felt compelled to leave to avoid further persecution and went to Israel, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, in addition to other regions. The amount of Jews in the entire Arab World in 1945 is over ten times the number in 1975.

Answer 2

Well during the Holocaust, Hitler was concurring the entire Europe. So there were many battles going on. At one point in time Hitler actually controlled almost all of Europe.

Answer 3

they had to accept that given unlimited power people were capable of extreme actions.